Updating packages downloaded from the registry

Updating local and global packages you downloaded from the registry helps keep your code and tools stable, usable, and secure.

Updating local packages

We recommend regularly updating the local packages your project depends on to improve your code as improvements to its dependencies are made.

1. Navigate to the root directory of your project and ensure it contains a package.json file:

   cd /path/to/project

2. In your project root directory, run the update command:

   npm update

3. To test the update, run the outdated command. There should not be any output.

   npm outdated

Updating globally-installed packages

Determining which global packages need updating

To see which global packages need to be updated, on the command line, run:

Updating a single global package

To update a single global package, on the command line, run:

Updating all globally-installed packages

To update all global packages, on the command line, run:

Resources

CLI commands

• npm-update
• npm-outdated

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