how to show all package dependency tree

Question

Since 0.9.3 I'm having some problems with meteor package dependencies, for example some third party packages don't declare all of their dependencies (like underscore, which would normally be included but not when used by another package).

Is there a simple way to show the tree of dependencies, much like npm does?

meteor list will show what's in your project

.meteor/versions will show all packages but I'm trying to find out what is including (or not) other packages.

currently I'm getting errors like the following, but haven't included Minimongoid afaik and grepping finds no reference to it.

W20141001-19:19:46.137(-7)? (STDERR) /Users/dc/.meteor/packages/meteor-tool/.1.0.33.he3qxx++os.osx.x86_64+web.browser+web.cordova/meteor-tool-os.osx.x86_64/dev_bundle/lib/node_modules/fibers/future.js:173 W20141001-19:19:46.137(-7)? (STDERR)                        throw(ex); W20141001-19:19:46.138(-7)? (STDERR)                              ^ W20141001-19:19:46.141(-7)? (STDERR) ReferenceError: Minimongoid is not defined W20141001-19:19:46.141(-7)? (STDERR)     at collections/user.coffee:1:20 W20141001-19:19:46.141(-7)? (STDERR)     at /Users/dc/dev/shumi/package-dev/app/.meteor/local/build/programs/server/app/collections/user.coffee.js:24:3 W20141001-19:19:46.142(-7)? (STDERR)     at /Users/dc/dev/shumi/package-dev/app/.meteor/local/build/programs/server/boot.js:168:10 W20141001-19:19:46.142(-7)? (STDERR)     at Array.forEach (native) W20141001-19:19:46.142(-7)? (STDERR)     at Function._.each._.forEach (/Users/dc/.meteor/packages/meteor-tool/.1.0.33.he3qxx++os.osx.x86_64+web.browser+web.cordova/meteor-tool-os.osx.x86_64/dev_bundle/lib/node_modules/underscore/underscore.js:79:11) W20141001-19:19:46.142(-7)? (STDERR)     at /Users/dc/dev/shumi/package-dev/app/.meteor/local/build/programs/server/boot.js:82:5 

Answer 1

While we're waiting for the official tools to have this functionality, here's the uglyslow vershion:

for p in `meteor list | grep '^[a-z]' | awk '{ print $1"@"$2 }'`; do echo "$p"; meteor show "$p" | grep -E '^  [a-z]'; echo; done 

This will show the dependencies of all added packages. It parses the output of meteor list and meteor show package@version and will break when anything there changes.

Answer 2

As of Meteor v1.5.2 (released 2017-09-05) you can now see the full dependency tree like this:

meteor list --tree

Here's what the output looks like:

$ meteor list --tree  [email protected] ├─┬ [email protected] │ ├─┬ [email protected] │ │ └── [email protected] │ ├── [email protected] (top level) │ ├─┬ [email protected] │ │ ├─┬ [email protected] │ │ │ ├── [email protected] (expanded above) │ │ │ ├── [email protected] (top level) │ │ │ ├─┬ [email protected] 

The pull request was contributed by sdarnel and can be found here for those interested: https://github.com/meteor/meteor/pull/8936