npm commands you may not know, but useful!!!

0xkoji

0xkoji

Posted on June 13, 2019

npm commands you may not know, but useful!!!

npm home packageName

This command open package's home page.

$ npm home express
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npm ls --depth 0

List packages you installed

$ npm ls --depth 0
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npm prune

This command will remove packages which are not in package.json, so this will be helpful to keep your project clean.

$ npm prune
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npm outdated

This command checks the latest version of packages you installed

$ npm outdated

styled-components             4.2.0    4.3.1    4.3.1  project_name
stylelint                    10.0.1   10.1.0   10.1.0  project_name
three                       0.104.0  0.104.0  0.105.2  project_name
ts-loader                     5.4.5    5.4.5    6.0.2  project_name
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Got great suggestion from M. Langhard a.k.a @riscie
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https://github.com/tjunnone/npm-check-updates

We can check outdated packages one word and update with an option which is pretty easy.

$ ncu

$ ncu -u 
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0xkoji
0xkoji

Posted on June 13, 2019

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