update-on-start v1.0.2

Node Update on Start

This module updates it's parent and all of it's parent's modules on start up. It spawns git pull using the repository url found in package.json to and then spawns npm update --save.

Usage

Don't store copies of npm repositories in your project's repository, use npm the way it was meant to be used! Make sure to run update-on-start at the very start of your program before requiring any dependencies. Put your project's main contents in another file so you never have to update index.js and don't have to restart for changes to take effect! In your repository's .gitignore file, exclude all of your node_modules and use ! to make an exception for update-on-start.

Example index.js

#!/usr/bin/env node

// true if the program is run independently as a CLI
if (require.main == module) {
	const selfUpdate = require('update-on-start');

	selfUpdate(() => {
		require('./src/main.js')();
	});
} else {
	module.exports = require('./src/main.js');
}

Example .gitignore

/node_modules/**
!/node_modules/update-on-start/**