Automate updates for NodeJS packages with next-update

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Prerequisites

  • Solid unit tests for your code, E2E tests.
  • next-update: An npm package which tests whether your dependencies can be updated without breaking the tests.
    • It will find all new packages
    • It updates the packages in sequence
    • It keep the update if your tests pass

How to

On CLI

  1. Install it globally.

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    npm install -g next-update

  2. Run it.

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    next-update

On project

  1. Install next update

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    npm install next-update --save-dev

  2. Configure the script on package json

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    {
        "name": "a-sample-node-project",
        "version": "0.0.1",
        "description": "A sample node project",
        "scripts": {
            "test": "karma start",
            "start": "node app.js",
            "dep:update": "next-update" // Configure an npm script
        },
        "devDependencies": {
            "next-update": "^3.6.0"
        },
        "dependencies": {
        },
    }

  3. Run the script

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    npm run dep:update