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version-selector-type
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Returns the type and normalized version of a version selector
Returns the type and normalized version of a version selector
<pnpm|npm|yarn> add version-selector-type
'use strict'
const getVersionSelectorType = require('version-selector-type')
console.log(getVersionSelectorType('1.0.0'))
//> { normalized: '1.0.0', type: 'version' }
console.log(getVersionSelectorType('^1.0.0'))
//> { normalized: '>=1.0.0 <2.0.0', type: 'range' }
console.log(getVersionSelectorType('latest'))
//> { normalized: 'latest', type: 'tag' }
console.log(getVersionSelectorType('github:zkochan/foo'))
//> null
console.log(getVersionSelectorType('1.2.0beta'))
//> { normalized: '1.2.0-beta', type: 'version' }
console.log(getVersionSelectorType.strict('1.2.0beta'))
//> { normalized: '1.2.0beta', type: 'tag' }
getVersionSelectorType(selector)
Returns the type of the version selector and the normalized form of that selector.
Returns null
in case it is an unknown selector.
Interprets versions and ranges loosely.
getVersionSelectorType.strict(selector)
Same as getVersionSelectorType()
but interprets versions and ranges not loosely.
FAQs
Returns the type and normalized version of a version selector
The npm package version-selector-type receives a total of 108,991 weekly downloads. As such, version-selector-type popularity was classified as popular.
We found that version-selector-type 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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