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Why I recommend Renovate over any other dependency update tools


Explaining why Renovate is going to be my solution to keeping up-to-date with dependencies and it's not likely to change any time soon.

After we'd had about a week of usage, we started needing to tweak the configuration in a few of them to reduce the noise, which then required us to raise PRs across all the repos and get them updated. And you can do even more with it - I've mentioned you can use it for one-off updates on the command-line, but for instance I've also written a tool renovate-graph which takes the detected dependency data from Renovate and gives you a JSON blob you can consume. When you merge a PR into your default branch, Renovate will rebase open PRs, so they're easier to review, and are guaranteed to run against the latest changes.

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