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

Unfortunately npm still doesn't have a way to view dependencies of non-installed packages. Not even a package's page list the dependencies correctly.

Answer 2

To get it as a list:

% npx npm-remote-ls --flatten dugite -d false -o false
[
  'dugite@1.91.3',
  'checksum@0.1.1',
  'progress@2.0.3',
  'mkdirp@0.5.5',
  'rimraf@2.7.1',
  'tar@4.4.13',
  'optimist@0.3.7',
  'got@9.6.0',
  'minimist@1.2.5',
  'chownr@1.1.4',
  'glob@7.1.6',
  'fs-minipass@1.2.7',
  'minizlib@1.3.3',
  'minipass@2.9.0',
  'safe-buffer@5.2.1',
  'yallist@3.1.1',
  'wordwrap@0.0.3',
  '@szmarczak/http-timer@1.1.2',
  'cacheable-request@6.1.0',
  '@sindresorhus/is@0.14.0',
  'decompress-response@3.3.0',
  'duplexer3@0.1.4',
  'lowercase-keys@1.0.1',
  'mimic-response@1.0.1',
  'get-stream@4.1.0',
  'to-readable-stream@1.0.0',
  'p-cancelable@1.1.0',
  'url-parse-lax@3.0.0',
  'fs.realpath@1.0.0',
  'inflight@1.0.6',
  'inherits@2.0.4',
  'once@1.4.0',
  'path-is-absolute@1.0.1',
  'minimatch@3.0.4',
  'defer-to-connect@1.1.3',
  'clone-response@1.0.2',
  'get-stream@5.2.0',
  'http-cache-semantics@4.1.0',
  'lowercase-keys@2.0.0',
  'responselike@1.0.2',
  'keyv@3.1.0',
  'pump@3.0.0',
  'prepend-http@2.0.0',
  'normalize-url@4.5.0',
  'wrappy@1.0.2',
  'brace-expansion@1.1.11',
  'json-buffer@3.0.0',
  'end-of-stream@1.4.4',
  'concat-map@0.0.1',
  'balanced-match@1.0.0'
]

Answer 3

You can use the npm-remote-ls module. You can install it globally:

npm install -g npm-remote-ls

And then call:

npm-remote-ls bower

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Alternatively, npm@5.2.0 installed then you can use npx and avoid globally installing the command - just call:

npx npm-remote-ls bower

Answer 4

Here is the unpowerful official command:

npm view <PACKAGE> dependencies

It prints only the direct dependencies, not the whole tree.