TIL: How to update all package.json dependencies at once
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Short howto: update all npm dependencies using jq and xargs
Dependencies node.js and npm (obviously) jq xargs (may needs to be installed manually) Update all dependencies to their latest version: cat package.json | \ jq -r '.dependencies | keys[]' | \ xargs -I {} npm i -S {}@latest Update all devDependencies to their latest version: cat package.json | \ jq -r '.devDependencies | keys[]' | \ xargs -I {} npm i -S {}@latest Alias the commands for easier reuse To reuse the commands without having to remember them just put them into your .