List node package dependencies without devDependencies

Question

I'd like to get a list of all external dependencies of my node.js project that is modules required by my project and modules required by those modules. I tried two approaches,

• Tools that do a static code analysis (madge, require-analyzer, module-grapher). But they don't do it recursively, visiting the required modules in the node_modules directory.
• Tools that get the information from package.json. Well, not really tools, it means a plain npm ls invocations only.

The problem with the second approach is that is lists packages specified as devDependencies, too. I realized I'd be happy to run npm ls --no-dev or something like that. I tried npm ls --production, but it doesn't make any difference. Any idea how I can achieve it?

Answer 1

I had to use:

npm ls --prod

and to only show the first level of the tree:

npm ls --prod --depth=0

Here are the docs: https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/ls