check for updated package.json dependencies
npm install updatedcheck for updated package.json dependencies
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While there are [many package dependency checking tools][], they all come with some gotchas:
- cli dependencies:
While having dependencies for a CLI package is not an issue in itself, the dependencies themselves often come with vulnerabilities, and will inevitably fall behind as maintainers are not able to keep up with upstream changes.
- npm API dependency:
This means figuring out which .npmrc to parse, how to parse it meaningfully, essentially repeating npm cli's own logic, this gets complicated when your .npmrc file mixes multiple registries and scopes!
- exit codes & standard streams:
some of the solutions do not use proper exit codes (e.g. 0 for success 1 for failure) and rely on console.log for all outputs instead of properly streaming results to stdout and stderr. This makes them incompatible for usage within a CI process.
- [npm outdated][]
npm's outdated command seems to attempt to address some of the basics, however, it seems to only work for production dependencies (and devDependencies if you add the hidden -D flag!) and not at the same time!
optionalDependencies, peerDependencies are not included.
This utility opposes those two key issues by using the npm cli directly to inspect each dependency in your package.json!
Hopefully, npm outdated will evolve and make this tool irrelevant!
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- Asynchronous
runs each package check asynchronously, with immediate feedback to stdout
- ZERO dependencies
keeping this package lean for use with CI.
- uses npm
uses the npm show cli command directly, which allows matching your actual npm environment and project config.
- CI friendly
through proper usage of standard streams (stdout, stderr) and exit codes.
- configurable
use simple [arguments][] to control behaviour.
- compares against package.json
updated will ONLY look at package.json and query npm with the same version ranges you define, to better simulate what npm install will produce. and avoid pointless errors.
> e.g. updated@^1.0.0 is still valid if the latest is updated@^1.0.1 because npm install will grab the latter.
`` bash`
npm install updated
Run in your project's folder with package.json:
` bash
$ updated
DEPRECATED connect: ^2.30.1 ^2.30.1 → 3.7.0
NOT-SUPPORTED @ahmadnassri/node-create: ahmadnassri/node-create
NOT-SUPPORTED nothingness: github:othiym23/nothingness#master
OUTDATED once: ^1.3.1 ^1.3.1 → 1.4.0
DEPRECATED @telusdigital/nightwatch-seo: → 1.2.2
OUTDATED npm: ^3.5.1 ^3.5.1 → 6.14.7
`
> Tip: You can check the last exit code by running echo $?
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> Tip: You don't need to install this package or add it to your dependencies, just run
> Options are applied using --[option]=[value] syntax
| Options | Default | Description |
|--------------|-------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| workspaces | false | process workspaces |ignore
| | | comma-separated packages to be ignored, e.g. --ignore=tap,eslint |types
| | see below | comma-separated dependency types to check, e.g. --types=devDependencies,peerDependencies |scopes
| | all | comma-separated list of package @scopes to check, default checks all |update
| | false | force update package.json to latest versions |json
| | false | output JSON results to stdout |silent
| | false | do not output report on stderr |no-color
| | false | disable color output |help
| | N/A | display cli help |
By default updated will check for the following types in your package.json
- dependencies
- devDependencies
- optionalDependencies
- peerDependencies
> Note: dependency types is an arbitrary string value, your package.json can contain additional types beyond the ones listed here, just include them using --types and updated will attempt to check their status.
| Code | Description |
|------|-------------|
| 0 | success |1
| | failure |
[many package dependency checking tools]: https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=check%20updates
[npm outdated`]: https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/outdated
[arguments]: #options
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> Author: Ahmad Nassri •
> Twitter: @AhmadNassri
[license-url]: LICENSE
[license-img]: https://badgen.net/github/license/ahmadnassri/node-updated
[release-url]: https://github.com/ahmadnassri/node-updated/releases
[release-img]: https://badgen.net/github/release/ahmadnassri/node-updated
[semantic-url]: https://github.com/ahmadnassri/node-updated/actions?query=workflow%3Arelease
[semantic-img]: https://badgen.net/badge/📦/semantically%20released/blue