README.md



npm-pick-manifest    


npm-pick-manifest is a standalone
implementation of npm's semver range resolution algorithm.


Install

$ npm install --save npm-pick-manifest


Table of Contents


Example
Features

API


pickManifest()


Example

const pickManifest = require('npm-pick-manifest')

fetch('https://registry.npmjs.org/npm-pick-manifest').then(res => {
  return res.json()
}).then(packument => {
  return pickManifest(packument, '^1.0.0')
}) // get same manifest as npm would get if you `npm i npm-pick-manifest@^1.0.0`


Features


Uses npm's exact semver resolution algorithm.
Supports ranges, tags, and versions.
Prefers non-deprecated versions to deprecated versions.
Prefers versions whose engines requirements are satisfied over those
that will raise a warning or error at install time.


API


 > pickManifest(packument, selector, [opts]) -> manifest


Returns the manifest that best matches selector, or throws an error.

Packuments are anything returned by metadata URLs from the npm registry. That
is, they're objects with the following shape (only fields used by
npm-pick-manifest included):

{
  name: 'some-package',
  'dist-tags': {
    foo: '1.0.1'
  },
  versions: {
    '1.0.0': { version: '1.0.0' },
    '1.0.1': { version: '1.0.1' },
    '1.0.2': { version: '1.0.2' },
    '2.0.0': { version: '2.0.0' }
  }
}


The algorithm will follow npm's algorithm for semver resolution, and only
tag, range, and version selectors are supported.

The function will throw ETARGET if there was no matching manifest, and
ENOVERSIONS if the packument object has no valid versions in versions.
If the only matching manifest is included in a policyRestrictions section
of the packument, then an E403 is raised.


 Options

All options are optional.


includeStaged - Boolean, default false.  Include manifests in the
stagedVersions.versions set, to support installing staged
packages when appropriate.  Note
that staged packages are always treated as lower priority than actual
publishes, even when includeStaged is set.

defaultTag - String, default 'latest'.  The default dist-tag to
install when no specifier is provided.  Note that the version indicated
by this specifier will be given top priority if it matches a supplied
semver range.

before - String, Date, or Number, default null. This is passed to
new Date(), so anything that works there will be valid.  Do not
consider any manifests that were published after the date indicated.
Note that this is only relevant when the packument includes a time
field listing the publish date of all the packages.

nodeVersion - String, default process.version.  The Node.js version
to use when checking manifests for engines requirement satisfaction.

npmVersion - String, default null.  The npm version to use when
checking manifest for engines requirement satisfaction.  (If null,
then this particular check is skipped.)

avoid - String, default null.  A SemVer range of
versions that should be avoided.  An avoided version MAY be selected if
there is no other option, so when using this for version selection ensure
that you check the result against the range to see if there was no
alternative available.

avoidStrict Boolean, default false.  If set to true, then
pickManifest will never return a version in the avoid range.  If the
only available version in the wanted range is a version that should be
avoided, then it will return a version outside the wanted range,
preferring to do so without making a SemVer-major jump, if possible.  If
there are no versions outside the avoid range, then throw an
ETARGET error.  It does this by calling pickManifest first with the
wanted range, then with a ^ affixed to the version returned by the
wanted range, and then with a * version range, and throwing if
nothing could be found to satisfy the avoidance request.


Return value is the manifest as it exists in the packument, possibly
decorated with the following boolean flags:


_shouldAvoid The version is in the avoid range.  Watch out!

_outsideDependencyRange The version is outside the wanted range,
because avoidStrict: true was set.

_isSemVerMajor The _outsideDependencyRange result is a SemVer-major
step up from the version returned by the wanted range.


Algorithm


Create list of all versions in versions,
policyRestrictions.versions, and (if includeStaged is set)
stagedVersions.versions.
If a dist-tag is requested,


If the manifest is not after the specified before date, then
select that from the set.
If the manifest is after the specified before date, then re-start
the selection looking for the highest SemVer range that is equal to
or less than the dist-tag target.


If a specific version is requested,


If the manifest is not after the specified before date, then
select the specified manifest.
If the manifest is after the specified before date, then raise
ETARGET error.  (NB: this is a breaking change from v5, where a
specified version would override the before setting.)


(At this point we know a range is requested.)
If the defaultTag refers to a dist-tag that satisfies the range (or
if the range is '*' or ''), and the manifest is published before the
before setting, then select that manifest.
If nothing is yet selected, sort by the following heuristics in order,
and select the top item:


Prioritize versions that are not in the avoid range over those
that are.
Prioritize versions that are not in policyRestrictions over those
that are.
Prioritize published versions over staged versions.
Prioritize versions that are not deprecated, and which have a
satisfied engines requirement, over those that are either deprecated
or have an engines mismatch.
Prioritize versions that have a satisfied engines requirement over
those that do not.
Prioritize versions that are not are not deprecated (but have a
mismatched engines requirement) over those that are deprecated.
Prioritize higher SemVer precedence over lower SemVer precedence.


If no manifest was selected, raise an ETARGET error.
If the selected item is in the policyRestrictions.versions list, raise
an E403 error.
Return the selected manifest.