Upgrade Node Modules To Their Latest Versions With NPM 7

### Check What's Available For Update

Code

npm outdated

### For Minor And Patch Version Upgrades

Code

npx npm-check-updates --target minor --upgrade; npm install

This will update versions in your package.json and package-lock.json files for modules starting with `~` and `^` (i.e. the minor and patch versions)

### For Major Versions

Do a one time install of:

Code

npm install -g npm-check-updates

Then run these two commands:

Code

ncu -u
npm update

The `ncu -u` command updates the package.json so that when you run `npm update` it pulls the new major versions.

### Notes

- The official node documentation says to use `npm update` for minor versions and that "Since npm version 5.0.0, npm update will update the package.json with the updated version. Use npm update --no-save to not update package.json."

This is not the case in version 7. See this issue for reference.

- The `npm update` command does update `package-lock.json`. I don't know if it matters programmatically that the `package.json` file isn't updated, but it throws me off. That's what lead me to search for the above solution. (Actually, I'm not sure if it updated `package-lock.json`. Your milage may vary.)

- The docs page is currently the third search result for me. The first two are from 2015 and 2017, respectively and list even more outdated methods.

- Putting this in my grimoire but also linking to the docs in hopes that will raise it in the search results (and that it'll be corrected for v7).