Executing packages directly with NPX

Since version 5.2.0, npm comes with a new tool called npx, which allows us to execute packages without installing them globally. This is great for one-time commands.

Let’s say that we have a project with outdated dependencies, and we want to update them:

{
  "dependencies": {
    "express": "^3.21.2",
    "lodash": "^1.3.1"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "standard": "^17.1.0"
  }
}

As we saw in the previous section, we can use the npm outdated command to check which dependencies are outdated, but the upgrade process is a bit more complex as we need to upgrade each dependency manually or modify the package.json directly.

Fortunately, there is a package called npm-check-updates (https://www.npmjs.com/package/npm-check-updates), which allows us to upgrade...