precinct

What is precinct?

The precinct npm package is used to find dependencies in JavaScript and other file types. It helps in identifying the modules that a given file depends on, which can be useful for various tasks such as dependency analysis, bundling, and more.

What are precinct's main functionalities?

JavaScript Dependency Detection

This feature allows you to detect dependencies in JavaScript files. By passing the content of a JavaScript file to the precinct function, it returns an array of dependencies.

const precinct = require('precinct');
const content = 'const foo = require("foo");';
const dependencies = precinct(content);
console.log(dependencies); // ['foo']

CSS Dependency Detection

This feature allows you to detect dependencies in CSS files. By specifying the type as 'css', precinct can parse and return the dependencies in CSS files.

const precinct = require('precinct');
const content = '@import "foo.css";';
const dependencies = precinct(content, { type: 'css' });
console.log(dependencies); // ['foo.css']

TypeScript Dependency Detection

This feature allows you to detect dependencies in TypeScript files. By specifying the type as 'ts', precinct can parse and return the dependencies in TypeScript files.

const precinct = require('precinct');
const content = 'import foo from "foo";';
const dependencies = precinct(content, { type: 'ts' });
console.log(dependencies); // ['foo']

Other packages similar to precinct

madge

Madge is a JavaScript library that can create graphs of your module dependencies. It supports ES6, CommonJS, and AMD modules. Compared to precinct, madge provides more visualization features and can generate dependency graphs.

dependency-tree

Dependency-tree is a library for generating a dependency tree from a file or directory. It supports various module formats including ES6, CommonJS, and AMD. Unlike precinct, dependency-tree focuses on creating a hierarchical tree structure of dependencies.

detective

Detective is a library for finding the dependencies of a JavaScript file. It supports both CommonJS and ES6 modules. Detective is similar to precinct in its core functionality but is more focused on JavaScript and does not support other file types like CSS or TypeScript.

README

Precinct

Unleash the detectives

npm install --save precinct

Uses the appropriate detective to find the dependencies of a file or its AST.

Supports:

• JavaScript modules: AMD, CommonJS, and ES6.
• Typescript
• CSS Preprocessors: Sass, Stylus, and Less
• CSS (PostCSS)

Usage

var precinct = require('precinct');

var content = fs.readFileSync('myFile.js', 'utf8');

// Pass in a file's content or an AST
var deps = precinct(content);

You may pass options (to individual detectives) based on the module type via an optional second object argument `detective(content, options), for example:

Example call: precinct(content, { amd: { skipLazyLoaded: true } });

• The supported module type prefixes are amd, commonjs, es6, sass, stylus, less

Current options:

• amd.skipLazyLoaded: tells the AMD detective to omit lazy-loaded dependencies (i.e., inner requires).
• es6.mixedImports: allows for all dependencies to be fetched from a file that contains both CJS and ES6 imports.

• Note: This will work for any file format that contains an es6 import.

• css.url: tells the CSS detective to include url() references to images, fonts, etc.

Finding non-JavaScript (ex: Sass and Stylus) dependencies:

var content = fs.readFileSync('styles.scss', 'utf8');

var deps = precinct(content, { type: 'sass' });
var deps2 = precinct(content, { type: 'stylus' });

Or, if you just want to pass in a filepath and get the dependencies:

var paperwork = require('precinct').paperwork;

var deps = paperwork('myFile.js');
var deps2 = paperwork('styles.scss');

precinct.paperwork(filename, options)

Supported options:

• includeCore: (default: true) set to false to exclude core Node dependencies from the list of dependencies.
• fileSystem: (default: undefined) set to an alternative fs implementation that will be used to read the file path.
• You may also pass detective-specific configuration like you would to precinct(content, options).

CLI

Assumes a global install of npm install -g precinct

precinct [options] path/to/file

• Run precinct --help to see options

License

MIT