License Exporter
This project is a fork of the original ODIT.Services - License Exporter created with the intention of expanding it with additional features that were missing in the original. While the core functionality remains the same, this fork aims to enhance the project by addressing specific needs and requirements such as selection which kind of dependencies are to be included (production, dev, etc.).
A simple license exporter that crawls your package.json and provides you with information about your dependencies' licenses. You can export this information into json(even prettyfied) and markdown.
Install
Via your favorite package manager (npm, yarn, pnpm, whatever):
pnpm i -g @hlustikp/license-exporterOr as a local dev dependency:
pnpm i -D @hlustikp/license-exporterBuild
The project is written in typescript and bun was used to build it.
To build the project, run:
bun build ./src/index.ts --outdir ./bin --target node --external yargs
mv ./bin/index.js ./bin/exporter.mjsCLI Usage
Export only your direct dependencies to json: license-exporter --json
Export all dependencies to json: license-exporter --json --recursive
Export only your direct dependencies to markdown: license-exporter -m
Export all dependencies to markdown: license-exporter -m --recursive
Note: Use npx license-exporter if you install it as a local dev dependency.
Options
| Arg | Description | Type | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| -j, --json | Exports the license information into ./licenses.json as json. | flag/[boolean] | N/A |
| -p, --pretty | Prettify the json output. | flag/[boolean] | N/A |
| -m, --markdown | Exports the license information into ./licenses.md as markdown. | flag/[boolean] | N/A |
| -r, --recursive | Include all of the dependencies' sub-dependencies. | flag/[boolean] | N/A |
| --prod, --production | Crawl production dependencies (dependencies section in package.json). |
flag/[boolean] | true |
| -d, --dev | Crawl dev dependencies (devDependencies section in package.json). |
flag/[boolean] | false |
| --opt, --optional | Crawl optional dependencies (optionalDependencies section in package.json). |
flag/[boolean] | false |
| -o, --output | Output folder for the exports. | [string] | Current folder |
| -i, --input | Path to the input folder containing your package.json and node_modules | [string] | Current folder |
| -h, --help | Show help | flag/[boolean] | N/A |
| -v, --version | Show version number | flag/[boolean] | N/A |