Why doesn't npm update ever seem to do anything for me?-CodePudding

I've read through what seems like dozens of SO questions from people saying npm update doesn't do anything for them. I'm in the same boat, but none of the solutions works for me, and this happens to me all the time. It simply doesn't do a thing.

Right now in particular I'm trying to just update @chakra-ui/react from my currently installed version to the latest version. I tried npm update (to hopefully update everything, including this package), but that didn't do a thing. So then I tried npm update @chakra-ui/react which similarly did not a thing. Adding -dd to either command just prints mostly a bunch of 'timing' messages, and nothing all that particularly useful that I can see.

Here are some details etc:

from what I understand, having ^ in front of my version number in package.json means it will update from let's say 2.0.0 up to 2.99999999.9999999 for example. But it won't ever update to 3.0.0.
my package.json for @chakra-ui/react is "^2.2.1" and the latest version on NPM is 2.3.7, so this should get updated right?

Here's the package.json and npm update -dd output..

Can anyone see what I'm missing? [rant]This is so frustrating, it always happens to me, and I always have to uninstall / reinstall whatever package(s) I'm trying to update.[/rant]

package.json:

{
"name": "app",
"version": "0.1.0",
"private": true,
"homepage": "....",
"dependencies": {
    "@bugsnag/js": "^7.18.0",
    "@bugsnag/plugin-react": "^7.18.0",
    "@chakra-ui/react": "^2.2.1",
    "@emotion/react": "^11.9.3",
    "@emotion/styled": "^11.9.3",
    "@reduxjs/toolkit": "^1.8.3",
    "@sentry/react": "^7.17.3",
    "@sentry/tracing": "^7.17.3",
    "@testing-library/jest-dom": "^5.16.4",
    "@testing-library/react": "^13.3.0",
    "@testing-library/user-event": "^14.2.1",
    "axios": "^0.27.2",
    "chakra-ui-autocomplete": "^1.4.5",
    "circletype": "^2.3.0",
    "framer-motion": "^6.5.0",
    "html2canvas": "^1.4.1",
    "lodash": "^4.17.21",
    "react": "^18.2.0",
    "react-date-picker": "^9.0.0",
    "react-datepicker": "^4.8.0",
    "react-dom": "^18.2.0",
    "react-easy-crop": "^4.4.2",
    "react-icons": "^4.4.0",
    "react-image-crop": "^10.0.5",
    "react-intersection-observer": "^9.3.5",
    "react-redux": "^8.0.2",
    "react-router": "^6.3.0",
    "react-router-dom": "^6.3.0",
    "react-scripts": "^5.0.1",
    "react-select": "^5.4.0",
    "react-use-hoverintent": "^1.2.7",
    "react-window": "^1.8.7",
    "sass": "^1.53.0",
    "store": "^2.0.12",
    "web-vitals": "^2.1.4"
},
"scripts": {
    "start": "react-scripts start",
    "build": "react-scripts build",
    "test": "react-scripts test",
    "eject": "react-scripts eject"
},
"eslintConfig": {
    "extends": "react-app"
},
"browserslist": {
    "production": [
        ">0.2%",
        "not dead",
        "not op_mini all"
    ],
    "development": [
        "last 1 chrome version",
        "last 1 firefox version",
        "last 1 safari version"
    ]
}
}

output:

npm : npm verb cli [
At line:1 char:1
  npm update @chakra-ui/react --dd >> output.txt 2> output2.txt
  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
      CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (npm verb cli [:String) [], RemoteException
      FullyQualifiedErrorId : NativeCommandError

npm verb cli   'C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node.exe',
npm verb cli   'C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node_modules\\npm\\bin\\npm-cli.js',
npm verb cli   'update',
npm verb cli   '@chakra-ui/react',
npm verb cli   '--dd'
npm verb cli ]
npm info using [email protected]
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npm info ok

CodePudding user response：

It seems you have to do npm update --save if you actually want the changes to be reflected in package.json. Apparently the changes were always working behind the scenes, and package-lock.json was being updated, but not package.json.