Node.js - npm-latest

Quickly find the latest version of a package in npm.

Why?

Sometimes I want to know if a single package needs to be updated. Also, I'm a package creatin' fool: https://www.npmjs.com/~jprichardson - I need to know quickly if a package name is taken.

Update 2015-03-29:

Support config registry in ~/.npmrc file，more on registry-url

Installation

npm install -g npm-latest

Example

npm-latest express

output:

  express:

    latest: 3.0.0rc2
    last updated: Fri Aug 03 2012 15:33:05 GMT-0500 (CDT)
    author: TJ Holowaychuk
    repo: git://github.com/visionmedia/express
    description: Sinatra inspired web development framework

License

(MIT License)

Copyright 2012-2015, JP Richardson jprichardson@gmail.com

1.0.2 / 2016-04-20

• bug fix when module not found: [#8][#8]

1.0.1 / 2015-06-30

• fix license https://github.com/jprichardson/npm-latest/pull/7
• specify files for npm https://github.com/jprichardson/npm-latest/pull/6

1.0.0 / 2015-04-02

• bug fix npm registery has updated to return (probably different mime type)
• use any npm registery https://github.com/jprichardson/npm-latest/pull/5

0.1.0 / 2013-03-19

• Handle multiple arguments [#2 / paulmillr]
• Convert Github repos to http urls.

0.0.1 / 2012-08-09

• Initial release.

[#8]: https://github.com/jprichardson/npm-latest/pull/8 "throws "delete" error when module not found" [#7]: https://github.com/jprichardson/npm-latest/pull/7 "Specify license as string" [#6]: https://github.com/jprichardson/npm-latest/pull/6 "Specify pkg.files to exclude tests and examples" [#5]: https://github.com/jprichardson/npm-latest/pull/5 "Fetch latest version" [#4]: https://github.com/jprichardson/npm-latest/pull/4 "Add package registry-url" [#3]: https://github.com/jprichardson/npm-latest/pull/3 "Split cli from core" [#2]: https://github.com/jprichardson/npm-latest/pull/2 "Add support for multiple arguments." [#1]: https://github.com/jprichardson/npm-latest/issues/1 "why not use built in npm commands?"