The sweet spot would be using a lock file for reproducible builds, and programmed dependency upgrades. Before the dependency upgrade you can check if the new ve

The sweet spot would be using a lock file for reproducible builds, and programmed dependency upgrades. Before the dependency upgrade you can check if the new version breaks something and plan for it. I've used this in Python, where I try to keep dependencies to a minimum. I don't know if that would work in JavaScript, the dependency tree is huge there.