Find out what file is requiring another file in Node

Question

The title says pretty much what I need to do.

I have a module in node_modules which prints something to the standard output (and I don't want this to happen) but I don't find where I'm requiring this file.

I may be misunderstanding how modules are included, as I though that they must be required in order to be executed.

Answer 1

There are multiple ways for stuff to write to output. If it's just using console.log(), just swap in trace. Before your require() statements:

console.log = console.trace;

Then, you'll have the full trace output every time there's a log.