freetonik / quickref.dev

Quickref.dev community sources

This project was shut down in September 2020.

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Quickref.dev Community Sources

This repo contains data sources for Quickref.dev — a community-driven search engine for software developers. sites contains lists of sites to index, grouped by category. cards contains reference cards (example in action).

Contributing

Please, create a pull request to:

• add a site to the index
• add or modify a reference card.

I you want to add a new bang operator (!foo), please, create an issue.

Thank you.

Sites

There are 5 categories of search on Quickref.dev. Each corresponds to a .txt-file of indexed sites:

• All (all.txt)
• Docs (docs.txt)
• Forums / Q&A (forums_qa.txt)
• Blogs (blogs.txt)
• Repositories (repositories.txt)

Category "All" is compiled automatically by combining all other categories. Quickref.dev searches in all subdomains, regardless of depth. For example, if https://abc.com is specified, all existing subdomains (https://x.abc.com, https://y.x.abc.com, etc) are indexed and searched.

Cards

Each card is structured as follows:

"list of words":
  name: "Name"
  description: "Short one sentence description."
  links:
    website: "https://official_website.com"
    quickstart: "https://official_website.com/getting_started"
    "community docs": "https://clojuredocs.org/"
    "Mailing list": "https://groups.google.com/forum/..."
    subreddit: "https://reddit.com/r/..."
    ...

The "list of words" is used to match cards to queries. A card is displayed if the user's query contains at least one of the specified words (case insensitive). For example, requests clojure, clj, clj list or clojure map will all match this card:

"clojure clj":
  name: "Clojure"
  description: "Dynamically typed, functional dialect of Lisp. Immutable values, strong typing, hosted on JVM and other platforms."
  links:
    website: "https://clojure.org/"
    quickstart: "https://clojure.org/guides/getting_started"
    "community docs": "https://clojuredocs.org/"
    "Learn in Y minutes": "https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/clojure/"
    "Q&A forum": "https://ask.clojure.org/"
    "Clojurians Slack": "https://clojurians.herokuapp.com/"
    "Mailing list": "https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/clojure"
    subreddit: "https://old.reddit.com/r/Clojure/"

quickref.dev's Issues

"GitHub" should have capital H on front page

This is pretty minor.

Nice work and thank you!

Search engine extension for Firefox & ./etc

Pretty cool idea! But for search need some actions - open page, write text, Enter :) With extension one action is dropped.

quickref.dev appears to be down

Hi @freetonik , seems like quickref.dev is down. Not sure if you're not hosting it anymore or if there's a technical issue. Either way, I did really enjoy the service, thanks for creating it!

Please add hexdocs for elixir-lang

Hey,
So I've read about this on hacker news and I've tried to search for elixir stuff, the results do not contain stuff from https://hexdocs.pm/ which is the best source of info for this searches.

Thank you and good luck with your project

OpenSearch support

I'd love to be able to add this search engine to my browser easily. Please add an OpenSearch schema and the corresponding <link> element so I can two-click add the search engine from the Firefox chrome.

Nim language sites

Resources for the Nim language.

Main site:

• https://nim-lang.org

Docs:

• https://nim-lang.org/documentation.html
• https://nim-lang.org/learn.html

Package directory:

• https://nimble.directory

Blog:

• https://nim-lang.org/blog.html

Forums:

• https://forum.nim-lang.org/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/nim/

Adding a new site

This site (my blog) is about Linux HowTos. It is live dice 2007.

garron.me

Add tags escaping

Hey Rakhim!

I've just tried your new project and found a bug, I think. Not sure that here's a right place to fill bug reports, but anyway.

It looks like your rendering engine doesn't escape tags when they present in search results.

I don't know why, but the first search request I made was “react-dev”. One of the links there is Creating a Dynamic <select> Menu with React. Here's the result: