eslint-plugin-depend

September 19, 2025 ยท View on GitHub

This is an ESLint plugin to help suggest alternatives to various dependencies.

Primarily, it will help detect dependency tree bloat and redundant polyfills.

Install

npm i -D eslint-plugin-depend

Usage

If you're using the new flat config files, add to your eslint.config.js:

import depend from 'eslint-plugin-depend';
import {defineConfig} from 'eslint/config';

export default defineConfig([
  {
    files: ['**/*.js'],
    plugins: {
      depend
    },
    extends: ['depend/flat/recommended'],
  }
]);

For older legacy projects, add to your .eslintrc.json:

{
  "extends": [
    "plugin:depend/recommended"
  ]
}

With package.json

Some rules (e.g. ban-dependencies) can be used against your package.json.

You can achieve this by using @eslint/json or jsonc-eslint-parser.

For example, with @eslint/json and eslint.config.js:

import depend from 'eslint-plugin-depend';
import json from '@eslint/json';
import {defineConfig} from 'eslint/config';

export default defineConfig([
  {
    files: ['package.json'],
    language: 'json/json',
    plugins: {
      depend,
      json
    },
    extends: ['depend/flat/recommended'],
  }
]);

Or with jsonc-eslint-parser and .eslintrc.json:

{
  "overrides": [
    {
      "files": ["package.json"],
      "parser": "jsonc-eslint-parser",
      "plugins": ["depend"],
      "rules": {
        "depend/ban-dependencies": "error"
      }
    }
  ]
}

Read more at the @eslint/json docs and jsonc-eslint-parser docs.

Rules

License

MIT