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 start

• Un-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
• 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.