Web Developers: how do you keep dependencies up-to-date? 🍏
My favorite recipe so far:
1. Schedule 1h/week for this
2. Be the champion of this initiative
3. Use libyear to identify what to upgrade
4. Track & share progress over time — use
corgibytes/freshli-cli for that 😉
Any other tool I should be aware of? Any tips?
Fire away!
@nicoespeon @gdinwiddie: GitHub is starting to have some helpful features as well.
I also started looking real hard at how much I actually use the capabilities of the packages and removing them in favor of using language features or taking a bit of the logic…I find it makes me favor smaller, loosely coupled packages when I do have them.
@itsjoshbruce @gdinwiddie a good way to manage dependencies is to have fewer dependencies indeed!
Great point Josh 👍
@nicoespeon @itsjoshbruce
Back when open source code was delivered on floppy disks (e.g., The C Users Group), I often included it as source code in my project. I sometimes paid extra (much extra) for a source license to a library I used, in case the startup company selling it suddenly disappeared.
Watching out for dependencies is very good advice, indeed.
Nicolas Carlo
Jeremy Baumont 
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Josh Bruce
George Dinwiddie