📦 Never accidentally pull in a billion new dependencies again.

✈️ Moved away!

This project has moved away from Github and is now hosted elsewhere.

One of the things I've come to love about how Linux prompts users when installing dependencies is that it makes it explicit how many packages will be fetched.

λ sudo apt install cowsay
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
  filters cowsay-off
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  cowsay
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

When compared to the NodeJS ecosystem, this is vastly superior in that you can't really unknowning depend on a million things without having been explicitly notified about how many additional packages you were adding to your dependency tree along the way.

With this lack of awareness as well as how much NodeJS relies on adopting third-party packages, it's no wonder dependency hell is a thing.

This plugin attacks this problem from the angle of awareness -- by surfacing what's being installed (including transitive dependencies), you can make informed decisions about whether a certain package is worth it or not.

Until this is released as 1.x, consider every release as potentially-breaking. Consult the release notes for more details.

yarn plugin import <link to your chosen release>

Work done on this plugin follows decisions and principles documented here.

Feel free to open a PR or an issue if you'd like to submit improvements! Anything sent up will be processed as soon as possible.