fix(cli): cap and score-filter module search results

Author: danielroe

packages/nuxt-cli/src/commands/module/search.ts

@@ -15,6 +15,15 @@ import { checkNuxtCompatibility, fetchModules, MODULES_API_URL } from './_utils'
 
 constDASH_RE=/-/g
 
+/**
+ * Every result is rendered as its own box, so a query that happens to be a
+ * subsequence of half the registry (`stripe` matches 178 of 316 modules at any
+ * score) must not turn into a screenful of boxes. The score cut removes the
+ * incidental matches and the limit caps what is left.
+ */
+constSCORE_THRESHOLD=0.5
+constRESULT_LIMIT=20
+
 const{format: formatNumber}=newIntl.NumberFormat('en-GB',{
 notation: 'compact',
 maximumFractionDigits: 1,
@@ -77,7 +86,12 @@ async function findModuleByKeywords(query: string, nuxtVersion: string) {
 ].filter(Boolean).join(' ')),
 }))
 
-constresults=fuzzysort.go(query,targets,{keys: ['name','npm','rest'],all: !query}).map(({obj: { item }})=>{
+constresults=fuzzysort.go(query,targets,{
+keys: ['name','npm','rest'],
+all: !query,
+threshold: SCORE_THRESHOLD,
+limit: RESULT_LIMIT,
+}).map(({obj: { item }})=>{
 constres: Record<string,string>={
 name: item.name,
 package: item.npm,