Explore packages without leaving your IDE with the new Cloudsmith VS Code Extension
The official Cloudsmith extension for Visual Studio Code is here. It brings your package visibility workflow directly into the IDE, allowing you to browse and inspect repositories and packages without switching context.
Browsing repositories and packages with Cloudsmith VS Code Extension
Developers can use it to check package status, explore available versions, and inspect metadata right alongside their application's source code, reducing context-switching and streamlining the development workflow.
🚀 Key Features
Cloudsmith Package Explorer: A dedicated view in the VS Code Activity Bar provides an easy way to navigate your Cloudsmith assets. Browse your Workspaces, Repositories, and Packages in a familiar tree structure.
Flexible Package Viewing: Inspect packages individually to see metadata like status, version, tags, and number of downloads. Switch to the Package Groups view to see related packages bundled together, along with count of packages, size, and last pushed date.
Quick Actions Context Menu: Right-click on any package or group to:
Inspect the raw JSON data for any item.
Open in Cloudsmith to view the package in your browser.
Copy Value to grab version numbers, slugs, or download counts directly to your clipboard.
Secure authentication: Connect using your Personal API Key or a Service Account Token. The UI makes it simple to enter credentials, connect, and refresh. (Entitlement Tokens is not supported in this version.)
Client log exports now provide a more comprehensive overview of package delivery. In addition to GET requests, client log exports will include other HTTP request types, including HEAD, POST, and OPTIONS requests. This gives you a full view of package delivery, moving beyond just download tracking to include metadata checks and other repository interactions…
You can now use package license data in Enterprise Policy Management (EPM) to create policies based on a package’s software license. This lets you automatically govern license usage in line with your organization’s policies, giving you direct control over which packages are approved for use in your software supply chain…
Client logs and usage reporting improvements are now generally available in the new web application. These updates give you deeper visibility into package downloads, delivery trends and the repositories or tokens driving your usage…
You can now view architecture and distribution tags in the Packages table in the new web application. This makes it easier to tell apart packages with the same name but different architectures or distributions, and to quickly find the right one…
If you use Renovate to manage dependencies, you can now include packages from your Cloudsmith repositories in the same automated workflows. That means Renovate can track and update internal packages, as well as any open source dependencies pulled through upstream registries…
Broadcasts now support using your own domain as the endpoint for package distribution, helping you deliver a more consistent and trusted experience for developers and end users…