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forage-cli

v0.1.0

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A sleek terminal UI for exploring, searching, and managing npm packages

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forage

A sleek terminal UI for exploring, searching, and managing npm packages. Think crates-tui but for npm.

Features

  • Discovery Dashboard — Popular packages, curated categories, and local project summary at a glance
  • Search — Fast, debounced search across the npm registry with download stats and version info
  • Package Details — README rendering, version history, dependency tree, download sparklines
  • Local Awareness — Detects your package.json, shows installed versions, highlights outdated deps
  • Actions — Copy install commands to clipboard, open npm/repo/docs in browser
  • Keyboard-Driven — Vim-style navigation throughout

Install

npm install -g forage-cli

Requires Node.js 20+.

Usage

# Open the discovery dashboard
forage

# Jump straight to search results
forage react

Keybindings

Dashboard

| Key | Action | |-----|--------| | Tab | Cycle sections (Popular / Categories / Local) | | j k ↑ ↓ | Navigate within section | | Enter | Select package / category / open local view | | / | Jump to search | | q | Quit |

Search

| Key | Action | |-----|--------| | / | Focus search input | | Esc | Unfocus input / return to dashboard | | j k ↑ ↓ | Navigate results | | Enter | View package details | | y | Copy install command | | o | Open on npm | | l | View local dependencies | | g G | Jump to top / bottom | | q | Quit |

Package Detail

| Key | Action | |-----|--------| | Esc | Go back | | Tab | Cycle tabs (Overview / Versions / Dependencies) | | j k ↑ ↓ | Scroll content | | y | Copy install command | | o | Open on npm | | r | Open repository | | d | Open docs / homepage | | g G | Jump to top / bottom | | q | Quit |

Local Dependencies

| Key | Action | |-----|--------| | Esc | Go back | | j k ↑ ↓ | Navigate dependencies | | Enter | View package details | | y | Copy install command | | g G | Jump to top / bottom | | q | Quit |

How It Works

Forage uses the public npm registry API and npm downloads API. No authentication required. All data is fetched in real-time with no local caching between sessions.

Local project detection reads package.json from your current working directory and detects your package manager via lock files (pnpm-lock.yaml, yarn.lock, or falls back to npm).

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License

MIT