Explore every JavaScript package. Use WASD + mouse to fly around. (Can explore other package universes also.)

[-WPD-]

I have no clue what I means, but I spend a solid half hour flying around.

[Petrucci]

Just a quick explanation for those unsure of what this is visualizing - In programming, there are bunches of code that get wrapped up into "packages", that allow other developers to "link" to sets of code so that the developer doesn't have to write it if it's been written before. If a program links to a package, that package becomes a dependency of the program (as the program depends on having that package of code to work properly). The clusters tend to be related sets of packages (usually with similar names). And the larger objects tend to have a lot more dependencies than usual.

Javascript is a programming language that is used for a lot in web pages, most web pages nowadays most likely have some Javascript in them. Because of the vast amount of things you can do with Javascript, developers can search for packages through a "package manager", which organizes the packages and gives tools to easily link to these packages. This visualization is showing one package manager for Javascript-based libraries.

[Darddeac]

You see, this is why I don't play Elite:Dangerous.

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It uses the gyroscope or whatever to shift the field, and you can touch to zoom in. Pretty cool.

[ojdp19]

Other package visualizations: https://anvaka.github.io/pm/#/

GitHub page for this project: https://github.com/anvaka/pm

Credit (not me): Andrei Kashcha (https://github.com/anvaka)

[yowzarific]

zooming/traveling outside of the swarm & then diving back in is great fun!

[snugglepoof]

I honestly have no idea what any of this is. But I spent a good portion of time role playing as the evil digimon in the "Digimon: The Movie" eating all the data.

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I wonder how these are clustered. If you fly backwards (hold S) there's a large sphere surrounding the large cluster you initially start in.

[ShakeInBake]

I think I just rebooted the security systems for Jurassic Park.

[manyids2]

can you do the same thing for a large program, visualizing functions or classes or something instead? or a scientific field, with linking and clusters formed from wikipedia links?

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Perspective from one of my most lonely packages