Hound

6.5easy start · #9 of 40
in Code Search Tools

Runs on api, Linux, Mac, self-hosted, Web.

Hound is ranked #9 of 40 in code search tools on The Geeks Club. It runs on API, Linux, macOS, Self-hosted, Web.

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Purpose: Hound is an extremely fast source code search engine.
Architecture: Hound has a static React frontend and a Go backend that maintains an up-to-date index for each repository and exposes a minimal API.
Search technology: Its core is based on regular-expression matching with a trigram index.
Web interface: Hound hosts a web UI at http://localhost:6080 by default.
Docker: Hound provides a Docker image at ghcr.io/hound-search/hound:latest and instructions for building its own image.
Version control: Hound supports Git, Mercurial, SVN, Bazaar, and local repositories.
Private repositories: Private repositories can be indexed through local directories, file:// URLs, or SSH-style URLs.
Repository updates: Hound polls configured repository URLs for updates every 30 seconds by default.
Editor integrations: Plugins supporting Hound are available for Sublime Text, Vim, Emacs, and Visual Studio Code.
Operating-system support: Hound is tested on macOS and CentOS, should work on any Unix-like system, and is not supported on Windows.
Security limitation: Hound does not currently support TLS and is commonly run behind Apache or nginx.
License: Hound is distributed under the MIT license.
Creators: Hound was created at Etsy by Kelly Norton and Jonathan Klein.
Release status: The latest listed release is v0.7.1, published in May 2023.

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