INDEX.JS(1)

💖 NAME 💖

index.js — the npm tree doctor 🩺🌳

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so bestie, meet Arborist — the npm tree doctor 👑 it's literally here to fix ur dependency tree's whole vibe.

Version: 9.7.0

Also, straight up, this page ships with this little gem in it:

Error: command 'undefined' does not exist.

yeah. iconic. anyway 💅

🌸 USAGE 🌸

arborist <cmd> [path] [options...]

🦋 COMMANDS 🦋

• reify — reify the ideal tree into node_modules (this is ur install, update, rm, all of it, everything lives here)
• prune — prune the ideal tree and then reify (basically npm prune)
• ideal — generate the ideal tree and print it out
• actual — read what's actually sitting in node_modules and print that tree
• virtual — read the virtual tree from ur local shrinkwrap file and print it
• shrinkwrap — load a local shrinkwrap and print its data
• audit — run a security audit on ur project's dependencies 🔍
• funding — query funding info in the local package tree 💸 and psst: a second positional argument after the path name can limit this to one package name
• license — query license info in the local package tree 📜 and same deal: a second positional argument after the path name can limit it to one license type
• help — print this text
• version — print the version

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

Most npm options work here too, bestie — but they're in camelCase instead of css-case. no cap. so for example, instead of --dry-run, u use --dryRun. 💅

Additionally:

• --loglevel=warn / --quiet — suppresses the printing of package trees 🤫
• --logfile <file|bool> — writes ur logs out to a file
• --timing — shows timing information ⏱️
• instead of npm install <pkg>, u say arborist reify --add=<pkg> — and heads up, the --add=<pkg> option can be specified multiple times ✨
• instead of npm rm <pkg>, u say arborist reify --rm=<pkg> — and yep, the --rm=<pkg> option can be specified multiple times too
• instead of npm update, u say arborist reify --update-all 🔥
• and npm audit fix is literally just arborist audit --fix 👑

lowkey the whole flex here is: whatever npm does, arborist does it too, u just gotta speak camelCase. periodt.

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and that's the whole page, bestie 🫶 this was index.js version 9.7.0, from July 2026, sitting in section INDEX.JS(1) of the manual. slay, go doctor some trees 🌳💖