How can I find what version of an npm module is used across github repo?

Question

I have an npm module I develop. I want to know which version of this module is being used across the different projects in my company's organization repository. Is there a way to run a search for a specific versions of a module?

For example my latest version of the module is "5.x.x". I want to find all usages that are not "^5.x.x".

I tried searching for filename:package.json my-module but this gives me too many results, which most of them is the latest version ("^5.x.x").

Maybe there is some other way to achieve it which is not the Github search?

Edit:

• The organization repository is huge and it is impossible to have it all cloned on the disk.
• In our organization we have a solution that solves this problem using coding (a service that manages all dependencies across the organization which exposes REST). I am looking for something that can be achieved easily without coding (too much).

Answer 1

You can use find and grep commands in Bash:

$ cd path/to/your/repo
$ find . -name package.json | xargs grep '"my_module":'

This command lists all lines with your module in all package.json files across the repository. If this yields too many results, you can grep some more, for example:

$ find . -name package.json | xargs grep '"my_module":' | grep -v '\^5\.'

which excludes any lines mentioning your module with major version number of 5.

Answer 2

Given the restrictions placed on GitHub search, it's unlikely you'll be able to easily do this in the GitHub interface.

If you have all your repositories cloned inside a single directory and you're on a UNIX-like operating system, you can use grep (or do all kinds of programmatic searches):

grep '"my-module": ' */package.json | grep -v '"\^5\.'

The above assumes that the entry starts with ^ and not ~ or a digit. Modify as needed. In your case, it's probably fine. If it isn't, it will show some version 5 instances, which is better than having it not show earlier instances.