# Npm repo browsing UI

**URL:** <https://community.sonatype.com/t/npm-repo-browsing-ui/579>\
**Category:** Sonatype Nexus Repository\
**Created:** [September 26, 2018, 9:04pm UTC](https://community.sonatype.com/t/npm-repo-browsing-ui/579 "2018-09-26T21:04:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![eliprandi](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex047/user_avatar/community.sonatype.com/eliprandi/32/290_2.png) [@eliprandi](https://community.sonatype.com/u/eliprandi)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2018, 9:04pm UTC](https://community.sonatype.com/t/npm-repo-browsing-ui/579/1 "2018-09-26T21:04:35Z")

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Hi,  
New to Nexus and considering it for our private npm registry. I can’t seem to find any screenshots showing how users can browse the hosted npm registry. I was expecting something remotely looking and behaving like [npmjs.com](http://npmjs.com) where users could see the README.md file, access various versions, navigate to the Git Repository URL, etc.  
Is that something Nexus provides or not?

Regards,

Eric.

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**Author:** ![nickcook](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex047/user_avatar/community.sonatype.com/nickcook/32/399_2.png) [@nickcook](https://community.sonatype.com/u/nickcook)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2018, 1:20pm UTC](https://community.sonatype.com/t/npm-repo-browsing-ui/579/2 "2018-09-28T13:20:52Z")

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Hey Eric,

Nexus Repo pulls metadata from the package.json and displays those as attributes, which is pretty close to what you’re after I believe:

 ![webpack-attributes](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex047/uploads/communitysonatype/original/1X/af09fde7aabc70d44a4d63ac9dd38a4622da0b26.png)

The UI shows the different version of a component in a particular repo. For example I upload a couple versions of Webpack to a hosted nom repository:

 ![webpack-treeview](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex047/uploads/communitysonatype/original/1X/194ba36f878205b5c9dd36a5b3e33fbe20a212c2.png)

Let me know if that helps.

Cheers.

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**Author:** ![eliprandi](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex047/user_avatar/community.sonatype.com/eliprandi/32/290_2.png) [@eliprandi](https://community.sonatype.com/u/eliprandi)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2018, 2:51pm UTC](https://community.sonatype.com/t/npm-repo-browsing-ui/579/3 "2018-09-28T14:51:46Z")

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@nickcook,  
Thanks for the info. We’re on Repo Manager 2.x right now… I will take a look when we move to 3.x (looks like your screenshot is 3.x).  
do you know where we can submit ideas and feature requests?

Regards,

Eric.

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**Author:** ![rseddon](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex047/user_avatar/community.sonatype.com/rseddon/32/341_2.png) [@rseddon](https://community.sonatype.com/u/rseddon)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2018, 3:11pm UTC](https://community.sonatype.com/t/npm-repo-browsing-ui/579/4 "2018-09-28T15:11:41Z")

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Use the “dev - nexus” project at [https://issues.sonatype.org](https://issues.sonatype.org).

Rich