How to view the dependency tree of a given npm module

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How can I get the tree of a module available to npm  but not installed locally    npm ll does the job for locally installed packages  But it doesn t work for modules not installed or modules installed globally   I tried npm list bower but that s not it

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To get it as a list    npx npm-remote-ls --flatten dugite -d false -o false      dugite 1 91 3      checksum 0 1 1      progress 2 0 3      mkdirp 0 5 5      rimraf 2 7 1      tar 4 4 13      optimist 0 3 7      got 9 6 0      minimist 1 2 5      chownr 1 1 4      glob 7 1 6      fs-minipass 1 2 7      minizlib 1 3 3      minipass 2 9 0      safe-buffer 5 2 1      yallist 3 1 1      wordwrap 0 0 3       szmarczak http-timer 1 1 2      cacheable-request 6 1 0       sindresorhus is 0 14 0      decompress-response 3 3 0      duplexer3 0 1 4      lowercase-keys 1 0 1      mimic-response 1 0 1      get-stream 4 1 0      to-readable-stream 1 0 0      p-cancelable 1 1 0      url-parse-lax 3 0 0      fs realpath 1 0 0      inflight 1 0 6      inherits 2 0 4      once 1 4 0      path-is-absolute 1 0 1      minimatch 3 0 4      defer-to-connect 1 1 3      clone-response 1 0 2      get-stream 5 2 0      http-cache-semantics 4 1 0      lowercase-keys 2 0 0      responselike 1 0 2      keyv 3 1 0      pump 3 0 0      prepend-http 2 0 0      normalize-url 4 5 0      wrappy 1 0 2      brace-expansion 1 1 11      json-buffer 3 0 0      end-of-stream 1 4 4      concat-map 0 0 1      balanced-match 1 0 0

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This site allows you to view a packages tree as a node graph in 2D or 3D    http   npm anvaka com   view 2d waterline    Great work from  Avanka

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There is also a nice web app to see the dependencies in a weighted map kind of view   For example   https   bundlephobia com result p sanitize-html 1 19 1

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You can use the npm-remote-ls module  You can install it globally   npm install -g npm-remote-ls   And then call   npm-remote-ls bower     Alternatively  npm 5 2 0 installed then you can use npx and avoid globally installing the command - just call   npx npm-remote-ls bower

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If you want to get the actually dependency path of specific package and want to know why you have it  you can simply ask yarn why  lt MODULE gt   example         gt  yarn why mime-db     yarn why v1 5 1      1 4  Why do we have the module  mime-db           2 4  Initialising dependency graph         3 4  Finding dependency         4 4  Calculating file sizes          gt  Found  mime-db 1 37 0      info Reasons this module exists        -  coveralls request mime-types  depends on it        - Hoisted from  coveralls request mime-types mime-db      info Disk size without dependencies   196kB      info Disk size with unique dependencies   196kB      info Disk size with transitive dependencies   196kB      info Number of shared dependencies  0     Done in 0 65s

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Here is the unpowerful official command   npm view  lt PACKAGE gt  dependencies   It prints only the direct dependencies  not the whole tree

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You can generate NPM dependency trees without the need of installing  a dependency by using the command  npm list   This will generate a dependency tree for the project at the current directory and print it to the console   You can get the dependency tree of a specific dependency like so   npm list  dependency    You can also set the maximum depth level by doing  npm list --depth  depth    Note that you can only view the dependency tree of a dependency that you have installed either globally  or locally to the NPM project

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View All the metadata about npm module npm view mongoose module name   View All Dependencies of module npm view mongoose dependencies  View All Version or Versions module npm view mongoose version npm view mongoose versions  View All the keywords npm view mongoose keywords

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Unfortunately npm still doesn t have a way to view dependencies of non-installed packages  Not even a package s page list the dependencies correctly    Luckily installing yarn   brew install yarn  Allows one to use its info command to view accurate dependencies   yarn info  angular router 4 4 7 dependencies  yarn info  angular router 4 4 7 peerDependencies

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You can use howfat which also displays dependency statistics   npx howfat -r tree jasmine

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