Output package homepage for fast changelog access

[silverwind]

Output package homepage for fast changelog access

[silverwind]

One concern, thought: While updating dependencies, I'm primarily interested in changelogs or if those do not exist, the commit history. Often, the homepage does not offer the information, but a link to the repository would.

Now this is a bit tricky because the repository field in package.json is usually a git:// url, but I guess with a bit work, we could make it work for public hosting services like GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket. Ideally, a direct link to the commit history would be nice.

Edit: One issue will be that we don't know which branch the version was released off, so a link to a commit history might turn out wrong. Probably better to just link to the repo main page instead.

[silverwind]

Yes, this seems like a good idea. I often have to check for changelogs while updating.

[jgierer12]

That is a valid concern. We can get the repo URL from the repository field with hosted-git-info. Since some packages don't specify a repository field, I think we should still fall back to homepage though.

If you're OK with adding an extra dep (hosted-git-info), I will implement it like this in my PR.