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Highlight new NPM dependencies in Pull Requests

In Pull Requests, this action highlight the addition of new NPM dependencies in one of the package.json of your repository.

Adding new dependencies in a project should never be a small change, and often it should trigger discussions between maintainers. This action can help you making sure that you are not missing the addition of new package in your NPM dependencies and devDependencies.

To highlight new packages, this action compares the list of dependencies registered in the current branch with the ones registered in the base branch. This check only occurs for each package.json file added or updated with the current pull request.

This action is not only looking at the root-level package.json but potentially any existing package.json in the project to be compatible with monorepo projects.

Usage

This GitHub Action should run everytime a commit is pushed to the pull request to check any potential addition or change in one of your package.json.

name: Inspect dependencies
on:
  - pull_request

jobs:
  check_new_dependencies:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Check for new dependencies
        uses: hiwelo/new-dependencies-action@1.0.1
        with:
          token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

Example

Message generated by the GitHub Action showing a list of new dependencies with a table showing some information like author, description and date of the last update for each dependency

License

This project is released under the MIT License.