How to view the dependency tree of a given npm module?

Question

How can I get the tree of a module available to npm, but not installed locally ?

npm ll does the job for locally installed packages. But it doesn\'t wor

Answer 1

You can use howfat which also displays dependency statistics:

npx howfat -r tree jasmine

Answer 2

There is also a nice web app to see the dependencies in a weighted map kind of view.

For example:

https://bundlephobia.com/result?p=sanitize-html@1.19.1

Answer 3

This site allows you to view a packages tree as a node graph in 2D or 3D.

http://npm.anvaka.com/#/view/2d/waterline

Great work from @Avanka!

Answer 4

If you want to get the actually dependency path of specific package and want to know why you have it, you can simply ask yarn why <MODULE>. example:

    $> yarn why mime-db
    yarn why v1.5.1
    [1/4] Why do we have the module "mime-db"...?
    [2/4] Initialising dependency graph...
    [3/4] Finding dependency...
    [4/4] Calculating file sizes...
    => Found "mime-db@1.37.0"
    info Reasons this module exists
       - "coveralls#request#mime-types" depends on it
       - Hoisted from "coveralls#request#mime-types#mime-db"
    info Disk size without dependencies: "196kB"
    info Disk size with unique dependencies: "196kB"
    info Disk size with transitive dependencies: "196kB"
    info Number of shared dependencies: 0
    Done in 0.65s.

Answer 5

You can generate NPM dependency trees without the need of installing a dependency by using the command

npm list

This will generate a dependency tree for the project at the current directory and print it to the console.

You can get the dependency tree of a specific dependency like so:

npm list [dependency]

You can also set the maximum depth level by doing

npm list --depth=[depth]

Note that you can only view the dependency tree of a dependency that you have installed either globally, or locally to the NPM project.

Answer 6

View All the metadata about npm module

npm view mongoose(module name)

View All Dependencies of module

npm view mongoose dependencies

View All Version or Versions module

npm view mongoose version
npm view mongoose versions

View All the keywords

npm view mongoose keywords