Get previous versions of a package in NPM

Question

How do I find out all previous versions of a package using npm?

In this instance, I am interested in cordova. If I execute npm install -g cordova, I will install the latest version (which is what you'd expect).

If I do npm install -g [email protected] then I get the specific version installed - I would like to know because I am having troubles with the latest version of a package, and would like to test which version the problem occurred in - but cannot do that if I don't know which npm package versions there have been.

Answer 1

Try:

In your terminal:

npm view cordova versions 

Output:

[ '0.0.0-fake',   '0.0.1',   '0.0.2',   '0.0.3',   '0.0.4',   '0.0.5',   '0.0.6',   '0.0.7',   '0.0.8',   '0.0.9',   '0.1.0',   '0.1.1',   '0.1.2',   '0.1.3',   '0.1.4',   '0.1.5',   '0.1.6',   '0.1.7',   '0.1.8',   '0.1.9',   '0.1.10',   '0.1.11',   '0.1.12',   '0.1.13',   '0.1.14',   '2.2.0',   '2.3.0',   '2.3.1',   '2.3.2',   '2.3.3',   '2.3.5',   '2.3.6',   '2.4.0',   '2.4.1',   '2.4.2',   '2.4.3',   '2.4.4',   '2.4.5',   '2.4.6',   '2.4.7',   '2.4.8',   '2.4.9',   '2.4.10',   '2.5.0',   '2.5.2',   '2.5.3',   '2.5.4',   '2.5.5',   '2.6.0',   '2.6.1',   '2.6.2',   '2.7.0-rc.1',   '2.7.1-rc.1',   '2.7.2',   '2.7.3',   '2.7.4',   '2.8.0',   '2.8.1',   '2.8.2',   '2.8.3',   '2.8.4',   '2.8.5',   '2.8.6',   '2.8.7',   '2.8.8',   '2.8.9',   '2.8.10',   '2.8.11',   '2.8.12',   '2.8.13',   '2.8.14',   '2.8.15',   '2.8.16',   '2.8.17',   '2.8.18',   '2.8.19',   '2.8.20',   '2.8.21',   '2.8.22',   '2.8.23',   '2.8.24',   '2.8.25',   '2.9.0-rc1',   '2.9.0',   '2.9.1',   '2.9.2',   '2.9.3',   '2.9.4',   '2.9.5',   '2.9.6',   '2.9.7',   '3.0.0-rc1',   '3.0.0-rc1-1',   '3.0.0-rc1-3',   '3.0.0',   '3.0.1',   '3.0.2',   '3.0.3',   '3.0.4',   '3.0.5',   '3.0.6',   '3.0.7',   '3.0.8',   '3.0.9',   '3.0.10',   '3.1.0-0.1.0',   '3.1.0-0.2.0',   '3.2.0-0.1.0',   '3.2.0-0.2.0',   '3.2.0-0.3.0',   '3.2.0-0.4.0',   '3.2.0-rc.1',   '3.3.0-0.1.1',   '3.3.0-rc.1',   '3.3.1-0.1.2',   '3.3.1-0.3.0',   '3.3.1-0.3.1',   '3.3.1-0.4.1',   '3.3.1-0.4.2',   '3.4.0-0.1.0',   '3.4.0-0.1.1',   '3.4.0-0.1.2',   '3.4.0-0.1.3',   '3.4.1-0.1.0',   '3.5.0-0.2.0',   '3.5.0-0.2.1',   '3.5.0-0.2.2',   '3.5.0-0.2.3',   '3.5.0-0.2.4',   '3.5.0-0.2.6',   '3.5.0-0.2.7',   '3.6.0-0.2.8',   '3.6.0-0.2.9',   '3.6.1-0.2.10',   '3.6.3-0.2.11',   '3.6.3-0.2.12',   '3.6.3-0.2.13',   '4.0.0',   '4.0.1',   '4.1.0',   '4.1.1',   '4.1.2',   '4.1.3-nightly.2014.10.21',   '4.2.0',   '4.3.0',   '4.3.1',   '5.0.0',   '5.1.1',   '5.2.0',   '5.3.1',   '5.3.3',   '5.4.0' ] 

That should list the old versions of the package you're looking for -- in this case, the package is "cordova."

Then you can install what you want using whichever npm install command you choose to install with.