Documentation update: Explain what makes ahkpm useful

[hwayne]

Most AHK users haven't heard of a package manager before. What does this do for them? Is this for getting new APIs and libraries, or for getting new useful scripts? Or both?

What would help a lot: an example of several actual packages you can download with this. Is there one for JSON? For controlling monitors?

[joshuacc]

That's a really great point. I tried to get a bit of that across on the ahkpm.dev homepage, but it's definitely not enough.

From your comments I envision at least three pieces of work:

• Provide more "Why is this useful?" information on the front page
• Have an introduction with more details on why it's useful (more than the front page can reasonably provide)
• Have a full tutorial walking through using ahkpm to develop a script, showing off how to use some things like the following:
  • G33kDude/Chrome.ahk for scripting a browser
  • Chunjee/json.ahk for working with JSON
  • davebrny/ezMenu for building menus

Thanks so much for the feedback!

[joshuacc]

FWIW, there is now a "packages" page which should help a bit with the packages discovery. Still lots to do, but at least there are concrete examples of packages there. https://ahkpm.dev/packages/

[joshuacc]

@hwayne What do you think of the documentation after the latest round of updates? There's a bit more info on the front page, and a much more fleshed out introduction, among other things.