Many small partners often have such confusion. I have read many technical learning documents, books, and even videos. I want to practice, so I opened GitHub and wanted to find an open source project to learn and gain practical experience in the project. .
At this time, many friends will face such a problem: "I can't search, how can I find it?"
I can only give up in the end.
This article teaches you to accurately search for projects on GitHub.
Components of an open source project
Before making it clear, let's first understand what are the components of an open source project:
name: project name
description: a brief description of the project
Source code of the project
README.md: Introduction to the details of the project
In addition to these elements, the number of stars and forks of the project itself is also a criterion for judging whether an open source project is hot, and it is also a very important search criterion. In addition, we should also pay attention to the latest update date of this project, because the more active the project, the more frequent its update date.
The above elements are some of the key points that we should pay attention to when searching.
How to search
So how do we search?
Suppose we want to search for React now, I believe most of the small partners directly type in the search box: "React", and then press Enter, you will find that the situation is as follows:
The search results will show a lot of open source projects, which makes you overwhelmed and unable to start. Many friends gave up after searching this step because there are too many projects and they can’t find how to find the open source projects that interest them. The search is very inaccurate. So let's learn a slightly more precise search method.
Search by name
Search for projects that contain React in the project name:
in:name React
Get the following results:
As you can see, these search results are all projects with the keyword "React" in the project name, but there are still many projects.
Now let's constrain
For example, I can be accurate to the project's star number greater than 5000+:
in:name React stars:>5000
The result is this:
The search results are much more accurate in an instant, and now there are only 114 items to choose from. Of course, we generally don't set the number of stars so high, generally setting 1000 is almost the same.
In the same way, we can also search according to the number of forks:
in:name React stars:>5000 forks:>3000
You will find that the results are getting more and more accurate!
Follow the README to search
Search README.md for projects that contain React:
in:readme React
There are so many results, so let's limit the number of stars and forks:
in:readme React stars:>3000 forks:>3000
The search results were accurate to 90 at once. At this time, you go to choose the project, it will become much easier.
Search by description
Suppose we now want to learn about microservice projects, we search for projects that contain microservices in the project description:
in:description 微服务
There are so many results, then we will add some filter conditions:
in:description 微服务 language:python
language:python means that we restrict the language to python, let us see the result:
The search results are much more precise.
If in these projects, we want to find the most recently updated item, meaning that the update time is the most recent, we can do this:
in:description 微服务 language:python pushed:>2020-01-01
pushed:>2020-01-01 means that we limit the last update time of the project to 2020-01-01, let's see how the result is:
There are only 8 search results, and these projects belong to the more active ones, so I won’t be entangled anymore.
to sum up
Okay, let's summarize. We want to conduct accurate search, nothing more than adding filter conditions.
in:name xxx // search by project name
in:readme xxx // search according to README
in:description xxx // search by description
So here, we can add filter conditions
stars:>xxx // The number of stars is greater than xxx
forks:>3000 // The number of forks is greater than xxx
language:xxx // The programming language is xxx
pushed:>YYYY-MM-DD // The last update time is greater than YYYY-MM-DD
The above are some tips for us to accurately search for projects on GitHub, hope it will help you!
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