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gh-repo-dependencies

v1.0.2

Published

list dependencies for a npm module from GitHub url

Downloads

6

Readme

gh-repo-dependencies

unstable

For a GitHub URL like "Jam3/three-bmfont-text", returns a list of npm dependencies from the package.json and their registry stats.

Install

npm install gh-repo-dependencies --save

Example

var ghRepoDeps = require('gh-repo-dependencies')

ghRepoDeps('Jam3/three-bmfont-text', function (err, deps) {
  if (err) throw err
  
  var dependency = deps[0]
  
  console.log(dependency.name + '@' + dependency.verison)
  //> "inherits@^2.0.1"
  
  console.log(dependency.stats.description)
  //> "Browser-friendly inheritance..."
  
  console.log(dependency.stats.license)
  //> "ISC"
})

Usage

NPM

ghRepoDeps(url, [opt], [cb])

Fetches repository dependencies from a GitHub url (see here for valid formats), querying its package.json file.

Options:

  • token (String) optional GitHub API token to use when querying package.json
  • ref (String) the commit hash or branch name to fetch the package.json content from
  • filter (Function) optionally filter the dependencies before querying npm registry

For example, filter could look like this to avoid querying stats of devDependencies.

function filterDeps (package) {
  return package.list === 'dependencies'
}

The callback takes the form (err, data), where data is a flat array of dependencies gleaned from dependencies, devDependencies, peerDependencies, optionalDependencies (in that order) unless otherwise filtered.

Each item has the following data:

{
  name: 'inherits',     // name as it appears in package.json
  version: '^2.0.1',    // version range from package.json
  list: 'dependencies', // type of dependency
  stats: { ... }        // registry stats
  error: Error          // Error object if there was a problem
}

If stats could not be retrieved for that package, it will be null and error will be populated with the Error object. Otherwise error will not be defined.

The stats are fetched using npm-stats.

See Also

License

MIT, see LICENSE.md for details.