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Example Readmes

Open theIsaacLim opened this issue 6 years ago • 4 comments

I've come up with a list of example readmes. I'll add these in a new section of the website along with a short description of each one and what you can learn from it. Here are the READMES: https://github.com/sindresorhus/pageres https://github.com/akashnimare/foco https://github.com/ai/size-limit https://github.com/sr6033/lterm https://github.com/amitmerchant1990/electron-markdownify

theIsaacLim avatar Oct 14 '18 12:10 theIsaacLim

I wanted to suggest you to open a new issue and look for some examples, but you already did. Perfect!

They are all JavaScript. I think they should come from different communities and languages.

5 examples might be good. I suggest these popular languages:

  1. JavaScript
  2. Java
  3. Python
  4. C or C++
  5. one non-code example like dataset or website

Source: https://hackernoon.com/top-3-most-popular-programming-languages-in-2018-and-their-annual-salaries-51b4a7354e06

We should have different projects like a web application (probably JS), desktop app with GUI (Java or C?) and command line program (Python, C?). Maybe also a library.

For more examples, we can link to https://github.com/matiassingers/awesome-readme

davidak avatar Oct 15 '18 19:10 davidak

Yep, I agree with adding some diversity since READMEs are language and platform agnostic.

dguo avatar Oct 15 '18 23:10 dguo

@davidak I've selected a few-could you look through them?

Library, Python https://github.com/keras-team/keras CLI, Python https://github.com/socialcopsdev/camelot Dataset https://github.com/googlecreativelab/quickdraw-dataset Desktop app, JS https://github.com/amitmerchant1990/electron-markdownify Web library, JS https://github.com/nodejs/node

theIsaacLim avatar Oct 16 '18 05:10 theIsaacLim

@theIsaacLim they look good. (i like to see that google released the drawings!)

But i think we should define first what an example readme should look like. I think they should basically follow our suggestion. Then we can check if they match. Especially i want to discuss the sections. https://github.com/dguo/make-a-readme/issues/17

davidak avatar Oct 18 '18 11:10 davidak