Intro

The following section tries to explain the core concepts behind the packageanalyzer.

Provider

The job of the Provider is to fetch package information, like the package.json for a particular package.

Attachment

The job of the Attachment is to collect extra data that should be made available when inspecting a package.

Package

The job of the Package is to take the data that was provided by the Provider and (optionally) the Attachment and provide utility functions around them.

It's a nested data structure that resembles the dependency tree.