Node.js (npm, pnpm, Yarn, Bun)

The built-in Node.js plugin adds the npm window on the right rail, only in a project that has a package.json. It lists every package.json of the project (root, workspaces and subfolders, without node_modules), with their scripts in the order of the file.

The package manager of each package.json is the one of its packageManager field, otherwise the one of the lock file in its folder or a parent folder (bun.lock(b), pnpm-lock.yaml, yarn.lock, package-lock.json), otherwise npm.

• Double-click (or ▶) on a script: it runs in a new terminal, from the folder of its package.json (pnpm run build…). On Windows, the .cmd launchers are used so that the PowerShell execution policy blocks nothing.
• Context menu of a package.json: install or update the dependencies, see the outdated packages, open the file. Of a script: run it or go to its line.
• Dependencies declared but not installed are reported once, by a notification.
• Search Everywhere: Node.js: Install Dependencies, Node.js: npm Scripts.

What the window starts becomes a temporary run configuration, to run again with Shift+F10.