In my project, the previous developers have put various of JS packages locally, such as chart.js
, jquery.block-ui.js
, modernizr.js
, axios.js
, vue.js
, etc. I'm trying to manage them using NPM. Problem is, they are all old versions.
Q1: how do I know if they are Semver
so it's safe to upgrade them to the latest minor version? I did my research for each package but it's troublesome to look into each one and some of them have very little information about it. Is there somewhere stating all Semvered
JS packages?
Q2: for jquery.block-ui.js
, it is minified, in the file, there is no information about the version number, in this case, is it possible to find out what version it is thus if it's safe to upgrade?
(note: I'm keeping this answer up for future people who had sensible predecessors and are looking for help. I will edit again if I think of something that will help someone who's previous dev copied in their files by hand)
Firstly, use npm outdated
. This will check for any outdated packages. Nothing to be gained from curing the healthy.
Second, as the comment says about semvered packages, you never know. That said, I have found a semi-useful resource here, its a regex that returns semvered version numbers as matches.
npm outdated
should return a table stating version numbers. Also see this question about other possible ways to find a JQuery version number.Here is the example output they gave for npm outdated
:
Package Current Wanted Latest Location
glob 5.0.15 5.0.15 6.0.1 test-outdated-output
nothingness 0.0.3 git git test-outdated-output
npm 3.5.1 3.5.2 3.5.1 test-outdated-output
local-dev 0.0.3 linked linked test-outdated-output
once 1.3.2 1.3.3 1.3.3 test-outdated-output
I hope this helps. It may not. Like the comments say, you can never be sure so the surest way is to go through them one at a time and see what breaks