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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe scanner now examines runtime and type-related JavaScript and TypeScript files. It detects CommonJS and dynamic import references, tracks dependency origins, merges repeated references, and reports whether each missing dependency is used in code, types, or both. ChangesDependency scanning and origin reporting
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The change expands dependency detection into executable code, but inline type-only imports and re-exports can still be reported as runtime dependencies, causing incorrect findings and misleading remediation. Merge should wait for this classification issue to be fixed and covered by tests. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant PackageFiles
participant analyze
participant specifiers
participant missing_package
participant FindingReport
PackageFiles->>analyze: provide scannable files
analyze->>specifiers: parse each file with its path
specifiers-->>analyze: return requirements with origins
analyze->>missing_package: classify requirements
analyze->>analyze: merge dependency origins
analyze->>FindingReport: attach origin to missing dependency
FindingReport-->>analyze: render usage context
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Scanning declaration files alone answered half the question. Measured against Yarn's compatibility database — 133 hand-written entries, the ecosystem's most curated record of packages that use what they never declared — a types-only scan reproduced 25 of them. Reading what the package ships as behaviour takes that to 86. `require()` and `require.resolve()` join the import positions already collected, and every shipped .js, .mjs, .cjs, .jsx, .ts, .mts, .cts and .tsx file is read rather than only the .d.ts family. Executable files are ambiguous by extension, so one that fails to parse as a module is retried as a script: packages ship ESM under .js and CommonJS under .mjs often enough that trusting the extension loses real files. Findings now carry where the reference was found. The distinction is not cosmetic: a dependency reached from executable code breaks the program, while one reached only from declarations breaks type checking, and that second kind is invisible to any detector that works by failing at runtime. It is why Yarn's database, built from Plug'n'Play failures, has no entry for most of them. A guarded `require` inside a try/catch is still reported. An optional integration is a dependency the package failed to declare, and an optional peer is exactly the right remedy for it. A `require` whose argument is computed names a package only the running program knows, so there is nothing to report.
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PR Summary by QodoDetect phantom dependencies from runtime code and report their origin
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In `@src/analyze.rs`:
- Around line 50-54: Update the missing-package classification around
missing_package and its callers to accept the reference Origin, permitting an
`@types/foo` fallback only for Origin::Types while requiring the actual runtime
package for Origin::Runtime and Origin::Both. Add an integration test covering a
runtime require of foo with only `@types/foo` declared.
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src/scan.rs (1)
3-40: LGTM!Also applies to: 51-83, 124-145
src/scan/tests.rs (1)
2-5: LGTM!Also applies to: 62-119
src/analyze.rs (1)
17-19: LGTM!Also applies to: 27-48, 57-67, 77-89
src/report.rs (1)
21-42: LGTM!Also applies to: 61-61, 72-77
src/fixtures.rs (1)
16-18: LGTM!Also applies to: 28-33
src/report/tests.rs (1)
1-1: LGTM!Also applies to: 11-11, 66-78
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98-117: LGTM!
Adding runtime scanning left two classification rules behind, both
written when declarations were the only thing being read.
A bare specifier could be satisfied by `@types/foo`, on the grounds that
such a package declares the module ambiently. That is true of a type
position and false of executing code: a declaration file carries no
implementation, so `require("foo")` still needs `foo` however well typed
the reference is. The fallback now applies only where the reference is
erased, which means classification has to happen per reference rather
than per name — the same package can be satisfied in a type position and
still be missing at run time, and the run-time reference has to win.
Origin was also decided per file, so `import type` and type-position
`import()` inside a shipped .ts file were reported as used in code when
they never execute. The scanner now marks erased positions as such
wherever they appear, and a declaration file continues to make everything
in it erased.
The two are one change: gating the fallback on origin is only safe once
origin stops calling type-only references runtime, or every `import type`
in a .ts file would start demanding a package it never reaches.
Neither shows up in the aggregate against Yarn's compatibility database —
still 86 of 133 entries, still 334 findings — because no package there
declares a types package without the runtime one it stands in for. That
is an argument for unit tests over a benchmark, not for leaving the rules
wrong.
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In `@src/scan.rs`:
- Around line 134-148: Update visit_import_declaration and
visit_export_from_declaration to inspect non-empty specifier lists and record
Origin::Types only when every specifier is type-only; retain runtime recording
for default, namespace, value, mixed, or empty specifiers. Add coverage for
type-only and mixed inline specifier forms in both imports and re-exports.
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src/classify/tests.rs (1)
3-3: LGTM!Also applies to: 52-56, 62-63, 69-73, 75-85
`import_kind` stays `Value` for `import { type A } from "pkg"`, so the
scanner reads it as runtime. That looks like an oversight and is not one,
which is worth a test rather than a comment.
Checked against tsc 5.9.3 rather than assumed. By default the import is
elided, but under `verbatimModuleSyntax` TypeScript emits `import {} from
"pkg"` and the module is loaded for real; the same holds for `export {
type F } from "pkg"`. A published package cannot know which options its
consumer compiles with, and treating the reference as runtime is the
reading that cannot hide a dependency the program turns out to need.
Only the statement-level `import type`, elided under every option, is
classified as erased.
Summary
Scanning declaration files alone answered half the question.
require()andrequire.resolve()now join the import positions already collected, and every shipped.js,.mjs,.cjs,.jsx,.ts,.mts,.ctsand.tsxfile is read rather than only the.d.tsfamily.Measured against Yarn's compatibility database
@yarnpkg/extensionsis 133 hand-written entries — the ecosystem's most curated record of packages that use what they never declared. I fetched the published tarball for every entry and ran xray against it, before and after.peerDependenciesdependenciespeerDependenciesMetaonly58 entries that were previously invisible are now found —
ws→bufferutil,debug→supports-color,react-color→react,testcafe→@babel/runtime, and so on.Two honest qualifications. Detection is not the same as a correct remedy: for the 51
dependenciesentries Yarn adds a real dependency, while xray emits an optional peer, so it finds the problem and proposes a different fix. And the 6peerDependenciesMetahits are a different statement — Yarn marks an already-declared peer optional, xray reports the name as undeclared.Where the remaining 22 peer misses come from
They are almost entirely inversion-of-control plugin relationships:
webpack,rollup,@parcel/core,eslint,typescript,vue-template-compiler. A plugin never imports the host that loads it, so there is no reference for any static analysis to find. 65% looks close to the ceiling for this approach; closing the rest needs knowledge of plugin conventions, not more scanning.What it costs
Total findings across those 133 packages went from 77 to 334. Sampling the increase shows three classes that are true of a file but not of the package:
mqttreports_process,base64-js,ieee754: browserify internals it inlined, not packages.vue-cli-plugin-vuetifyreports what a generated project needs.jss-plugin-rule-value-functionreportssinonandexpect.js.The new origin field plus the existing severity separate most of these by eye, and the README documents them. The principled fix is to walk only files reachable from the declared entry points rather than every file in the tarball; I have deliberately not bolted on directory-name heuristics instead, and would rather do reachability properly as a follow-up.
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originofruntime,typesorboth, in the text and JSON output.--package-extensionsis unchanged.requirein a try/catch is still reported: an optional integration is a dependency the package failed to declare, and an optional peer is the right remedy. A computedrequire(name)is not.requireis still read as one; distinguishing it needs scope analysis, and the cost is a rare extra finding rather than a missed one. Covered by a test that documents the tradeoff.Checklist
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require,require.resolve, imports, and type references.