grunt-version-check

Checks if your Bower or NPM dependencies are out of date.

Getting Started

This plugin requires Grunt >=0.4.5

If you haven't used Grunt before, be sure to check out the Getting Started guide, as it explains how to create a Gruntfile as well as install and use Grunt plugins. Once you're familiar with that process, you may install this plugin with this command:

npm install grunt-version-check --save-dev

Once the plugin has been installed, it may be enabled inside your Gruntfile with this line of JavaScript:

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-version-check');

The "versioncheck" task

Overview

In your project's Gruntfile, add a section named versioncheck to the data object passed into grunt.initConfig().

grunt.initConfig({ versioncheck: { target: { options: { skip : ["semver", "npm", "lodash"], hideUpToDate : false } } }, });

Options

options.skip

Type: Array Default value: []

A list of dependencies to skip.

options.hideUpToDate

Type: Boolean Default value: false

If true, only dependencies that are out of date will be listed.

options.bowerLocation

Type: String Default value: bower.json

Specify a relative path to a bower.json file.

options.packageLocation

Type: String Default value: package.json

Specify a relative path to a package.json file.

options.showPrerelease

Type: Boolean Default value: false

If true, versions of bower dependencies are compared to prereleased versions and not the last stable version.

Example output

Running "versioncheck" task >> async (bower) is up to date. >> backbone (bower) is up to date. >> backbone-pageable (bower) is up to date. >> backbone-relational (bower) is out of date. Your version: 0.8.7 latest: 0.8.8 >> backgrid (bower) is up to date. >> backgrid-moment-cell (bower) is up to date. >> bootstrap (bower) is up to date. >> bootstrap-paginator (bower) is up to date. >> d3 (bower) is up to date. >> font-awesome (bower) is out of date. Your version: 4.1.0 latest: 4.2.0 >> highstock-release (bower) is up to date. >> i18next (bower) is out of date. Your version: 1.7.3 latest: 1.7.4 >> jquery (bower) is up to date. >> jquery-cookie (bower) is up to date. >> jquery.tablesorter (bower) is up to date. >> leaflet (bower) is up to date. >> leaflet.markercluster (bower) is up to date. >> lodash (bower) is up to date. >> marionette (bower) is out of date. Your version: 2.0.3 latest: 2.1.0 >> Marionette.SubRouter (bower) is up to date. >> moment (bower) is out of date. Your version: 2.7.0 latest: 2.8.2 >> require-handlebars-plugin (bower) is up to date. >> stringjs (bower) is out of date. Your version: 1.8.1 latest: 1.9.1 >> typeahead.js (bower) is out of date. Your version: 0.10.2 latest: 0.10.5 >> colors (npm) is up to date. >> bower (npm) is up to date. >> npm (npm) is up to date. >> async (npm) is up to date. >> lodash (npm) is up to date. >> grunt-contrib-jshint (npm) is out of date. Your version: ^0.9.2 latest: 0.10.0 >> grunt (npm) is up to date.