ZPDer
Dev tools
dependency update notifier
SHOW HN2016
27points
21comments
#1,041of 2,264 in 2016
Top 46%of 2016 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
2 positive, 5 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 1 critical, out of 9 comments about the project. Thread score +0.10.
Idea: 0 for, 1 againstDocs: 1 for, 0 againstExecution: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Good execution
From 1 comment
Good execution. Does this scan private repos?
sillysaurus3 on HN
Objections
Cannot connect private repos without granting access to all code
From 1 comment
Love this idea, but can't connect a private repo to grant access to all our code. Any plans to allow uploading a package.json to achieve the same thing (understanding that it's…
rickhanlonii on HN
Requests
Configurable digest frequency instead of per-upgrade emails
From 2 comments
How often does it send an email, and where is the changelog pulled from? So if 10 things update tomorrow will it get 10 emails? Can it be setup to run weekly or longer?
Klathmon on HNMy only request is that the email "digest" be configurable. Being able to set this up to notify me once per week, or even once per month would be awesome. I could spend that one…
Klathmon on HN
Support uploading a package.json instead of repo access
From 1 comment
Love this idea, but can't connect a private repo to grant access to all our code. Any plans to allow uploading a package.json to achieve the same thing (understanding that it's…
rickhanlonii on HN
Questions
Does it scan private repos?
From 1 comment
Good execution. Does this scan private repos?
sillysaurus3 on HN
How often does it send emails and where is the changelog from?
From 1 comment
How often does it send an email, and where is the changelog pulled from? So if 10 things update tomorrow will it get 10 emails? Can it be setup to run weekly or longer?
Klathmon on HN
Alternatives named
Greenkeeper
From 3 comments
Seems like https://greenkeeper.io/ is a similar idea with more polish (and with paid options). No affiliation, I've just seen GreenKeeper in action on the Kube Dashboard repo.
colemickens on HN+1 for this. We've been using Greenkeeper on a number of projects and it's amazing!
chrisfosterelli on HNYes, this. Greenkeeper is excellent and produced by a great team.
__derek__ on HN
dependencyci.com
From 1 comment
Obligatory: dependencyci.com, which does the a very similar thing.
regularfry on HN
npm-check
From 1 comment
I run 'npm-check -u' [1] every morning on my develop branch and then I run my tests. I never thought about automating that part of my workflow. Sadly I don't host on GitHub. 1.…
simlevesque on HN