Updates all minor updates and patches. Useful if all versions in a project are exact.

update_deps.sh

PACKAGES_TO_UPDATE=()

function get_major_version { echo $(echo $1 | grep -o -E '^[0-9]{1,2}'); }

# https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1527049/how-can-i-join-elements-of-an-array-in-bash
function join_by { local d=$1; shift; echo -n "$1"; shift; printf "%s" "${@/#/$d}"; }

{
  while read package current wanted latest location
    do
      # Filter out major updates.
      if [ "$(get_major_version $current)" = "$(get_major_version $latest)" ]; then
        PACKAGES_TO_UPDATE+=("${package}@latest")
      fi
  done
} < <(npm outdated | awk 'NR>1')

npm install "${PACKAGES_TO_UPDATE[@]}"