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DepDrift – A CLI tool to detect dependency drift&security issues in your project (npmjs.com)
5 points by tirtha 45 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



Hey HN,

I built a CLI tool called DepDrift to help devs spot stale, lagging, and risky dependencies in their JS projects.

The idea came from watching too many projects rot quietly under the surface — packages that haven’t been updated in years, subdependencies locked by indirect installs, and security patches missed because "it still works." You know the drill.

What DepDrift does:

Scans your full dependency tree (including subdependencies)

Gives you a drift + security score

Flags outdated or risky packages

(Coming soon) Pulls changelogs/releases so you can actually see what’s changed

(Planned) Advises which top-level packages to bump to update stale nested deps

HTML and CLI reports included.

It's early (v0.1.0), but useful already. Would love feedback, bug reports, feature ideas.

GitHub: https://github.com/tirtha-sarkar/depdrift NPM: https://www.npmjs.com/package/depdrift

Thanks for checking it out!




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