Formed in 2009, the Archive Team (not to be confused with the archive.org Archive-It Team) is a rogue archivist collective dedicated to saving copies of rapidly dying or deleted websites for the sake of history and digital heritage. The group is 100% composed of volunteers and interested parties, and has expanded into a large amount of related projects for saving online and digital history.
If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
—Isaac Newton, John of Salisbury, and others before them
shoulders
Quickly view a list of open issues for the open-source packages that your project depends on.
Terminal theme: Rivet by themer
Usage
npx shouldersshoulders will find dependencies in the node_modules folder, identify corresponding repositories on GitHub, and query GitHub's API for open issues.
If your project depends on many packages you will likely run into rate limiting errors from the GitHub API; you can increase the limit by using a personal access token (the only scope needed is public_repo) and passing it to shoulders via the $GITHUB_TOKEN environment variable:
GITHUB_TOKEN='<your token>' npx shouldersWhy?
Modern software would not be possible without the mountains of previous work by others—much of it open source—as its foundation. In the spirit of Hacktoberfest 2019, this simple script makes it a little bit easier to find a way to support the projects that we depend on so heavily.
License
MIT © Matt Swensen