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Ultimate Node js NPM Intellisense VSCode IDE Plugin to Search,Install & Manage Packages
Jul 12, 2025
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Uh hello guys, welcome to this video. So
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in this video, I'll show you a VS code
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uh plug-in which allows you to download
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and install NodeJS dependencies right in
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the VS code itself. You don't need to go
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to command prompt and install it using
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manually. So this is the plug-in here
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that you just need to install. Uh just
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if you go to extensions tab, just write
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here npm and this extension will come
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right here. It is developed by this
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person. It's got 336,000 installs and
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simply you need to click the install
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button uh install this extension and it
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comes with autocomplete.
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So once you install this you will see in
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the sidebar section this uh section will
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be added. So if you click on that
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so basically you open your package.json
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file here. So
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you open your package.json file then
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click on this option
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and then it will add this search bar. So
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here you can basically search for any
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npm dependency and as you type here it
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will show you this autocomplete with
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version number what is the total number
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of installs everything will be available
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to you right here in the VS code itself.
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Just need to search for the dependencies
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and right here as you click it it will
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install the latest version and as well
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it will also update the package.json
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file. So as you can see it has installed
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the 5.1.0 version of Express.
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You can install multiple dependencies.
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So this will save you a lot of time.
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Simply select whichever dependency that
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you want to install and you can see it
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installed this malt dependency and it
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also installs automatically the dev
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dependencies which are needed. Uh so in
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this easy way we search for the package
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whichever package you want to install.
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Simply click on that and with a single
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click that package will be installed and
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automatically your package.json file
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will be updated. So you don't need to go
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to terminal and manually install
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packages. So you can install this
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extension inside VS code. And uh as you
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can see here, so if you just type for
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the extension.
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So you have basically all these
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extensions available. You simply click
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on that and automatically
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that extension will be installed here.
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You will see that the latest version
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will be installed. And if you just want
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to see the more information related to
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this packet, you simply click on that.
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And you can even select from a variety
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of versions. So if you don't want to
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install the latest version, just change
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this
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uh just uh
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change the version number, change older
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version. So simply click on that search
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bar. So it will show you all the
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versions of this package. Simply click
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on that version number and then it will
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update that version to that specific
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versions. So personally I use this
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extension a lot inside NodeJS projects
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and this helped me a lot in saving time
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because I can install a specific version
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by simply clicking on that and then in
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the drop down it will show you all the
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versions which are there of that
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specific package and automatically it
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will install that package with that
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specific version number. So
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if you just want to update this to the
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latest version, so you simply select the
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latest version and update this. So it's
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very easy to manage NodeJS packages
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inside VS code with this extension. So
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definitely install this npm autocomplete
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extension which allows you to install
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NodeJS packages right in the VS code. So
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also check out my website
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freemediattools.com
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uh which contains thousands of tools.