🐽 depsniff — JavaScript Dependency Sniffer & Installer

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depsniff is a powerful CLI tool that sniffs out external dependencies in your JavaScript files and can automatically install them for you!

🚀 Installation

npm install -g depsniff

🛠️ Usage

Basic scan

depsniff app.js

Auto-install dependencies ⭐

depsniff app.js -i

Install as devDependencies

depsniff app.js -i -d

Scan entire directory

depsniff . -i

Recursively scan all subdirectories

depsniff ./src -r -i

📚 Options

| Option | Alias | Description | |---------------|-------|----------------------------------------------| | --install | -i | Automatically install detected packages | | --dev | -d | Install as devDependencies (requires -i) | | --recursive | -r | Recursively scan directories |

🎯 Examples

Scan only

$ depsniff app.js

📦 Detected external packages:

  • axios
  • express
  • mongoose

💡 To install them, run:
  npm install axios express mongoose

Auto-install

$ depsniff app.js -i

📦 Detected external packages:

  • axios
  • express
  • mongoose

🚀 Installing packages...

📦 Running: npm install axios express mongoose

✅ All packages installed successfully!
📌 Packages added to dependencies

Recursive directory scan

$ depsniff ./src -r -i

🔍 Scanning directory: ./src
  📄 Scanning: index.js
  📄 Scanning: utils.js
  📁 Scanning subdirectory: components
    📄 Scanning: Header.js

📦 Detected external packages:

  • axios
  • lodash
  • react
  • react-dom

✅ All packages installed successfully!

⚙️ Features

✅ Detects require(), import, dynamic import(), export ... from, require.resolve()
✅ Auto-installs with -i flag
✅ Supports devDependencies with -d
✅ Directory & recursive scanning with -r
✅ Handles .js, .mjs, .cjs files
✅ Ignores Node.js built-in modules
✅ Ignores local file imports

🆚 Comparison

| Feature | depsniff | npm-check | depcheck | |--------------------|----------|-----------|----------| | Auto-install | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | | Directory scanning | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | | Recursive scanning | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ | | Install as devDeps | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | | Zero config | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | | File size | ~3KB | ~500KB | ~200KB |

🧪 Testing Locally

npm link
depsniff app.js
depsniff app.js -i
depsniff . -r -i

📦 Publishing

npm login
npm publish

📜 License

MIT — Made with ❤️ by susheelhbti

Sniff. Install. Code. 🐕🔍

💼 Open to Work The author is available for freelance & full-time work. 📧 [email protected] — reach out anytime!