dependency-walker

Usage

3 JavaScript files with dependencies:

src/main.js

depends('A.js');

lib/A.js

depends('B.js');

lib/B.js

console.log('this is B.js');

lib/C.js

console.log('this is isolated C.js');

The code to resolve the dependencies:

var DepWalker = require('dependency-walker');
 
// use main.js as entry point,
// 2 source directories,
// and 'depends' as the dependency statement.
var walker = new DepWalker({
  main: 'main.js',
  directories: ['src', 'lib'],
  statement: 'depends'
});
 
// return the sorted dependencies of main.js:
// lib/B.js, lib/A.js, src/main.js
console.log(walker.walk());

Dependency with an entry point

Note that lib/C.js is not in the list. It is because from the entry point main.js, the dependency graph of main.js, A.js and B.js, does not contains C.js.

This is useful when you building a final application, non-related files are removed to save space.

Dependency without an entry point

If NO entry point is supplied, lib/C.js will be included in the sorted list. Since it will retrieve and sort all the files in src and lib. The isolated files will be also included.

This is typically useful when building a library. So every files in the library could be used by other application.

Options

directory

The directories to be searched for.

pattern

A pattern matching string, using glob. Default to: **/*.js, all JavaScript files.

main

The entry point for calculating dependency graph. Differences between with and without supplying entry point is listed above.

statement

The dependency statement. By default is require. Dependency walker will extract this statement and its parameters in order to find out the file's dependencies.