When writing bower.json you can specify version numbers in your dependencies. Sometimes I see people writing
{ ... "devDependencies" : { "grunt" : "~0.3.13", } }
What exactly does the ~ mean? Why not write >=0.3.13?
Is this some sort of best practice?
It's semver and the notation is the same as >=0.3.13 <0.4.0
, which will match all patch
releases after and including 0.3.13
, but not 0.4.0
. This means you'll get bug fixes (patch
), but not new features (minor
). >=0.3.13
is not recommended as it will match anything above which will at some point break.
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