heapsnapshot

A Programmatic API for a heapsnapshot.

Currently supports dumps from:

• chrome/v8

usage:

• yarn add heapsnapshot
• npm install heapsnapshot

heaps can be quite large, and this library isn't terribly efficient yet so at times you may need to run with note with node --max_old_space_size=4096 <script-name>

const Heapsnapshot = require('heapsnapshot');
const snapshot = Heapsnapshot.fromFileSync(__dirname + '/container.heapsnapshot');
 
// get all nodes
const nodes = [...snapshot];
const containers = nodes.filter(x => x.type === 'object' && x.name === 'Container');
 
let path = Heapsnapshot.pathToRoot(containers[0]);
console.log(path.join(' -> '));
// => <Container:622248> -> <Class:140976> -> <Window / http://localhost:4200:13800> -> root

or if you can use for .. of:

const Heapsnapshot = require('heapsnapshot');
const snapshot = Heapsnapshot.fromFileSync(__dirname + '/container.heapsnapshot');
 
// loop through all nodes
for (const node of snapshot) {
  if (node.type === 'object' && node.name === 'Container') {
    const path = Heapsnapshot.pathToRoot(node);
    console.log(path.join(' -> '));
    // => <Container:622248> -> <Class:140976> -> <Window / http://localhost:4200:13800> -> root
  }
}

Stuff

Node

node.in // => array in in-bound edges
node.out // => array in in-bound edges
node.toString() // => "<Container: 622248>"

Edge

edge.to // => node the edge points to
edge.from // => node the edge comes from
edge.toString() // => "<name: from(Container: 622248) to ((map descriptors): 625980)"