Eponym
Eponym is a node script capable of generating a list of words that are currently available NPM packages. The list of words is pulled from the wonderful WebstersEnglishDictionary.
eponym: noun, a person after who a discovery, invention or place is named
Getting started
# Grab 20 random words from the dictionary that are 6 characters or
# less and return the ones that are available as package names on NPM
npx eponym --limit=20 --max-word-length=6
An HTTP request has to be made for each word, so larger data sets can be time consuming. You can skip the wait by using the pre-compiled lists in the out/ directory.
If you're in the middle of a long running process though, you can terminate it at any time and so long as you've passed the --write flag, the names processed so far will still be written to the file.
Options
| Option | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
-l, --limit <limit> |
- | The number of dictionary words to run through NPM. The number of results may be less than this because any names which are already taken on NPM are not returned |
--full-dictionary |
false | Process every word in the dictionary (Warning: This is very, very slow) |
-b, --batch-size <size> |
20 | The number of HTTP requests allowed to happen at once |
-m, --max-word-length <max> |
∞ | Limit the results to words of a certain maximum length |
-w, --write <filePath> |
print to console | Passing this option outputs the results to the specified file instead of printing them to the console |
-p, --predictable |
false | Do not randomly choose words from the dictionary, instead start from the beginning |