Install the npm-check-updates module during provisioning

[TobiasBg]

See https://www.npmjs.org/package/npm-check-updates
The module is useful to quickly check for updated Grunt modules in a package.json.

Used by @ocean90 as well: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/27340#comment:16 :-)

[jeremyfelt]

Will this modify anything else during provisioning or does it make the module available to whoever wants to run it manually?

[TobiasBg]

It will just make npm-check-updates available on the command line -- so that it can be used in folders that have a package.json.
A plain npm-check-updates will check all modules in the package.json for updated versions and print the results to the command line. npm-check-updates -u would update the version numbers in the package.json, taking away that manual step.

[aaronjorbin]

You can also just use npm outdated --depth 0 to find out if any of your modules are outdated and that comes preinstalled with node.

[TobiasBg]

Neat, thanks for that, @aaronjorbin! Can that also update my package.json somehow?

[jeremyfelt]

I used this the other day on another project to update my package.json and it made me very happy. Don't see any downsides to including it yet.