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Auto Installer

Castro Agbo

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Auto Installer for VS Code

This is a VS Code extenstion to start and stop ceafive/auto-install which installs and erases dependencies as you write your code.

Usage

Run the 'Start Auto Installer' command or set the autoInstaller.startOnLaunch to true in the configuration

Features

Installs or uninstalls dependencies as you type. It installs dependencies that are found in *.test.js or *.spec.js under devDependencies

Auto installs dependencies as you code

Starts by default when it detects package.json in the root if autoInstall.startOnLaunch is true. By default installs only packages that have >10k monthly downloads.

Checkout ceafive/auto-install for the details.

Requirements

Only requires ceafive/auto-install. This module will be installed automatically globally.

Extension Settings

This extension contributes the following settings:

  • autoInstaller.startOnLaunch: Starts Auto Installer automatically if workspace has package.json in the root. Default: false

  • autoInstaller.secure: If set to true, Auto Installer will only install packages with >10k monthly downloads. see ceafive\auto-install secure flag. Default: false

  • autoInstaller.notify: If set to false, Auto Installer will not show notifications for installed or uninstalled packages. Default: true

  • autoInstaller.uninstall: If set to true, Auto Installer will not show automatically uninstall packages when they are removed from code. Default: false

Known Issues

Cannot be used in a repo with multiple package.json files. Will be fixed soon.

Release Notes

[1.2.1]

Rewritten with TypeScript

[1.0.1]

Display parsing errors

1.0.0

Initial release

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