July 2017
Intermediate to advanced
656 pages
16h 1m
English
book
Node Cookbook - Third Edition
by Matteo Collina, David Mark Clements, Peter Elger, Mathias Buus Madsen
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Versioning
The npm tool supplies other functionality to help with module creation and management workflow.
For instance, the npm version command can allow us to manage our module's version number according to SemVer semantics.
SemVer
SemVer is a versioning standard. A version consists of three numbers separated by a dot, for example, 2.4.16. The position of a number denotes specific information about the version in comparison to the other versions. The three positions are known as MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH. The PATCH number is increased when changes have been made that don't break the existing functionality or add any new functionality. For instance, a bug fix will be considered a patch. The MINOR number should be increased when new backward compatible ...