update-versions^3.0.3

§ Quick Take

Update all dependencies of all packages in a monorepo — or single repo — to be the latest as per npm.

§ What update-versions does

This CLI will iterate all package.json in a given path and its sub-paths and process each dev- and normal dependency:

• If it's a monorepo setup and if another package in monorepo exists with such name, that version is set in ^x.x.x format
• In all other cases, a value from npm is fetched using pacote, and that value is set in ^x.x.x format

This CLI is a good idea in Lerna monorepos full of owned npm packages (where you bump versions often and effortlessly) but a bad idea in React SPA's (where single minor update might break many things and updating dependencies is a big, complex deal).

§ Opinionated part 1

Lerna bootstrap will not work properly if each dependency is not prefixed with ^, as in ^x.y.z. It's hard to manually enforce that all monorepo packages should have all dependencies in this format. update-versions will force this format.

One exception - if its dependency's value starts with file:.

§ Opinionated part 2

If any dependency is listed on both dependencies and devDependencies, it will be removed from the latter list. It's common sense, but we mention this "extra".

§ Opinionated part 3

If Lerna build goes wrong, a key called gitHead is created in package.json. Lerna normally cleans it up, but if things go wrong, the key might be left there. This CLI removes a key called gitHead if such exists, in every processed package.json.

§ Changelog

See it in the monorepo , on Sourcehut.

§ Licence

MIT 

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