latest-version
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Get the latest version of an npm package
Fetches the version directly from the registry instead of depending on the massive npm module like the latest module does.
npm install latest-version
import latestVersion from 'latest-version';
console.log(await latestVersion('ava'));
//=> '6.1.1'
console.log(await latestVersion('@sindresorhus/df'));
//=> '4.0.0'
// Also works with semver ranges and dist-tags
console.log(await latestVersion('npm', {version: 'latest-5'}));
//=> '5.10.0'
This package exposes the version, registryUrl, and omitDeprecated options from package-json, as well as the PackageNotFoundError and VersionNotFoundError errors.
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Get the latest version of an npm package
The npm package latest-version receives a total of 4,646,800 weekly downloads. As such, latest-version popularity was classified as popular.
We found that latest-version demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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