npm outdated should list deprecated packages as well

[k2snowman69]

Problem

Currently there isn't a great way to easily visualize all packages that are deprecated.

Historically you could run npm install and it would output deprecated packages during/after the install. However with [email protected] I cannot find an easy way to list all deprecated packages within a repository currently:

• npm i --ignore-scripts --no-fund --no-audit - Only outputs the added packages no deprecation warnings
• npm i --ignore-scripts --no-fund - Outputs audit info but no deprecation warnings
• npm i - Still no deprecation warnings

Further npm outdated doesn't include deprecations or deprecation messages to help keep your packages up to date. IMO a deprecated package is something that could classify as "outdated".

With that said, IMO historically depending on npm i to list deprecated packages in previous versions of npm wasn't ideal to begin with.

Proposal

Add deprecated as a column for npm outdated. The way the output could look like is the following:

Package	Current	Wanted	Latest	Location	Depended by	Deprecation message
@snowcoders/sortier	3.3.0	3.3.0	3.3.0	node_modules/@snowcoders/sortier	some-package	Renamed to just sortier (no organization). npm i sortier.
@types/js-base64	2.3.2	2.3.2	3.3.1	node_modules/@types/js-base64	some-package
@types/react	18.0.26	18.0.26	18.0.27	node_modules/@types/react	some-package
deep-equal	2.0.5	2.2.0	2.2.0	node_modules/deep-equal	some-package
html-react-parser	3.0.4	3.0.8	3.0.8	node_modules/html-react-parser	some-package
informed	4.35.0	4.39.3	4.39.3	node_modules/informed	some-package
jest	28.1.3	28.1.3	29.4.0	node_modules/jest	some-package
jest-environment-jsdom	28.1.3	28.1.3	29.4.0	node_modules/jest-environment-jsdom	some-package
js-base64	2.6.4	2.6.4	3.7.4	node_modules/js-base64	some-package
postcss-cli	9.1.0	9.1.0	10.1.0	node_modules/postcss-cli	some-package
resolve-typescript-plugin	1.2.0	1.2.0	2.0.0	node_modules/resolve-typescript-plugin	some-package
ts-jest	28.0.8	28.0.8	29.0.5	node_modules/ts-jest	some-package

[Raymond-Ly]

If you use NPM V7 or later, you should have a package-lock.json with lockfileVersion: 2. This lockfile contains the deprecation warnings of all installed packages.

Could also use npm outdated --depth=5 to check for deeper sub dependencies.

[ruyadorno]

starting with npm7, there's also support to an all flag to include sub deps, e.g: npm outdated --all

[k2snowman69]

I think the issue for me was that lockFileVersion: 2 was missing the deprecation warnings though I'm unsure why not. When I forced the upgrade to lockFileVersion: 3 on the most recent version of npm the deprecation warnings showed back up in the package-lock.json.

With them being there, it's a simple query to generate the table above so I'm going to close this ticket out.

If I get time I'll try to dig into why I was missing deprecation warnings for my lockFileVersion: 2 and open a bug ticket.