What is @lerna/prerelease-id-from-version?
@lerna/prerelease-id-from-version is a utility package that helps in extracting the prerelease identifier from a given version string. This can be particularly useful in managing and automating versioning in monorepos or multi-package repositories.
What are @lerna/prerelease-id-from-version's main functionalities?
Extract Prerelease Identifier
This feature allows you to extract the prerelease identifier (e.g., 'alpha', 'beta') from a given version string. This can be useful for conditional logic based on the type of prerelease.
const prereleaseIdFromVersion = require('@lerna/prerelease-id-from-version');
const version = '1.0.0-alpha.1';
const prereleaseId = prereleaseIdFromVersion(version);
console.log(prereleaseId); // Output: 'alpha'
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semver
The 'semver' package is a comprehensive library for parsing, validating, and comparing semantic versioning strings. It also includes functionality to extract prerelease identifiers, among many other features. Compared to @lerna/prerelease-id-from-version, 'semver' offers a broader range of versioning utilities.
node-semver
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