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autod

v3.1.2

Published

auto generate dependencies

Readme

autod

NPM version David deps node version Gittip

Auto generate dependencies and devDependencies by parse the project file. autod will parse all the js files in path, and get the latest dependencies version from registry.npmjs.org or other registries by -r.

install

$ npm install -g autod

usage

$ bin/autod -h

 Usage: autod [options]

  Options:

    -h, --help                                           output usage information
    -V, --version                                        output the version number
    -p, --path [root path]                               the root path to be parse
    -t, --test <test/benchmark/example directory paths>  modules in these paths will be tread as devDependencies
    -e, --exclude <exclude directory path>               exclude parse directory, split by `,`
    -r, --registry <remote registry>                     get latest version from which registry
    -f, --prefix [version prefix]                        version prefix, can be `~` or `^`
    -F, --devprefix [dev dependencies version prefix]    develop dependencies version prefix, can be `~` or `^`
    -w, --write                                          write dependencies into package.json
    -i, --ignore                                         ignore errors, display the dependencies or write the dependencies.
    -m, --map                                            display all the dependencies require by which file
    -d, --dep <dependently modules>                      modules that not require in source file, but you need them as dependencies
    -D, --devdep <dev dependently modules>               modules that not require in source file, but you need them in as devDependencies
    -k, --keep <dependently modules>                     modules that you want to keep version in package.json file
    -s, --semver <dependencies@version>                  auto update these modules within the specified semver
  • Autod will parse all the js files in path, and you can exclude folder by -e, --exclude.
  • All the modules in test folder (can be alter by -t, --text) will parsed as devDependencies.
  • If you set -w, --write, autod will write the dependencies into package.json file. dependencies will replace dependencies in package.json, and devDependencies will merge with devDependencies in package.json, then write into package file.
  • -f, --prefix will add prefix to each dependencies' version.
  • -F, --devprefix will add prefix to each dev dependencies' version.
  • -i, --ignore will display or wrtie the dependencies even some error happened.
  • -d --dep will add modules to dependencies even not require by any file.
  • -D --devdep will add modules to devDependencies even not require by any file.
  • -k --keep will keep the modules' version in package.json not change by autod.
  • -s, --semver will update these modules within the specified semver.
  • -n, --notransform disable transfrom es next, don't support es6 modules.

a simple example of autod:

autod -w --prefix="~" -d connect -D mocha,should -k express -s connect@2

Maintains your dependencies in Makefile

add a command in your Makefile

autod:
    @./node_modules/.bin/autod -w
    @npm install

then run make autod, it will find all the dependencies and devDependencies in your project, add / remove dependencies, and bump the versions.

check out some examples:

es6 modules support

All files will compiled by babel with babel-preset-react, babel-preset-es2015, babel-preset-stage-0.

Plugin support

You can write a plugin for autod to decide how to parse dependencies.

  • Write a plugin, and publish it to NPM.
module.exports = function (filepath, content) {
  // find the dependencies
  return []; // return dependencies
};
  • Use plugin:

install plugin from NPM, then use it with autod:

autod -P pluginName

Config support

You can put all the options in ${cwd}/.autod.conf.js, when you run autod, it will load this file as input options. It can be both a js file or a json file.

module.exports = {
  write: true,
  prefix: '~',
  devprefix: '^',
  dep: [
    'bluebird'
  ],
  semver: [
    'koa-router@4',
    'koa-compose@2'
  ],
};

License

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2013~2015 dead_horse [email protected];

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the 'Software'), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED 'AS IS', WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.