commonjs-walker

commonjs-walker

Analyzes and walks down the dependencies from a commonjs entry and creates a walking tree.

var walker = require('commonjs-walker');

NOTICE that it will not walk down node_modules and any foreign packages.

walker(entry, [options,] callback)

walker('/path/to/entry.js', options, function(err, tree, nodes){
	// ...
});

If the file structure of your project is:

/path/to
       |--- index.js
       |--- a.js

index.js:

require('./a');

a.js:

// there's nothing.

Code:

walker('/path/to/index.js', function(err, tree, nodes){
	console.log(tree);
	console.log(nodes);
})

Then, the tree object will be something like:

{
	id: '/path/to/index.js',
	dependents: [],
	isEntryPoint: true,
	unsolvedDependencies: ['./a'],
	dependencies: [
		{
			id: '/path/to/a.js',
			dependents: [
				tree // points to `index.js`
			],
			dependencies: [],
			unsolvedDependencies: [],
			code: <Buffer>
		}
	],
	code: <Buffer>
}

The nodes object is the path->node hashmap.

{
	'/path/to/index.js': tree,
	'/path/to/a.js': tree.dependencies[0]
}

Walks down from a entry point, such as package.main of commonjs, and tries to create a walker.Module instance of the top level.

• entry Path the absolute path of the entry point.
• tree walker.Module tree of walker.Module
• nodes Object the hashmap of <path>: <walker.Module>

options

All options are optional. By default, walker works in a very strict mode.

Option	Type	Default	Description
detectCircular	Boolean	true	whether should check circular dependencies
strictRequire	Boolean	true	whether should check the usage of method require()

Struct: walker.Module

Actually, there is no walker.Module exists. We only use it to declare and describe the structure of the module.

Property	Type	Description
id	String	the id of the module
isEntryPoint	Boolean	whether the current module is the entry point
dependents	Array.<walker.module>	the dependent modules. If there's no dependents, it will be []
isForeign	Boolean	whether the current module is from a foreign package.

** Properties only if isForeign is false: **

Property	Type	Description
code	Buffer	the file content of the current module.
dependencies	Array.<walker.Module>	the dependencies of the current module. If the module has no dependencies, it will be []
unsolvedDependencies	Array.<String>	the array contains the items require()d by the module.

Class: walker.Error

• code String the enum type of the error
• message String error messages
• stack String the origin error.stack
• data Object the object of the major information of the error, this is useful for i18n.

Error codes