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npm view calls API, so I don't think the parallel execution makes faster.

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This pull request enhances performance by optimizing the retrieval of npm package metadata. It refactors the process to make a single, unified call to npm view for both version and timestamp data, rather than two separate calls. This change reduces external process overhead and streamlines data acquisition, leading to a more efficient operation.

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  • Performance Optimization: Reduced the number of external npm view command calls from two to one, improving efficiency.
  • API Call Consolidation: Combined the fetching of versions and time data for npm packages into a single npm view command execution.
  • JSON Parsing Update: Modified the parsing logic to correctly handle the consolidated JSON response containing both version and time information.
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  • src/backend/npm.rs
    • Consolidated two separate npm view commands (for 'versions' and 'time') into a single command.
    • Updated the JSON parsing mechanism to extract 'versions' and 'time' from the unified response object.
    • Adjusted the iteration and mapping logic for versions to correctly process the new data structure.
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This pull request improves performance by consolidating two npm view commands into a single call, which is a great optimization. The implementation is correct. I've added one suggestion to further improve the code by using a typed struct for JSON deserialization, which is more idiomatic and type-safe than using a generic serde_json::Value.

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Pull request overview

This pull request optimizes the NPM backend's version listing by combining two sequential npm view commands into a single call. Previously, the code made separate calls to fetch "versions" and "time" data, which the misleading comment claimed were "in parallel" but were actually sequential. The new implementation queries both fields in one command, reducing network overhead and improving performance.

Changes:

  • Replaced two sequential npm view calls with a single call querying both "versions" and "time" fields
  • Changed from typed deserialization (Vec and HashMap<String, String>) to dynamic JSON traversal using serde_json::Value
  • Removed misleading comment about parallel fetching

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@jdx jdx merged commit 8df487c into jdx:main Feb 16, 2026
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@risu729 risu729 deleted the npm-once branch February 16, 2026 13:54
mise-en-dev added a commit that referenced this pull request Feb 17, 2026
### 🚀 Features

- **(task)** stream keep-order output in real-time per task by @jdx in
[#8164](#8164)

### 🐛 Bug Fixes

- **(aqua)** resolve lockfile artifacts for target platform (fix
discussion #7479) by @mackwic in
[#8183](#8183)
- **(exec)** strip shims from PATH to prevent recursive shim execution
by @jdx in [#8189](#8189)
- **(hook-env)** preserve PATH reordering done after activation by @jdx
in [#8190](#8190)
- **(lockfile)** resolve version aliases before lockfile lookup by @jdx
in [#8194](#8194)
- **(registry)** set helm-diff archive bin name to diff by @jean-humann
in [#8173](#8173)
- **(task)** improve source freshness checks with dynamic task dirs by
@rooperuu in [#8169](#8169)
- **(task)** resolve global tasks when running from monorepo root by
@jdx in [#8192](#8192)
- **(task)** prevent wildcard glob `test:*` from matching parent task
`test` by @jdx in [#8165](#8165)
- **(task)** resolve task_config.includes relative to config root by
@jdx in [#8193](#8193)
- **(upgrade)** skip untrusted tracked configs during upgrade by @jdx in
[#8195](#8195)

### 🚜 Refactor

- use enum for npm.pacakge_manager by @risu729 in
[#8180](#8180)

### 📚 Documentation

- **(plugins)** replace node/asdf-nodejs examples with vfox plugins by
@jdx in [#8191](#8191)

### ⚡ Performance

- call npm view only once by @risu729 in
[#8181](#8181)

### New Contributors

- @jean-humann made their first contribution in
[#8173](#8173)
- @mackwic made their first contribution in
[#8183](#8183)
- @rooperuu made their first contribution in
[#8169](#8169)

## 📦 Aqua Registry Updates

#### New Packages (2)

- [`BetterDiscord/cli`](https://github.com/BetterDiscord/cli)
- [`glossia.ai/cli`](https://github.com/glossia.ai/cli)
lucasew pushed a commit to lucasew/CONTRIB-mise that referenced this pull request Feb 18, 2026
`npm view` calls API, so I don't think the parallel execution makes
faster.

