lineage-ts

CLI to identify all descendant imports of a ts file

Highlights

• 🏁 Fast - Uses ts-morph to analyze the AST import specifiers of a typescript project
• 🔵 .ts
• 🙈 Omits imports from node_modules and just picks up your source code
• 🌲 cp the resolved tree - Optionally copies the resolved import tree to a new directory for analysis or refactoring. The original relative directory structure is retained
• 🔧 Configurable - Functionality for complicated typescript projects and use cases

About

ts-lineage takes a typescript file, extracts its dependencies via ts-morph, resolves each relative import to a file on the filesystem, then "recursively" performs those steps on the descendant imports until all relative imports are resolved.

Installation

npm install lineage-ts

Options

• -f, --file <string>(required): path to the root file)
• -tsc, --tsconfig <string>(optional): path to a typescript config
• -dir, --destDir <string>(optional): directory to which the resolved dependency tree should be copied to

Use cases

• Debugging and performance testing: When analyzing a single element in a large application, it can be useful to extract only the relevant code to remove any potential side effects and complications from the main app.
• Refactoring: When moving an application to a new architecture, it can be cumbersome to manually cp over files that relate to the refactor target.

Prior Art

• node-dependency-tree

node-dependency-tree is a generic tool for analyzing dependencies that works for multiple languages and module types. lineage-ts is exclusively for typescript, uses ts-morph, and has a utility for cp'ing the resolved dependency tree to a new dir

Help

lineage-ts --help