Package Manager

This package is a web-compatible package manager built with tsserverlib compatibility in mind. It does not require a "real" filesystem or a "real" NPM installation, but instead uses orogene to perform package management operations.

It is largely a thin wrapper around Orogene's node-maintainer WASM API.

Updating vendored node-maintainer

Currently, this package vendors a prebuilt version of node-maintainer into the ./node-maintainer directory. This has to be manually built and updated as needed whenever there are desired changes from orogene.

To update the directory:

1. rm -rf ./node-maintainer
2. clone https://github.com/orogene/orogene somewhere. See the contributing instructions for a guide on how to set up and build wasm modules.
3. mv /path/to/orogene/crates/node-maintainer/pkg ./node-maintainer
4. `git add node-maintainer && git commit -m 'updated node-maintainer'

A Note on Build Requirements

To get this branch working, as of today (4/7/2023), you need to use a TypeScript release that includes this commit, which has been merged into main, but not released yet.

In order to use an unreleased TypeScript with VS Code:

1. At the ../.. (vscode/extensions/) level, you should npm link the version of typescript you want.
   1. Go to your typescript source checkout
   2. Call npm link
   3. Go to vscode/extensions
   4. Call npm link typescript