Update notifications for your CLI app
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score
97%
{
"context": "This criteria evaluates how effectively the engineer uses the update-notifier package's programmatic update checking capability, specifically the fetchInfo() method, to build a CLI tool that reports on available package updates.",
"type": "weighted_checklist",
"checklist": [
{
"name": "UpdateNotifier instantiation",
"description": "Creates an UpdateNotifier instance by calling updateNotifier() with a pkg object containing name and version properties from package.json",
"max_score": 20
},
{
"name": "fetchInfo() usage",
"description": "Calls the fetchInfo() method on the UpdateNotifier instance to programmatically retrieve update information",
"max_score": 25
},
{
"name": "Promise handling",
"description": "Properly handles the Promise returned by fetchInfo() using async/await or .then()/.catch()",
"max_score": 15
},
{
"name": "Update info extraction",
"description": "Correctly extracts and uses the current, latest, and type properties from the update information object returned by fetchInfo()",
"max_score": 20
},
{
"name": "Conditional logic",
"description": "Implements appropriate conditional logic to check if an update is available (e.g., checking if the update object exists or comparing versions)",
"max_score": 10
},
{
"name": "Error handling",
"description": "Implements error handling for fetchInfo() calls to catch and handle potential failures during update checking",
"max_score": 10
}
]
}Install with Tessl CLI
npx tessl i tessl/npm-update-notifierdocs
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