How Does Npm Outdated Work

NPM offers the outdated command to print a list of packages which are out of date. The list of outdated packages includes the currently installed version, the wanted version defined within your package. json file and the latest stable version of the module.

How do you update an outdated NPM package?

1. Navigate to the root directory of your project and ensure it contains a package.json file: cd /path/to/project.
2. In your project root directory, run the update command: npm update.
3. To test the update, run the outdated command. There should not be any output.

Is NPM deprecated?

As of February 11, 2020, one of the biggest NPM packages — Request — has been officially deprecated. This popular library has been around for more than a decade, with the first version released in 2009. Since then, it has received more than 16 million weekly downloads and more than 47,000 libraries are dependent on it.