[Feature request] Add sorting feature for packages

[mbootsman]

Hi,
absolutely love the packages available in Espanso. I have one request, can the frontend get a sorting function, so we can sort by popularity/recently updated?

Thanks for considering this.

[arabello]

Hi @mbootsman,
currently the hub frontend can't provide such feature as the required information are not tracked by the central hub.

More details:
The hub frontend relies on data shared by the central hub through a GitHub JSON asset which is created by a Python script run by a pipeline when new packages are added or updated.

In order to implement such feature, changes to the data source (central hub) should be made. However, I am not sure popularity would be straightforward to implement on a package basis, while adding a timestamp to track recent updates should be simpler.

The hub frontend does not rely on any other data.