npm-dependencies-datation

index.js

A npm package I have downloaded (or working on) has dependencies. Cool, but how old are they?

This package offer the possibility to pull out package.json & bower.jsn from a directory and return the date of the dependencies (the latest one fulfilling the semver tag), as well as the most recent package dates and version.

how does it work?

It scans package.json and bower.json from a given directory and extracts the dependencies and devDependencies map.

Then, for each package, makes a call to npm info to get the list of available versions and the commit dates.

Those dates are compared with the stated dependency semver, and the most recent one is store.

Finally, a promise returns a lit of all packages, there dependencies, the latest one fulfilling the semver and the ltest one available on npmjs.org.

How to use it?

An example with a tabular output is available as example.js. But here is the idea:

const npmDependenciesDatation = require('npm-dependencies-datation');

npmDependenciesDatation.getAll(projectDir)
    .then((deps) => {
        deps.forEach((dep) => {
            console.log(deps);
        })
    })
    .catch((err)=>console.error(err))