Add categories to pubspec.yaml

[nex3]

From @anders-sandholm on August 11, 2017 13:56

From @mnordine on August 11, 2017 13:1

Search results on https://pub.dartlang.org/ could be improved with the addition of categories for packages. It could also improve the home page by listing packages via popular categories. These categories must match a pre-defined list. For prior art, see https://crates.io/ and http://doc.crates.io/manifest.html

From the previous link:

# This is a list of up to five categories where this crate would fit.
# Categories are a fixed list available at crates.io/category_slugs, and
# they must match exactly.
categories = ["...", "..."]

Copied from original issue: dart-lang/sdk#30419

Copied from original issue: dart-lang/pub#1685

[nex3]

From @anders-sandholm on August 11, 2017 13:56

From @mnordine on August 11, 2017 13:2

Related: dart-lang/sdk#30418

[isoos]

A well-curated list of categories sgtm, especially as this is really short at the moment: https://crates.io/category_slugs

[jodinathan]

this is a must have.
Anything that you try to search on pub is a pain to find.
IMHO, crates.io's categories list is ok but the searching website is not a good example to use.
Categorization needs focus so it can be correctly used.
It should be explicit on the website main page and also have a good options range.

I normally use an e-commerce flow to see what an app, be it web or mobile, basically needs.
So, lets quickly make a small list of categories from there:

• User access main page and see a list of products
  -- Cache system, Database connections, Image manipulation
• User clicks on a product
  -- Route system, Async fetch system, Loading animation
• User tries to buy and go for login page
  -- Authentication, OAuth2 (for quick login), Forms, Inputs, Form validation
• User pays
  -- Payment SDKs (Paypal)
• User receives email
  -- Mailing SDKs (Sendgrid),

If we are able to create categories that fits an e-commerce flow, we will make the pub website very, very good.

[jonasfj]

It could also be that you login to the pub website and assign tags to the package. Instead of putting it in the pubspec, that way auto-complete can help reduce the number of variations of the same tag.

[aloisdeniel]

When sources are from a GitHub repository that contains topics, categories could also be those topics by default.

[chimon2000]

It really does hurt the frequent pub.dev user that there is no keyword/category support.