pahen/madge

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10162 stars · 351 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Madge is a JavaScript developer tool that generates visual dependency graphs from CommonJS, AMD, and ES6 modules, as well as Sass, Stylus, and Less files. It also detects circular dependencies and provides a programmatic API for extracting dependency trees.

Use cases

• generate a dependency graph for my JavaScript project
• find circular dependencies in my codebase
• visualize module dependencies as SVG or DOT
• analyze dependencies in Sass or Less files
• check which modules depend on each other before refactoring
• get a dependency tree as JSON for tooling

When to choose

• you need to visualize or audit module dependencies in a JavaScript or CSS-preprocessor codebase
• you want to detect and eliminate circular dependencies
• you want a CLI tool plus a programmatic API for dependency analysis

When to avoid

• you need dependency analysis for non-JavaScript languages like Python, Java, or Go
• you need runtime dependency tracking rather than static analysis
• you require bundler-integrated dependency management rather than a standalone analysis tool

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

developer-tools cli data-visualization parser developer-tools web-development cli cross-platform dependency-graph circular-dependencies graphviz es6-modules commonjs amd css-preprocessors static-analysis javascript command-line nodejs

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