node-modules-dependencies-extractor v0.1.1

node-modules-dependencies-extractor

Description

Extracts dependencies from the nodemodules folder of a Javascript project, to a reference format. This reference format is a JSON file containing arrays of objects with keys _name and version. The node_modules folder is assumed to have been generated by one of the following commands: npm install or yarn install.

Outputs the following files:

• dependencies_from_node_modules.json (name can be overriden) contains the dependencies as identified in the node_modules folder, in a reference format. This reference format is a JSON file containing arrays of objects with keys name and version. It contains unique objects by the combination name and version

Status

0.1.1, see CHANGELOG.md

Limitation

• tested with the node_modules folder of various Javascript projects, as generated by the install command of the following package managers:
  • yarn
  • npm

Prerequisites

In order to run this project, you should have installed:

• Node installed (we used node v12.2.0)
• yarn (we used version v1.19.0) The input to this script should be a folder named node_modules, as generated by the install commands of either npm or yarn .

Installation

Install globally:

npm install -g node-modules-dependencies-extractor

Or you could use it without installing by running:

npx node-modules-dependencies-extractor [options]

Usage

extract-nm-dependencies [options]

Supported options:

Sample usage

yarn extract-nm-dependencies -i ./test-data/node_modules_samples/siblings_no_nesting

Technology stack

• Javascript
• This software is intended to be used standalone, as a command-line tool

How to build

Get the sources locally; in a command line, go to the root folder of this project and execute:

yarn install

How to test

yarn test

or

yarn coverage

How to do static analysis of code

Automatically enabled: standard

yarn lint

Owners

See CODEOWNERS

Maintainers

See MAINTAINERS.md

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md

License

See LICENSE.md

Author

Sanda Contiu

Keywords

• dependencies
• sbom
• software bill of material
• node_modules
• npm
• yarn