IT:AD:npm:HowTo:View Details Of A Package
Summary
Use npm view xyz to view the details of a specific package.
Process
- view details of an npm package
npm view gulp
The response will be something like:
- response
{ name: 'gulp', description: 'The streaming build system', 'dist-tags': { latest: '3.9.1' }, versions: [ '0.0.1', ...snip... '3.9.1' ], maintainers: [ 'fractal <contact@wearefractal.com>', 'phated <blaine@iceddev.com>' ], time: { modified: '2016-04-08T19:17:57.830Z', created: '2013-07-04T23:27:07.828Z', '0.0.1': '2013-07-04T23:27:09.247Z', '0.0.2': '2013-07-05T00:36:51.366Z', ...snip... '3.9.1': '2016-02-08T18:50:16.472Z' }, author: 'Fractal <contact@wearefractal.com> (http://wearefractal.com/)', repository: { type: 'git', url: 'git+https://github.com/gulpjs/gulp.git' }, users: { '6174': true, '326060588': true, jden: true, ...snip... zafix: true }, readmeFilename: 'README.md', homepage: 'http://gulpjs.com', bugs: { url: 'https://github.com/gulpjs/gulp/issues' }, license: 'MIT', version: '3.9.1', tags: [ 'build', 'stream', 'system', 'make', 'tool', 'asset', 'pipeline' ], files: [ 'index.js', 'lib', 'bin', 'completion', 'gulp.1' ], bin: { gulp: './bin/gulp.js' }, man: 'gulp.1', dependencies: { archy: '^1.0.0', chalk: '^1.0.0', ...snip... 'vinyl-fs': '^0.3.0' }, devDependencies: { coveralls: '^2.7.0', ...snip... should: '^5.0.1' }, scripts: { prepublish: 'marked-man --name gulp docs/CLI.md > gulp.1', lint: 'eslint . && jscs *.js bin/ lib/ test/', pretest: 'npm run lint', test: 'mocha --reporter spec', coveralls: 'istanbul cover _mocha --report lcovonly -- -R spec && cat ./coverage/lcov.info | coveralls && rm -rf ./coverage' }, engines: { node: '>= 0.9' }, gitHead: '9c14e3a13a73a32e424f144d62566671b2fcdbed', dist: { shasum: '571ce45928dd40af6514fc4011866016c13845b4', tarball: 'https://registry.npmjs.org/gulp/-/gulp-3.9.1.tgz' }, directories: {} }