CoffeeScript Dependency Checking
Adam Jahnke
I just fixed an issue where a dependency (lodash) was leaking out as a global
in a CoffeeScript project. The solution to that was to use
_.noConflict
, but over the years
of this project's life, developers had started accidentally using lodash utils
without actually requiring lodash in the file.
Unfortunately, the coffeelint
tool doesn't seem to have a no-undef
rule
similar to eslint, so these sort of fell through the cracks. I came up with
this method to check our source code for missing requires:
$ ag '_[.( ]' coffee --files-with-matches | \
xargs ag '(?s).*lodash.*' --files-without-matches
And for a bonus, just flip the matchers to check for files with extraneous requires:
$ ag '_[.( ]' coffee --files-without-matches | \
xargs ag '(?s).*lodash.*' --files-with-matches