Show 'Restoring npm packages' info

[Khaos66]

When working in web projects node package manager is often used to manage dependencies.
At the first build these dependencies are downloaded and this may take a while.
It would be nice if BuildVision could show this step and maybe even some status info.

[StefanKert]

I already thought about that many times and I think that this would be of value to many users of BuildVision.

Probably we can start a discussion here on how we should achieve this. Do you have any specific idea on how this should look alike? Just to make sure that I am on track. You are talking about the Restore NPM Packages function within VS right? Because I don´t know if we have any chance to hook into the commandline (npm install blabla) from within a VS Extension.

So the things that need some clarification are the following:

• Is it possible to hook into NPM from within a VS extension?
• Which package managers should be supported? This is probably also something for Nuget, because most of the developers that are working in VS will benefit of this feature if we had support for nuget as well.

Looking forward to some further input.