# Install npm-check with npm

Check for outdated, incorrect, and unused dependencies. Version 6.0.1 via npm; verified 2022-07-16.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install npm:npm-check
```

Additional install commands:

### Portable and language managers

- npm (100%):

```sh
npm install -g npm-check
```

  Evidence: local npm package metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** npm:npm-check
- **Package manager:** npm
- **Package manager page:** <https://www.npmjs.com/package/npm-check>
- **Version:** 6.0.1
- **Source summary:** Check for outdated, incorrect, and unused dependencies.
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/dylang/npm-check>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/dylang/npm-check>
- **Upstream docs:** <https://github.com/dylang/npm-check>
- **License:** MIT
- **Source archive:** <https://registry.npmjs.org/npm-check/-/npm-check-6.0.1.tgz>
- **Issue tracker:** <https://github.com/dylang/npm-check/issues>
- **Published:** 2022-07-16T17:46:12.104Z
- **Last updated:** 2022-07-16T17:46:12.104Z
- **Generated:** 2026-07-08T07:18:31+00:00

## Executables

- npm-check (cli)
- npm-check (alias)

## Dependencies

- callsite-record
- chalk
- co
- depcheck
- execa
- giturl
- global-modules
- globby
- inquirer
- is-ci
- lodash
- meow
- minimatch
- node-emoji
- ora
- package-json
- path-exists
- pkg-dir
- preferred-pm
- rc-config-loader
- semver
- semver-diff
- strip-ansi
- text-table
- throat
- update-notifier
- xtend

## Build dependencies

- babel-cli
- babel-plugin-transform-object-rest-spread
- babel-plugin-transform-runtime
- babel-preset-es2015
- babel-runtime
- xo

## Install behavior

- Post-install hook: not defined
- Lifecycle scripts: prepublish
- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-07-08
- Package-manager version: 6.0.1
- Package-manager updated: 2022-07-16
- Local data: ok
- Upstream repository: https://github.com/dylang/npm-check
- warning: The package-manager record has not been updated in over a year.
- info: No cached GitHub release or tag data was available.

## Security Notes

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for npm-check. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.


## Source Database Details

- **Source Database:** npm registry
- **Dist Tags:** Latest: 6.0.1
- **Version Count:** 55
- **Maintainers:** linusu, dylang, thelarkinn
- **Author:** Dylan Greene
- **Publisher:** dylang
- **Engines:** Node: >=10.9.0
- **Integrity:** sha512-tlEhXU3689VLUHYEZTS/BC61vfeN2xSSZwoWDT6WLuenZTpDmGmNT5mtl15erTR0/A15ldK06/NEKg9jYJ9OTQ==
- **Shasum:** 0df44d6ed8ab7bb29cf52fb3338b59adb6af1cd6
- **Unpacked Size:** 94,056
- **File Count:** 0
- **Created At:** 2014-06-09T04:41:29.662Z
- **Latest Published At:** 2022-07-16T17:46:12.104Z
- **Modified At:** 2025-09-26T03:45:47.745Z

## Other Package-Manager Records

- Nix - npm-check: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/np/npm-check/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Related links

- [Text processing packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/text-processing-tools/) - Matched curated package taxonomy and local package facts.
- [npm-package-json-lint](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/npm/npm-package-json-lint/) - Both packages work with overlapping file formats or content types. Shared terms: chalk, globby, json, meow, minimatch.
- [apigeelint](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/npm/apigeelint/) - Both packages touch the same language runtime or ecosystem. Shared terms: ansi, api, chalk, lodash, minimatch.
- [depcheck](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/npm/depcheck/) - Both packages touch the same language runtime or ecosystem. Shared terms: callsite, check, depcheck, dependencies, devdependencies.

## Sources

- Nucleus package database
- package-page enrichment
- package version freshness
- package relationship graph
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph