Node update a specific package
I want to update my Browser-sync without updating all my node packages. How can I achieve this? My current version of Browser-sync does not have the Browser-sync GUI :(
├─┬ [email protected]
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Answer
Most of the time you can just npm update (or yarn upgrade) a module to get the latest non breaking changes (respecting the semver specified in your package.json) (<-- read that last part again).
npm update browser-sync
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yarn upgrade browser-sync
- Use
npm|yarn outdatedto see which modules have newer versions- Use
npm update|yarn upgrade(without a package name) to update all modules- Include
--save-dev|--devif you want to save the newer version numbers to your package.json. (NOTE: as of npm v5.0 this is only necessary fordevDependencies).
Major version upgrades:
In your case, it looks like you want the next major version (v2.x.x), which is likely to have breaking changes and you will need to update your app to accommodate those changes. You can install/save the latest 2.x.x by doing:
npm install browser-sync@2 --save-dev
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yarn add browser-sync@2 --dev
...or the latest 2.1.x by doing:
npm install [email protected] --save-dev
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yarn add [email protected] --dev
...or the latest and greatest by doing:
npm install browser-sync@latest --save-dev
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yarn add browser-sync@latest --dev
Note: the last one is no different than doing this:
npm uninstall browser-sync --save-dev npm install browser-sync --save-dev ------- yarn remove browser-sync --dev yarn add browser-sync --devThe
--save-devpart is important. This will uninstall it, remove the value from your package.json, and then reinstall the latest version and save the new value to your package.json.