Replacements for npm-check

Package manager built-in commands

Modern package managers cover checking for and applying dependency updates out of the box, with no extra dependency.

npm

npm outdated
npm update

pnpm

pnpm outdated
pnpm update --interactive --latest

yarn

yarn upgrade-interactive

bun

bun outdated
bun update --interactive

In monorepos, use --recursive to cover all workspaces, or --filter to target specific ones:

bun outdated --recursive
bun update --interactive --filter '@myorg/*'

taze

If you want more than the built-ins offer (e.g. monorepo-wide updates, grouped output, update modes), taze is a modern, smaller alternative to npm-check.

# check for updates
npx taze

# write updates to package.json
npx taze -w

# include major version bumps
npx taze major -w

NOTE

npm-check's unused-dependency detection is not covered by these commands. You can use knip for that instead.