How I keep everything up to date
I get asked a lot of questions all the time. One of the most returning questions is how I keep my projects, dev env and repositories up to date. I thought it would be a good idea to write a little blog post about it, so I can point people to it.
Overall updates
I have a script that I run every now and then to update all my packages, tools and dependencies. It’s a combination of updating brew packages, gcloud, NPM packages, PNPM, composer packages (yes, I’ve used my fair amount of PHP) and Bun.
If I’m missing something here, let me know! I’d love some thoughts!
echo 'updating brew packages'
brew update
echo 'upgrading brew packages'
brew upgrade
echo 'updating gcloud'
gcloud components update
echo 'update NPM packages'
npm update -g
echo 'update PNPM'
pnpm add -g pnpm@latest
echo 'update composer packages'
composer global update
echo 'updating Bun'
bun upgrade
Here is a Gist of my overall update script
Upgrade my Astro project repos
I have a lot of Astro projects. Keeping them all up to date, is a very annoying and time consuming task. That’s why I came up with a really easy (and kinda stupid) solution. I have a nightly GitHub action that runs a script to update all my Astro projects. It’s a simple script that runs pnpm dlx @astrojs/upgrade
and creates a PR with the changes and assigns me, that way I get it in my notifications.
In the case you trust your tech good enough, you can commit straight to main, but I like to review the changes first.
name: nightly
on:
schedule:
- cron: '0 0 * * *'
jobs:
upgrade:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
env:
NODE_OPTIONS: '--max_old_space_size=4096'
steps:
- name: Checkout
uses: actions/checkout@v3
- name: Setup pnpm
uses: pnpm/action-setup@v2
with:
version: 8
- name: Setup Node
uses: actions/setup-node@v3
with:
node-version: 18
cache: pnpm
- name: Install dependencies
run: pnpm install
- name: Upgrade Astro
run: pnpm dlx @astrojs/upgrade --yes
- name: PR Changes
uses: peter-evans/create-pull-request@v4
with:
branch: ci/update-astro
commit-message: 'ci: update Astro'
assignees: eliancodes
title: 'ci: update Astro'
body: Update Astro and packages to latest version
labels: ci
Here is a Gist of my nightly “update Astro” script
Written by Elian Van Cutsem
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