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Dependency Viewer for node_modules

Dependency Viewer for node_modules

Mikael Jensen

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Simple, effecient dependency browser (suggestions are welcome)
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Launch VS Code Quick Open (Ctrl+P), paste the following command, and press enter.
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node_modules Dependency Viewer

No more endless scrolling through the node_modules folder to find the package you wanna look into

  • Show nested view of project node_modules and treestructure of child dependencies
  • Normal and dev dependency seperation
  • Direct access to module folder/file if available in root node_modules
  • Rightclick a dependency to open on npmjs.org
  • Fast and effecient overview of direct project dependencies and subdependencies
  • Based of the vscode-extension-samples/tree-view-sample
    • Slimmed down to just include the needed (just the Node dependencies view)
    • Rename the package to prevent possible namespace collision
    • Added some TreeItem classes to accomodate for files, folders and seperators
    • All media resources kindly borrowed from source project (files follow the icon theme of the workspace)

Planned updates

  • Configuration options to modify behaviour
  • Parse more information from the package.json of the modules
  • More fun stuff to do in the context menu
  • Implement normal file contex menu if possible (when I figure out how)
  • Anyone and everyone are welcome to give suggestions or contribute to the development

And maybe

  • Directly install new dependencies
  • Remove dependencies
  • Get the reload thingy to work (not sure it is needed)

Special thanks

To Microsoft for an awesome IDE and the very useful code examples ref: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-extension-samples/tree/master/tree-view-sample

forivall for many improvements and bugfixes

Running the example from source

Get it from: https://github.com/mikaeljensen/node-modules-viewer.git

  • Open this example in VS Code Insiders
  • npm install
  • npm run compile
  • F5 to start debugging
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