I have some globally installed packages and I want to update some of them. I checked with
$ npm outdated -g
Package Current Wanted Latest Location
eslint 5.16.0 5.16.0 6.8.0 global
jshint 2.10.2 2.11.0 2.11.0 global
n 2.1.12 2.1.12 6.2.0 global
npx 10.2.0 10.2.2 10.2.2 global
I tried
$ npm update -g eslint --dd
but I got the message
outdated not updating eslint because it's currently at the maximum version that matches its specified semver range
I checked the documentation with
$ npm help outdated
- wanted is the maximum version of the package that satisfies the semver range specified in package.json. If there's no available semver range (i.e. you're running npm outdated --global, or the package isn't included in package.json), then wanted shows the currently-installed version.
But that's obviously not true because
$ npm update -g jshint
worked and the values of Current and Wanted for the package jshint were different before the update. How is the value of wanted actually defined?
Sidequestion: What is the npm-way to update all outdated packages and what is the npm-way to update one package?
EDIT:
To check if it's related to major and minor version numbers I installed
$ npm install -g [email protected]
$ npm install -g [email protected]
$ npm install -g [email protected]
and I updated the other packages. Now the output is
$ npm outdated -g
Package Current Wanted Latest Location
eslint 6.7.0 6.8.0 6.8.0 global
generator-wombytes-cpp 0.2.0 0.2.0 0.3.0 global
n 6.1.0 6.2.0 6.2.0 global
There is a different behavior for these packages.