Find the entry point of a Node module via the command line or programmatically.

Quick start

npx find-entry-point <modulename>

Install

npm install find-entry-point -g

Usage

Command Line

$> find-entry-point <modulename>

Programmatically

const {findPackageEntryPoint} = require("find-entry-point")

import {findPackageEntryPoint} from "find-entry-point"

Examples

For Js code

const entryPoint = findPackageEntryPoint("to-ansi")
console.log(entryPoint)
// C:\path\to\node_modules\to-ansi\index.cjs

const entryPoint = findPackageEntryPoint("to-ansi", "some-dir/")

For command line

$> find-entry-point --name strip-comments-strings
/projects/find-entry-point/node_modules/strip-comments-strings/index.mjs

$> find-entry-point --name to-ansi --path /projects/some-project-path           
/projects/to-esm/node_modules/to-ansi/index.mjs

$> find-entry-point --name to-ansi --path /projects/some-project-path  --target cjs
/projects/to-esm/node_modules/to-ansi/index.cjs

$> find-entry-point --name to-ansi --path /projects/some-project-path  --target esm
/projects/to-esm/node_modules/to-ansi/index.mjs

$> find-entry-point --name my-module --path /projects/some-project-path  --target browser
/projects/to-esm/node_modules/my-module/index.js


$> find-entry-point --name to-ansi
$> find-entry-point to-ansi
$> find-entry-point node_modules/to-ansi
$> find-entry-point which
$> find-entry-point node_modules/which
$> find-entry-point ../clonefile/node_modules/rimraf
$> find-entry-point --name which --path ../clonefile
$> find-entry-point --name ./
$> find-entry-point --name ./ --target esm
$> find-entry-point --name ./ --target browser

Options

For Js code

| Options | Description | Expect | default | |-------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-------------|---------| | silent | For hiding messages | boolean | false | | exception | For hiding errors | boolean | false | | isBrowser | To detect entry point for browser environment (takes precedence over isModule) | boolean | false | | isModule | To detect entry point for ESM environment | boolean | true | | isCjs | To detect entry point for CommonJs environment | boolean | false | | noAnsi | To display errors without ansi colors | boolean | false | | noAmbiguous | To prevent looking for ambiguous/non standard enough entrypoint | boolean | false |

For command line

| Options | Description | Expect | default | |---------------|-----------------------------------|---------------------|---------| | --silent | For hiding messages | boolean | false | | --exception | For hiding errors | boolean | false | | --target | To force environment | browser,esm,cjs | browser | | --noAnsi | To disable ANSI symbols | boolean | false | | --noAmbiguous | To prevent ambiguous entrypoint | boolean | false |

License

Package

📁 package                
│
└───📁 cjs
│   │
│   │─ 📝 find-entry-point.cjs            ⇽ CJS version      - Node (8.93k unminified)
│   │
└───📁 esm
│   │
│   │─ 📝 find-entry-point.mjs            ⇽ ESM version      - Node (8.94k unminified)
│   │
└───📁 build
│   │
│   │─ 📝 find-entry-point.min.cjs        ⇽ CJS version      - Node (9.36k minified)
│   │─ 📝 find-entry-point.min.mjs        ⇽ ESM version      - Node (8.74k minified)

Changelog

• Add a --noAmbiguous option for skipping ambiguous entrypoint
• Fix undefined variable js error