I made an alternative search engine few months ago... Basically I was not satisfied with npms.io so I've tried to come up with tool which matches my process of selection as much as possible:
And most importantly I wanted to be able to "filter out" what I don't care - so for example if I'm searching for charts, there is a lot of "noise" with vx packages, I can easily search for "chart -vx" and you use parentheses and |
The link is searchlibs.com
I keep it updating every 2 weeks and I also have a lot of new ideas so if you're interested, feel free to bookmark it and stay tuned :)