How do I find all installed packages that depend on a given package in NPM?
You may also find npm explain <package-name>
useful as it explains why that package is installed, what depends on it, etc.
e.g. to understand why we have node-sass installed...
$ npm explain node-sass
[email protected] dev
node_modules/node-sass
node-sass@"^4.8.3" from [email protected]
node_modules/gulp-sass
dev gulp-sass@"^4.1.1" from the root project
You're looking for https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/ls
For example, to see which packages depend on contextify
you can run:
npm ls contextify
[email protected] /home/zorbash/some-project
└─┬ [email protected]
└─┬ [email protected]
└── [email protected]
You can use https://www.npmjs.com/package/npm-dependents to find dependents that are not installed.
Update: I see the package is broken, but it still may be a good starting point where the author points out a place where it may be breaking: https://github.com/davidmarkclements/npm-dependents/issues/5#issuecomment-451926479
In the meantime, you may want to just use the "Dependents" tab on the individual npm project pages.