grunt-david

Watching your node.js dependencies.

Getting Started

This plugin requires Grunt ~0.4.0

If you haven't used Grunt before, be sure to check out the Getting Started guide, as it explains how to create a Gruntfile as well as install and use Grunt plugins. Once you're familiar with that process, you may install this plugin with this command:

npm install grunt-david --save-dev

Once the plugin has been installed, it may be enabled inside your Gruntfile with this line of JavaScript:

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-david');

David task

Run this task with the grunt david command.

Keep your node.js dependencies up to date.

Options

package

Type: String Default: undefined

Optionally specify the package.json path, david uses ./package.json by default.

update

Type: Boolean Default: false

Turn on if you want to update all your project dependencies to the latest stable versions.

unstable

Type: Boolean Default: false

Turn on if you want to update all your project dependencies to the latest versions (including unstable versions)

registry

Type: String Default: undefined

Use an alternate registry

error404

Type: Boolean Default: false

Turn on to abort if David finds any dependencies that are not published to npm. Error messages are then included in the report.

errorSCM

Type: Boolean Default: false

Turn on to abort if David finds any dependencies that are SCM URLs. Error messages are then included in the report.

ignore

Type: Array|String Default: undefined

Tell david to ignore dependencies.

Usage examples

Update dependencies

// Project configuration.
grunt.initConfig({
  david: {
    all: {
      options: {
        update: true,
        ignore: ['grunt']
      }
    }
  }
});