node-dep-date-diff

Outputs all installed packages in a table (or JSON) with the release date of the currently installed version and latest available version.

CLI install and usage

``bash
npm i -g dep-date-diff
dep-date-diff [options] # or use ddd alias

Options:

-h, --help output usage information
-V, --version output the version number
-S --sort [sort properties] Sorts the table elements, add items in a comma separated list
-O --only-outdated Only show dependencies which are out of date

Examples:

$ dep-date-diff
$ dep-date-diff --sort dateDiff
$ dep-date-diff --sort dateDiff,usedVersionDate
$ dep-date-diff --only-outdated
`

Sample output
`bash
ddd
[===] 14/rps 100% 0.0s
┌───────────────┬───────────────┬─────────────┬─────────────────┬───────────────┬───────────────────┬──────────┐
│ packageName │ type │ usedVersion │ usedVersionDate │ latestVersion │ latestVersionDate │ dateDiff │
├───────────────┼───────────────┼─────────────┼─────────────────┼───────────────┼───────────────────┼──────────┤
│ lodash │ dependency │ 3.10.1 │ 2015-08-04 │ 4.17.4 │ 2016-12-31 │ 515 days │
├───────────────┼───────────────┼─────────────┼─────────────────┼───────────────┼───────────────────┼──────────┤
│ express │ dependency │ 4.15.3 │ 2017-05-17 │ 4.15.3 │ 2017-05-17 │ 0 days │
└───────────────┴───────────────┴─────────────┴─────────────────┴───────────────┴───────────────────┴──────────┘
`

$3

`bash
npm i -D dep-date-diff
`

`javascript
const ddd = require('dep-date-diff');

ddd().then(result => {
console.log(JSON.stringify(result, null, 2));
/*
outputs:
[{
"packageName": "express",
"type": "dependency",
"usedVersion": "4.15.3",
"usedVersionDate": "2017-05-17",
"latestVersion": "4.15.3",
"latestVersionDate": "2017-05-17",
"dateDiff": "0 days"
}, {
"packageName": "lodash",
"type": "dependency",
"usedVersion": "3.10.1",
"usedVersionDate": "2015-08-04",
"latestVersion": "4.17.4",
"latestVersionDate": "2016-12-31",
"dateDiff": "515 days"
}]
*/
});
``