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Discussion on: One-liner to update npm dependency packages to the latest version using jq

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Richard Schloss • Edited

How about npm update and npm update --dev? (ref)

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Takuya Matsuyama

Because it does not always update packages to the latest versions if those are caret/tilde dependencies:

docs.npmjs.com/cli-commands/update...

It means that npm update tries to update while keep satisfying app's package dependencies.