semver-utils

What is semver-utils?

The semver-utils npm package provides utilities for parsing, comparing, and manipulating semantic version strings. It is useful for developers who need to handle versioning in their applications, ensuring compatibility and proper version management.

What are semver-utils's main functionalities?

Parsing Semantic Versions

This feature allows you to parse a semantic version string into its component parts, such as major, minor, patch, and pre-release identifiers.

const semverUtils = require('semver-utils');
const parsed = semverUtils.parse('1.2.3-alpha.1');
console.log(parsed);

Comparing Versions

This feature enables you to compare two semantic version strings to determine their order. It returns -1, 0, or 1 depending on whether the first version is less than, equal to, or greater than the second version.

const semverUtils = require('semver-utils');
const result = semverUtils.compare('1.2.3', '1.2.4');
console.log(result);

Incrementing Versions

This feature allows you to increment a semantic version string by a specified part (major, minor, or patch).

const semverUtils = require('semver-utils');
const incremented = semverUtils.increment('1.2.3', 'patch');
console.log(incremented);

Other packages similar to semver-utils

semver

The semver package is a popular library for parsing, validating, comparing, and incrementing semantic version strings. It offers a comprehensive set of features for handling semantic versions and is widely used in the Node.js ecosystem. Compared to semver-utils, semver provides more extensive functionality and better integration with npm.

node-semver

node-semver is another library for working with semantic versioning in Node.js. It provides similar functionalities to semver-utils, such as parsing, comparing, and incrementing versions. However, it is less commonly used than the semver package and may have fewer features.

README

semver-utils

Some utils that aren't provided by the mainstream semver module.

API

parse(semverString)

Turns a string such as 1.0.6-1+build-623 into the object

{
  semver:   '1.0.6-1+build-623'
, version:  '1.0.6'
, major:    '1'
, minor:    '0'
, patch:    '6'
, release:  '1'
, build:    'build-623'
}

returns null on error

stringify(semverObject)

Creates a string such as 1.0.6-1+build-623 from the object

{
  major:    '1'
, minor:    '0'
, patch:    '6'
, release:  '1'
, build:    'build-623'
}

parseRange(rangeString)

A solution to https://github.com/isaacs/node-semver/issues/10

Parses a range string into an array of semver objects

>= 1.1.7 < 2.0.0 || 1.1.3' becomes

[
    {
        "semver": ">= v1.1.7"
      , "operator": ">="
      , "major": 1
      , "minor": 1
      , "patch": 7
    }
  , {
        "semver": "< v2.0.0"
      , "operator": "<"
      , "major": 2
      , "minor": 0
      , "patch": 0
    }
  , {
        "operator": "||"
    }
  , {
        "semver": "v1.1.3"
      , "operator": "="
      , "major": 1
      , "minor": 1
      , "patch": 3
    }

]

Obsolete Work

• https://github.com/mojombo/semver/issues/32
• https://gist.github.com/coolaj86/3012865
• https://github.com/isaacs/node-semver/issues/10
• https://github.com/mojombo/semver.org/issues/59