NPM Downloads API

Fetches download count of NPM packages.

Tech Stack

• Docker - containerizes the API
• JavaScript - Promises for fetching and parsing data
• Node - server and file system

Use

To gather NPM download data from an online JSON source, use the following:

docker pull charlesstover/npm-downloads-api;
docker run \
  --detach \
  --env PACKAGES_URL=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/CharlesStover/charlesstover.com/master/src/assets/npm-downloads-api.json \
  --name npm-downloads-api \
  charlesstover/npm-downloads-api;

To gather NPM download data from a local JSON source, place the JSON source in ./packages/ and use the following:

docker pull charlesstover/npm-downloads-api;
docker run \
  --detach \
  --name npm-downloads-api \
  --volume /path/to/local/packages:/var/www/packages \
  charlesstover/npm-downloads-api;

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