[Question] Any idea when this is released on NPM?

[jclaessens97]

I very much like this idea and it seems there is no one else doing it, but it would even be better if it would be available on NPM registry. I saw it's in the TODO in the readme but any idea on when this is going to be published? 😄

Thanks!

[tomchen]

Thanks for your attention.

I'm currently on some other small open source npm ts packages including a lightweight and deno-compatible alternative of cosmiconfig (this could be used by the future npm stack-icons package), and a ts port of one of my own python libraries.

But yeah, I can see stack-icons has some potential, I'll prioritize this one. I'll probably release it within, let's say, one or two weeks.

[jclaessens97]

Alright sounds cool! If there's anything I can do to help, you can ping me.

[jclaessens97]

@tomchen Any progress? 😊

[tomchen]

Yeah I've published the small config package I mentioned as well as the ts lib ported from my python code, to practice typescript a little bit.

I'm sure I'll release this before or on friday, the last day I promised (Jan 30 + 2 weeks). Actually, this friday is the lunar new year for a year of the bull, wouldn't it be a fantastic day to release a package? 😄

[jclaessens97]

Exactly! Perfect day to release a package 😏🙌
Question was just informative, didn't meant to rush you or anything btw 😅

[tomchen]

Discord server https://discord.gg/gg5AxGvY join if you want

[tomchen]

Happy lunar new year!

Exactly! Perfect day to release a package 😏🙌
Question was just informative, didn't meant to rush you or anything btw 😅

Don't worry, I have a secret script:

mkdir stackicons
cd stackicons
npm init -y
npm publish

Oops, I accidentally executed this script. Job done, problem solved, promise kept, issue closed. If you don't mind the unusability and emptiness of the package, voilà the completely blank stackicons 🤣🤣

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Seriously, I'm renaming it to geticon and moving it to https://github.com/get-icon/geticon.

Because the name "stackicons" is not only taken by a project of the similar type (albeit inactive since 2014), its author seemed to have a for-profit company for it (he could send me a request if he wants the name "stackicons" on npm & also on twitter 🙂). So I'm gonna rename mine to avoid any future naming issue. My free open source not-for-profit project aims to provide a easy way for users to get one or several of those icons, so "geticon" seems to be a straightforward name. I was able to register the domain name geticon.org (of course .com is unavailable) that was available but npm "geticon" is not, because "get-icon" is taken 4 years ago. I even wrote an email to get-icon's author, I'm still waiting for the reply but chance's low, even if his email is reachable and he agrees to cede the name, he could have easily lost his npm credential... I guess I'm gonna use scoped names like npm i @geticon/core, as I was able to grab the scope org account geticon on npm...

For more details and plans, I could discuss on Discord.