I copied package.json
from another project and now want to bump all of the dependencies to their latest versions since this is a fresh project and I don\'t mind
If you want to use a gentle approach via a beautiful (for terminal) interactive reporting interface I would suggest using npm-check.
It's less of a hammer and gives you more consequential knowledge of, and control over, your dependency updates.
To give you a taste of what awaits here's a screenshot (scraped from the git page for npm-check):