Deps mis-alignment: show output pane for 'npm i' even in "automatic mode"
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Description
- Otherwise the end user has no indication of something happening in the background.
- This means focusing the output pane.
Can also consider using a terminal or different output channel per folder instead
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by locating the automatic-mode handling for npm i and the output pane in the VSCode extension. Confirm how background dependency installation is currently reported, then make the output pane receive focus while the command runs; done means users can see that work is happening.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- developer-experience
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 42/100