After I upgraded to 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 update you to all future patch versions, without incrementing the minor version. ~1.2.3
will use releases from 1.2.3 to <1.3.0.
^version
“Compatible with version”, will update you to all future minor/patch versions, without incrementing the major version. ^2.3.4
will use releases from 2.3.4 to <3.0.0.
See Comments below for exceptions, in particular for pre-one versions, such as ^0.2.3