constable

constable

Update your bower dependencies to their latest version.

Installation

npm install -g constable

Usage

cd into/bower-project
constable -h

List the latest versions of your main and dev dependencies, as specified by bower list.

constable -l

This will update your bower.json file with the latest package versions.

constable -u

Then, install them with:

bower install

Gotchas

Data returned via the bower list command (which is used by constable) can be different than what your actual bower.json specifies, notably when you:

1. Don't actually have the package installed.
2. Have not run bower install after updating versions in bower.json.
3. Have dependencies specified as ~x.y.1 but have > x.y.1 installed.

Essentially, things work out best if you have explicit versions set.

Licensing

This project is licensed under the ISC license.

Any contributions made to this project are made under the current license.

Hacking

git clone [e-mail]:brentlintner/constable.git
cd constable
npm install
npm test

On Windows

While the package itself should run fine in a Windows environment, you might need to use something like msysgit to hack, as a lot of development based scripts reply on unix like sh support.

Contributions

Current list of contributors.

Any contributions are welcome and appreciated!

All you need to do is submit a Pull Request.

1. Please consider tests and code quality before submitting.
2. Please try to keep commits clean, atomic and well explained (for others).

Issues

Current issue tracker is on github.

Even if you are uncomfortable with code, an Issue helps!

Code Of Conduct

This project ascribes to CoralineAda's contributor covenant.

Name

In Canada, a constable is defined as:

"The lowest rank in most police services."

Which felt appropriate, given the small nature of this project.

Can't Bower Do This?

Bower does support updating dependencies via bower update, but not, it seems, when they are "frozen".

In the future, it may be prudent to update or submit an issue to bower itself, or even npm-police to do this, vs have another project.

In the meantime, I created this to do the simple task for writing the latest (frozen) versions to a bower.json project file.