This is good for when you don't need a very specific version, but you want to keep your dependencies up to date with the latest patches and security vulnerability fixes.įor more info, check out Caret vs Tilde in package.json.
Since we prefixed the version with ~, NPM retrieved the latest patch version under the 4.16 minor version, which turned out to be 4.16.4. So, for example, if you want to use Express version 4.16, but the patch version isn't important, you can use the tilde to tell NPM to retrieve the latest patch version: $ npm install ~4.16.1Īdded 48 packages from 36 contributors and audited 121 packages in 3.02s
This way you can specify a compatible package version, but still get the latest. Using either a caret ( ^) or a tilde ( ~) we can specify the latest minor or patch version, respectively. With NPM we also have other options for specifying the version of a package. To do this, we can specify the version using the syntax npm install Continuing with our example above, we would execute something like this: $ npm install Īdded 48 packages from 36 contributors and audited 121 packages in 2.986sĪs you can see, NPM has installed the package we specified. In cases like this you'd probably want to install a specific version of the package that you know works, or that you know is "safe". When you run the install command like this, by default it retrieves the latest version of the specified package, which in this case is v4.17.1 (at the time of this writing).īut what if we need a different version? Maybe this latest version breaks a feature that we need, or maybe it has a security vulnerability that the maintainer hasn't gotten around to fixing yet.
It's main purpose, however is to help you download and install Node packages from its repository to your project.ĭownloading and installing a package is done using NPM's install command: $ npm install expressĪdded 50 packages from 37 contributors and audited 126 packages in 3.262s Want to make it better? File us an issue.ĭon't like something you see? Submit a pull request.NPM, or the Node Package Manager, is a powerful tool that allows you to easily manage dependencies, run scripts, and organize project metadata. In Travis, will use _BRANCHĭefault pattern is branch.short, which would produce master.1a2b3c4. You can customize the version pattern when tagging for pre-release versions. Run npx version-from-git -t, it will detect whether TRAVIS_TAG environment variable is present and skip. In Travis, when you push a tag (probably by npm version 1.0.0 followed by git push origin v1.0.0), you may want to skip version-from-git from generating a pre-release tag. no-git-tag-version run "npm version" with -no-git-tag-version no-commit-hooks run "npm version" with -commit-hooks sign-git-tag run "npm version" with -sign-git-tag allow-same-version run "npm version" with -allow-same-version m, -message run "npm version" with -message t, -travis run in Travis CI: skip when TRAVIS_TAG present p, -path path to package.json, default to current directory (default: C:\Users\Compulim\Source\Repos\version-from-git) Usage: version-from-git īump package.json version to pre-release tagged with Git branch and short commit hash, 1.0.0-master.1a2b3c4
Run npx version-from-git, it will run npm version 1.0.0-master.1a2b3c4. GitHub Packages is available with GitHub Free, GitHub Pro, GitHub Free for organizations, GitHub Team, GitHub Enterprise Cloud, GitHub Enterprise Server 3.0 or higher, and GitHub AE.
If you prefer the plus sign, you can customize the pre-release version pattern. Instead of using plus (+) to denote build information, we prefer period (.) for simpler escapes. We want to use npm version to bump to a customized version that contains both Git branch and commit hash.Īnd use Travis CI to automatically publish the pre-release version to NPM, tagged using npm dist-tag.