Idea: optionally persist updated versions to bower.json

[homerjam]

Similar to the way this works https://www.npmjs.com/package/npm-check-updates

[sapegin]

Good idea for pull request.

[sapegin]

Just to clarify: this issue is about making updating of bower.json optional. If bower-update doesn’t update it (as was the case in #14) then it’s a bug and should be reported.

[catdadcode]

I too expected this to actually update the versions in bower.json like npm-check-updates. This would be far more useful if it did that :)

[sapegin]

@chevex What do you mean by “actually update”?

[catdadcode]

Persist the latest version numbers to bower.json, like the way npm-check-updates does to package.json.

[sapegin]

That’s what bower-update do.

[catdadcode]

So after running it, deleting bower_components, and running "bower install" I should have the latest versions of the dependencies? Maybe I did something wrong...

[catdadcode]

I will try it again when I am at a computer in an hour.

[sapegin]

You don’t need to remove the folder and run bower install. Just run bower-update.

https://github.com/sapegin/bower-update/pull/14#issuecomment-94759494