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What's the point of this? By that I mean what would you actually use it for?

Is this a GUI version of nvm and if so, seriously who would use it? The whole point of nvm is to be able to pop in/out of node versions as you're working on a project. That doesn't make any sense for a global GUI.

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It's for npm, not nvm. It shows the installed packages in a project, the version that is installed and the latest available version which is handy. You can install/update packages too but don't see much use for that since the CLI is there but the displaying of info is decent.

Okay now I get it. So it's a GUI to see what's in use by a given project. I mistakenly thought it was a tool for managing node installations.

I guess the git analogy would be something like gitk?

Yeah sort of. I wouldn't use it to replace npm CLI or anything (even though you can), but like I said being able to glance at installed modules and see the different versions (installed vs latest) is a nice thing to have.

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