It's odd that this isn't built into #npm: update all packages to their latest versions
```
npx npm-check-updates -u
```
npm-check-updates
Find newer versions of dependencies than what your package.json allows. Latest version: 18.3.0, last published: 6 days ago. Start using npm-check-updates in your project by running `npm i npm-check-updates`. There are 594 other projects in the npm registry using npm-check-updates.