Update Outdated NPM Packages
NPM provides a command to check for outdated packages:
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However, by default, the command checks the entire dependency tree, not only the modules specified in package.json
, but also the dependencies of those modules. If we only care about the top-level packages, we can add --depth
option to show just that:
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This is similar to listing installed packages:
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Using the option, it will not print out the nested dependency tree, but only the top-level. The option is similar to tree -L 1
, but zero indexed instead of one.
Another interesting thing about outdated
command is the color coding in the output: