update-available

update-available [deprecated]

:no_entry: This package is deprecated in favour of update-notifier and not maintained anymore.

Checks if there is an update available to your module or not, in other words, is the module is outdated or not.

Why?

Imagine you have a cli tool built with node, used by a lot of people. Then in one day you updated the tool and pushed to npm. You want users to be notified about the update.

You can burn this module into your app so that you can notify users that their version is outdated.

It's as simple as updateAvailable().then().
No arguments? No, no arguments.

install

npm install --save update-available

Usage

const updateAvailable = require('update-available');

updateAvailable()
	.then(result => {
		console.log(result);
		/*
            {
                updateAvailable: true
                latestVersion: '5.8.0',
                currentVersion: '5.5.1'>
            }
        */
	})
	.catch(err => {
		// err handling stuff
	});

• The updateAvailable function returns a Promise.
• output result contains 3 fields:
  • updateAvailable : true if there is an update, false if not.
  • latestVersion : latest version of the package published to the npm registry.
  • currentVersion : current version of the package installed.
• Check the err in .catch to see if anything went wrong.

How it works?

• This package finds the package.json file of the host app.
• Extracts name and version fields from it.
• Queries the npm registry to see the latest version of the app with name.
• Compares the current version (obtained from package.json) with the latest version (obtained from npm registry).
• Gives the result.

Change log

• v1.0.1

  • reducing package size by ignoring un-necessary files.
  • docs update

• v1.0.0

  • initial release

Licence

ISC © Vajahath Ahmed