hotdogs

Simple, zero-dependency acorn sized (~3kB) package.json dependency updater with the power of bun

Keep your dogs bunned and steamy with the hotdogs CLI.

# In your shell
# Print the latest dependencies 👀
npx hotdogs
pnpm dlx hotdogs
yarn dlx hotdogs
bunx hotdogs

# or write them to package.json 📝
npx hotdogs -w
pnpm dlx hotdogs -w
yarn dlx hotdogs -w
bunx hotdogs -w

# or if you install globally 🌐
npm i -g hotdogs
hotdogs

# or save a few keystrokes ⌨️
bun i -g hotdogs

# or if it is a package.json dependency and `./node_modules/.bin` is in your $PATH 😵‍💫
npm i -D hotdogs # or without -D
hotdogs

// or as a script in your package json 📦
{
  "scripts": {
    "some-name-check-deps": "bunx hotdogs",
    "some-name-update-deps": "bunx hotdogs -w"
  }
}

📄 About

Usage

hotdogs is a CLI tool made to quickly update your package.json dependencies to their latest versions.

• Updates package versions to the latest tag
• Retains version specifiers such as ~ ^
• (Planned) specify the dist-tag targets you wish to update to with --tag i.e. hotdogs -w --tag="canary,next"

Personally, I find this pairs well if you use exact versions (no ^ ~) in your package.json.

Limitations

hotdogs only updates package.json dependencies to their latest version, as specified by their latest tag on the NPM registry (or the tags and fallbacks you specify).

For now, the tool was designed explicitly for this purpose. If this does not suit your use case, I'd highly recommend some other tools which can handle updating to scopes you desire, such as major / minor / patch etc.

🔧 Options

Options (denoted by {opt}) can be specified by passing:

• Most options:

  • -{opt} or --{opt}
  • -{opt} -{opt} or --{opt} --{opt}
  • -{opt}{opt} or --{opt}{opt}

• -i and -x:

  • These options must be delimited in the args on their own, for example:

    -i=package1 -{otheropts} or --i=package1

    -x=package1 -{otheropts} or --x=package1

  • Also, they can have quotes ' " or none at all:

    -i=package1 or -i='package1' or -i="package1"

    -x=package1 or -x='package1' or -x="package1"

  • Finally, they use , (no space!) to delimit which package names to pass:

    -i=package1,package2,package3

    -x=package1,package2,package3

Usage

### -d, -v: Show more detailed messaging
hotdogs -d
hotdogs -v

### -F: Disable color formatting
hotdogs -F

### -h: Show help message.
hotdogs -h

### -i: Specify comma `,` delimited list of dependencies to include. Each string is matched against the entire dependency's name. Can include `'` or `"` around the list if you want.
hotdogs -i=solid # Would include 'solid-js', '@solidjs/meta', 'eslint-plugin-solid' etc.
hotdogs -i=solid,unocss # Would include 'solid-js', '@solid...', 'unocss', '@unocss/reset', etc.
# Different command formatting, if desired:
hotdogs -i="solid,unocss"
hotdogs -i='solid,unocss'


### -w: Write found updates to `package.json`. By default, `hotdogs` does not do anything to it.
hotdogs -w

### -x: Specify comma `,` delimited list of dependencies to exclude. Each string is matched against the entire depenency's name. Can include `'` or `"` around the list if you want.
hotdogs -x=eslint # Would exclude 'eslint', '@typescript-eslint/...', 'prettier-eslint` etc.
hotdogs -x=eslint,@fortawesome # Would exclude 'eslint', '@typescript-eslint/...', '@fortawesome/fontawesome-...' etc.
# Different command formatting, if desired:
hotdogs -x="eslint"
hotdogs -x='eslint,@fortawesome'

✨ Alternatives

hotdogs was inspired by these other excellent package update managers:

• taze
• npm-check-updates

Please check them out! Especially if hotdogs doesn't fit your use case! 😁