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heapsnapshot
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A Programmatic API for a heapsnapshot.
Currently supports dumps from:
usage:
yarn add heapsnapshotnpm install heapsnapshotheaps can be quite large, and this library isn't terribly efficient yet so at times you may need to run with note with node --max_old_space_size=4096 <script-name>
const Heapsnapshot = require('heapsnapshot');
const snapshot = Heapsnapshot.fromFileSync(__dirname + '/container.heapsnapshot');
// get all nodes
const nodes = [...snapshot];
const containers = nodes.filter(x => x.type === 'object' && x.name === 'Container');
let path = Heapsnapshot.pathToRoot(containers[0]);
console.log(path.join(' -> '));
// => <Container:622248> -> <Class:140976> -> <Window / http://localhost:4200:13800> -> root
or if you can use for .. of:
const Heapsnapshot = require('heapsnapshot');
const snapshot = Heapsnapshot.fromFileSync(__dirname + '/container.heapsnapshot');
// loop through all nodes
for (const node of snapshot) {
if (node.type === 'object' && node.name === 'Container') {
const path = Heapsnapshot.pathToRoot(node);
console.log(path.join(' -> '));
// => <Container:622248> -> <Class:140976> -> <Window / http://localhost:4200:13800> -> root
}
}
node.in // => array in in-bound edges
node.out // => array in in-bound edges
node.toString() // => "<Container: 622248>"
edge.to // => node the edge points to
edge.from // => node the edge comes from
edge.toString() // => "<name: from(Container: 622248) to ((map descriptors): 625980)"
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We found that heapsnapshot demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 5 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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