Latest and Hot plugins

[sindresorhus]

We should make it easier to discover new and interesting plugins.

On the Bower components site I display Latest and Hot components. We could do something similar on the grunt plugin site.

[vladikoff]

How do you track 'Hot' components?

[sindresorhus]

@vladikoff very naive, latest plugins with >50 GitHub stars: https://github.com/sindresorhus/bower-components/blob/gh-pages/js/main.js#L26-L30

[JKVeganAbroad]

My two cents:

Auto-generating a list based on GitHub stars may not generate a dynamic list:

• It relies on developers to star the project on GitHub
• It doesn't reflect actual downloads, or usage of the plugins
• The list may never change, because the most recent plugins in use may gain only few stars compared with the older more established plugins, which have hundreds

In other words, though the list may be dynamic, the contents may remain the same. Although obviously we could fine-tune the list to find "recent" packages with "more than 5 stars", but I have a different idea which might work better . . .

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How about we simply blog about new Grunt plugins we find interesting:

• Write a brief description about the problem
• Introduce the Grunt plugin with the solution
• Small example of the task configuration and a graphic of whatever could be interesting

Not only would the list have the advantage of hand-picked quality, but also regular blog updates are nearly self-evidence that the Grunt project is alive and well, and not dying 😃