NPM Dependency Checker

A package that does analysis on dependecies to figure out,

• Unused Dependencies: Declared in the package.json file, but not used in any file.
• Unused Dev Dependencies: Declared in the package.json file, but not used in any file.
• Missing Dependencies: Used somewhere in the code, but not declared in package.json file.

Install:

npm i --g npm-dependency-checker

Usage

Run this command

ndc <application_root_path>

The application_root_path is a mandatory argument. It should be the same path where package.json is. ndc supports relative paths as well, e.g., ndc . to run ndc in current folder.

Configuration

This package is based on another pacakge depcheck, and supports all configuration that depcheck supports. The json configuration needs to be present in a file named .ndcrc in the application root.

my-awesome-application
|-- ...
|-- .ndcrc
|-- package.json

Integration with Travis

Modify the travis.yml file accordingly,

travis.yml

before_install:
  - ...
  - npm install --progress=false -g npm-dependency-checker

install:
  - ...
  - ndc .