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Re:Show HN: Visualize Rust Crates Dependencies by wjl on Friday August 27, 2021 @06:24PM (#28333611)
Nice work on this! The search is very snappy and the layout is quite pleasing. One thought: it's a little difficult for me to read the "DEV"/"OPTIONAL" dependency text on the side of the nodes; I wonder if some color-coding would help here?
Re:Show HN: Visualize Rust Crates Dependencies by csomar on Friday August 27, 2021 @06:32PM (#28333662)
> The search is very snappy

It's running on Cloudflare workers. Some 500 servers I guess! It's kinda of an overkill for the use case but I did it as I was looking to explore their API.

> I wonder if some color-coding would help here?

tbh, I kept trying a few combinations and then gave up. Design is not my strongest skill.

Re:Show HN: Visualize Rust Crates Dependencies by rl3 on Friday August 27, 2021 @09:00PM (#28334594)
This is really cool.

You might want to somehow cap the depth for crates that have an extreme amount of dependencies.

Example (may freeze your browser):

https://crates.live/wgpu/0.10.1

Re:Show HN: Visualize Rust Crates Dependencies by csomar on Saturday August 28, 2021 @03:34AM (#28336304)
It's capped to 500 crates, but some crates seem to hang the browser before that. See https://crates.live/reqwest/0.11.4
Re:Show HN: Visualize Rust Crates Dependencies by ccakes on Saturday August 28, 2021 @05:17AM (#28336728)
Nice work! The ability to colour the boxes by license might be a nice touch

Would be an easy visual way to identify dependencies with incompatible licenses