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This finds unused dependencies in your node project.
npm install -g depscan
depscan or do depscan ../source.jsdepscan ../source1.js ../source2.jsOutput looks like this:
These dependencies are not used:
imap
mailparser
mail-listener2
mailstrip
These dependencies are missing in package.json:
msgpack
policyfile
var depscan = require('depscan');
var scan = depscan('./index.js', __dirname);
var report = scan.report();
console.log(report);
report is an object like this:
{
unused: ['foo'],
missing: ['bar','baz']
}
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Depscan ============
We found that depscan demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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