Find the version of an installed npm package

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How to find the version of an installed node js npm package   This prints the version of npm itself   npm -v  lt package-name gt    This prints a cryptic error   npm version  lt package-name gt    This prints the package version on the registry  i e  the latest version available    npm view  lt package-name gt  version   How do I get the installed version

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If you agree to install jq  you can use the JSON output of npm list   npm -j ls  lt package-name gt    jq -r  version   or  if you want to be verbose   npm --json list  lt package-name gt    jq --raw-output   version    For instance     npm -j ls ghost   jq -r  version 0 4 2   Also  the JSON format is slightly different for global packages  so you ll need to change the query   For instance     npm -j -g ls   jq -r  dependencies ghost version 0 4 2

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npm info YOUR PACKAGE version   e g   npm info grunt version 0 4 5

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You can also view package json to manually in a text editor  see what packages are dependencies  Use this if npm list isn t working as a manual alternative

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You can use npm view  module  version  npm info  module  version  npm show  module  version or npm v  module  version to check the version on an installed npm module   Let s suppose my grunt module version is the 0 4 5   npm view grunt version   gt  0 4 5 npm info grunt version   gt  0 4 5 npm show grunt version   gt  0 4 5 npm v grunt version      gt  0 4 5

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Its very simple  Just type below line  npm view  lt  package-name  gt  version      Example     npm view redux version   I have version 7 2 0 of redux

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If you d like to check for a particular module installed globally  on  nix systems use  npm list -g --depth 0   grep  lt module name gt

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I added this to my  bashrc   function npmv       case    in   number of arguments passed     0  v    npm -v      store output from npm -v in variable         echo  NPM version is   v    can t use single quotes                                        v  would also work               1  s    npm list --depth 0  1   grep  1   cut -d   -f 2           echo   s              2  case   2  in   second argument         g   global  Syntax to compare bash string to literal              s    npm list --depth 0 -g  1   grep  1   cut -d   -f 2            echo   s                      l   latest              npm view  1 version   npm info  1 version does same thing                     echo  Invalid arguments                    esac                echo  Invalid arguments              esac    export -f npmv   Now all I have to do is type    npmv for the version of npm eg  NPM version is  4 2 0 npmv  lt package-name gt  for the local version eg  0 8 08  npmv  lt package-name gt  g for global version eg  0 8 09  npmv  lt package-name gt  l for latest version eg  0 8 10    Note -d on cut command means delimit by  followed by    then f means field the 2 means second field since there will be one either side of the   symbol

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npm view  lt package gt  version - returns the latest available version on the package   npm list --depth 0 - returns versions of all installed modules without dependencies   npm list - returns versions of all modules and dependencies   And lastly to get node version  node -v

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This is simple question  and should have a simpler answer than what I see above    To see the installed npm packages with their version  the command is npm ls --depth 0  which  by default  displays what is installed locally  To see the globally installed packages  add the -global argument  npm ls --depth 0 -global   --depth 0 returns a list of installed packages without their dependencies  which is what you re wanting to do most of the time   ls is the name of the command  and list is an alias for ls

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You can also check the version with this command   npm info  lt package name gt  version

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npm list --depth 0 is the command which shows all libraries with version but you can use npm-check  npm-check is a good library to manage all those things regarding the version system event it will show libraries versions  new version update  and unused version and many more   to install it just run  npm install -g npm-check   and simply run  npm-check   check the screenshot it is showing everything about the package version  new version update  and unused version     It works globally too  give it a try  Hope this help someone

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Here s a portable Unix  using grep and sed  one-liner that returns the version string of a globally-installed npm package  remove the g from -pg to query local packages instead      npm ll -pg --depth 0 grunt   grep -o          sed  s       s       0 4 5    the npm ll outputs a parseable string formatted like   usr lib node modules npm npm 2 14 8   the grep command extracts the value between   and    inclusive  the sed command removes the surrounding characters

