Is there a way to alphabetize package.json without installing a package?

Question

I've been working on lots of old npm packages that have their dependencies all out of order. They're shrinkwrapped packages, so updating dependencies is a bit of work (testing and verifying that the dependency changes didn't break anything), but I'm manually moving some dependencies from the devDependencies key to the dependencies key, and I don't want to do anything except alphabetize them before I commit. Rather than doing it manually, is there an easy way to programmatically alphabetize them with npm?

Answer 1

The sort-package-json package sorts not only dependencies and devDependencies, but other keys as well. I know the original questions didn't ask about the other keys, but I think it's cool to have all keys sorted.

You can simply run:

npx sort-package-json 

Example from the package page:

$ cd my-project  $ cat package.json {   "dependencies": {     "sort-package-json": "1.0.0",     "sort-object-keys": "1.0.0"   },   "version": "1.0.0",   "name": "my-awesome-project" }   $ npx sort-package-json package.json is sorted!   $ cat package.json {   "name": "my-awesome-project",   "version": "1.0.0",   "dependencies": {     "sort-object-keys": "1.0.0",     "sort-package-json": "1.0.0"   } } 

This does not remove the trailing newline like the npm-sort package mentioned by Wolfgang.

Multiple files

$ sort-package-json "my-package/package.json" "other-package/package.json"  $ sort-package-json "package.json" "packages/*/package.json"