nholloway / Npm Introspect

🔎 Traverse the NPM ecosystem and investigate the quality of your modules.

Demonstration

Installation

npm i npm-introspect -g

Usage

introspect [packages to analyze] [port]

Run introspect in the root directory of any project you are interested in analyzing. It will parse the package.json and return a visualization of your project's dependencies. If it doesn't find a package.json it will launch with a default package, d3, and output a message in the terminal that it was unable to find a packge.json. If you want to analyze a specific package or packages instead of parsing the package.json you can type those package names like introspect react react-native and it will visualize those packages and skip the package.json.

introspect [noDev] [port]

Development dependencies like testing frameworks and module bundlers are common across many packages and not necessarily what you are looking for when exploring NPM. To launch npm-introspect without showing the development dependencies use the -d flag or -noDev option.

introspect [less] [port]

If you want to run introspect with less overhead use the -less option, or -l flag. With the -l flag introspect will output scores to the terminal and not startup a server.

Example

introspect d3 d3-zoom d3-selection eslint through -p 5000