> “But Niki, you can regenerate the lockfile and pull in all the new dependencies!”
> Sure. In exactly the same way you can update your top-level dependencies.
how does updating top-level deps help with updating leaf packages? Is the author assuming that whenever a leaf package is updated, every other package in the dep chain gets immediately new release? That is fundamentally impossible considering that the releases would need to happen serially.
> “But Niki, you can regenerate the lockfile and pull in all the new dependencies!”
> Sure. In exactly the same way you can update your top-level dependencies.
how does updating top-level deps help with updating leaf packages? Is the author assuming that whenever a leaf package is updated, every other package in the dep chain gets immediately new release? That is fundamentally impossible considering that the releases would need to happen serially.