Dependabot is an automation service that will automatically create PRs to keep your projects' dependencies up to date, and it is fucking wonderful....
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I discovered since the aquisition you can also configure the automatic PRs for security updates directly in Github:
help.github.com/en/articles/config...
I believe it uses Dependabot still and can be a lower friction avenue for getting some of these benefits.
We use it in our repo, here's an example:
Bumps aws-sdk-lambda from 1.25.0 to 1.26.0.
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Sourced from aws-sdk-lambda's changelog.
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We have been on it for a while and really love it!
Do you have a strategy for keeping up with Dependabot's PRs? Something like a team member or a daily shared task to manage the work?
We restrict it to weekly PRs, which helps batch things better. We don't have to have much of a strategy otherwise because we have a pretty well-looked-after CI process and it's not too much of a burden on the rest of our setup.
Right on. I think I'll be switching to a weekly cadence for all of my projects as well. A well-looked-after CI process is something I need more of in my life 👀
Installed the shit out of this just now. LOVE it. Thank you so much!
You're welcome! I'm on an install-spree myself. I'm going to need someone to make a @dependabot-bot, to manage bot-related chores for me 🤖📋
I have just started to use this, it also provides updates lower-level dependencies which are usually not in the "package.json". How safe it is to rely on the compatibility mentioned by the bot?