Notify of global npm updates via Notification Center on Mac OS X

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Notify of global npm updates via Notification Center on Mac OS X

Make sure the terminal notifier is installed. Install it wia brew install terminal-notifier command.
The script assumes the iTerm is installed. Go get it, or edit the npm-update-notifier.sh for your need.

1. Put notify-update-npm.sh to your ~/bin/ directory
2. Put notify.update.npm.plist to your ~/Library/LaunchAgents/ directory
3. Run launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/notify.update.npm.plist

This script is run twice a day at 11 AM & 4 PM.
Based on Based on Chris Streeters' brew-update-notifier.sh work from https://gist.github.com/streeter/3254906

notify-update-npm.sh

#!/bin/bash
#
# Notify of npm updates via Notification Center on Mac OS X
#
# Author Csaba Maulis @_senki
# Based on Chris Streeters (http://www.chrisstreeter.com) `brew-update-notifier.sh`
# Requires: terminal-notifier. Install with:
#   brew install terminal-notifier
#

NPM_EXEC='/usr/local/bin/npm'
TERMINAL_NOTIFIER='/usr/local/bin/terminal-notifier'
NOTIF_ARGS="-activate com.googlecode.iterm2 -sound NotificationCenter"

# Remove pinned package from the list of outdated package
outdated=`$NPM_EXEC outdated -g | awk '{if (NR!=1) {print $1}}'`

if [ -z "$outdated" ] ; then
    if [ -e $TERMINAL_NOTIFIER ]; then
        # No updates available
        $TERMINAL_NOTIFIER $NOTIF_ARGS \
            -title "NPM: No Updates Available" \
            -message "No updates available yet for any global package."
    fi
else
    # We've got an outdated package or two

    # Nofity via Notification Center
    if [ -e $TERMINAL_NOTIFIER ]; then
        lc=$((`echo "$outdated" | wc -l`))
        if [ $lc -gt 1 ]; then
            title="NPM: $lc Updates Available"
        else
            title="NPM: 1 Updates Available"
        fi
        outdated=`echo "$outdated" | tail -$lc`
        message=`echo "$outdated" | head -5`
        if [ "$outdated" != "$message" ]; then
            message="Some of the globally outdated package are:
$message"
        else
            message="The following globally package are outdated:
$message"
        fi
        # Send to the Nofication Center
        $TERMINAL_NOTIFIER $NOTIF_ARGS \
            -title "$title" -message "$message"
    fi
fi

notify.update.npm.plist

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>EnableGlobbing</key>
    <false/>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>notify.update.npm</string>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
        <string>/bin/bash</string>
        <string>/Users/USERNAME/bin/notify-update-npm.sh</string>
    </array>
    <key>EnvironmentVariables</key>
    <dict>
    	<key>PATH</key>
    	<string>/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin</string>
    </dict>
    <key>StartInterval</key>
    <true/>
    <key>StandardErrorPath</key>
    <string>/tmp/notify.update.npm.err</string>
    <key>StandardOutPath</key>
    <string>/tmp/notify.update.npm.out</string>
    <key>StartCalendarInterval</key>
    <array>
        <dict>
            <key>Hour</key>
            <integer>15</integer>
            <key>Minute</key>
            <integer>0</integer>
        </dict>
    </array>
</dict>
</plist>