Measure speed of updating dependencies

[nikoladev]

Another benchmark that would be good to have is to measure how the different package managers handle updated dependencies. Take for example the dependencies of the React app package.json:

{
  // ...other package.json stuff
  "dependencies": {
    "react": "^16.2.0",
    "react-dom": "^16.2.0",
    "react-scripts": "1.1.1"
  },
  // ...other package.json stuff
}

After all the currently available benchmarks are done (clean install, etc...) the dependencies could be updated and the update speed could be measured:

{
  // ...other package.json stuff
  "dependencies": {
    "react": "^16.2.0",
    "react-dom": "^16.2.0",
    "react-scripts": "^2.1.8" // <===== changed
  },
  // ...other package.json stuff
}

This way the package managers don't just install new packages, but some packages also have to be deleted and/or rearranged. For me, updating my packgage.json and node_modules is a far more common use case than starting a new project.

What do you think?

[Zoltan Kochan]

I don't have objections

ref #4