How to update multiple packages at once with gluestack-ui cli?

[DavidAmyot]

🛑 I had made the original pull request in the gluestack-ui repo and was asked to create the issue here, original pull request in gluestack-ui repo: gluestack/gluestack-ui#2668

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Description

Currently, to update a package, I have to do npx gluestack-ui@latest add some-component. If I have 20 components from gluestack-ui v2, I have to repeat the command for each.

1. Without having all the components installed with npx gluestack-ui@latest add --all, how can I update multiple packages at once?
2. How can I know when a package is outdated? Commands such as yarn outdated do not show anything related to gluestack-ui when a package is outdated making it very unreliable.

Perhaps I'm unaware of a command that can do both of the above, if so please do tell me!

Thank you :)

Problem Statement

1. There is no way to update all the installed gluestack-ui v2 packages at once.
2. There is no way to know which packages are outdated.

Proposed Solution or API

1. Allow for package chaining such as npx gluestack-ui@latest add some-component-1 some-component-2.
2. Make package managers aware of changes to the gluestack-ui v2 packages or have a npx gluestack-ui outdated command.

Alternatives

No response

Additional Information

@akash3gtm

[akash3gtm]

this will be resolved in the update command once release.
This will take some time as we need to write a codemod that will also update the code.

[DavidAmyot]

this will be resolved in the update command once release. This will take some time as we need to write a codemod that will also update the code.

Would the update command allow for updating multiple gluestack-ui packages at once? And would there be a command to install multiple packages at once? Thanks for the reply 🙂

[akash3gtm]

Yes, it will have a command to update multiple packages at once.

However the add command already supports installing multiple components at once.
e.g.

npx gluestack-ui@latest add button box text checkbox

[hugochinchilla]

The functionality seems implemented here https://github.com/gluestack/gluestack-ui-cli/blob/main/packages/gluestack-ui/src/index.ts

but it seems to be unreleased

[akash3gtm]

The functionality seems implemented here https://github.com/gluestack/gluestack-ui-cli/blob/main/packages/gluestack-ui/src/index.ts

but it seems to be unreleased

Yes, it was in the works but was left due to bandwidth issues. We will pick this up in the upcoming sprint.

You are also always welcome to give a contribution. 😉