🍂 Dependency Viewer

Search and add dependencies from 8+ registries — right inside VS Code.

✨ Find, copy, and paste dependencies without leaving your editor ✨

🎥 Demo

📖 What is Dependency Viewer?

Dependency Viewer is a VS Code extension that lets you search for packages across multiple language registries and get properly formatted dependency strings — ready to paste into your project files.

No more opening browser tabs for Maven Central, npm, NuGet, RubyGems, or crates.io. Just pick your language, search, and copy.

✨ Features

• 🔍 Search across 5 package registries — Maven Central, npm, NuGet, RubyGems, crates.io
• 🌍 8 languages supported — Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, C#, Ruby, Rust, Kotlin, Groovy
• 📋 One-click copy — formatted dependency string ready to paste
• 🎨 Syntax highlighting — XML, JSON, Ruby, TOML with custom highlighter
• ⚡ Instant search — debounced input for smooth UX
• 💾 State persistence — remembers your last search and results
• 🎯 Keyboard shortcuts — Ctrl+K to focus search, Escape to close

🎥 Demo Feature

🚀 Supported Languages & Registries

📁 Project Structure

dependency-viewer/
├── 📄 package.json              # VS Code extension manifest
├── 📄 route.json                # Registry API definitions
├── 📄 tsconfig.json             # TypeScript configuration
├── 📁 res/                      # Icons and branding
│   └── 🎨 facet-icon-big.png
├── 📁 src/                      # Extension source code
│   ├── 📄 extension.ts          # Entry point & activation
│   ├── 📄 DependencyPanel.ts    # Webview panel management
│   ├── 📄 searchHandlers.ts     # Registry API handlers
│   ├── 📄 utils.ts              # Route loading utilities
│   └── 📁 panel/                # Webview UI
│       ├── 📄 webview.html      # Panel structure
│       ├── 📄 styles.css        # All styles (CSS variables)
│       └── 📄 main.js           # Search logic & syntax highlighting
└── 📁 dist/                     # Build output
    ├── 📄 extension.cjs
    ├── 📄 route.json
    └── 📁 panel/

🔧 How It Works

1. Open — Click 📦 Dependency Viewer in the status bar
2. Select — Choose a language from the dropdown
3. Search — Type a package name (e.g., spring-boot, react, serde)
4. Copy — Click "Copy to Clipboard" on any result
5. Paste! — Paste directly into your pom.xml, package.json, Gemfile, etc.

Example: Generating a pom.xml

• Click: Java → Maven → 4.0
• Generated: ./pom.xml

Example: Searching for spring-boot in Java

• Search: spring-boot
• Result:
  • 📦 org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-web
  • v3.2.0 | MAVEN CENTRAL

  <dependency>
      <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
      <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
      <version>3.2.0</version>
  </dependency>

• [📋 Copy to Clipboard]

🛠️ Development

# Clone
git clone https://github.com/qewr1324/dependency-viewer.git

# Install dependencies
cd dependency-viewer
bun install

# Build
bun run build

# Run extension in VS Code
# Press F5 in VS Code

Adding a New Registry

1. Add to route.json:

{
	"NewLanguage": {
		"registry-name": {
			"name": "Registry Display Name",
			"searchUrl": "https://api.registry.com/search",
			"params": {
				"q": "${query}",
				"limit": "20"
			},
			"parseResponse": {
				"items": "results",
				"version": ["version"],
				"format": "{name}@{version}"
			}
		}
	}
}

2. Add search handler in searchHandlers.ts (if needed):

if (repoName === "registry-name") {
	return await searchCustomRegistry(query, config);
}

3. Add syntax highlighting in main.js (if needed):

function highlightCustomLang(code) {
	// Your custom highlighting logic
}

4. Done! The extension will pick it up automatically.

🎨 VS Code Integration

• 📊 Status Bar — Quick access button in the status bar
• ⌨️ Keyboard Shortcuts — Ctrl+K to focus search, Escape to close
• 💾 State Persistence — Remembers your last language, query, and results

📝 License

• MIT © GhurbeSABZI

🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Whether it's:

• Adding new registries (PHP Packagist, Go modules, etc.)
• Improving syntax highlighting
• Adding more languages
• Fixing bugs
• Improving documentation

Check out CONTRIBUTING.md for guidelines.

Made with ❤️ for developers who hate switching to the browser.