Dependencies

dash.js relies on multiple other NPM packages to implement media player functionalities and for tasks related to development. The dependencies are listed in package.json and are installed when running npm install.

Direct Dependencies

Package	Usage
@svta/common-media-library	Implements common media player functionalities such as ID3 parsing and CMCD encoding
bcp-47-match	Match BCP 47 language tags with language ranges per RFC 4647
bcp-47-normalize	Normalize, canonicalize, and format BCP 47 tags
codem-isoboxer	ISOBMFF box parser used to parse boxes such as EMSG
fast-deep-equal	Used to deep compare two objects
html-entities	Used to decoded HTML entities when playing in offline mode
imsc	Library for rendering IMSC 1.0.1 and IMSC 1.1 documents to HTML5
localforage	Storage library used for offline playback
path-browserify	Node path library used to extract and compare URLs
ua-parser-js	Parsing library used to identify the browser and/or the underlying platform

Dev Dependencies

Package	Usage
@babel/core	Required by babel-loader for Webpack and transpiling to ES5
@babel/eslint-parser	Allows ESLint to run on source code that is transformed by Babel.
@babel/preset-env	Required by babel-loader for Webpack and transpiling to ES5
babel-loader	Used for transpiling JavaScript by Webpack
chai	Assertion library used by the Karma testing framework
chai-spies	Addon plugin for the chai assertion library. It provides the most basic function spy ability and tests.
clean-jsdoc-theme	Clean and fully responsive theme to generate the JSDoc.
eslint	Tool for identifying and reporting on patterns found in JavaScript code
eslint-webpack-plugin	Webpack plugin to run ESLint
karma	Testrunner for unit and functional tests
karma-browserstack-launcher	Launch tests on Browserstack via Karma
karma-chai	Use asserts like “expect” from the chai library
karma-chrome-launcher	Launches Chrome for unit and functional tests
karma-coverage	Creates coverage report for unit tests
karma-firefox-launcher	Launches Firefox for unit and functional tests
karma-htmlfile-reporter	Creates an HTML test report for functional tests
karma-junit-reporter	Creates a JUnit test report for unit and functional test
karma-mocha	Testframework for unit and functional tests
karma-mocha-reporter	Mocha like test output for unit tests
karma-webdriver-launche	Run Karma tests using Webdriver. Required for test execution via Selenium
karma-webpack	Webpack bundler for Karma testcases.
mocha	JavaScript test framework for our unit and functional tests
rimraf	Dependency to remove dist folder before building dash.js
sinon	Standalone and test framework agnostic JavaScript test spies, stubs and mocks
stream-browserify	The stream module from node core, for browsers
string-replace-loader	Used to perform text replacements when building with webpack
typescript	TypeScript adds optional types to JavaScript
webpack	Module bundler used to create the dash.js builds
webpack-cli	Allows setup of webpack custom configuration
webpack-dev-server	Development server that uses webpack for bundling
webpack-merge	Used to merge Webpack configuration files
yargs	Parses arguments provided via command line for execution of functional tests