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check4updates
Advanced tools
Check and update package dependencies.
Yet another dependency checker / updater...
This one supports:
For other similar tools see:
npm outdated
c4u [options] [package ...]
--help|-h|-? this help
--version show version
--quiet|-q quiet mode; no console.log
--update|-u update package.json
--exclude|-x exclude packages
--dir|-d <dirname> use different dirname instead of cwd
--major update by major version
--minor update by minor version
--patch update by patch version
--prod only dependencies
--dev only devDependencies
--peer only peerDependencies
package package name to include / exclude
examples:
c4u
show packages to update by max possible version
c4u -u debug npm
update package "debug" and "npm"
c4u -u -x debug semver
update all packages excluding "debug" and "semver"
c4u --minor --dev
show minor version updates in devDependencies
supported URLs in dependencies:
git+ssh://git@github.com:npm/cli#semver:^5.0
git+https://user@github.com/npm/cli.git#semver:^5.0
git+ssh://git@github.com:npm/cli.git#semver:1.0.27
git://github.com/npm/cli.git#semver:~1.0.27
github:npm/cli#semver:~1.0.27
https://github.com/npm/cli/archive/v1.0.27.tar.gz
file:test/my-debug-1.0.0.tgz
See src/check.js
for usage.
MIT licensed
FAQs
Check and update package dependencies.
The npm package check4updates receives a total of 8 weekly downloads. As such, check4updates popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that check4updates demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 0 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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