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electron-info
Advanced tools
Get informations about Electron releases. Uses electron-releases.
Just run npx electron-info
.
If you'd like to install it permanently, run yarn global add electron-info
or npm i -g electron-info
.
Usage: electron-info [options] [command]
Get informations about Electron releases.
Allowed version argument inputs:
- SemVer versions (e.g. "~7")
- npm dist tags (e.g. "5-0-x", only Electron)
- "all"
Options:
-d, --debug Enable debug logging
-f, --force Force downloading the latest release file
-a, --latest List only the latest release (alias for --limit 1,
disables limit)
-l, --limit <number> Limit output of releases
-r, --raw Output raw JSON
-s, --source <url> Use a custom releases source URL or path
-t, --timeout <number> Use a custom HTTP timeout
-v, --version output the version number
--no-colors Don't use colors for displaying
--no-prereleases Don't include Electron prereleases
-h, --help display help for command
Commands:
electron|e [version] Get informations about an Electron release
chrome|c [version] Get informations about Chrome releases
modules|m [version] Get informations about Modules (Node ABI) releases
node|n [version] Get informations about Node.js releases
openssl|o [version] Get informations about OpenSSL releases
uv|u [version] Get informations about uv releases
v8|v [version] Get informations about V8 releases
zlib|z [version] Get informations about zlib releases
all|a Get informations about all releases
help [command] display help for command
$ electron-info electron 4
╔════════════════════╤═══════════════════════╗
║ Electron │ 4.2.12 ║
╟────────────────────┼───────────────────────╢
║ Published on │ 2019-10-16 ║
╟────────────────────┼───────────────────────╢
║ Node.js │ 10.11.0 ║
╟────────────────────┼───────────────────────╢
║ Chrome │ 69.0.3497.128 ║
╟────────────────────┼───────────────────────╢
║ OpenSSL │ 1.1.0 ║
╟────────────────────┼───────────────────────╢
║ Modules (Node ABI) │ 69 ║
╟────────────────────┼───────────────────────╢
║ uv │ 1.23.0 ║
╟────────────────────┼───────────────────────╢
║ V8 │ 6.9.427.31-electron.0 ║
╟────────────────────┼───────────────────────╢
║ zlib │ 1.2.11 ║
╚════════════════════╧═══════════════════════╝
╔════════════════════╤═══════════════════════╗
║ Electron │ 4.2.11 ║
╟────────────────────┼───────────────────────╢
║ Published on │ 2019-09-24 ║
╟────────────────────┼───────────────────────╢
║ Node.js │ 10.11.0 ║
╟────────────────────┼───────────────────────╢
║ Chrome │ 69.0.3497.128 ║
╟────────────────────┼───────────────────────╢
║ OpenSSL │ 1.1.0 ║
╟────────────────────┼───────────────────────╢
║ Modules (Node ABI) │ 69 ║
╟────────────────────┼───────────────────────╢
║ uv │ 1.23.0 ║
╟────────────────────┼───────────────────────╢
║ V8 │ 6.9.427.31-electron.0 ║
╟────────────────────┼───────────────────────╢
║ zlib │ 1.2.11 ║
╚════════════════════╧═══════════════════════╝
[...]
Found 42 releases.
$ electron-info chrome 71
╔════════════════════╤═════════════════════════════════════╗
║ Electron │ 5.0.0-nightly.20190122 (prerelease) ║
╟────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────╢
║ Published on │ 2019-01-22 ║
╟────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────╢
║ Node.js │ 12.0.0 ║
╟────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────╢
║ Chrome │ 71.0.3578.98 ║
╟────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────╢
║ OpenSSL │ 1.1.0 ║
╟────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────╢
║ Modules (Node ABI) │ 68 ║
╟────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────╢
║ uv │ 1.24.1 ║
╟────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────╢
║ V8 │ 7.1.302.31-electron.0 ║
╟────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────╢
║ zlib │ 1.2.11 ║
╚════════════════════╧═════════════════════════════════════╝
╔════════════════════╤═════════════════════════════════════╗
║ Electron │ 5.0.0-nightly.20190121 (prerelease) ║
╟────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────╢
║ Published on │ 2019-01-22 ║
╟────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────╢
║ Node.js │ 12.0.0 ║
╟────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────╢
║ Chrome │ 71.0.3578.98 ║
╟────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────╢
║ OpenSSL │ 1.1.0 ║
╟────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────╢
║ Modules (Node ABI) │ 68 ║
╟────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────╢
║ uv │ 1.24.1 ║
╟────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────╢
║ V8 │ 7.1.302.31-electron.0 ║
╟────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────╢
║ zlib │ 1.2.11 ║
╚════════════════════╧═════════════════════════════════════╝
Found 2 releases.
FAQs
Get useful data about Electron releases.
The npm package electron-info receives a total of 13 weekly downloads. As such, electron-info popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that electron-info demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 0 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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