Show HN: Visualize Rust Crates Dependencies

[csomar]

https://crates.live/rand/0.8.4

[wjl]

Nice work on this! The search is very snappy and the layout is quite pleasing. One thought: it's a little difficult for me to read the "DEV"/"OPTIONAL" dependency text on the side of the nodes; I wonder if some color-coding would help here?

[csomar → wjl]

> The search is very snappy

It's running on Cloudflare workers. Some 500 servers I guess! It's kinda of an overkill for the use case but I did it as I was looking to explore their API.

> I wonder if some color-coding would help here?

tbh, I kept trying a few combinations and then gave up. Design is not my strongest skill.

[rl3]

This is really cool.

You might want to somehow cap the depth for crates that have an extreme amount of dependencies.

Example (may freeze your browser):

https://crates.live/wgpu/0.10.1

[csomar → rl3]

It's capped to 500 crates, but some crates seem to hang the browser before that. See https://crates.live/reqwest/0.11.4

[ccakes]

Nice work! The ability to colour the boxes by license might be a nice touch

Would be an easy visual way to identify dependencies with incompatible licenses