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crates-updater
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Check your Rust packages for updates.
ℹ️ This is a hybrid CommonJS / ESM module.
Run yarn global add crates-updater
or npm i -g crates-updater
.
Usage: crates-updater [options] <package> [packageVersion]
Check your Rust packages for updates.
Options:
-q, --quiet quiet mode. Display newer version or nothing
-v, --version output the version number
-h, --help output usage information
# returns either a newer version or nothing
crates-updater ripgrep -q 0.9.0
# returns the latest version with a helpful text
crates-updater ripgrep
See cli.ts
.
FAQs
Check your Rust packages for updates.
The npm package crates-updater receives a total of 8 weekly downloads. As such, crates-updater popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that crates-updater 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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