Website to view and install packages

Rhino Developer Yak
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Hi, I made a website to get a bit more info about Rhino packages than what is available using the _PackageManager command: https://www.rhinopackages.com
GitHub repo: https://github.com/visose/RhinoPackages

You can:

  • Filter for Grasshopper or Rhino plugins.
  • Sort by number of downloads or last updated.
  • Filter by same publisher.
  • Filter for Rhino version compatibility.
  • Filter for Windows and Mac compatibility.

I think Food4Rhino is working on better integrating Yak packages, so this might become obsolete soon.

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Super nice! Are you inspecting the packages to know if there is a gha or rph inside?

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Yes, it checks inside the .yak file(s) of the lastest version to see if there’s an .rhp or .gha. It’s done in advance and cached, so should run a background process from time to time to check for package updates.

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Btw I think our last conversation might have planted the idea for this :smile:

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It should load faster now.
I was using a free “serverless” backend to filter and serve the packages, but it takes between 1 to 10 seconds to resume from a cold start. There are only about 500 packages, so can be filtered and sorted directly in the browser.

The backend is only used now for a background task that checks for changes and updates a ~200kb json file with all the packages.

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GitHub repo: https://github.com/visose/RhinoPackages

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Pretty Neat! Thanks for making it open source! :raised_hands:

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