Npm-check-updates: Ignore pinned versions

[shiftgeist]

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• node version: 12.4.0

• npm version: 6.10.0
• npm-check-updates version: 3.1.17

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First of all: Big props!

Second here is an example of an ncu output:

 core-js                      ^2.6.9  →   ^3.1.4 
 tslib                        ^1.9.0  →  ^1.10.0 
 karma-jasmine                ~1.1.2  →   ~2.0.1 
 karma-jasmine-html-reporter  ^0.2.2  →   ^1.4.2 
 protractor                    5.4.0  →    6.0.0 
 ts-node                      ~7.0.0  →   ~8.3.0 
 typescript                    3.4.1  →    3.5.3 

Suggests the update of typescript and protractor.

It would be helpful to ignore pinned packages (no ~ or ^).

Is this intentional and is there another way to to this?

[stoically]

Please see https://github.com/tjunnone/npm-check-updates/issues/540#issuecomment-494125271

You could use the ncu -x option.

[shiftgeist]

Thanks!

[Primajin]

Unearthing this old thread here - wouldn't it be beneficial to have an option to ignore pinned versions automatically?
I would like to avoid running ncu then look at all the versions make a note on the pinned ones and then run ncu again with excluding the pinned versions one by one manually.
I guess going the other way round and filtering for regex "starts with ~ or ^" won't work either since the filter only checks the name afterwards, right?

[raineorshine]

I guess going the other way round and filtering for regex "starts with ~ or ^" won't work either since the filter only checks the name afterwards, right?

I think it would be reasonable to have an equivalent of filter and reject that works on the version, say filter-version and reject-version. Would that work for you?

[Primajin]

Thanks @raineorshine for considering! Hmm, how would that work? With version numbers or semver indicators?

[raineorshine]

Regex on the entire dependency value as listed in your package.json, e.g. "^6.0.0"

[Primajin]

Ahh sweet so then I would say filter-version regex starts with ^ or ~ to ultimately get everything but pinned versions 👍

[raineorshine]

Published in v10.2.0. Try it out!

ncu --filterVersion "/^[~^]/"

This includes less than, greater than, exact ranges, and .x:

ncu --filterVersion "/^[~^<>]| - |\.x$/"

[Primajin]

This is incredible. Thank you so much for this amazing fast feature implementation! ❤️🚀

[Primajin]

Works perfectly!