How to view the dependency tree of a given npm module?

Question

How can I get the tree of a module available to npm, but not installed locally ?

npm ll does the job for locally installed packages. But it doesn\'t wor

Answer 1

If you want to get the actually dependency path of specific package and want to know why you have it, you can simply ask yarn why . example:

    $> yarn why mime-db
    yarn why v1.5.1
    [1/4] Why do we have the module "mime-db"...?
    [2/4] Initialising dependency graph...
    [3/4] Finding dependency...
    [4/4] Calculating file sizes...
    => Found "mime-db@1.37.0"
    info Reasons this module exists
       - "coveralls#request#mime-types" depends on it
       - Hoisted from "coveralls#request#mime-types#mime-db"
    info Disk size without dependencies: "196kB"
    info Disk size with unique dependencies: "196kB"
    info Disk size with transitive dependencies: "196kB"
    info Number of shared dependencies: 0
    Done in 0.65s.