Thanks for the response, That script seems to have some of the same issues I was complaining about (re-downloads, builds, installs every package, taking lots of time, not just those that have changed), and also won't get all updates in our case (if I push an update to package C and A depends on B depends on C, I expect to get the new version of C deployed when I update A, or, in other words, if I do an update, I expect to end up in exactly the same state that a fresh install or "rm -r node_modules;npm install" would put me in), but otherwise is basically the same as the shell command I mentioned (minus the filtering on only those that need it).
I guess I'm using npm version 1.4.x, not 2, but it doesn't seem to have the issues referenced in the git issue (empirically, it appears to install the latest version matching semver, not the globally latest version as is complained about in the issues - that would be quite problematic). For now, I guess we'll just use the command I referenced earlier, but it's good to hear people are thinking about making this process better in the future. On Thursday, December 11, 2014 6:17:51 PM UTC-8, Forrest L Norvell wrote: > > Read npm/npm#6247 <https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/6247> for > information on why using npm update is generally a bad idea. As should be > clear, the npm CLI team intends to fix its issues sometime in the near to > medium term. > > Until then, I put together a small script > <https://gist.github.com/othiym23/4ac31155da23962afd0e> that allows you > to update all your global packages; it shouldn’t be very difficult to adapt > for use on a per-application basis. > > F > > > On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 3:27 PM, Jimb Esser <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> So, for one of our projects, we've moved to having a bunch of npm modules >> on an internal registry for various sub-parts of our projects and we're >> running into some trouble that seems like it would generally be an issue. >> Our primary package.json has a bunch of explicit version number >> dependencies (3rd party modules that we don't want changing out from under >> us unknowingly), and a bunch of ~version dependencies (mostly for internal >> packages which are updated daily). >> >> So, the problem is, now after every "git pull", we need to do an "npm >> update" to get all of the related module changes, but "npm update" is >> really slow, as it appears to re-download and re-install *every* package, >> not just those that have updated versions available. "npm install" is fast >> (and is what we were used to doing), and that updates all of the packages >> for which we explicitly bumped the version number, but doesn't update >> packages with the ~version number dependencies that have had a new version >> published recently. I saw there's an "npm outdated" command which, very >> quickly, tells us exactly which packages would actually need to get >> updated, but I cannot find any npm command that will just update what needs >> to be updated without spending lots of time re-downloading/building/etc all >> of our "static" dependencies. >> >> I did put together this, uh, simple command to do what we need >> efficiently, but it seems like there should be a better way (within npm)! >> npm outdated --parseable | cut -f 2-3 -d : | grep -ve "^\(.*\):\\1$" | >> cut -f 1 -d @ | xargs npm update >> >> -- >> Job board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ >> New group rules: >> https://gist.github.com/othiym23/9886289#file-moderation-policy-md >> Old group rules: >> https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "nodejs" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> <javascript:>. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nodejs/71d4d5fb-61e6-4d72-9f84-2a09258293a7%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nodejs/71d4d5fb-61e6-4d72-9f84-2a09258293a7%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- Job board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ New group rules: https://gist.github.com/othiym23/9886289#file-moderation-policy-md Old group rules: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nodejs/2e95a5a0-cb9f-4829-bbce-9e6faea1b071%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
