npm commands you may not know, but useful!!!

npm home packageName

This command open package's home page.

$ npm home express

npm ls --depth 0

List packages you installed

$ npm ls --depth 0

npm prune

This command will remove packages which are not in package.json, so this will be helpful to keep your project clean.

$ npm prune

npm outdated

This command checks the latest version of packages you installed

$ npm outdated

styled-components             4.2.0    4.3.1    4.3.1  project_name
stylelint                    10.0.1   10.1.0   10.1.0  project_name
three                       0.104.0  0.104.0  0.105.2  project_name
ts-loader                     5.4.5    5.4.5    6.0.2  project_name

Got great suggestion from M. Langhard a.k.a @riscie
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https://github.com/tjunnone/npm-check-updates

We can check outdated packages one word and update with an option which is pretty easy.

$ ncu

$ ncu -u 

Comments

[riscie]

Nice list!
There is also ncu which I've used for years (node-check-updates): github.com/tjunnone/npm-check-updates

It allows to quickly update outdated packages by using ncu -u

[0xkoji]

Hi M. Langhard ,

Thank you for sharing the info. ncu looks awesome.
I will use it!