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.
- Download CodeSurf's latest release from releases page.
- Install Silver searcher from its own docs
- 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
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 startUn-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
- f:folder/foo/bar => Give directory name
- 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.
Shoot it to hi[at]hakanu.com or open an issue.
Feel free to send a pull request.