What is Hound by Etsy?
Hound is an extremely fast source code search engine. The core is based on this article (and code) from Russ Cox: Regular Expression Matching with a Trigram Index. Hound itself is a static React frontend that talks to a Go backend. The backend keeps an up-to-date index for each repository and answers searches through a minimal API.
Hound by Etsy is a tool in the Code Search category of a tech stack.
Hound by Etsy is an open source tool with GitHub stars and GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Hound by Etsy's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Hound by Etsy?
Companies
3 companies reportedly use Hound by Etsy in their tech stacks, including Etsy, DevOps, and Printhouse.
Developers
7 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Hound by Etsy.
Hound by Etsy's Features
- Extremely fast source code search
- Tested on MacOS and CentOS
Hound by Etsy Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Hound by Etsy?
Git
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
GitHub
GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.
Visual Studio Code
Build and debug modern web and cloud applications. Code is free and available on your favorite platform - Linux, Mac OSX, and Windows.
Docker
The Docker Platform is the industry-leading container platform for continuous, high-velocity innovation, enabling organizations to seamlessly build and share any application — from legacy to what comes next — and securely run them anywhere
npm
npm is the command-line interface to the npm ecosystem. It is battle-tested, surprisingly flexible, and used by hundreds of thousands of JavaScript developers every day.
