https://github.com/inadarei/node-versions-list
Gives a listing of all Node versions
https://github.com/inadarei/node-versions-list
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Gives a listing of all Node versions
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/inadarei/node-versions-list
- Owner: inadarei
- Created: 2016-02-15T01:19:26.000Z (over 9 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2016-02-15T12:59:47.000Z (over 9 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-03-09T04:47:36.806Z (7 months ago)
- Language: JavaScript
- Size: 7.81 KB
- Stars: 1
- Watchers: 2
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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- Readme: README.md
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# Node Vers
Gives a listing of all Node versions
## Usage:
You can use node-vers as a module or a CLI utility.
### Using as a module:
```javascript
var nodevers = require('node-vers');
nodevers.list(null, function(err, result) {
if (err) {
console.error("Error occurred: " + err);
} else {
console.log(result);
}
});
```
You can also exclude certain fields from the resulting JSON, if you don't need them:
```javascript
var options = { "blacklist" : ["files", "openssl", "modules", "uv", "zlib"] };
nodevers.list(options, function(err, result) {
console.log(result);
});
```
And you can indicate to only get single (latest) value for each minor version:
```javascript
var options = { "latest_only" : true
, "blacklist" : ["files", "openssl", "modules", "uv", "zlib"] };
nodevers.list(options, function(err, result) {
console.log(result);
});
```
### Using as a CLI utility
```console
> npm install -g node-vers
> node-vers
```
## Alternatives:
- NV:
Differences:
1. NV caches static list of node versions and you need to run an update script if you want to get the latest list. Node-vers does a live lookup every time.
2. NV grabs the list of versions by looking at the list of tags in Node's github repo. This is pretty cool, but it means: git must be installed wherever you want to use this module + you may get something weird if somebody over at Node accidentally creates a stray git tag.
3. NV only returns the list of versions, while Node-Vers returns an object, for each version, containing following kind of metadata:
```
{ version: 'v5.6.0',
date: '2016-02-09',
files: 'headers,linux-arm64,linux-armv6l,linux-armv7l,linux-x64,linux-x86,osx-x64-pkg,osx-x64-tar,src,sunos-x64,sunos-x86,win-x64-msi,win-x86-msi',
npm: '3.6.0',
v8: '4.6.85.31',
uv: '1.8.0',
zlib: '1.2.8',
openssl: '1.0.2f',
modules: '47' }
```
3. NV supports both Node.js and IO.js. Since IO.js was merged back into Node, I had no interest in supporting io.js