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Keep your JavaScript up to date - kuwjs

JavaScript NPM packages changes very often šŸ”„JS community is the largest, contributors are very active and it is always good day to use JS šŸ˜†.

So you have to keep your packages up to date, Why?

  • Getting latest security fixes and patches.
  • Getting new improvements - specially performance related.
  • Getting new features and improvements that didn't exist before.
  • Getting dependencies updated for your packages.
  • Utilizing newer node.js , browser capabilities and v8 engine updates and releases.

Keeping up to date with project locally installed packages and globally installed packages become a challenge.

My 3 favorite tools I use daily to keep up with JS.

1 - npm-check

Keep your globally node.js npm packages up to date.


$ npm install -g npm-check

# check global installed packages and display existing version, new version and link to changelog or website.

$ npm-check -ug

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npm-check -ug
npm-check -ug # installation of updated packages

2 - npm-check-updates

Keep your node.js npm local project packages up to date.


$ npm install -g npm-check-updates

# check locally project installed packages and updgrade packages.json

$ ncu -u

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ncu -u # updates packages.json

3 - typesync

Keep your types synced and up to date - one of my favorite time saving and productivity packages!


$ npm install -g typesync

# check locally project installed packages and add or update all types needed.

$ typesync

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typesync

If you have any other useful ideas or suggestion to enhance productivity or keep your system up to date, I would love to hear it and share it, please feel free to leave it in the comment or @meabed

Happy coding šŸ¤ž

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Luciano Graziani

Why don't you use npm outdated or yarn outdated?

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Karolis Jocevičius

Also npm update :)

It's funny how there is npm package for everything. Even npm functions, that arte already included.

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Meabed

Welcome to the JavaScript world hehe

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Meabed

I havenā€™t tried, but thanks for mentioning Iā€™ll try them out!