Lightweight utility for retrieving the version of globally installed npm packages

Feature Completion Notice

Please note that we consider this package to be feature complete. We will continue to maintain and support this package by fixing any bugs discovered, updating dependency versions, etc. We will also consider PRs/Enhancement requests, but we do not have additional development activities planned at this time.

Install the package globally:

npm install -g get-pkg-version

Use it to retrieve a package version like this:

get-pkg-version <pkg-name>

For example: get-pkg-version get-pkg-version

Install the package into your project:

npm install --save get-pkg-version

Just call the function with the name of the package you want the get the version of:

import getPackageVersion = require('get-pkg-version');

getPackageVersion('package-name-you-want-version-of').then((version) => {
  console.log(version);
});

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