Automating dependencies with greenkeeper

I discovered greenkeeper.io at the NodeConf Barcelona 2015, when Stephan Bönnemann made a little demo of the project to show what was all about.

Basically what greenkeeper does is sit between npm and github, observing all of your dependencies. When they get updated, your project gets a pull request with that update. The CI tests kicks in, and Greenkeeper watches them to see whether they pass or not.

At time of writing this post, I'm using greenkeeper in my opensource projects, and it's really awesome, handy and easy to use.

Getting Started

As I said the main reason for using greenkeeper is to stay up to date with the dependencies, know the changes and fixes introduced in every release and see if they break your build.

$ npm i -g greenkeeper
$ greenkeeper login

After installing and login, you will have to enable greenkeeper for each repository you want to.

$ cd github/repo
$ greenkeeper enable

Automated Pull Requests

Now, you will receive pull requests from the greenkeeperio-bot that will look like this

Greenkeeper is free for open source projects. Learn more about greenkeeper at greenkeeper.io.