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A command line tool that glance over package lockfile.
The lockfile is reading from stdin
only. i.e.
cat package-lock.json | npx pkg-fence <...>
Currently only support package-lock.json
or npm-shrinkwrap.json
(could use npm shrinkwrap
to generate it on-the-fly).
Exit code: 0
for empty results, 1
for anything matched.
--lodash
: pkg naming starts by lodash.
or equals to lodash
--nolyfill
: list of names from https://github.com/SukkaW/nolyfillto specify addition names:
--extra abc --extra def --extra=foo,bar
to ignore some names:
--ignore abc --ignore def --ignore=foo,bar
executable only
npx pkg-fence
bun x pkg-fence
pnpm dlx pkg-fence
yarn dlx pkg-fence
deno run npm:pkg-fence
executable, multi ESM exports, Typing
deno run jsr:@imcotton/pkg-fence
Does not differentiate between dev or non-dev dependencies.
npm ls ...
or npm why ...
to make further inspectionResults are unordered, possible in duplications.
sort
, uniq
, or grep
etc...AGPLv3
FAQs
A command line tool that glance over package dependencies.
The npm package pkg-fence receives a total of 6 weekly downloads. As such, pkg-fence popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that pkg-fence demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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