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validate-version
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A lightweight package to validate (major.minor.bugfix) version strings. It's not the holy grail but it's particularly lightweight. Use the semver package or modify this package if you need more advanced usage.
Basic usage is pretty straight forward
npm install validate-version
var validateVersion = require('validate-version');
Here are some examples:
validateVersion.validate("1.0.0"); // true
validateVersion.validate("1.0.a"); // false
validateVersion.validate("1.0.0-master"); // false
validateVersion.validate("1.0.0-master", true); // true
FAQs
Validate a version string
The npm package validate-version receives a total of 0 weekly downloads. As such, validate-version popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that validate-version demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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