Updating Project Dependencies: npm, Yarn, and pnpm

31.08.2022 — Code, npm, yarn, pnpm, package-management

The post was originally written for the Telegram channel.

Yarn has a very handy yarn upgrade-interactive command (and a --latest flag if you want to upgrade to the latest versions).

Npm does not have such a convenient feature out of the box, but it does have an excellent package npm-check that will show which packages can be updated and to which versions.

Update your packages on time, but don't forget to read the changelogs so you don't accidentally break your project 👌🏻

Alternatives

npm-check-updates

Ruslan @iamroose suggested that there is an even more convenient alternative - npm-check-updates

Visually it looks fresh and it is possible to update specific packages via regex or flags:

# upgrade everything except nodemon
ncu \!nodemon
ncu -x nodemon
ncu --reject nodemon

pnpm

Kamil Emeleev shared in the comments how to update packages using pnpm:

# Update packages in pnpm
pnpm update --interactive --latest -r