Find the installed version of an npm package

Aug 8, 2018

Learn how to find the installed version of an npm package with npm list, npm list --depth=0, and npm view to check the latest version on the registry.

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To see the latest version of all the npm package installed, including their dependencies:

npm list

Example:

❯ npm list
/Users/flavio/dev/node/cowsay
└─┬ [email protected]
  ├── [email protected]
  ├─┬ [email protected]
  │ ├── [email protected]
  │ └── [email protected]
  ├─┬ [email protected]
  │ ├── [email protected]
  │ └─┬ [email protected]
  │   └── [email protected]
  └── [email protected]

You can also just open the package-lock.json file, but this involves some visual scanning.

npm list -g is the same, but for globally installed packages.

To get only your top-level packages (basically, the ones you told npm to install and you listed in the package.json), run npm list --depth=0:

❯ npm list --depth=0
/Users/flavio/dev/node/cowsay
└── [email protected]

You can get the version of a specific package by specifying the name:

❯ npm list cowsay
/Users/flavio/dev/node/cowsay
└── [email protected]

This also works for dependencies of packages you installed:

❯ npm list minimist
/Users/flavio/dev/node/cowsay
└─┬ [email protected]
  └─┬ [email protected]
    └── [email protected]

If you want to see what’s the latest available version of the package on the npm repository, run npm view [package_name] version:

❯ npm view cowsay version

1.3.1

Tagged: Node.js · All topics

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