npm/node-semver

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The semantic versioning (semver) parser and comparison library used by npm itself, implemented in JavaScript for Node.js. It parses, validates, compares, and evaluates version strings and version ranges (caret, tilde, hyphen, and comparator syntax).

Use cases

• parse and validate semantic version strings in node
• check if a version satisfies a semver range like ^1.2.0
• compare and sort package versions
• increment major/minor/patch versions programmatically
• coerce messy version strings like 'v2' into valid semver
• find max or min version matching a range

When to choose

• you are building npm-related tooling or dependency management in Node.js
• you need battle-tested, spec-compliant semver parsing and range matching
• you want to compare, sort, or increment versions in a JavaScript project

When to avoid

• you need semver handling outside the JavaScript/Node ecosystem
• you need a CLI-only tool rather than a library (though a small semver(1) CLI is included)
• you need parsing of non-semver version schemes like calendar versioning

Facets

library · maturity stable

parser developer-tools package-manager developer-tools version-control programming-languages semver semantic-versioning npm version-comparison version-ranges nodejs javascript

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