Update notifier GO

Use

import { updateNotifier } from 'update-notifier-go'
updateNotifier('express', '2.1.1')

Unlike update-notifier this

• Won't download several dependencies and be of any security risk of any dependency chains
• Won't depend on any core NodeJS modules. (so works in other env. too)
• Won't pollute your file system with json config files stores.
• It Will use the fetch api instead. (it will just be silent, if not available)

⚠️ Note: Personally I wouldn't use anything like a update checker but i keep seeing other ppl wishes to have this kind of things. I personally thought update-notifier polluted my hard drive with config files and having access to the file system, and it never cleaned up after itself which i didn't like. Instead i would just run:

npm deprecate express@1.0.0 <MESSAGE>

Install

update-notifier-go is an ESM-only module - you are not able to import it with require. If you are unable to use ESM in your project you can use the async import('update-notifier-go') from CommonJS to load update-notifier-go asynchronously.
npm install update-notifier-go