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# latest-version [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/sindresorhus/latest-version.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/sindresorhus/latest-version)

> Get the latest version of a npm package

Fetches the version directly from the registry instead of depending on the massive [npm](https://github.com/npm/npm/blob/8b5e7b6ae5b4cd2d7d62eaf93b1428638b387072/package.json#L37-L85) module like the [latest](https://github.com/bahamas10/node-latest) module does.


## Install

```sh
$ npm install --save latest-version
```


## Usage

```js
var latestVersion = require('latest-version');

latestVersion('pageres', function (err, version) {
	console.log(version);
	//=> 0.2.3
});
```


## CLI

```sh
$ npm install --global latest-version
```

```sh
$ latest-version --help

  Usage
    latest-version <package-name>

  Example
    latest-version pageres
    0.4.1ersion pageres
  0.2.3
```


## License

MIT © [Sindre Sorhus](http://sindresorhus.com)

Version data entries

62 entries across 62 versions & 1 rubygems

Version	Path
trusty-festivity-extension-2.3.1	node_modules/bower/node_modules/update-notifier/node_modules/latest-version/readme.md
trusty-festivity-extension-2.3.0	node_modules/bower/node_modules/update-notifier/node_modules/latest-version/readme.md