Search bar UI: How to control the behaviour

[tchoutri]

Inspired by GitHub's and Hex.pm's search bars, I suggest we implement the following modifiers in the search bar:

Relieving the Package view:

These modifiers are here in order to provide a full list of dependencies & dependents for packages.

• @packagename (trigram search on package name, with namespace ranking)
• @namespace/packagename (namespaced search with trigram search on package name)

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The following could be built internally and fed to the search engine.
Different screens and dedicated URLs will be provided:

• dependencies:<package name> (implicitly for the latest release)
• dependencies:<package name>-<version>
• depends:<package name>
• versions:<package name>

Future features

This would be nice to have in the future.

• hoogle:<string> Hoogle has a JSON API

[tchoutri]

A way to implement this would be to have one entry point that parses the input, looking for modifiers, and then could dispatch to the appropriate functions.

[tchoutri]

That being said we can start with just no modifiers and namespace: modifiers, and instead have dedicated screens + urls for rev-deps & deps.

[TixieSalander]

As discussed, I'm planning on improving the UI part of that to facilitate it's usage.