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Tick to open a new Registry tab to specify a custom NPM registry rather than the default registry of NPM. [--registry=]
Using
The Using drop down is populated with any property collector whose namespace matches the pattern defined by the NPM Update action. The pattern for this action is ^NPM.*
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If this is ticked, the command line output is written to the build log. [--silent]
Verbose logging
Tick this to pass the --verbose argument to get more detailed output from the NPM command line. [--verbose]
Timeout (in seconds)
How long to wait for the action to finish running before timing out. Leaving this blank (or zero) will default to 86400 seconds (24 hours).
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