How to prevent npm from updating package versions in package.json?

Question

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In my package.json, all packages have version "*" - that is, always update to the latest.
When npm updatethe versions of the updated packages are changed to those that were installed.
How to avoid it?

Answer 1

You can try npm i ... --save-prefix=">=" in theory this should always update to the latest version.
https://docs.npmjs.com/misc/semver
you can also set it by default
npm config set save-prefix ">="
but it's still bad practice to update packages so freely - the package author can break compatibility, especially when major version change

Answer 2

According to the documentation : * - Matches any version
To update to the latest release version, try latest , but you need to be sure that updating certain packages will not break the current code.