Dependency list in package explorer
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100
- Issue type
- Bug
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Activity status
- Stale
- Tech stack
- node.js
- Domain
- developer-experience
Research direction
Start by comparing the affected and working Node.js projects in Visual Studio, focusing on npm-node-explorer, package.json, and the dependency metadata under node_modules. Investigate how the missing _requiredBy tag affects the displayed dependency list; done means the explorer shows only packages explicitly listed in package.json.
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Description
Hi,
I have the following situation in node.js projects in Visual Studio.
Npm package manager shows all packages regardless of their state (npm-node-explorer shows all the sub-dependencies of all the packages), as shown in the picture

The thing I don't understand about this "issue" is the fact that in other projects I don't see those "Installed, but not explicitly listed in package.json" npm packages. Here's an example of a project:

I found out that the "problem" is that the "_requiredBy" tag written in package.json files inside the dependencies folders in node_modules is missing.
Is there a way to see only installed and listed in package.json packages?
Best regards.
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