Update bower dependencies, bower.json in Ember-CLI app [duplicate] - bower

Question

I listed (and/or installed) several dependencies with Bower inside the bower.json file and/or with
bower install https://github.com/username/project.git
That worked fine.
Now I can list all them with
bower list
and then I can pick the name of each dependency of my project and run
bower update dependency-name
Question: How can I bulk update all of them? Or do I have to write a shell script to loop through and update them?

Answer 1

You can update all by running bower update.
Use the -h flag on any command to see how you can use it. Eg bower update -h.

Answer 2

This process is a little slow but is secure because you can realize when your app gets broken.
lets say that you want to update bootstrap you just need to run bower install --save bootstrap and you bower.json file will be updated
Before
{
"name": "my-awesome-app",
"version": "0.0.0",
"dependencies": {
"bootstrap": "~3.0.0",
"requirejs": "~2.1.11",
"modernizr": "~2.8.2",
"jquery": "~2.1.1",
"underscore-amd": "~1.5.2",
"backbone-amd": "~1.1.0",
"require-handlebars-plugin": "~0.8.0"
}
}
After
{
"name": "my-awesome-app",
"version": "0.0.0",
"dependencies": {
"bootstrap": "~3.3.1",
"requirejs": "~2.1.11",
"modernizr": "~2.8.2",
"jquery": "~2.1.1",
"underscore-amd": "~1.5.2",
"backbone-amd": "~1.1.0",
"require-handlebars-plugin": "~0.8.0"
}
}

Answer 3

Used bower-update-all to update all bower dependencies in bower.json, as follows:
npm install -g bower-update-all
bower-update-all

Answer 4

If you want to force all dependencies to update you can use bower install --save --force. This is the same as bower install --save [dep1] [dep2] ...
The short version is bower i -S -f