Developing 'module' package type overrides 'Always Visible'

[BackgroundMover]

I’m trying to develop some packages using the ‘module’ package type, but this type causes the package directory to be hidden in the project view, even if Visibility In Editor is set to Always Visible. So a person can’t navigate to the Runtime folder or Tests etc while developing it.

I couldn’t find any documentation on what the ‘module’ type means, so maybe its meant for internal Unity stuff?

[BackgroundMover]

My mistake, I guess I just didn’t see it in the manual, and unity even replied me a year ago telling me this

"This package... will be hidden... because its type is empty"

With a package added from GitHub, selecting its Packages/myPackage/package.json in the editor, the Inspector shows a warning that: "This package and all its assets will be hidden by default in Editor because its type is empty". I’m curious what this means, because my project can see the files from the imported package, including the Editor-only files. I didn’t see anything about the “type” field in the Unity package.json documentation, and simply adding a "type" : "Example", line to the pack…