npm list --depth=0
You probably know npm list will give you a comprehensive report of the installed npm modules. The problem is you'll get the entire dependency-tree, while you're mostly interested in the top-level modules.
I've recently come across this quick way to list just the top-level modules, so I thought I should share it with you here:
npm list --depth=0
...or, if you want to list the globally-installed modules:
npm list --depth=0 -g
Written by Ionut-Cristian Florescu
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Hi Ionut, this is very useful! Thanks for sharing!
neat!
really helpful!
Great, but why a photo? I mean... even girls from advertisement department in my company take screenshots.
Is it already viral to be a geek and take photos of a display? If yes, I'm in :)
Thank you all for reading and for your comments!
@nemoden - I don't have an advertising department, but when I'll do, I'll make sure to teach the girls some post-processing effects :-P. Actually it is a screenshot, with a perspective effect. Some people like it, some hate it, but in the end more people tend to notice/remember those :-)...
Hi,
This is very useful, thanks for sharing! I have a - most probably npm newby - issue and I hope you will be able to help me out.
When I run npm list -depth=0 in my project folder after the level 1 list I get the following error messages:
npm ERR! max depth reached: devtools-terminal[@]0.0.1, required by
undefined[@]undefined
npm ERR! max depth reached: grunt-cli[@]0.1.11, required by undefined[@]undefined
npm ERR! max depth reached: grunt-init[@]0.2.1, required by undefined[@]undefined
npm ERR! max depth reached: jsdoc[@]3.2.0-dev, required by undefined[@]undefined
npm ERR! max depth reached: npm[@]1.3.2, required by undefined[@]undefined
npm ERR! max depth reached: yuidocjs[@]0.3.45, required by undefined[@]undefined
npm ERR! not ok code 0Sorry for the [@]-s, I couldn't figure out how to get Coderwall to render the @ without wrapping them up as anchors.
Could you help me figuring out why I am getting these?
Cheers!
@heartcode try npm list --depth=0 "$@" 2>/dev/null (essentially ignore pointless errors by redirecting them to /dev/null)
@leecrossley thanks for pointing that out!
It's also worth saying that one could add something like this in his .profile in order to save typing:
alias npml="npm list --depth=0 "$@" 2>/dev/null"
@icflorescu yep, great point
The --depth=0 parameter also works for npm outdated...
p r o t i p
nice one, the noise was bugging me!
Due to a bug in recent NPM versions, this doesn't work anymore, but you can use this hack instead.
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