How to Update Dependencies to Save Your Bacon

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You have to do some research on like, for example, I had to actually update my database version. So this is not a dependency, but it's what's running on my database side. You sometimes need to regen some some API keys. If you've got tests for your code base, obviously run those those or save your bacon huge because you can automatically catch those things. The thing I have here is just pray. This kind of comes back to the YOLO update is just hope that everything then goes. There was an issue the other day where a popular open source maintainer just kind of nuked his packages and broke a lot of stuff. But luckily, those were major

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about their process for updating project dependencies.

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