`npm install` how to track the packages which issue warnings?

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Is any easy way in npm to track from which packages these kind of dependency warnings came from? Packages in the warnings is for sure not the top level ones.

I'm currently on npm v3.6.0 (node 5.6.0).

score 12 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:45

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Running npm list in your project directory will give you a dependency tree, and a simple text search for the deprecated packages will indicate where they came from.

As a workaround to deprecation issues, you could use npm-shrinkwrap (example usage).

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Thanks, `npm list` is probably closest thing, although I was hoping to have something like `npm list --warnings` which filter out toplevel packages which are depend on packages that throwing warnings and indicates this packages... – dmi3y Apr 01 '16 at 06:45

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 06 '23 at 09:56

I think npm explain is what you are looking for. Below is the console result when I look-up a package named stable in my current project. It indicates the package is installed by one of my dev dependencies named react-app-rewired.

$ npm explain stable
[email protected]
node_modules/stable
  stable@"^0.1.8" from [email protected]
  node_modules/svgo
    svgo@"^1.2.2" from @svgr/[email protected]
    node_modules/@svgr/plugin-svgo
      @svgr/plugin-svgo@"^5.5.0" from @svgr/[email protected]
      node_modules/@svgr/webpack
        @svgr/webpack@"5.5.0" from [email protected]
        node_modules/react-scripts
          react-scripts@"4.0.3" from the root project
          peer react-scripts@">=2.1.3" from [email protected]
          node_modules/react-app-rewired
            dev react-app-rewired@"^2.1.9" from the root project
    svgo@"^1.0.0" from [email protected]
    node_modules/postcss-svgo
      postcss-svgo@"^4.0.3" from [email protected]
      node_modules/cssnano-preset-default
        cssnano-preset-default@"^4.0.8" from [email protected]
        node_modules/cssnano
          cssnano@"^4.1.10" from [email protected]
          node_modules/optimize-css-assets-webpack-plugin
            optimize-css-assets-webpack-plugin@"5.0.4" from [email protected]
            node_modules/react-scripts
              react-scripts@"4.0.3" from the root project
              peer react-scripts@">=2.1.3" from [email protected]
              node_modules/react-app-rewired
                dev react-app-rewired@"^2.1.9" from the root project

`npm install` how to track the packages which issue warnings?

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