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You may try this  npm show  package  version shows the latest package version  And if your package is outdated  npm outdated will show it with version info

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npm list package-name gives the currently installed version

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We can  use npm view any-promise your module name  -v

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From the root of the package do   node -p  require    package json   version    EDIT   so you need to cd into the module s home directory if you are not already there  If you have installed the module with npm install  then it will be under node modules  lt module name gt    EDIT 2  updated as per answer from  jeff-dickey

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Try with   npm list --depth 1 --global packagename

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I ve seen some very creative answers  but you can just do this  for global packages add the --global switch   npm ls package  Example  npm ls babel-cli  -- babel-cli 6 26 0  The npm documentation says that npm -ls  This command will print to stdout all the versions of packages that are installed  as well as their dependencies  in a tree-structure   NPM documentation

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I just used   npm list   grep  lt package name gt    and it worked great   On windows run   npm list   find  lt package name gt    In PowerShell run   npm list   sls  lt package name gt

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If you are brave enough  and have node installed   you can always do something like   echo  console log require    package json   version      node   This will print the version of the current package  You can also modify it to go insane  like this   echo  eval  var result   require  child process   execSync  npm version   encoding  utf8      console log result WHATEVER PACKAGE NAME      node   That will print the version of WHATEVER PACKAGE NAME package  that is seen by npm version

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Combining some of the above answers and produces a super simple and super quick lookup  Run from project root   No need to cd into any folder  just 1 line   node -p  require  SOMEPACKAGE package json   version

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Access the package json  You can access the package json or bower json of the package with   notepad   node modules  packageName package json  This will open the package json in notepad which has the version number of the  packageName you included in the command   For example    notepad   node modules vue-template-compiler package json  Good Luck

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To see all the installed packages locally or globally  use these commands    npm list for local packages or npm list -g for globally installed packages  npm list --depth 0 npm list   sls  lt package name gt  node -v

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Another quick way of finding out what packages are installed locally and without their dependencies is to use   npm list --depth 0   Which gives you something like    -- bower 0 8 6  -- grunt 0 4 1  -- grunt-bower-requirejs 0 4 3  -- grunt-contrib-clean 0 4 1  -- grunt-contrib-coffee 0 7 0  -- grunt-contrib-copy 0 4 1  -- grunt-contrib-imagemin 0 1 4  -- grunt-contrib-jshint 0 1 1  -- grunt-contrib-livereload 0 1 2  -- grunt-contrib-requirejs 0 4 1  -- grunt-regarde 0 1 1  -- grunt-svgmin 0 1 0   Obviously  the same can be done globally with npm list -g --depth 0   This method is clearer in case you have installed a lot of packages   To find out which packages need to be updated  you can use npm outdated -g --depth 0

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To list local packages with the version number use   npm ls --depth 0  To list global packages with the version number use   npm ls -g --depth 0

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npm list for local packages or npm list -g for globally installed packages   You can find the version of a specific package by passing its name as an argument  For example  npm list grunt will result in   projectName projectVersion  path to project folder  -- grunt 0 4 1   Alternatively  you can just run npm list without passing a package name as an argument to see the versions of all your packages    -- cli-color 0 1 6      -- es5-ext 0 7 1   -- coffee-script 1 3 3   -- less 1 3 0   -- sentry 0 1 2      -- file 0 2 1      -- underscore 1 3 3   -- uglify-js 1 2 6    You can also add --depth 0 argument to list installed packages without their dependencies

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I ve built a tool that does exactly that - qnm  qnm - A simple CLI utility for querying the node modules directory   Install it using   npm i --global qnm   and run   qnm  module    for example     gt  qnm lodash  lodash  -- 4 17 5  -- cli-table2     -- 3 10 1  -- karma    -- 3 10 1   Which means we have lodash installed in the root of the node modules and two other copies in the node modules of cli-table2 and karma   It s really fast  and has some nice features like tab completion and match search

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For local packages   npm list --depth 0   For Global packages   npm list  -g --depth 0

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