Updating Gulp plugins

dependencies npm yeoman gulp yeoman-generator
zok picture zok · Nov 19, 2014 · Viewed 7.5k times · Source

When starting a project using a Yeoman generator, say, generator-gulp-webapp, you get a package.json file with all the dependencies.

Is it recommended to update all or any of these dependencies (ex: gulp-useref, gulp-ruby-sass, gulp-bower-files, etc)? What are the implications of doing or not doing so?

Answer

aneeshjajodia picture aneeshjajodia · Nov 19, 2014

It is always necessary to update your plugins, as the syntax keeps changing as and then you keep going ahead.

Here’s what I recommend to fix it:

1) npm install -g npm-check-updates

2) npm-check-updates -u

3) rm -fr node_modules

4) npm install

Basically this installs npm-check-updates globally, runs it against your package.json and updates the dependency versions. Then you just delete the node modules folder and re-install.

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