npm-sum
Show brief summary of package information registered on npm.
$ npm i -g npm-sum
Why and What
npm view (or show, info, v) outputs huge raw JSON which contains all information of the package,
but, for a human, it's not easy to read and find what one wants to know.
$ npm view npm
{
"name": "npm",
"description": "a package manager for JavaScript",
"dist-tags": {
"latest": "4.0.2",
"next": "4.0.3",
"latest-2": "2.15.11",
"v3.x-latest": "3.10.9",
"3.x-latest": "3.10.9",
"3.x-next": "3.10.10",
"v3.x-next": "3.10.10",
"next-2": "2.15.11",
"latest-1": "1.4.29",
"lts": "2.15.11",
"latest-3": "3.10.10",
"next-3": "3.10.10"
},
"versions": [
"1.1.25",
"1.1.70",
"1.1.71",
"1.2.19",
"1.2.20",
"1.2.21",
... (more than 1000 lines)
}
npm-sum outputs a summary of the information which includes only the most important ones (as I think).
$ npm-sum npm
Name : npm
Version : 4.0.3 (2016-11-18 08:28:08)
Homepage : https://docs.npmjs.com/
Author : Isaac Z. Schlueter <i@izs.me> (http://blog.izs.me)
License : Artistic-2.0
Description : a package manager for JavaScript
Keywords : install, modules, package manager, package.json
Tags :
3.x-latest : 3.10.9 (2016-10-7 13:38:58)
3.x-next : 3.10.10 (2016-11-5 10:18:12)
latest : 4.0.3 (2016-11-18 08:28:08)
latest-1 : 1.4.29 (2015-10-30 10:52:42)
latest-2 : 2.15.11 (2016-9-9 11:52:01)
latest-3 : 3.10.10 (2016-11-5 10:18:12)
lts : 2.15.11 (2016-9-9 11:52:01)
next : 4.0.5 (2016-12-2 10:30:13)
next-2 : 2.15.11 (2016-9-9 11:52:01)
next-3 : 3.10.10 (2016-11-5 10:18:12)
v3.x-latest : 3.10.9 (2016-10-7 13:38:58)
v3.x-next : 3.10.10 (2016-11-5 10:18:12)
Binaries : npm
Dependencies : ... (omitted)
How to use
Just like npm view.
$ npm-sum [options] [<@scope>/]<name>[@<version>]
It executes npm as a child process to fetch package information from the registry, and summarizes it into a human readable format.
Options
--no-dependencies: do not show dependencies-h, --help: output help-v, --version: output version