Feature Request: sort results by date

[nathan-at-least]

Typically when searching for crates, I tend to avoid those which haven't been updated in a while. I basically scan, by eye, for only "2023" updated crates.

It would simplify my searches if I could sort by my-to-least recently updated.

BTW- this recency is just the easiest approximation available on https://docs.rs for "maintenance reliability". For example, a crate which hasn't been updated in a year might be a really mature solid simple crate that's widely relied on. In that case, I'd consider using it, but that's hard to see from the search results.

I filed a more sophisticated request for search predicates in #2151. I would guess adding results sorting may be simpler and gives me 70% of the value I'd get from that more sophisticated feature.

[syphar]

Docs.rs is internally using just the crates.io search API.

So while we would duplicate a part of the crates.io interface/logic, I would be fine with a PR that adds the sorting-dropdown from the crates.io search to our search results.

Similar to adding columns to the result where we already get the information from the crates.io API.

[linyihai]

May be need some time, I will take a look on this.

[syphar]

Thank you, awesome!

Feel free to ask any questions here on the issue, or on zulip.