How "npm update" command works?

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I got 3 dependencies on my project, when I run npm update it doesn't update the version of one dependency (axios). Here is my package.json file:

{
  ...
  "dependencies": {
    "axios": "^0.25.0",
    "date-fns": "^2.26.0",
    "lodash": "^4.17.15"
  }
}

When I enter the npm update or npm update --save command, this is my actual result:

{
  ...
  "dependencies": {
    "axios": "^0.25.0",
    "date-fns": "^2.29.1",
    "lodash": "^4.17.21"
  }
}

As I can see, the axios package doesn't get updated. My expected result is to get the axios package at version 0.27.2 (latest at this day).

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3 Answers

From docs

Caret Ranges ^1.2.3 ^0.2.5 ^0.0.4

Allows changes that do not modify the left-most non-zero element in the [major, minor, patch] tuple.

Since your axios dependency is defined as ^0.25.0, with its minor version 25 being the left-most non-zero element, it will allow update to 0.25.X, but not to 0.27.0.

Either change the dependency in your package.json, or let npm do it. This should install the newest version:

npm install axios@* --save
user_2404430

You can use npm update -d or npm update --save-dev to update developer dependencies. (Dependencies used in development) Using npm update only would ignore the dev dependencies.

user_195237170

You can now use the command npm install axios and it will automatically update axios in your package.json

user_142318800
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