🧠 Dependency Smell Reporter

A minimal, effective CLI tool to analyze your project dependencies and catch common "dependency smells":

• 🚫 Unused dependencies
• ❌ Missing packages
• 📉 Outdated versions
• 📦 Node modules size
• 📚 Dependency overuse warning

Ideal for developers who want to keep their codebase clean and production-ready.

📦 Installation

Install globally:

npm install -g dependency-smell-reporter

Use with npx (no global install):

npx dependency-smell-reporter

🚀 Usage -> Run it inside any Node.js project:

dsr

Or:

npx dependency-smell-reporter

🧪 Example Output

🔍 Running Dependency Smell Reporter...

🛠 Analyzing path: /your/project/path

⚠️ Unused Dependencies

• axios
• chalk

📉 Outdated Dependencies

• lodash

📦 Node_modules size: 41.84 MB 📚 Total Dependencies in use: 12

📊 Summary:

• 2 unused dependencies
• 1 outdated
• 0 missing

✅ Dependency Smell Check Complete! 📝 Log saved to dependency-smell-log.json

🔧 Features ->

Detects unused dependencies using depcheck

Checks for outdated versions using npm-check-updates

Reports missing packages

Calculates node_modules size

Warns if dependency count or size is high

Automatically writes a dependency-smell-log.json file

🤝 Why Use This? ✅ Keep your project clean ✅ Reduce bloat and build size ✅ Improve performance and maintainability ✅ Impress reviewers during code audits and interviews

👨‍💻 Author Mihir Built with Node.js, powered by open-source tools like depcheck, npm-check-updates, and fast-folder-size.

📜 License MIT