
Learn more from the pnpm official website. To use pnpm, open the embedded Terminal ( Alt+F12) and type: To use Yarn, install it as described on the Yarn official website. Note that npm is also installed, so if you are going to use it, you are through with the preliminary steps. Before you startĭownload and install Node.js. IntelliJ IDEA detects projects with Yarn workspaces and indexes all the dependencies that are listed in the package.json files of the workspaces but are located in the root node_modules folder. See npm, Yarn, and pnpm official web sites for details. IntelliJ IDEA parses package.json files, recognizing definitions of scripts, shows scripts in a tree view, and lets you navigate between a script in the tree and its definition in the package.json file. IntelliJ IDEA also lets you run and debug npm, Yarn, and pnpm scripts. You'll need to run npm install to update installed packages and IDEA integrates with the npm, pnpm, Yarn, Yarn 2, and Yarn 3, so you can install, locate, update, and remove packages of reusable code from inside the IDE, in the built-in Terminal. The package npm-check-updates only modifies your package.json file. It's worthwhile noting what packages have been major bumped (those are highlighted in red) as these could cause a break. It should take a minute or so to run and it'll tell you what has been updated.


It allows you to download and execute (the 'X' in npx) a node package temporarily on the fly without having to install it on your machine.įire up your terminal of choice and paste this beautiful simple line and hit enter. I love tools that let require little thinking to set up and use, npx is one of them.

However, if you have a small project with minimal dependencies and you want to risk it you can do it using npm-check-updates.

Major versions (by definition) introduce breaking changes, and NPM, quite rightly, doesn't want to break your project in multiple places in one go. NPM ships with npm update which is excellent for updating minor versions and patches but doesn't handle major versions. I recently wanted/needed to update all my npm dependencies in the package.json file to their latest version.
