https://github.com/bahamas10/node-latest

Quickly determine the latest available version of a package in npm
https://github.com/bahamas10/node-latest

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Quickly determine the latest available version of a package in npm

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/bahamas10/node-latest
• Owner: bahamas10
• Created: 2012-08-29T00:35:29.000Z (over 12 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2020-07-07T19:01:46.000Z (over 4 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-08-10T04:21:46.082Z (5 months ago)
• Language: JavaScript
• Size: 7.81 KB
• Stars: 10
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 2
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  • Readme: README.md

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latest

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Quickly determine the latest available version of a package in [npm](http://npmjs.org)

Useful for command line tools that want to check for available upgrades

Example

-------

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"

});

```

### Convenience Function

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