Update a local package - npm

Summary

To check for outdated packages, enter the following command in your terminal:

npm outdated

To update all of your outdated packages, enter the following command in your terminal:

npm update

To update a single outdated package, enter the following command in your terminal:

npm update package-name

Details

Check for outdated packages

Before updating any packages, you should first check which packages are outdated. To do this, enter the following command in your terminal:

npm outdated

If you have any outdated packages, you should see something like the following print out. In my case, my browser-sync package is out-of-date.

Package       Current  Wanted  Latest  Location
browser-sync   2.26.5  2.26.7  2.26.7  my-project

Update a single local package

If you want to update a single package, you can add the name of the package that you want to update to the command. In my example, if I want to update browser-sync then I would enter the following command in my terminal:

npm update browser-sync

After running the update command, you can run the npm outdated command one more time to make sure the package was updated. If you updated a single package, that package shouldn’t appear in the list, and if all of your packages are up-to-date, you shouldn’t see anything print out at all.

Update all local packages

If you want to update all of your outdated packages, enter the following command in your terminal:

npm update

Reference

Updating packages downloaded from the registry | npm Documentation

npm-update | npm Documentation

Update a local package – npm