Automate Dependency Updates With Renovate, Not With Dependabot

A guide on how to automate dependency updates with Renovate.

Toru Eguchi
JavaScript in Plain English
8 min readAug 13, 2022

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Continuous dependency update is one of the biggest topics in software development. Although old dependencies have security risks and you might not get support in the worst case, continuous update is critically time consuming.

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