How to List NPM Packages and Dependencies

List Local Project NPM Packages and Dependencies

To print out locally installed NPM packages with their dependencies enter the following into your terminal:

1.npm list

This will print out a minimal version of your package-lock.json, which for some packages might be quite long and indented.

1....
2.─┬ gatsby-plugin-sharp@2.4.3
3.│ ├── @babel/runtime@7.8.3 deduped
4.│ ├─┬ async@2.6.3
5.│ │ └── lodash@4.17.15 deduped
6.│ ├── bluebird@3.7.2 deduped
7.│ ├── fs-extra@8.1.0 deduped
8.│ ├── gatsby-core-utils@1.0.26 deduped
9.│ ├── got@8.3.2 deduped
10.│ ├─┬ imagemin@6.1.0
11.│ │ ├── file-type@10.11.0
12.│ │ ├─┬ globby@8.0.2
13.│ │ │ ├─┬ array-union@1.0.2
14.│ │ │ │ └── array-uniq@1.0.3
15....

List Global NPM Packages and Dependencies

Adding -g to the end of npm list will print all global packages and their dependencies installed on your system instead of the local packages for your project.

1.npm list -g

List Only Top-Level Local Packages

If you only want to see the top-level packages, that is, the ones you directly installed and not their dependencies, then you use the --depth=0 option.

1.npm list --depth=0

The number passed into --depth defines how many levels of dependencies you want to see printed out.

1....
2.Codinhood@0.1.0 /Users/cody/projects/codinhood
3.├── @mdx-js/mdx@1.5.5
4.├── @mdx-js/react@1.5.5
5.├── @nivo/bar@0.61.1
6.├── @nivo/line@0.61.1
7.├── @nivo/pie@0.61.1
8.├── dayjs@1.8.20
9....

This is essentially the same information as in your package.json, but minified and printed in your terminal.

List Only Top-Level Global Packages

Pass in the -g option along with the --depth=0.

1.npm list --depth=0 -g

1./Users/cody/.nvm/versions/node/v10.18.1/lib
2.├── jest@25.1.0
3.├── npm@6.13.4
4.├── serverless@1.64.0
5.└── serverless-cli@1.0.0