I’ve been overseeing many different repositories at Lokalise and that means also knowing and keeping track of what libraries are in use and in what version.
I always knew that GitHub has a search functionality, but until recently, I didn’t realize that I can use it exactly for this purpose.
Here are a few use cases that help me keep an overview.
Find out what versions of package X do we use in different repositories
In my case, the package X is React. I was trying to find out what React versions we still use. This search command gave me the answer.
org:lokalise path:**/package.json react-dom NOT is:archived
Find out how many files with extension X do we have
Github Search returns also the amount of files that match the search. With that, you can also easily find out how many files of certain type you have in your organization.
In my case, I was looking for how many React components we have.
A small problem is that once you get over 1000s, it will give you just an approximate number, but in my case, that was still good enough.
org:lokalise path:**/*.tsx NOT is:archived
.tsx files.Find out how many files use styled-components
We’re in a process of migrating from styled-components to native CSS (which is more web friendly). With this search, I can track easily how the migration is going.
org:lokalise "from 'styled-components'" NOT is:archived
