detective-es6

May 19, 2026 ยท View on GitHub

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Get the dependencies of an ES6 module

npm install detective-es6

Usage

ESM

import fs from 'node:fs';
import detective from 'detective-es6';

const mySourceCode = fs.readFileSync('myfile.js', 'utf8');

// Pass in a file's content or an AST
const dependencies = detective(mySourceCode);

CommonJS

const { default: detective } = require('detective-es6');

You may also (optionally) configure the detective via a second object argument detective(src, options) that supports the following options:

  • skipTypeImports: (Boolean) whether or not to omit type imports (import type {foo} from "mylib";) in the list of extracted dependencies.
  • skipAsyncImports: (Boolean) whether or not to omit async imports (import('foo')) in the list of extracted dependencies.

License

MIT