npm-link-check

CLI utility that checks whether a project's current node modules tree contains npm-link'ed packages.

So that you don't build a distributed bundle containing linked packages ever again!

npm-link-check even works with npm scoped packages. Big ups @Istenes for that PR :beers:

Install

# for CLI use:
npm install -g npm-link-check

# for npm-script use:
npm install npm-link-check

Usage

CLI

# to check current working directory
npm-link-check

# to check arbitrary project
npm-link-check path/to/project/root

npm-link-check will log something like:

Some npm-link\'ed packaged were found:
    - package dummy (at node_modules/dummy) is linked

and exit with code 1 if one or many packages npm-link'ed are found. Big ups to @c-eliasson for cleaning that up!

As a pre-version check

In this era of bundled and transpiled javascript, it is common for projects to build a distributed version when running the npm version task. Using npm-link-check, the often neglected check for npm-link'ed packages can automated as follow:

In your project's package.json, add:

{
  "scripts": {
    "preversion": "npm-link-check"
  }
}

making npm-link-check run on npm version before your package's version is bumped. If an npm-link'ed package if found, the npm version task will be aborted.

Credits

2024 Étienne Tétreault-Pinard. MIT License