Detecting unused node packages

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I was working lately on some side project where I used node. I also was experimenting quite much and installing many packages while checking their expected behaviors¹ to get a desired results. While checking, I was installing many packages, and after doing it, I did not know which packages now belong to the project and which one are unused and should be removed. Well, this is not great. Normally this should not look like this, but I worked under the pressure and wanted to get desired output. So I decided that, I will take a leap of faith and give a task to one of my my local llm models I'm using for coding with opencode. To be specific, I used the qwen3.6:35b model¹. Next, I tried to check if something will happen and eventually help me with given prompt:

Thanks to enforced security for checking the packages for vulnerabilities I recently discovered in pnpm I could do it nicely and securely. ↩ ↩²

Detecting unused node packages

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