Determine the latest available version of a package in npm
npm install latestlatest
======
Quickly determine the latest available version of a package in npm
Useful for command line tools that want to check for available upgrades
Example
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Get the latest version number of autocast
`` js
var latest = require('latest');
latest('autocast', function(err, v) {
console.log(v);
// => "0.0.3"
});
`
Errors passed directly from npm
` js
var latest = require('latest');
latest('i-hope-this-package-never-exists', function(err, v) {
console.error(err.message);
// => "404 Not Found: i-hope-this-package-never-exists"
});
`
Check for upgrades in an app
` js
var latest = require('latest');
var p = require('./package.json');
latest.checkupdate(p, function(ret, message) {
console.log(message);
// => "you are running the latest version 0.0.1"
process.exit(ret);
// => 0
});
`
#### checkupdate(package-json-obj, cb(ret, message))
A convenience method that will check for newer versions of a module in npm given a
package.json object as the first argument.
The callback fires with a return code suitable for exiting with, and a message to print
Command Line
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`
$ latest latest json npm notfound
latest: 0.1.2
json: 9.0.3
npm: 2.6.0
notfound: Error: 404 Not Found: notfound
Install
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npm install [-g] latest
Tests
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npm test
License
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MIT Licensed