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Update Dependencies with Dependabot, Cypress and Netlify

Nick Taylor on August 16, 2019

To preface things, this post is in the context of a JavaScript project, specifically, my blog iamdeveloper.com. In terms of hosting my site, I use...
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Carlos Trapet • Edited

Ah, too bad you didn't post this last week :)
I just integrated Cypress into our pipeline last Tuesday and this would have helped lol.
So far I'm loving it and my CTO is worried that I might try to marry it

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Nick Taylor

Invite me to the wedding. 😆

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Jakub Sarnowski

Is Dependabot any better than Greenkeeper? Because the second one was a lot more problems than benefits for me.

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Nick Taylor

I found, at least in my experiences that GreenKeeper became more of a burden and had a hard time with lock files. Dependabot seems to just handle it better. Also, Dependabot supports more languages, I believe. For example, the dev.to site uses it to update Ruby and JavaScript dependencies.

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Jakub Sarnowski

Sounds neat! Thank you very much for your answer! :)

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marques woodson

Do you need to have chrome installed on the CI machine for Cypress to work?

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Shubham Battoo

Dependabot has a lot of utility. Saves time. Great article.