Ask HN: What is the best way to discover NPM packages?

[seekayel]

What is the best way to discover npm packages?

All of the ways I've found seem very manual and imprecise. Any recommendations or improvements? Here is what I try:

Process: - Google "npm for feature" check search suggest and results - Check https://snyk.io/advisor/ for similar results and quality score of packages - google search "package vs ..." and see what comes up - Check packages used in open source projects

Other suggestions?

[chatmasta]

I just use GitHub search and filter by TypeScript (or JavaScript if I’m feeling really desperate).

Of course this will miss the rare npm package not published on GitHub. You can also check https://libraries.io