Interactive update packages command.

[raulfdm]

What is the problem this feature would solve?

Both pnpm and yarn have a command where we can select which dependencies we want to update:

This is extremely useful when we want to update only a few dependencies to be updated in a PR, for example.

References

• https://pnpm.io/cli/update#--interactive--i
• https://classic.yarnpkg.com/lang/en/docs/cli/upgrade-interactive/

What is the feature you are proposing to solve the problem?

Fine-grained way of selecting the dependencies that would be updated by bun.

What alternatives have you considered?

checking dependency by dependency in npm registry what's the latest version and do upgrade manually those versions.

Considerations

For workspaces, it would be cool if we could specify a flag -r that would read all package.json tracked and group them, like pnpm does.

[sirenkovladd]

It can be related #1223

[danielbarion]

it would be nice to have something like this package natively on bun:

https://www.npmjs.com/package/npm-check

[bkniffler]

This seems to work well: https://www.npmjs.com/package/npm-check-updates#npm-check-updates

[raulfdm]

This seems to work well: https://www.npmjs.com/package/npm-check-updates#npm-check-updates

for some reason this package doesn't work well in monorepos controlled by pnpm. I have different outputs when I run:

bunx npm-check-updates -i -ws

vs.

pnpm up -i --latest -r

[3dos]

NCU doesn't work well in monorepos indeed. This is one of the main point stopping me from trying bun in a monorepo. I'd love to see a recursive interactive upgrade command in bun :)

[bkniffler]

FYI @3dos, this solution works very well for monorepo and bun: #1223 (comment)

[PaulRBerg]

Can confirm that npm-check-updates works in a non-monorepo environment. You can run it like this:

bunx npm-check-updates -i

[iamchathu]

This should be an built in solution from bun.

[Jarred-Sumner]

This should be an built in solution from bun.

Yes

[evermake]

You can use taze with any package manager.

[Eveeifyeve]

I want to work on this badly, but I need some help of what I will need possible to do this.

[Eveeifyeve]

You can use taze with any package manager.

Yes you can, but what they mean native to bun.

[cjkihl]

In the meanwhile you can run bunx npm-check-updates -ws --root --format group -i

Breakdown:

Flag	Purpose
-ws	Check all workspaces
--root	Include root package.json
--format group	Group by update type (major/minor/patch)
-i	Interactive mode