Helping users stay up to date

[flatiron32]

I want to help the users of my generator know if it is out of date or not. I would like to detect the version of the generator in use and then compare that to the latest version in the artifact repo. Before I start designing and implementing how to do this, I wanted to see if this is a challenge that had already been tackled by anyone in the Yeoman community.

[mshima]

@flatiron32 I am implementing the path that the generators are auto installed, so it should install the last version, and update if needed.

[mischah]

Hej @flatiron32,

this is what you want to use: https://github.com/yeoman/update-notifier

It compares the installed version against possible updates in the npm registry.

Cheers, Michael