update-gatsby-dependencies

A package that will primarily help a developer update gatsby dependencies to the latest stable version of gatsby dependencies

Usage

go to the directory where the package.json file is and run:

 npx update-gatsby-dependencies

this will output a string you can use to update your alpha packages to beta

npm i gatsby@latest ... other packages each with @latest

defaults that can be customized

Specifying a command

you can also specify an install command but the program defaults to npm i

 npx update-gatsby-dependencies --yarn

 npx update-gatsby-dependencies -y

installing dependencies

 npx update-gatsby-dependencies --install

or

 npx update-gatsby-dependencies -i

will install the dependencies

You can specify to use yarn instead of npm

npx update-gatsby-dependencies  --yarn

would look for all dependencies that have gatsby in the name and output a command like this:

yarn add gatsby@latest gatsby-awesome-pagination@latest gatsby-plugin-image@latest

updating a package.json file (for beta only)

you can also update the dependencies, peer dependencies and dev dependencies of a package by using the following command:

npx update-gatsby-dependencies --package

npx update-gatsby-dependencies -p

this command looks for the specific version that matches a certain tag, the default tag is latest but here npm will not retrieve the most stable version but the latest created versions:

npm i gatsby@next gatsby-awesome-pagination@next gatsby-plugin-image@next

Using custom tags

lastly, you can specify the version tag for every install at once if needed.

npx update-gatsby-dependencies --version apple

would produce

npm i gatsby@apple gatsby-awesome-pagination@apple gatsby-plugin-image@apple

Hope this helps!

have fun updating to gatsby 4!