shields.io badges

[Gama11]

It would be nice if shields.io badges were available for haxelib - this is the case for a lot of other package managers like npm, NuGet, gem, etc..

There's usually a few different stats available:

• current version
• downloads/month
• downloads/total

Some also have daily / weekly downloads.

[nadako]

I like this idea, considering hipster invasion in the today's internets! However, IIUC to do that, we need to implement a REST API for haxelib (and then use it in https://github.com/badges/shields/blob/master/server.js). Maybe we could somehow autogenerate REST handlers from our SiteApi though.

[ibilon]

It'd probably be a lot quicker/easier to make the REST API manually.

If we need only the current version, and total/per version download (that's all we have) it's only a couple of lines.

[nadako]

I agree. Though that again raises the question of API design, since it'll be public, we may look into what NPM and others provide.

[nadako]

OTOH, we could just quickly implement a v1 routes in the website just for mentioned things and think of "proper" API later (if ever) :)

[vladimyr]

OTOH, we could just quickly implement a v1 routes in the website just for mentioned things and think of "proper" API later (if ever) :)

Or someone could transpile haxe.remoting.HttpAsyncConnection into js and use it to make generic RPC client for nodejs → https://npm.im/haxe-rpc-client

Then it could be used to fetch relevant data from haxelib registry https://github.com/badgen/badgen.net/pull/381

Yeah, I know that badgen.net isn't really shields.io but it is probably better than nothing, right? 😉