False Alert for "fs"

[AbdulHannan96]

fs node package false alert in my task. I am using fs in many lines for handling files but depcheck marks it as unused which is quite surprising.

[rumpl]

Do you define fs as a dependecy in your package.json?

[rumpl]

“fs” is a core node module and shouldn’t be added in the package.json file

[AbdulHannan96]

yeah It is defined in my package.json. I am new at using node and typescript so I was not aware of this. Even if it should not be there, why is depcheck pointing it out as an unused dependency ?

[LinusU]

why is depcheck pointing it out as an unused dependency

Because when you are doing require('fs') you are not requiring that package, but rather the built-in fs package. Thus the package installed to node_modules/fs is, in fact, unused ☺️

[rumpl]

We should maybe have a more explicit error message for the core modules...

I'm closing this one

Cheers