Introduction

Patch Pulse is a suite of tools that help you keep your npm dependencies up to date.

What’s in the ecosystem?

Tool	Description
CLI	Zero-dependency command-line tool to scan your project for outdated packages
VS Code Extension	Inline version information directly in your package.json files
Slack Bot	Get notified in Slack when packages you depend on release new versions

Core concepts

Patch Pulse checks your dependencies against the npm registry and tells you which packages have newer versions available — breaking them down by patch, minor, and major updates so you can decide what to act on.

It is monorepo-aware: running from the root of a workspace will scan every package.json found under the project, with full support for pnpm catalog: entries.

Quick start

The fastest way to try it is with the CLI — no install required:

npx patch-pulse

See the CLI overview to dive deeper.