showme

ShowMe is a simple command-line tool that saves you a few clicks when you want to look at the source code for an npm package. Instead of searching for a package name, finding its npm page, then clicking through to GitHub, you just type one command and your browser opens straight to the repository.

The way it works is straightforward: you install it once globally on your computer, then type showme followed by the name of any npm package. The tool looks up where that package's source code lives on GitHub and opens it in your default browser. It's a small time-saver, but useful if you're the kind of person who frequently digs into how npm packages are built or wants to check out their issues and pull requests.

You'd use this if you're a developer exploring open-source code, debugging a library you're using, or just curious about how something was built. For instance, if you're using a package called "lodash" and want to see its actual code, you'd type showme lodash and boom—you're on the lodash GitHub page. No extra tabs, no searching required.

This is exactly the kind of tiny utility that solves one small problem really well. It doesn't try to do much—it just opens GitHub pages for npm packages—which means it's lightweight and does one thing reliably.