CodeSurf

ag backed code search UI with electron for fast snippet regex match search

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CodeSurf

Personal codebase search tool, totally private. It’s a simple electron based UI to the great code search tool The Silver Searcher aka ag. Although I love using ag from command line, I seek to have a UI with some tangible navigation systems in between my codebase.

Install

Features

  • Fast, really fast search (thanks to ag)
    • Whole linux kernel files (3.7GB) are searched in mere 12 seconds (with 10 letter search query) in my machine which is probably not a good benchmark but I scan the spinning disk with i5 8th gen with 32GB memory.
    • Since it does regexp match, the length of search query is important.

  • Keyboard first navigation
  • Respects .gitignore and .hgignore files as ag does.
  • Clean UI
  • All private, no internet access is needed.
  • Keyboard shortcuts to bring it to focus whenever needed (ctrl + shift + J)
  • Small memory footprint

Dev notes

Made this in some afternoon sitting so don’t judge me:P Still learning electron. The code is based on pure js + a little bit jquery + bootstrap4 styles and lots of rooms for improvements.

npm install

npm start

Roadmap

  • Un-render in show source code file.
  • jump with ctrl + g in the show source code window.
  • Add support to different search backends like ripgrep, ack, grep etc.
  • Make windows installer
  • Maybe add some analytics.
  • Add app to electronjs apps page.
  • For large searches, app becomes blank, make it somehow more informative.
  • Add filters to the search:
    • f:folder/foo/bar => Give directory name
      • Something better: fuzzy search for file names too.
    • lang:py => Search only python files
  • Add ids and class names into constants.
  • Open from editor directly.
  • Add stats.
  • Check if binaries are installed, if not warn them.
  • Show binary selection under the search bar.
  • Show case sensitivity under the search bar.
  • Add ignore patterns into settings to add into path-to-ignore.

Better name or any other feedback?

Shoot it to hi[at]hakanu.com or open an issue.

Contribute

Feel free to send a pull request.