Components
Nodejs Package Manager is an Electron desktop application which supports both npm and bower packages. It provides many features as listed below.
Presently Available For Windows 64 bit Only.
Present Features NodeJs Package Manager:
1 Global Packages
2 Search Mechanism
3 Install Packages
4 Updates of Packages
5 Downgrade Package Version
6 Open Packages
7 Get Package Detail According To Version
8 Uninstall The Package
9 Init npm&bower Json File
10 Change Theme
11 Restore To Defaults
Proposal
It would be more useful if the application could have the following suggested features implemented.
1 Pagination- This feature allows users to navigate results of packages page by page at the end of application.
2 Search results for package name- This feature would allow search results displaying number of packages found for particular package name in the search bar.
Mockups / Examples
The two images below is an edited screenshot of the application showing where suggested features can be positioned:
Before
After
The next image below is an edited screenshot of the application showing where Search Results with number of packages for package could be added. For instance package "screenshot" [results found 125 packages] and below is edited screenshot showing pagination with number [1 to 5] to navigate results page by page, could be implemented
Benefits
Right now the application lets us to use our mouse to check package and no idea of total results found for a particular package.
With the addition of these suggested features it would make it easy for users to check results by number of packages as well as check packages using pagination to go back and fourth and install our favorite npm packages accordingly.
Hopefully this will make the said app more useful for all users of the npmjs package manager.
Posted on Utopian.io - Rewarding Open Source Contributors