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title: npm-sbom
section: 1
npm sbom
The npm sbom command generates a Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) listing the
dependencies for the current project. SBOMs can be generated in either
SPDX or CycloneDX format.
{
"$schema": "http://cyclonedx.org/schema/bom-1.5.schema.json",
"bomFormat": "CycloneDX",
"specVersion": "1.5",
"serialNumber": "urn:uuid:09f55116-97e1-49cf-b3b8-44d0207e7730",
"version": 1,
"metadata": {
"timestamp": "2023-09-01T00:00:00.001Z",
"lifecycles": [
{
"phase": "build"
}
],
"tools": [
{
"vendor": "npm",
"name": "cli",
"version": "10.1.0"
}
],
"component": {
"bom-ref": "simple@1.0.0",
"type": "library",
"name": "simple",
"version": "1.0.0",
"scope": "required",
"author": "John Doe",
"description": "simple react app",
"purl": "pkg:npm/simple@1.0.0",
"properties": [
{
"name": "cdx:npm:package:path",
"value": ""
}
],
"externalReferences": [],
"licenses": [
{
"license": {
"id": "MIT"
}
}
]
}
},
"components": [
{
"bom-ref": "lodash@4.17.21",
"type": "library",
"name": "lodash",
"version": "4.17.21",
"scope": "required",
"author": "John-David Dalton",
"description": "Lodash modular utilities.",
"purl": "pkg:npm/lodash@4.17.21",
"properties": [
{
"name": "cdx:npm:package:path",
"value": "node_modules/lodash"
}
],
"externalReferences": [
{
"type": "distribution",
"url": "https://registry.npmjs.org/lodash/-/lodash-4.17.21.tgz"
},
{
"type": "vcs",
"url": "git+https://github.com/lodash/lodash.git"
},
{
"type": "website",
"url": "https://lodash.com/"
},
{
"type": "issue-tracker",
"url": "https://github.com/lodash/lodash/issues"
}
],
"hashes": [
{
"alg": "SHA-512",
"content": "bf690311ee7b95e713ba568322e3533f2dd1cb880b189e99d4edef13592b81764daec43e2c54c61d5c558dc5cfb35ecb85b65519e74026ff17675b6f8f916f4a"
}
],
"licenses": [
{
"license": {
"id": "MIT"
}
}
]
}
],
"dependencies": [
{
"ref": "simple@1.0.0",
"dependsOn": [
"lodash@4.17.21"
]
},
{
"ref": "lodash@4.17.21",
"dependsOn": []
}
]
}
{
"spdxVersion": "SPDX-2.3",
"dataLicense": "CC0-1.0",
"SPDXID": "SPDXRef-DOCUMENT",
"name": "simple@1.0.0",
"documentNamespace": "http://spdx.org/spdxdocs/simple-1.0.0-bf81090e-8bbc-459d-bec9-abeb794e096a",
"creationInfo": {
"created": "2023-09-01T00:00:00.001Z",
"creators": [
"Tool: npm/cli-10.1.0"
]
},
"documentDescribes": [
"SPDXRef-Package-simple-1.0.0"
],
"packages": [
{
"name": "simple",
"SPDXID": "SPDXRef-Package-simple-1.0.0",
"versionInfo": "1.0.0",
"packageFileName": "",
"description": "simple react app",
"primaryPackagePurpose": "LIBRARY",
"downloadLocation": "NOASSERTION",
"filesAnalyzed": false,
"homepage": "NOASSERTION",
"licenseDeclared": "MIT",
"externalRefs": [
{
"referenceCategory": "PACKAGE-MANAGER",
"referenceType": "purl",
"referenceLocator": "pkg:npm/simple@1.0.0"
}
]
},
{
"name": "lodash",
"SPDXID": "SPDXRef-Package-lodash-4.17.21",
"versionInfo": "4.17.21",
"packageFileName": "node_modules/lodash",
"description": "Lodash modular utilities.",
"downloadLocation": "https://registry.npmjs.org/lodash/-/lodash-4.17.21.tgz",
"filesAnalyzed": false,
"homepage": "https://lodash.com/",
"licenseDeclared": "MIT",
"externalRefs": [
{
"referenceCategory": "PACKAGE-MANAGER",
"referenceType": "purl",
"referenceLocator": "pkg:npm/lodash@4.17.21"
}
],
"checksums": [
{
"algorithm": "SHA512",
"checksumValue": "bf690311ee7b95e713ba568322e3533f2dd1cb880b189e99d4edef13592b81764daec43e2c54c61d5c558dc5cfb35ecb85b65519e74026ff17675b6f8f916f4a"
}
]
}
],
"relationships": [
{
"spdxElementId": "SPDXRef-DOCUMENT",
"relatedSpdxElement": "SPDXRef-Package-simple-1.0.0",
"relationshipType": "DESCRIBES"
},
{
"spdxElementId": "SPDXRef-Package-simple-1.0.0",
"relatedSpdxElement": "SPDXRef-Package-lodash-4.17.21",
"relationshipType": "DEPENDS_ON"
}
]
}
If package-lock-only is enabled, only the information in the package
lock (or shrinkwrap) is loaded. This means that information from the
package.json files of your dependencies will not be included in the
result set (e.g. description, homepage, engines).
omitNODE_ENV environment variable is set toDependency types to omit from the installation tree on disk.
Note that these dependencies are still resolved and added to thepackage-lock.json or npm-shrinkwrap.json file. They are just not
physically installed on disk.
If a package type appears in both the --include and --omit lists, then
it will be included.
If the resulting omit list includes 'dev', then the NODE_ENV environment
variable will be set to 'production' for all lifecycle scripts.
package-lock-onlyIf set to true, the current operation will only use the package-lock.json,
ignoring node_modules.
For update this means only the package-lock.json will be updated,
instead of checking node_modules and downloading dependencies.
For list this means the output will be based on the tree described by thepackage-lock.json, rather than the contents of node_modules.
sbom-formatSBOM format to use when generating SBOMs.
sbom-typeThe type of package described by the generated SBOM. For SPDX, this is the
value for the primaryPackagePurpose field. For CycloneDX, this is the
value for the type field.
workspaceEnable running a command in the context of the configured workspaces of the
current project while filtering by running only the workspaces defined by
this configuration option.
Valid values for the workspace config are either:
When set for the npm init command, this may be set to the folder of a
workspace which does not yet exist, to create the folder and set it up as a
brand new workspace within the project.
This value is not exported to the environment for child processes.
workspacesSet to true to run the command in the context of all configured
workspaces.
Explicitly setting this to false will cause commands like install to
ignore workspaces altogether. When not set explicitly:
node_modules tree (install, update, etc.)node_modules folder. - Commands that doworkspace config.This value is not exported to the environment for child processes.