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AWESOME

A next-level ground-breaking full-featured CLI application for exploring and curating awesome lists from GitHub

🎯 Features

Core Features

  • 🌟 Browse Awesome Lists - Navigate through thousands of curated awesome lists from sindresorhus/awesome
  • 🔍 Full-Text Search - Lightning-fast SQLite FTS5 powered search across all indexed READMEs
  • 📚 Interactive Shell - Powerful shell with search completion and history
  • 🎲 Random Discovery - Serendipitously discover random projects from the index
  • 📖 Beautiful README Viewer - Styled markdown rendering in your terminal

Organization & Curation

  • Smart Bookmarks - Save favorites with tags, categories, and notes
  • 📝 Custom Lists - Create your own awesome lists with beautiful styling
  • 🎨 Export Options - Export to Markdown, PDF, EPUB, and other ebook formats
  • 🏷️ Auto-Tagging - Automatic extraction of tags and categories from content
  • ✍️ Annotations - Add notes to entire documents or specific lines

Intelligence & Insights

  • 📊 Statistics Dashboard - Comprehensive stats about your index
  • 📈 GitHub Integration - Stars, forks, last commit, and more
  • 🔄 Smart Updates - Update bookmarked READMEs with diff preview
  • 📜 Reading History - Track what you've explored
  • 🎯 Auto-Complete - Intelligent completion for tags and categories

Developer Features

  • 🚀 Git Integration - Clone repositories directly from the app
  • 🔧 Recursive Indexing - Deep crawl of awesome lists hierarchy
  • 🎭 Background Operations - Fancy loaders for all async operations
  • 🐛 Debug Mode - Accessible via Node.js debug port
  • ⚙️ Configurable - Extensive settings via CLI

🎨 Theme

Beautiful purple, pink, and gold gradient color scheme throughout the entire application for a funky, cool, and awesome experience!

📦 Installation

cd /home/valknar/Projects/node.js/awesome
pnpm install
pnpm rebuild better-sqlite3
chmod +x awesome

GitHub Rate Limits - SOLVED with OAuth! 🔐

GitHub API has strict rate limits:

  • Without auth: 60 requests/hour
  • With OAuth: 5,000 requests/hour 🚀 (83x more!)

🎉 Super Easy OAuth Setup (30 seconds!):

./awesome settings
→ GitHub Authentication
→ OAuth (Recommended)
→ Browser opens, enter code, done! ✨

That's it! No manual token creation, no copy-pasting!

Features:

  • Browser auto-opens to GitHub auth page
  • Just enter the code shown in terminal
  • Click authorize and you're done!
  • 83x more API requests instantly
  • Secure - token stored locally
  • Fallback - manual token still available

When you hit rate limits (rare with OAuth), you get options:

  • ⏭️ Skip remaining items
  • Wait and continue
  • Abort

See OAUTH_SETUP.md for complete guide!

🚀 Usage

Interactive Mode

./awesome

Commands

# Build the index (run this first!)
./awesome index

# Search
./awesome search "react hooks"

# Interactive shell
./awesome shell

# Browse lists
./awesome browse

# Random README
./awesome random

# Manage bookmarks
./awesome bookmarks

# Manage custom lists
./awesome lists

# View history
./awesome history

# Statistics
./awesome stats

# Settings
./awesome settings

# Clone a repository
./awesome checkout owner/repo

# Debug mode
node --inspect=9230 awesome

🗄️ Database Schema

The application uses SQLite3 with FTS5 for full-text search. Data is stored in ~/.awesome/awesome.db.

Tables

  • awesome_lists - Indexed awesome lists (hierarchical)
  • repositories - Individual projects with GitHub stats
  • readmes - README content with versions
  • readmes_fts - Full-text search index
  • bookmarks - User bookmarks with tags/categories
  • custom_lists - User-created awesome lists
  • custom_list_items - Items in custom lists
  • reading_history - Reading activity tracking
  • annotations - Document and line annotations
  • tags - Extracted and user-defined tags
  • categories - Extracted and user-defined categories
  • settings - Application configuration
  • readme_versions - Version history for diffs

🎯 Workflow

  1. First Run: ./awesome index - Recursively crawls and indexes awesome lists
  2. Explore: Search, browse, discover random projects
  3. Organize: Bookmark favorites, add tags and categories
  4. Curate: Create custom awesome lists
  5. Share: Export your lists in multiple formats
  6. Update: Keep your index fresh with smart diff-based updates

🛠️ Technology Stack

  • Node.js 22+ - Modern JavaScript runtime
  • SQLite3 + FTS5 - Fast, embedded database with full-text search
  • Inquirer.js - Beautiful interactive prompts
  • Chalk & Gradient-String - Colorful terminal output
  • Marked & Marked-Terminal - Markdown rendering
  • Simple-Git - Git operations
  • Axios - HTTP client for GitHub API
  • Commander.js - CLI framework
  • Ora & Nanospinner - Loading animations
  • pnpm - Fast, efficient package manager

📝 License

MIT

🌟 Credits

Inspired by sindresorhus/awesome - the awesome list of awesome lists!


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