sver-compat

Fork of @guybedford's Sver library. Adds compatibility for node <6.

npm install sver-compat

var Semver = require('sver-compat').Semver;
var SemverRange = require('sver-compat').SemverRange;

// Static usage:
SemverRange.match('^1.2.3', '1.2.4'); // true

// Class usage:
var range = new SemverRange('^1.2.3');
var version = new Semver('1.2.4');
version.matches(range);               // true
range.has(version);                   // true

Range support

Restricts version ranges to the simplified cases:

*: Wildcard range
MAJOR: Match exact major
MAJOR.MINOR Match exact major and minor
MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH[-PRE] Match exact semver
~MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH[-PRE]: Match patch bumps
^MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH[-PRE]: Match minor and patch bumps

Invalid ranges will fallback to being detected as exact string matches.

Prerelease Matching

By default, as per convention, ranges like ^1.2.3-alpha only match prerelease ranges on the same patch (1.2.3-alpha.4), but not prerelease ranges from further patches (1.3.4-alpha).

To alter this matching, a third boolean argument can be provided to the match function to support these unstable matches:

SemverRange.match('^1.2.3', '1.5.6-beta');       // false
SemverRange.match('^1.2.3', '1.5.6-beta', true); // true

Best Version Match

var versions = ['1.2.3', '1.3.4-alpha', '1.3.4-alpha.1', '1.3.4-beta'];
var range = new SemverRange('*');

var bestStableMatch = range.bestMatch(versions);
bestStableMatch.toString();                     // 1.2.3

var bestUnstableMatch = range.bestMatch(versions, true);
bestUnstableMatch.toString();                   // 1.3.4-beta

Version and Range Sorting

var versions = ['2.4.5', '2.3.4-alpha', '1.2.3', '2.3.4-alpha.2'];
var ranges = ['^1.2.3', '1.2', '2.3.4'];

versions.sort(Semver.compare);   // [1.2.3, 2.3.4-alpha, 2.3.4-alpha.2, 2.4.5]
ranges.sort(SemverRange.compare) // [1.2, ^1.2.3, 2.3.4]

Conversion from Node Semver Ranges

A utility function is included to convert Node Semver ranges into Semver ranges.

This requires semver to be installed in the application running this process.

Note this conversion is lossy by definition.

var convertRange = require('sver-compat/convert-range');

convertRange('>=2.3.4 <3.0.0').toString(); // ^2.3.4
convertRange('1 || 2 || 3').toString();    // ^3.0.0

Semver and Semver Range Validation

When a version string fails semver validation it falls back to being treated as a tag, still as a Semver instance.

For example:

var version = new Semver('x.y.z');
version.tag === 'x.y.z';             // true

version = new Semver('^1.2.3');
version.major === undefined;         // true
version.tag === '^1.2.3';            // true

For validation, rather use Semver.isValid and SemverRange.isValid:

Semver.isValid('x.y.z');             // false
Semver.isValid('^1.2.3');            // false
SemverRange.isValid('^1.2.3');       // true

API

Semver

Static methods:

Semver.isValid(version: string): boolean: Whether the given string is a valid semver.
Semver.compare(v1: Semver|string, v2: Semver|string): number: 1 if v1 > v2, -1 if v1 < v2, 0 if equal.

For a given Semver instance version = new Semver('X.Y.Z'),

version.major: The major version number.
version.minor: The minor version number.
version.patch: The patch version number.
version.pre: The prerelease identifer, as an array of strings (.-separated).
version.build: The build identifier, as a string.
version.tag: If not a valid semver, the full tag string.
version.gt(otherVersion: Semver|string): bool: Whether this version is greater than the other version.
version.lt(otherVersion: Semver|string): bool: Whether this version is less than the other version.
version.eq(otherVerion: Semver|string): bool: Whether this version equals the other version.
version.matches(range: SemverRange|string, unstable?: bool): bool: Whether this version matches the given version range.
version.toString(): string: Convert the version back to a string.

SemverRange