After I upgraded to the latest stable node
and npm
, I tried npm install moment --save
. It saves the entry in the package.json
with the caret ^
prefix. Previously, it was a tilde ~
prefix.
npm
?~
and caret ^
?See the NPM docs and semver docs:
~version
“Approximately equivalent to version”, will automatically update you to all future patch versions that are backwards-compatible, without incrementing the minor version. ~1.2.3
will use releases from 1.2.3
to < 1.3.0
.
^version
“Compatible with version”, will automatically update you to all future minor/patch versions that are backwards-compatible, without incrementing the major version. ^1.2.3
will use releases from 1.2.3
to < 2.0.0
.
See Comments below for exceptions, in particular for pre-one versions, such as ^0.2.3