Get information about Node.js versions


This repository is managed by the Package Maintenance Working Group, see Governance.

Usage

``
$ npm i @pkgjs/nv
`

`
$ npx @pkgjs/nv --help

nv

Commands:
nv ls [versions...] List Node.js versions [aliases: show]

Options:
--help Show help [boolean]
--version Show version number [boolean]

`

`
$ npx @pkgjs/nv ls --help

nv ls [versions...]

List Node.js versions

Options:
--help Show help [boolean]
--version Show version number [boolean]
--mirror mirror url to load from
[string] [default: https://nodejs.org/dist/]
--pretty-json Pretty print json
[string] [default: pretty print json spaces, default 2 (--no-pretty-json for
new line delimted json)]
--latest-of-major-only Only show latest version in each semver major range
[boolean] [default: false]
--versions [default: "lts_active"]
`

`javascript
const nv = require('@pkgjs/nv')

(async () => {
const versions = await nv('lts')
console.log(versions)
/*
[
{
"version": "18.18.2",
"major": 18,
"minor": 18,
"patch": 2,
"tag": "",
"codename": "hydrogen",
"versionName": "v18",
"start": "2022-04-19T00:00:00.000Z",
"lts": "2022-10-25T00:00:00.000Z",
"maintenance": "2023-10-18T00:00:00.000Z",
"end": "2025-04-30T00:00:00.000Z",
"releaseDate": "2023-10-13T00:00:00.000Z",
"isLts": true,
"files": [
"aix-ppc64",
"headers",
"linux-arm64",
"linux-armv7l",
"linux-ppc64le",
"linux-s390x",
"linux-x64",
"osx-arm64-tar",
"osx-x64-pkg",
"osx-x64-tar",
"src",
"win-x64-7z",
"win-x64-exe",
"win-x64-msi",
"win-x64-zip",
"win-x86-7z",
"win-x86-exe",
"win-x86-msi",
"win-x86-zip"
],
"dependencies": {
"npm": "9.8.1",
"v8": "10.2.154.26",
"uv": "1.44.2",
"zlib": "1.2.13.1-motley",
"openssl": "3.0.10+quic"
}
}
]
*/
})()
`

You can also pass an array of aliases and the resulting array will be sorted and de-duped, for example:

`javascript
const versions = await nv(['lts', 'supported'])
console.log(versions.map((v) => v.version))
/*
[ '8.16.1', '10.16.3', '12.11.0' ]
*/
`

Supported Aliases

Support Aliases

For now referenced here until we have a more official doc: https://github.com/nodejs/package-maintenance/issues/236#issue-474783582

- all: All node versions
- lts_active: Head of LTS and Active major version lines
- lts: Head of current LTS lines
- active: The newest version in the active but not maintenance mode lines
- lts_latest/lts/: Latest of the LTS lines (lts/ for nvm compatibility)
- supported: Head of all maintained lines
- DEPRECATED maintained: Head of all maintained lines
- current/node: Newest of all maintained lines (node for nvm compatibility)

Version Aliases

- v6, v8, v10, v12, etc: Head of major version line by version number
- dubnium, carbon`: Named alias for LTS lines