You may have noticed before, in package.json files, the dependency versions include a prefix that tell npm how to look for updates. These are kind of deeply embedded in the docs so I will list them here

Examples

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{
	"dependencies": {
		"dep_name0": "~0.0.1",
		"dep_name1": "^0.1.0",
		"dep_name2": "*1.0.0"
	}
}