Automate dependency updates with Renovate: Building a microservices-based NodeJS and React app #059

Hello everyone! In today's video, we introduce Renovate to our project in order to have automated dependency management. This will save us a lot of time since it will automatically keep all our package dependencies up to date.

❯❯ GitHub repo for the project: https://github.com/lauromueller/unsocial-app

This video is part of a series where we are developing a microservices-based social media application with the main focus on learning the microservices pattern. We are using NodeJS for our backend services, and React for our frontend client.


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0:00 Introduction
0:31 Overview of today's topics
1:15 Why do we need automated dependency updates?
3:08 Introducing Renovate
3:56 Introducing Dependabot
6:44 Installing Renovate in GitHub
8:27 Merging the first PR from Renovate
8:53 Configuring Renovate
20:34 Merging more PRs from Renovate
23:03 Closing of the video

❯❯ https://www.whitesourcesoftware.com/free-developer-tools/renovate
❯❯ https://docs.renovatebot.com/
❯❯ https://dependabot.com/


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