Shorthands of the flags can also be used: -no-optional will prevent optional dependencies from being installed.-save-optional installs and adds the entry to the package.json file optionalDependencies.-no-save installs but does not add the entry to the package.json file dependencies.-save-dev installs and adds the entry to the package.json file devDependencies.Often you'll see more flags added to this command: Before version 5, you needed to add the flag -save. Obviously none of them were tagged as latest, so trying to use to get one is pointless.įrom the registry: 'dist-tags': Īgain, use the GitHub releases for the bleeding edge, or use the versions/tags explicitly.Furthermore, since npm 5, this command adds to the package.json file dependencies. The versions listed as betas were tagged differently. does not pull the most recent version published to npm In the case of this package, that's release 1.0.1. Installing simply looks up the release tagged as latest in the registry. Latest is an implicit tag, attached to any published version of a package that was not published with an explicit tag ( -tag). This is made pretty clear by reading the manual. $ npm install webpack/extract-text-webpack-plugin

If you want the beta releases, then install from GitHub, or use the tags explicitly. Typically, projects only use the latest tag for stable release versions, and use other tags for unstable versions such as prereleases.īy default, other than latest, no tag has any special significance to npm itself. Tags can be used to provide an alias instead of version numbers.įor example, a project might choose to have multiple streams of development and use a different tag for each stream, e.g., stable, beta, dev, canary.īy default, the latest tag is used by npm to identify the current version of a package, and npm install (without any or specifier) installs the latest tag. Version 1.0.1 is the 'latest' version of that package - published to the npm registry at least ( tagged as latest)įrom the docs for cli/dist-tag.

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