JavaScript Tip - Managing npm dependencies with david
David is a neat tool to manage your npm dependencies.
To use it conveniently on the commandline you have to install david globally with npm:
npm install -g david
Now you can go into you project and get a report on your dependencies:
david
And david gives you a nice report:
~/Dev/MyBitbucket/javascriptworkshop-master/32-ReactNative/00-ReactIntro/01-Todo
✔ david master 4749ab6
dependencies
┌───────────┬─────────┬────────┐
│ Name │ Package │ Latest │
├───────────┼─────────┼────────┤
│ react-dom │ 0.14.6 │ 0.14.7 │
├───────────┼─────────┼────────┤
│ react │ 0.14.6 │ 0.14.7 │
└───────────┴─────────┴────────┘
npm install --save react-dom@0.14.7 react@0.14.7
devDependencies
┌──────────────────────┬─────────┬─────────┐
│ Name │ Package │ Latest │
├──────────────────────┼─────────┼─────────┤
│ babel-preset-stage-0 │ 6.3.13 │ 6.5.0 │
├──────────────────────┼─────────┼─────────┤
│ babel-core │ 6.3.26 │ 6.7.2 │
├──────────────────────┼─────────┼─────────┤
│ babel-preset-react │ 6.3.13 │ 6.5.0 │
├──────────────────────┼─────────┼─────────┤
│ babel-preset-es2015 │ 6.3.13 │ 6.6.0 │
├──────────────────────┼─────────┼─────────┤
│ babel-loader │ 6.2.1 │ 6.2.4 │
├──────────────────────┼─────────┼─────────┤
│ webpack-dev-server │ 1.14.0 │ 1.14.1 │
├──────────────────────┼─────────┼─────────┤
│ webpack │ 1.12.10 │ 1.12.14 │
└──────────────────────┴─────────┴─────────┘
npm install --save-dev babel-preset-stage-0@6.5.0 babel-core@6.7.2 babel-preset-react@6.5.0 babel-preset-es2015@6.6.0 babel-loader@6.2.4 webpack-dev-server@1.14.1 webpack@1.12.14
Notice the commands that david prepares for you to copy-paste to actually perform an update to the latest stable versions of each outdated package.
With david update you can also update the packages in one shot …
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