Walks down the local npm package dependency tree and calls a visitor function for each package.

import { packageWalker } from "npm-package-walker";

async function collectPackageNames() {
  const names = new Set();

  await packageWalker(
    async (pkg, base, modulePath) => {
      names.add(pkg.name);
      return true;
    },
    process.cwd(),
    ["dependencies"]
  );

  return names;
}

collectPackageNames().then(names => console.log(names));

• defaultDependencyTypes
• packageVisitor
  • Parameters
• packageWalker
  • Parameters

Dependency types used by default

• dependencies
• devDependencies
• optionalDependencies
• peerDependencies

Type: Function

• package Object package.json content
• directory string package base dir
• packagePath Array<string> how deep in the dependency tree are we (starting with 0 for the root package)

Returns Promise<boolean> true to continue traversing dependencies of this package

Walks the local package dependency tree and calls a visitor function. The visitor function recives the decoded package.json, its directory, and the nesting level starting with 0 for the base package. Descending the dependency tree continues until the visitor function returns false or no more dependencies are declared in a package.

• visitor packageVisitor async to be called for each package
• base string directory where to start crawling package.json (optional, default process.cwd())
• dependencyTypes Array<string> dig into dependency dev and/or prod (optional, default defaultDependencyTypes)

Returns Promise<boolean> when resolving to true further dig into the dependencies

With npm do:

npm install npm-package-walker

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