[rush] [discussion] How to update dependency versions?

[trusktr]

The docs only say

Today, Rush does not yet have an integrated equivalent of npm update or npm-check-updates. So you if you want to update the SemVer patterns across all your package.json files, you’ll need to use an external tool.

But that isn't too clear. Do we just run rush update after this, and all is taken care of?

At the moment I can not run rush update with guarantee of success, so I run rush purge, delete other files rush purge doesn't delete, and then finally run rush update.

But if I didn't have to do all that, I'm wondering if rush update should be enough after manual update of package.json. Even if it is that simple, it'll be worth adding to the docs.

[ksjogo]

I also would be interested on some tool listing all outdated dependencies.
Is there some 'external tool' already doing that?

[sod]

We use https://yarnpkg.com/package/npm-check-updates, wrapped in a script to iterate over all directories with a package.json

[ujwal-setlur]

Something like the following will do the job:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

packages=$(rush list -p --json | jq -r '. | .projects[] | .name + " " + .path + "/"')

echo "${packages}" | awk '{print $2 "package.json"}' | xargs -n 1 -x ncu "${@}" --packageFile

But I agree it would be good to have it integrated into rush

[seanpoulter-foci]

Anyone know if things have changed over the last 2 years? I'm also looking for the right command to pnpm update for browserslist/caniuse-lite.