Description

This module gives a recapitulative of installed modules for auditing / updating.

Internally it executes :

• package vulnerabilities : "npm audit --json"
• package needing update : "npm outdated --json"
• duplicate content : "npm run jsinspect --reporter json"
• require tree (internal code)
• package size : "https://packagephobia.now.sh/ on each module of your package.json"
• package download count (popularity) : "https://api.npmjs.org/downloads/point/last-month/... on each module of your package.json"

Run

Go into a node project and type the following :

$> npm install -g npmrecap
$> npmrecap

If u want to install it locally :

$> npm install -D npmrecap
$> npm run npmrecap

If u dont want to install it you can start it directly with :

$> npx npmrecap

Options

$> node index.js --help
Options:
--version    Show version number                                     [boolean]
--help       Show help                                               [boolean]
--reporter   choose a format to display result
                            [choices: "json", "text", "html"] [default: "text"]
--outputdir  select output directory when choosing html reporter
                                                        [default: "npmrecap"]

Sample output

This command will give something like the following

$> node index.js
    ┌──────────────┬─────────┬─────────────────┬────────────────────┬───────────┐
    │ package      │ size    │ vulnerabilities │ outdated           │ downloads │
    ├──────────────┼─────────┼─────────────────┼────────────────────┼───────────┤
    │ TOTAL        │ 6.02 MB │ 1               │ 1                  │ 123445    │
    ├──────────────┼─────────┼─────────────────┼────────────────────┼───────────┤
    │ async        │ 694 kB  │ 1               │                    │ 234       │
    ├──────────────┼─────────┼─────────────────┼────────────────────┼───────────┤
    │ cli-table    │ 127 kB  │                 │                    │ 456       │
    ├──────────────┼─────────┼─────────────────┼────────────────────┼───────────┤
    │ pretty-bytes │ 8.66 kB │                 │                    │ 3456789   │
    ├──────────────┼─────────┼─────────────────┼────────────────────┼───────────┤
    │ request      │ 4.68 MB │                 │                    │ 345555    │
    ├──────────────┼─────────┼─────────────────┼────────────────────┼───────────┤
    │ yargs        │ 513 kB  │                 │ 13.3.0>14.0.0      │ 786797    │
    └──────────────┴─────────┴─────────────────┴────────────────────┴───────────┘

Alternatively u can get a json output

$> node index.js --reporter=json
{
    "dependencies": {
        "async": {
            "downloads": 123456,
            "size": 694474
        },
        "cli-table": {
            "downloads": 123456,
            "size": 126628
        },
        "pretty-bytes": {
            "downloads": 123456,
            "size": 8656
        },
        "request": {
            "downloads": 123456,
            "size": 4680047
        },
        "yargs": {
            "downloads": 123456,
            "size": 512825
        }
    },
    "size": 6022630,
    "audit": 0
    ...
}

Or an html result with graphs.