🔍 A simple cli utility for querying the node_modules directory

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I often need to quickly check the versions of the modules installed in the node_modules directory. Current solutions like running npm list are slow and produce a lot of irrelevant output. Checking the version in the package.json file of the specific module requires more effort and doesn’t provide information about other instances of the same module.

qnm is a tool that solves this problem by providing fast and focused information about the installed modules. It supports both npm and yarn and allows you to quickly identify the versions of the modules you are interested in.

• ✨ Interactive fuzzy-search
• 🔤 Match all packages with a specific string
• ⁉️ Explain why a package was installed
• 📚 Supports monorepos
• 🕛 Show when a version was release and what is the latest version

You can use bunx/npx to run qnm, the docs use bunx because it's the fastest way

bunx qnm [module]

For example, if you want to see the installed versions of lodash:

bunx qnm lodash

And you'll see something like that:

lodash 4.17.21 ↰ 2 days ago
├── 4.17.21 ✓
├─┬ cli-table2
│ └── 3.10.1 ⇡ 1 year ago
└─┬ karma
  └── 3.10.1 ⇡ 1 year ago

Which means you have 3 occurrences of lodash in your node_modules:

1. ./node_module/lodash
2. ./node_module/cli-table2/node_modules/lodash
3. ./node_module/karma/node_modules/lodash

• The latest version of lodash is 4.17.21, it was published 2 days ago.
• The other 2 occurrences of lodash (3.10.1) were released a year ago.

Use qnm command without arguments to trigger an fzf like fuzzy search.

• Start typing to filter the matches from your node_modules
• Use arrows to move cursor up and down
• Enter key to select the item, CTRL-C / ESC to exit
• TAB and Shift-TAB to mark multiple items

do not fetch remote data from npm, use this if you want qnm to run faster. qnm will show limited view.

Open the module's package.json file with the default editor.

See full error messages, mostly for debugging.

Disables the most of colors and styling. E.g. version colors.

experimental

Shows the heaviest modules in your node_modules. Helpful if you want to understand what's taking the most space on your node_modules directory.

bunx qnm doctor

sort the modules based on the amount of duplications they have in your node_modules.

bunx qnm doctor --sort duplicates

alias: ls

Returns a list of all modules in node_modules directory.

bunx qnm list

Works like grep, and match's any module that includes the supplied string.

For example, i want to see which eslint plugins i have installed:

> bunx qnm match eslint-plug

eslint-plugin-babel
└── 3.3.0

eslint-plugin-lodash
└── 2.6.1

eslint-plugin-mocha
└── 4.12.1

eslint-plugin-react
└── 6.10.3

Opens package "homepage" property in your browser.

Help is always welcome! Please head to the CONTRIBUTING.md file to see how to get started.

The MIT License

while qnm used to be installed globally, it's recommended to use npx/bunx to run it, it's just much faster.

If you prefer the global installation, you can do it with:

npm i --global qnm