source-dependency

source-dependency

A simple tool to get rough source code dependencies inside your app.

The advantage of this tool is that it has minimal dependencies, which means that you do not need to do much setup, you do not need to know many specific tools for specific language.

Of course the easy usage is achieved by sacrificing the accuracy. This tool only do lexical parsing, so won't be 100% accurate for complex constructs. However the accuracy is very good in practice, please see the gallery below for more usage examples.

The best dependency viewer is MS dgml viewer. It's only available on Windows. On Linux/Mac use dot or integrated visjs.

install

npm install -g source-dependency

usage example

# output dependency and then use graphviz to visualize the dependency
source-dependency -l javascript ./node_modules/es-abstract/2015 -f dot | dot -Tsvg >~/v.svg

# check cycle dependencies
source-dependency -l java . --check

# generate dgml for better dependency walking in Visual Studio
source-dependency -l java . --strip com.my_company -E third_party -f dgml -o result.dgml

usage demo

gallery

linphone 3.6.1 (VS dgml viewer)

ffmpeg (VS dgml viewer)

es-abstract (VS dgml viewer)

this project (visjs)

road map

feature	description	timeline
top10	support top 10 language in TOIBE index	2021 Q2
top50	support top 50 language in TOIBE index	2021 Q3

welcome to send pull request to add support for any other language.