simple-dependencies-updater

Monitors a package.json and updates it to latest version. Might be used together with nodemon to allow daemonized scripts to update and restart

Warning

Backup your packages.json as it might be changed in a way you do not like it to be!

Problem

In a typical project we had some modules and per flavor a main app (module) where we had in our documentation a similar install guide you might know from many projects:

git clone <repo>
cd repo
npm install
npm start

Our challenge was that the process are services/daemons and will be started once and never updates its dependencies. However with almost any sprint we did some updates on the dependencies. Contacted our clients and told them to re-run npm install.

Solution

In our 'package.json' file we are starting our service via a Nodeomon:

{
  scripts: {
    "start": "npm install; nodemon ourmain.js"
  }
}

Due the fact that nodemon will monitor file and restart ourmain.js as soon as package.json gets updated we created this module with just a few lines of code.

Usage in your code

const updater = require("simple-dependencies-updater");
updater();

You might set a location (fullpath + filename) of your package.json file. If not given pwd will be used.

Maintainer / Imprint

This module is not an official contribution by Influx.

LICENSE

Apache-2.0