Synopsis
npm outdated [<package-spec> ...]
Description
This command will check the registry to see if any (or, specific) installed
packages are currently outdated.
By default, only the direct dependencies of the root project and direct
dependencies of your configured workspaces are shown.
Use --all
to find all outdated meta-dependencies as well.
In the output:
wanted
is the maximum version of the package that satisfies the semver
range specified in package.json
. If there's no available semver range
(i.e. you're running npm outdated --global
, or the package isn't
included in package.json
), then wanted
shows the currently-installed
version.
latest
is the version of the package tagged as latest in the registry.
Running npm publish
with no special configuration will publish the
package with a dist-tag of latest
. This may or may not be the maximum
version of the package, or the most-recently published version of the
package, depending on how the package's developer manages the latest
dist-tag.
location
is where in the physical tree the package is located.
depended by
shows which package depends on the displayed dependency
package type
(when using --long
/ -l
) tells you whether this
package is a dependency
or a dev/peer/optional dependency. Packages not
included in package.json
are always marked dependencies
.
homepage
(when using --long
/ -l
) is the homepage
value contained
in the package's packument
- Red means there's a newer version matching your semver requirements, so
you should update now.
- Yellow indicates that there's a newer version above your semver
requirements (usually new major, or new 0.x minor) so proceed with
caution.
An example
$ npm outdated
Package Current Wanted Latest Location Depended by
glob 5.0.15 5.0.15 6.0.1 node_modules/glob dependent-package-name
nothingness 0.0.3 git git node_modules/nothingness dependent-package-name
npm 3.5.1 3.5.2 3.5.1 node_modules/npm dependent-package-name
local-dev 0.0.3 linked linked local-dev dependent-package-name
once 1.3.2 1.3.3 1.3.3 node_modules/once dependent-package-name
With these dependencies
:
{
"glob": "^5.0.15",
"nothingness": "github:othiym23/nothingness#master",
"npm": "^3.5.1",
"once": "^1.3.1"
}
A few things to note:
glob
requires ^5
, which prevents npm from installing glob@6
, which
is outside the semver range.
- Git dependencies will always be reinstalled, because of how they're
specified. The installed committish might satisfy the dependency
specifier (if it's something immutable, like a commit SHA), or it might
not, so
npm outdated
and npm update
have to fetch Git repos to check.
This is why currently doing a reinstall of a Git dependency always forces
a new clone and install.
npm@3.5.2
is marked as "wanted", but "latest" is npm@3.5.1
because
npm uses dist-tags to manage its latest
and next
release channels.
npm update
will install the newest version, but npm install npm
(with no semver range) will install whatever's tagged as latest
.
once
is just plain out of date. Reinstalling node_modules
from
scratch or running npm update
will bring it up to spec.
Configuration
all
- Default: false
- Type: Boolean
When running npm outdated
and npm ls
, setting --all
will show all
outdated or installed packages, rather than only those directly depended
upon by the current project.
json
- Default: false
- Type: Boolean
Whether or not to output JSON data, rather than the normal output.
- In
npm pkg set
it enables parsing set values with JSON.parse() before
saving them to your package.json
.
Not supported by all npm commands.
long
- Default: false
- Type: Boolean
Show extended information in ls
, search
, and help-search
.
parseable
- Default: false
- Type: Boolean
Output parseable results from commands that write to standard output. For
npm search
, this will be tab-separated table format.
global
- Default: false
- Type: Boolean
Operates in "global" mode, so that packages are installed into the prefix
folder instead of the current working directory. See
folders for more on the differences in behavior.
- packages are installed into the
{prefix}/lib/node_modules
folder, instead
of the current working directory.
- bin files are linked to
{prefix}/bin
- man pages are linked to
{prefix}/share/man
workspace
- Default:
- Type: String (can be set multiple times)
Enable running a command in the context of the configured workspaces of the
current project while filtering by running only the workspaces defined by
this configuration option.
Valid values for the workspace
config are either:
- Workspace names
- Path to a workspace directory
- Path to a parent workspace directory (will result in selecting all
workspaces within that folder)
When set for the npm init
command, this may be set to the folder of a
workspace which does not yet exist, to create the folder and set it up as a
brand new workspace within the project.
This value is not exported to the environment for child processes.
See Also