check-stale-node-modules

Generate a warning when your node_modules does not match your package.json

There a lot of times when you git pull and you forget to npm i This package will generate a warning if you need to npm i.

This tests for both missing dependencies, and dependencies that no longer satisfy the semver specified in package.json

npm install check-stale-node-modules

Usage

var check = require('check-stale-node-modules')
check(projectDir, function (errors) {
  if (errors.length) console.log('You have stale node_modules, npm install')
})

CLI

npm install check-stale-node-modules -g

and then in your project directory, run

> check-stale-node-modules
dependency semver does not satisfy ^50.0.3
run `npm install`

Tooling Suggestion

Add this to your dev watch tooling. Because you will usually restart that after a git pull

Eg

  scripts: {
     "watch": "check-stale-node-modules && watchify main.js -o static/bundle.js"
  }

License

MIT