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Quickly find the latest version of a package in npm
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Sometimes I want to know if a single package needs to be updated. Also, I'm a package creatin' fool: https://www.npmjs.com/~jprichardson - I need to know quickly if a package name is taken.
Update 2015-03-29:
Support config registry in ~/.npmrc
file,more on registry-url
npm install -g npm-latest
npm-latest express
output:
express:
latest: 3.0.0rc2
last updated: Fri Aug 03 2012 15:33:05 GMT-0500 (CDT)
author: TJ Holowaychuk
repo: git://github.com/visionmedia/express
description: Sinatra inspired web development framework
(MIT License)
Copyright 2012-2015, JP Richardson jprichardson@gmail.com
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Quickly find the latest version of a package in npm.
The npm package npm-latest receives a total of 1,794 weekly downloads. As such, npm-latest popularity was classified as popular.
We found that npm-latest demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 3 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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