Dependency audit by timotheeguerin · Pull Request #10239 · microsoft/typespec

timotheeguerin · 2026-04-01T16:12:50Z

Had copilot do an audit of all our dependencies to see which ones were not used, which ones should use a more modern or built in alternative.

Removed unused dependencies

Dependency	Packages affected	Reason
`json5`	`internal-build-utils`	Unused
`grammarkdown`	`compiler`	Unused
`date-fns`	`website`	Unused

Replaced with built in

Dependency	Packages affected	Reason
`c8`	~25 packages	Unused; coverage handled by `@vitest/coverage-v8`
`deep-equal` / `@types/deep-equal`	`spec-api`, `spector`, `http-specs`	Replaced with Node.js built-in `isDeepStrictEqual` from `node:util`
`body-parser` / `@types/body-parser`	`spector`	Replaced with Express 5 built-ins (`express.json()`, `express.urlencoded()`, etc.)
`fs-extra`	`http-server-csharp`, `http-server-js`, `http-client-js`	Replaced with `fs/promises` (`access`, `copyFile`, `mkdir`, etc.)

Modernized dependencies

Old	New	Packages affected	Notes
`onigasm`	`vscode-oniguruma`	`tmlanguage-generator`	Updated WASM loading and regex validation logic
`inquirer`	`@inquirer/prompts`	`http-server-csharp`, `http-server-js`, `http-client-js`	Switched to modern modular `select()` API
`rimraf`	`fs.rm()`	`typespec-vscode`	Uses `rm(dir, { recursive: true, force: true })`

Code changes

Emit scenario scripts in http-server-csharp, http-server-js, and http-client-js updated to use native fs/promises and @inquirer/prompts
A local pathExists() helper added to replace the fs-extra version
tmlanguage-generator migrated from onigasm to vscode-oniguruma, including updated WASM loading and regex validation logic (also removed a workaround for an onigasm bug)
@typespec/spector mock API server replaced bodyParser.* calls with express.* equivalents
@typespec/spec-api and @typespec/spector replaced all deepEqual(a, b, { strict: true }) calls with isDeepStrictEqual(a, b)
pnpm catalog and lockfile cleaned up, removing many transitive dependencies

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github-actions · 2026-04-01T16:17:49Z

All changed packages have been documented.

✅ @typespec/asset-emitter
✅ @typespec/bundler
✅ @typespec/compiler
✅ @typespec/eslint-plugin
✅ @typespec/events
✅ @typespec/html-program-viewer
✅ @typespec/http-client-js
✅ @typespec/http-server-csharp
✅ @typespec/http-server-js
✅ @typespec/http-specs
✅ @typespec/http
✅ @typespec/internal-build-utils
✅ @typespec/json-schema
✅ @typespec/library-linter
✅ @typespec/openapi
✅ @typespec/openapi3
✅ @typespec/playground
✅ @typespec/protobuf
✅ @typespec/rest
✅ @typespec/spec-api
✅ @typespec/spector
✅ @typespec/sse
✅ @typespec/streams
✅ tmlanguage-generator
✅ @typespec/tspd
✅ typespec-vscode
✅ @typespec/versioning
✅ @typespec/xml

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Dependency audit Azure/typespec-azure#4175

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[spec-api]: XMLParser does not decode 
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`@typespec/asset-emitter` - internal ✏️

`@typespec/bundler` - internal ✏️

`@typespec/compiler` - internal ✏️

`@typespec/eslint-plugin` - internal ✏️

`@typespec/events` - internal ✏️

`@typespec/html-program-viewer` - internal ✏️

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`@typespec/http-specs` - internal ✏️

`@typespec/http` - internal ✏️

`@typespec/internal-build-utils` - internal ✏️

`@typespec/json-schema` - internal ✏️

`@typespec/library-linter` - internal ✏️

`@typespec/openapi` - internal ✏️

`@typespec/openapi3` - internal ✏️

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