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lucasew pushed a commit to lucasew/CONTRIB-mise that referenced this pull request Feb 18, 2026
### 🚀 Features

- **(task)** stream keep-order output in real-time per task by @jdx in
[jdx#8164](jdx#8164)

### 🐛 Bug Fixes

- **(aqua)** resolve lockfile artifacts for target platform (fix
discussion jdx#7479) by @mackwic in
[jdx#8183](jdx#8183)
- **(exec)** strip shims from PATH to prevent recursive shim execution
by @jdx in [jdx#8189](jdx#8189)
- **(hook-env)** preserve PATH reordering done after activation by @jdx
in [jdx#8190](jdx#8190)
- **(lockfile)** resolve version aliases before lockfile lookup by @jdx
in [jdx#8194](jdx#8194)
- **(registry)** set helm-diff archive bin name to diff by @jean-humann
in [jdx#8173](jdx#8173)
- **(task)** improve source freshness checks with dynamic task dirs by
@rooperuu in [jdx#8169](jdx#8169)
- **(task)** resolve global tasks when running from monorepo root by
@jdx in [jdx#8192](jdx#8192)
- **(task)** prevent wildcard glob `test:*` from matching parent task
`test` by @jdx in [jdx#8165](jdx#8165)
- **(task)** resolve task_config.includes relative to config root by
@jdx in [jdx#8193](jdx#8193)
- **(upgrade)** skip untrusted tracked configs during upgrade by @jdx in
[jdx#8195](jdx#8195)

### 🚜 Refactor

- use enum for npm.pacakge_manager by @risu729 in
[jdx#8180](jdx#8180)

### 📚 Documentation

- **(plugins)** replace node/asdf-nodejs examples with vfox plugins by
@jdx in [jdx#8191](jdx#8191)

### ⚡ Performance

- call npm view only once by @risu729 in
[jdx#8181](jdx#8181)

### New Contributors

- @jean-humann made their first contribution in
[jdx#8173](jdx#8173)
- @mackwic made their first contribution in
[jdx#8183](jdx#8183)
- @rooperuu made their first contribution in
[jdx#8169](jdx#8169)

## 📦 Aqua Registry Updates

#### New Packages (2)

- [`BetterDiscord/cli`](https://github.com/BetterDiscord/cli)
- [`glossia.ai/cli`](https://github.com/glossia.ai/cli)
risu729 pushed a commit to risu729/mise that referenced this pull request Feb 27, 2026
### 🚀 Features

- **(task)** stream keep-order output in real-time per task by @jdx in
[jdx#8164](jdx#8164)

### 🐛 Bug Fixes

- **(aqua)** resolve lockfile artifacts for target platform (fix
discussion jdx#7479) by @mackwic in
[jdx#8183](jdx#8183)
- **(exec)** strip shims from PATH to prevent recursive shim execution
by @jdx in [jdx#8189](jdx#8189)
- **(hook-env)** preserve PATH reordering done after activation by @jdx
in [jdx#8190](jdx#8190)
- **(lockfile)** resolve version aliases before lockfile lookup by @jdx
in [jdx#8194](jdx#8194)
- **(registry)** set helm-diff archive bin name to diff by @jean-humann
in [jdx#8173](jdx#8173)
- **(task)** improve source freshness checks with dynamic task dirs by
@rooperuu in [jdx#8169](jdx#8169)
- **(task)** resolve global tasks when running from monorepo root by
@jdx in [jdx#8192](jdx#8192)
- **(task)** prevent wildcard glob `test:*` from matching parent task
`test` by @jdx in [jdx#8165](jdx#8165)
- **(task)** resolve task_config.includes relative to config root by
@jdx in [jdx#8193](jdx#8193)
- **(upgrade)** skip untrusted tracked configs during upgrade by @jdx in
[jdx#8195](jdx#8195)

### 🚜 Refactor

- use enum for npm.pacakge_manager by @risu729 in
[jdx#8180](jdx#8180)

### 📚 Documentation

- **(plugins)** replace node/asdf-nodejs examples with vfox plugins by
@jdx in [jdx#8191](jdx#8191)

### ⚡ Performance

- call npm view only once by @risu729 in
[jdx#8181](jdx#8181)

### New Contributors

- @jean-humann made their first contribution in
[jdx#8173](jdx#8173)
- @mackwic made their first contribution in
[jdx#8183](jdx#8183)
- @rooperuu made their first contribution in
[jdx#8169](jdx#8169)

## 📦 Aqua Registry Updates

#### New Packages (2)

- [`BetterDiscord/cli`](https://github.com/BetterDiscord/cli)
- [`glossia.ai/cli`](https://github.com/glossia.ai/cli)
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