What are your tools for keeping dependencies and plugins versions up-to-date?

Cécile Fécherolle — Fri, 14 May 2021 12:37:44 +0000

Hi everyone!

I rarely post here but today I decided to ask the community about some tooling.

One thing that I find daunting in today's web dev ecosystem is how to keep track of dependencies and plugin versions in all layers of our apps and, say, not miss a lot of versions for one tool or the other.

For example, in the project I'm working on, we have a front-end app made with React, a Java/Spring Boot back-end, a Keycloak authentication system, and so on.

So I was asking myself: is there some kind of tool to subscribe to new versions of packages/libs, get warnings about end of life, and such?

I do know there are tools like Maven versions plugin for Java or npm packages to be run manually to get info on possible updates.

My actual question is: how do you guys regularly check for those? Do you have like a calendar reminder to launch a bunch of tools manually (my current "solution" as of today), or something else that I don't know about?

Waiting for your feedback 😊

Netlify CMS or Forestry.io?

Cécile Fécherolle — Tue, 24 Mar 2020 21:27:11 +0000

Hey guys!

First post here. I'm a little bit unsure of what comes next but thought asking for advice here would do me good!

I'm doing some ground-laying research for an upcoming personal project (a portfolio + tech blog combination for personal branding and online presence). My "plan" is to create a simple design myself and generate a static website around it, and handle a small blogging environment without too much hassle.

So far I've read a lot about SSG and what revolves around it, and I'd like to go with:

VueJS
Gridsome as SSG tool
Git (of course)
Netlify for deployment, hosting and such, because it honestly looks like a game-changer from what I've read. (also: free plan, yay!)

Knowing all this, I'm trying to figure which Git-based CMS to use for the blogging part (plus portfolio sections content, for easier updates, versionning, and such).

I'm hesitating between Forestry (https://forestry.io/) and Netlify CMS (https://www.netlifycms.org/).

I've read lots of good stuff about both of them, and Netlify CMS seems loosely coupled (if coupled at all) with Netlify, so both options seem reasonable.

I would really appreciate some dev feedbacks on any of these two CMS solutions (pros, cons...) to help me choose!

Apart from that, remarks about the project stack I'm envisioning will be gladly heard, as long as they're polite and constructive!

Thanks in advance, I'm really looking forward to reading from you :)

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What are your tools for keeping dependencies and plugins versions up-to-date?

Netlify CMS or Forestry.io?