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Detective-AMD
Returns a list of dependencies for a given JavaScript file or AST using any of the AMD module syntaxes.
Inspired by substack/node-detective but built for AMD.
npm install --save detective-amd
- Supports JSX code via node-source-walk.
Usage
Let's say we have the following file definitions:
// a.js
define(['./b', './c'], function (b, c) {
console.log(b, c);
});
// b.js
define({
name: 'foo'
});
// c.js
define(function () {
return 'bar';
});
Here's how you can grab the list of dependencies of a.js
synchronously.
var detective = require('detective-amd');
var srca = fs.readFileSync('a.js', 'utf8');
// Pass in the source code or an AST (if you've already parsed the file)
console.log(detective(srca)); // prints ['./b', './c']
You may also (optionally) configure the detective via a second object argument detective(src, options)
that supports the following options:
skipLazyLoaded
: (Boolean) whether or not to omit inner requires in the list of extracted dependencies.
- Note: this does not affect the REM form since those inner requires are not "lazily" fetched.
Syntax Support
Supports the 4 forms of AMD module syntax:
- "named":
define('name', [deps], func)
- "dependency list":
define([deps], func)
- "factory":
define(func(require))
- "no dependencies":
define({})
Extra forms:
- "driver script" (or entry-point) syntax:
require([deps], func)
- "REM" (or CommonJS-like) form:
define(function(require, exports, module) {})
.
Also handles dynamically loaded dependencies (ex: inner requires).
Supports driver scripts
You can also find the dependencies from a script that has a top-level require (an app initialization/driver/entry-point script):
require([
'./a'
], function (a) {
// My app will get booted up from here
});
Expression-based requires
If there's a require call that doesn't have a string literal but an expression, a string (escodegen-generated) representation will be returned.
For example, if a.js
was of the "factory" form and contained a dynamic module name:
// a.js
define(function (require) {
// Assume str is some variable that gets set to a string dynamically
// var str = ...
var b = require('./' + str),
c = require('./c');
console.log(b, c);
});
The dependency list will be: [ '\'./\' + str', './c' ]
- Even though that string representation isn't incredibly useful, it's still added to the list to represent/count that dependency