Hi,
Like most, I use a bunch of external libraries with my projects. Is there an “easy” way to be notified when packages have gone to a new version or do I have to investigate this for every library that I use? Also, is there a “best practices” in terms of when to update to a latest version?
Thanks!
-Eric
If you use NPM package then you can configure to use the latest version but I really wouldn’t do that since that could break the existing code. There is no best practice but one should know the ‘why’ before upgrade. You upgrade when there is a bug/features that you want to use.
Updates within a major version should always be backward compatible though, so I wouldn’t worry about that. Personally, when including a module with npm I’d always leave the package.json entry as is, so that everyone working on the project simply has the latest version.
I like the idea of “knowing the why” as opposed to just updating because there’s a new version out there.
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