Bring back `ng update --all` (includes: workaround with `jq`)

[SamuelMarks]

🚀 Feature request

Command (mark with an x)

• update

Description

$ ng update --all

        '--all' functionality has been removed as updating multiple packages at once is not recommended.
        To update packages which don’t provide 'ng update' capabilities in your workspace 'package.json' use 'npm update' instead.
        Run the package manager update command after updating packages which provide 'ng update' capabilities.

Describe the solution you'd like

Bring back --all… maybe with a -f/--force so the warning can remain.

Describe alternatives you've considered

ng update --force $(jq -r '.dependencies * .devDependencies | keys | map(select(startswith("@angular"))) | @tsv' package.json)

(then run: ncu -ux '/typescript|rxjs/')

[alan-agius4]

Hi @SamuelMarks,

Thanks for this request.

In many cases we found that the --all option didn't necessary provide the best DX and in many most cases it resulted in broken behaviour.

This option also contradicted our recommendation, which is to avoid updating multiple packages at once especially across major versions.

For the time being this is not something that we are actively looking in bring back. We can re-consider this in the future if there is a greater interest from the community as such I am going to mark this as a feature request.

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[alan-agius4]

Hi @SamuelMarks,

Thanks for this feature request, however this is currently out of scope. Let's re-consider this in the future if there is a larger demand for this.