semiver

A tiny (187B) utility to compare semver strings.

Compare semver strings (eg, 1.8.2, 2.0.0-next.6, 0.0.0-alpha-1, etc) using the Intl.Collator class. Version suffixes are supported and are considered during comparison.

The output will always be 0, 1, or -1, allowing semiver to be used directly as a compare function for Array.sort().

This module exposes three module definitions:

• ES Module: dist/semiver.mjs
• CommonJS: dist/semiver.js
• UMD: dist/semiver.min.js

Install

$ npm install --save semiver

Usage

import semiver from 'semiver';

// A === B
semiver('0.0.0', '0.0.0'); //=> 0
semiver('1.2.3', '1.2.3'); //=> 0

// A > B
semiver('2.1.0', '1.9.0'); //=> 1
semiver('1.9.1', '1.9.0'); //=> 1
semiver('10.0.0', '1.0.0'); //=> 1
semiver('10.0.0', '8.9.0'); //=> 1
semiver('1.2.3-next.10', '1.2.3-next.6'); //=> 1
semiver('2.0.0-alpha-10', '2.0.0-alpha-6'); //=> 1
semiver('2.0.0-beta.1', '2.0.0-alpha.8'); //=> 1

// A < B
semiver('1.9.0', '2.1.0'); //=> -1
semiver('1.9.0', '1.9.1'); //=> -1
semiver('1.0.0', '10.0.0'); //=> -1
semiver('8.9.0', '10.0.0'); //=> -1
semiver('1.2.3-next.6', '1.2.3-next.10'); //=> -1
semiver('2.0.0-alpha-6', '2.0.0-alpha-10'); //=> -1
semiver('2.0.0-alpha.8', '2.0.0-beta.1'); //=> -1

// Sorting
[
  '4.11.6', '4.2.0',
  '1.5.19', '1.5.5',
  '1.0.0', '1.0.0-rc.1',
  '1.2.3', '1.2.3-alpha',
  '1.0.0-alpha.1', '1.0.0-alpha',
  '1.0.0-beta.11', '1.0.0-beta'
].sort(semiver);
/*
  [ '1.0.0-alpha',
    '1.0.0-alpha.1',
    '1.0.0-beta',
    '1.0.0-beta.11',
    '1.0.0-rc.1',
    '1.0.0',
    '1.2.3-alpha',
    '1.2.3',
    '1.5.5',
    '1.5.19',
    '4.2.0',
    '4.11.6' ]
*/

API

semiver(a, b)

Returns: Number

• 0 indicates that a is equal to b
• -1 indicates that a is less than b
• 1 indicates that a is greater than b

a

Type: String

The input string to compare.

b

Type: String

The string to compare against.

License

MIT © Luke Edwards