howfat

Shows how fat is a package together with its dependencies

Usage

Simple

npx howfat mkdirp

Specified version or version range:

npx howfat mkdirp@^0.5.0

Local packages

cd my-project
npx howfat

npx howfat ../my-other-package

Git or github

npx howfat https://github.com/substack/node-mkdirp

npx howfat ssh://[e-mail]:substack/node-mkdirp.git#0.3.4

Different reporters

Just show a simple stats:

$ npx howfat -r simple mkdirp@0.5.1
Dependencies: 1
Size: 41.49kb
Files: 37

as a table:

$ npx howfat -r table mkdirp@0.5.1
mkdirp@0.5.1 (1 dep, 41.49kb, 37 files)
╭────────────────┬──────────────┬─────────┬───────╮
│ Name           │ Dependencies │    Size │ Files │
├────────────────┼──────────────┼─────────┼───────┤
│ minimist@0.0.8 │            0 │ 20.78kb │    14 │
╰────────────────┴──────────────┴─────────┴───────╯

as a json:

$ npx howfat -r json mkdirp@0.5.1 --space 2

{
  "package": "mkdirp@0.5.1",
  "dependencyCount": 1,
  "fileCount": 37,
  "unpackedSize": 42486,
  "duplicate": false,
  "error": false,
  "unmet": false,
  "author": "{name:James Halliday,email:[e-mail],url:http://substack.net}",
  "deprecated": "Legacy versions of mkdirp are no longer supported. Please update to mkdirp 1.x. (Note that the API surface has changed to use Promises in 1.x.)",
  "description": "Recursively mkdir, like `mkdir -p`",
  "license": "MIT",
  "maintainers": "[{name:isaacs,email:[e-mail]}]",
  "ownStats": {
    "dependencyCount": 1,
    "fileCount": 23,
    "unpackedSize": 21212
  },
  "children": [
    {
      "package": "minimist@0.0.8",
      "dependencyCount": 0,
      "fileCount": 14,
      "unpackedSize": 21274,
      "duplicate": false,
      "error": false,
      "unmet": false,
      "author": "{name:James Halliday,email:[e-mail],url:http://substack.net}",
      "deprecated": "",
      "description": "parse argument options",
      "license": "MIT",
      "maintainers": "[{email:[e-mail],name:ljharb},{email:[e-mail],name:emilbayes}]",
      "ownStats": {
        "dependencyCount": 1,
        "fileCount": 14,
        "unpackedSize": 21274
      },
      "children": []
    }
  ]
}

Other options

  -d, --dev-dependencies BOOLEAN   Fetch dev dependencies, default false
  -p, --peer-dependencies BOOLEAN  Fetch peer dependencies, default false
  
  -r, --reporter STRING            'json', 'simple', 'table', 'tree', default tree
      --fields STRING              Displayed fields separated by a comma:
                                   dependencies,size,files,license,
                                   author,description,maintainers,deprec,
                                   deprecated,node,os,platform
      --sort STRING                Sort field. Add minus sign for 
                                   desc order, like size-. Default to 'name'
      --space NUMBER               Use spaces in json output, default null
                                   
  -v, --verbose BOOLEAN            Show additional logs
      --no-colors BOOLEAN          Prevent color output
      --no-human-readable BOOLEAN  Show size in bytes
      
  --registry-url STRING            Default to https://registry.npmjs.org/
                            
  --http                           Node.js RequestOptions, like:
  --http.timeout NUMBER            Request timeout in ms, default 10000
  --http.connection-limit NUMBER   Max simultaneous connections, default 10
  --http.retry-count NUMBER        Try to fetch again of failure, default 5
  --http.proxy STRING              A proxy server url
  
  --show-config                    Show the current configuration
  --version                        Show howfat version
  --help                           Show this help

Accuracy

Different package managers use different dependency resolution algorithms. Even different versions of the same manager will resolve different dependency tree. So, this package tries to calculate stats similar to npm, but keep in mind that it provides approximate results.

Why should I care about my package size?

• Small package is installed much faster on CI
• Runs faster via npx
• Less dependencies = less troubles