shields

Shields opened my eye to a fascinating new potential shape of project. Sometimes a project depends on hundreds of even thousands of custom integrations. Think about a something like TripIt - it works by accepting forwarded emails from different travel reservation sites, but that means somebody has to write hundreds of custom email parsers for those sites and then update them on a continuous basis. This is prohibitively expensive and frustrating and difficult to do. ... and then Shields came along and did exactly that by making it open source and using open source development processes to maintain those integrations with the help of hundreds of collaborators: https://github.com/badges/shields/tree/master/services I've been keeping an eye out for similar shapes of project ever since I noticed this. It feels like there's a lot of potential h

This doesn't work at all without JavaScript. I much prefer the picture to a blank region. Slightly tangent, but it seems like more services are no longer offering fallbacks. Twitter recently got rid of its tweet text fallback, and the caniusewidgets doesn't offer a png fallback (at first glance). https://github.com/badges/shields uses svg so you can do this without complaining about bandwidth too. Would be funny to include this in an article about yet another privacy-breaking feature of web.

I took a look. The rendering code of shields.io is here: https://github.com/badges/shields/blob/779c1ffaadfcd53ac20b5... text width is computed in preferredWidthOf, which computes the width of the text in 11px Verdana, either normal or bold: https://github.com/badges/shields/blob/779c1ffaadfcd53ac20b5... The anafanafo dependency is doing all the heavy lifting: https://www.npmjs.com/package/anafanafo

The thing I find most interesting about this project is that it shows how a well co-ordinated open source effort can solve the problem of trying to keep integrations against hundreds of different APIs working. I would have thought that running a project integrating against this many different APIs would be a completely insane idea - but it works great when 300+ people help you out! https://github.com/badges/shields/graphs/contributors

Badges on GitHub seem to be getting more popular, a manual way to show this information in project readme files: https://github.com/badges/shields

This is a great opportunity to remind everyone that http://shields.io/ has been providing high quality SVG badges for all your repo metadata needs for 5 years now. Even if Shields doesn't support the specific third-party service integration you're looking for you can generate a badge using the incredibly simple image API: - https://img.shields.io/badge/hacker-news-orange.svg - https://img.shields.io/badge/rate-limited-red.svg The API is open source: https://github.com/badges/shields I started the project although it's maintained by Thaddée Tyl and Paul Melnikow these days. Here's a bit of backstory: http://olivierlacan.com/posts/an-open-source-rage-diamond/

Nice! Can I use it? (If you want, you can also submit a patch in https://github.com/badges/shields.)

We would like to find open source Node.js web applications using either Express or Hapi frameworks. We are building a Node.js agent that performs instrumentation and such projects are a great way to test it. We are already aware of: - Ghost (https://ghost.org) - Keystone (http://keystonejs.com/) - https://github.com/badges/shields - https://github.com/alanshaw/david-www - https://github.com/punkave/apostrophe