dependents

Tool to gather all dependents of a package and sort by npm weekly downloads, GitHub forks, stars or watchers

This repository is managed by the Package Maintenance Working Group, see Governance.

Personal Access Token

Note that to use this tool you need a GitHub personal token set as an environment variable named GITHUB_TOKEN. For public repositories, no scopes are required. For more information about GitHub tokens: https://help.github.com/en/github/authenticating-to-github/creating-a-personal-access-token-for-the-command-line

Install

To install this tool run:

$ npm i -g dependents

Or via npx:

$ GITHUB_TOKEN=<your token> npx dependents [options]

Require it in your project

const expressDependents = require('dependents')({ package: "express", total: 10, sort: 'downloads' })

Examples

dependents --package express --number 5 --sort downloads --total 25

Getting first 5 dependents of express sorted by downloads
{"webpack-dev-server":{"downloads":7492143,"forks":1023,"stars":6264,"watchers":116,"url":"github.com/webpack/webpack-dev-server"}}
{"webpack-bundle-analyzer":{"downloads":3031281,"forks":290,"stars":9863,"watchers":97,"url":"github.com/webpack-contrib/webpack-bundle-analyzer"}}
{"apollo-server-express":{"downloads":1032911,"forks":1318,"stars":9604,"watchers":216,"url":"github.com/apollographql/apollo-server"}}
{"gatsby":{"downloads":444063,"forks":7870,"stars":44480,"watchers":977,"url":"github.com/gatsbyjs/gatsby"}}
{"firebase-functions":{"downloads":433052,"forks":100,"stars":707,"watchers":109,"url":"github.com/firebase/firebase-functions"}}

JSON output only

dependents --package express --number 5 --sort downloads --total 25 --json

[
  {
    'webpack-dev-server': {
      downloads: 7492143,
      forks: 1023,
      stars: 6264,
      watchers: 116,
      url: 'github.com/webpack/webpack-dev-server'
    }
  },
  {
    'webpack-bundle-analyzer': {
      downloads: 3031281,
      forks: 290,
      stars: 9863,
      watchers: 97,
      url: 'github.com/webpack-contrib/webpack-bundle-analyzer'
    }
  },
  {
    'apollo-server-express': {
      downloads: 1032911,
      forks: 1318,
      stars: 9604,
      watchers: 216,
      url: 'github.com/apollographql/apollo-server'
    }
  },
  {
    gatsby: {
      downloads: 444063,
      forks: 7870,
      stars: 44480,
      watchers: 977,
      url: 'github.com/gatsbyjs/gatsby'
    }
  },
  {
    'firebase-functions': {
      downloads: 433052,
      forks: 100,
      stars: 707,
      watchers: 109,
      url: 'github.com/firebase/firebase-functions'
    }
  }
]