NPM Feed search doesn't list all packages

[markus4830]

Hi together,

i try to understand the search feature within the npm feed. There is a connecter attached and it's configured as "mixed public/private packages". If I search as example for "@angular" I'll get as result all packages starting with @angular. But if I search for a part like "@angula" then I get no results. Could you please clarify this behaviour to me?

Thanks in advance

Markus

[atripp]

hi Marcus,

Since you're hooking ProGet to npmjs.org, then the search results of npmjs.org are returned.

This is the usual behavior of npmjs.org, and you can see how it works by going to the webste: https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=%40angula

I can't speak for how or why they designed things they way they did, but I can say that, in npm, the @-symbol denotes a package scope, and it's only sort-of-kind-of part of the package's name. It's messy, but suffice it to say, if a search string contains only a scope name, then npmjs.org seems to return all packages within that scope.

Otherwise, the search algorithm reverts to its default behavior, which I guess is searching names, descriptions, those sorts of things. Note that searching angular doesn't return packages in the @angular scope, either: https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=angular

[markus4830]

Thanks for this detailed description

Thats for sure a misleading search design decision...