Standalone isomorphic url generator

[fabiospampinato]

Hello, I'd like to make a little vscode extension for opening a project's package.json in npmgraph, and I'd like to reuse the logic that already exists for this in this module, but I don't really need a CLI, I just need a lower-level function that presumably receives the parsed package.json and returns a url.

Can something like this be implemented?

[broofa]

To be clear, what I hear you asking for is an SDK, a JS package that can be used to programmatically generate npmgraph URLs... right?

This is actually a good idea. I'd be happy to take a look at a PR if you want to put something together. I'd suggest you start by refactoring the code here to have two workspaces: packages/cli and packages/sdk that can each be published as their own NPM package.

[fabiospampinato]

Yeah just a little npm package that exports a function for mapping packages into urls basically.

[fabiospampinato]

I just published the extension. In the end I could make do with something as simple as this:

`https://npmgraph.js.org/?q=${encodeURIComponent ( `${pkg.name}@${pkg.version}` )}#packages=${encodeURIComponent ( JSON.stringify ( [pkg] ) )}`

[fregante]

I'd also use it to replace this code:

https://github.com/npmhub/npmhub/blob/908bfdbe1e275fc79f150404d3ddb976f68d19c0/source/components/HeaderLinkNpmGraph.svelte#L5-L11

I'm not sure if the extract complexity in this repo is worth it though. Maybe having a copy-pastable file would be good enough to simplify/expand this readme section: https://github.com/npmgraph/npmgraph#packages-hash-param-json-encoded

… or just publish a standalone package/repo, it's not like the format will change often.