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fast-detective
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Find all calls to require() no matter how crazily nested using a proper walk of the AST
Find all calls to require() no matter how crazily nested using a proper walk of the AST.
strings_src.js:
var a = require('a');
var b = require('b');
var c = require('c');
strings.js:
var detective = require('detective');
var fs = require('fs');
var src = fs.readFileSync(__dirname + '/strings_src.js');
var requires = detective(src);
console.dir(requires);
output:
$ node examples/strings.js
[ 'a', 'b', 'c' ]
var detective = require('detective');
Give some source body src, return an array of all the require()s with string
arguments.
Give some source body src, return an object with "strings" and "expressions"
arrays for each of the require() calls.
The "expressions" array will contain the stringified expressions.
npm install detective
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Find all calls to require() no matter how crazily nested using a proper walk of the AST
The npm package fast-detective receives a total of 14 weekly downloads. As such, fast-detective popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that fast-detective 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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