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Can you step back further and explain what Renovate and its competitors like Mend actually do, and what kind of tasks people use them for?
by bryanlarsen 9mo ago
Can you step back further and explain what Renovate and its competitors like Mend actually do, and what kind of tasks people use them for?
- JanLepsky 9mo agoIn short, Renovate (by Mend) is a dependency manager for software projects. It watches your repository for outdated libraries, packages, and frameworks and opens Pull Requests to update them.
- maverwa 9mo agoMend is not a competitor, renovate is the software, mend is the company. They are tools that automatically check your repo for dependencies and create PRs when there are updates. It supports a wide range of package managers and other places dependencies may be specified. Dependabot is another solution which is more „GitHub-native“ maybe.
- esafak 9mo agoTo help you automate dependency updates, similar to dependabot. https://www.mend.io/renovate/ https://www.mend.io/renovate/ https://github.blog/news-insights/product-news/keep-all-your-packages-up-to-date-with-dependabot/ https://github.blog/news-insights/product-news/keep-all-your...
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- jamietanna 9mo agoSee also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40011111 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40011111 (a blog post I wrote, prior to joining Mend and working as a Renovate maintainer)