dep-tree-cli

Beautiful dependency tree visualization for npm projects.

Usage

npx dep-tree-cli                    # Show dependency tree
npx dep-tree-cli --depth 2          # Limit depth
npx dep-tree-cli --prod             # Production deps only
npx dep-tree-cli --dev              # Dev deps only
npx dep-tree-cli --duplicates       # Show duplicate packages
npx dep-tree-cli --licenses         # Show license info
npx dep-tree-cli --sizes            # Show package sizes
npx dep-tree-cli --json             # JSON output
npx dep-tree-cli --why lodash       # Why is this package installed?

Install

npm install -g dep-tree-cli

Features

• Colorized tree with box-drawing characters
• Duplicate detection (highlighted in yellow)
• License summary grouped by license type
• Package size visualization with bar chart
• Dependency chain tracing (--why)
• JSON output for programmatic use
• Circular dependency detection

Tech Stack

TypeScript, tsup, commander, chalk. ESM only, Node 18+.

License

MIT