Instead of installing the latest version of an NPM package using
npm install x@latest
is there a way to view the latest stable version? something like this:
npm view x@stable version
I am looking for a programmatic/command line solution.
https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/view
Utilizing the following syntax returns the semver/value of the latest stable version only:
npm view <name> dist-tags.latest
You'll need to replace the <name> part with the actual package name.
Example:
npm view babel-cli dist-tags.latest
Running the command above currently prints 6.26.0 to the console, whilst the latest non-stable version available is the npm registry is currently 7.0.0-beta.3
Notes:
The command above will report the same version which would get installed when running:
npm install <name>@latest
Caveat: For either of the two commands to get the truly stable latest version they are reliant on the author/owner of the package having correctly managed their dist-tags. An excerpt from the docs (at the link provided) reads:
Publishing a package sets the
latesttag to the published version unless the--tagoption is used. For example,npm publish --tag=beta.
