Update multiple dependencies with Bower

Question

I listed (and/or installed) several dependencies with Bower inside the bower.json file and/or with

bower install https://github.com/username/project.git

That worked fine.

Now I can list all them with

bower list

and then I can pick the name of each dependency of my project and run

bower update dependency-name

Question: How can I bulk update all of them? Or do I have to write a shell script to loop through and update them?

score 79 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 07 '13 at 15:33

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You can update all by running bower update.

Use the -h flag on any command to see how you can use it. Eg bower update -h.

answered Aug 07 '13 at 15:33

Sindre Sorhus

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Finally! Thanks! ... had overread the last help line that states that. – kaiser Aug 07 '13 at 16:22
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Not worked for me. The bootstrap version for example is in 3.2.0 version. I've tried do bower update bootstrap but it not updates to 3.3.0 that is the current one. – Shad Oct 30 '14 at 23:06
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did you specify a version number in your bower.json? – Nict Nov 26 '14 at 17:44
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Note that doing this, it will respect the versions specified in your file. If your specified Boostrap version is `~3.2.0`, it will never update to 3.3. If you want something more violent, you could use something like https://www.npmjs.com/package/bower-update-all – Deurco Sep 17 '15 at 10:22
@Deurco How might one force an update to the latest when you have the ~ in use? – JagWire Sep 28 '15 at 13:37
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@JagWire By reinstalling the package. Simply run `bower install {package-name} --save` and the version in `bower.json` will be ignored. That is what [bower-update-all](https://www.npmjs.com/package/bower-update-all) does, for each of your packages, in one command (of course, this could break your app, since it could apply versions with breaking changes). – Deurco Sep 28 '15 at 13:54
`-h` stands for **help**, to force update use `--force-latest` or `-F` – Leo Caseiro Apr 21 '16 at 06:06

Ricardo Rivas · Answer 2 · 2014-12-09T16:35:07.160

This process is a little slow but is secure because you can realize when your app gets broken.

lets say that you want to update bootstrap you just need to run bower install --save bootstrap and you bower.json file will be updated

Before

 {
   "name": "my-awesome-app",
   "version": "0.0.0",
   "dependencies": {
     "bootstrap": "~3.0.0",
     "requirejs": "~2.1.11",
     "modernizr": "~2.8.2",
     "jquery": "~2.1.1",
     "underscore-amd": "~1.5.2",
     "backbone-amd": "~1.1.0",                                                                                                                                                
     "require-handlebars-plugin": "~0.8.0"
   }
 }

After

 {
   "name": "my-awesome-app",
   "version": "0.0.0",
   "dependencies": {
     "bootstrap": "~3.3.1",
     "requirejs": "~2.1.11",
     "modernizr": "~2.8.2",
     "jquery": "~2.1.1",
     "underscore-amd": "~1.5.2",
     "backbone-amd": "~1.1.0",                                                                                                                                                
     "require-handlebars-plugin": "~0.8.0"
   }
 }

No, `npm install --save bootstrap` will load the latest tag of bootstrap and save it to the deps. At the time writing this it will be `"bootstrap": "~3.2.0"` — kernel, Oct 21 '14 at 13:05

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 13 '18 at 12:26

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Used bower-update-all to update all bower dependencies in bower.json, as follows:

npm install -g bower-update-all
bower-update-all

answered Mar 13 '18 at 12:26

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score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Mar 16 '17 at 18:31

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If you want to force all dependencies to update you can use bower install --save --force. This is the same as bower install --save [dep1] [dep2] ...

The short version is bower i -S -f

answered Mar 16 '17 at 18:31

Jacob Phillips

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