1# latest-version [](https://travis-ci.org/sindresorhus/latest-version) 2 3> Get the latest version of an npm package 4 5Fetches 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. 6 7 8## Install 9 10``` 11$ npm install --save latest-version 12``` 13 14 15## Usage 16 17```js 18const latestVersion = require('latest-version'); 19 20latestVersion('ava').then(version => { 21 console.log(version); 22 //=> '0.18.0' 23}); 24 25latestVersion('@sindresorhus/df').then(version => { 26 console.log(version); 27 //=> '1.0.1' 28}); 29``` 30 31 32## Related 33 34- [latest-version-cli](https://github.com/sindresorhus/latest-version-cli) - CLI for this module 35- [package-json](https://github.com/sindresorhus/package-json) - Get the package.json of a package from the npm registry 36 37 38## License 39 40MIT © [Sindre Sorhus](https://sindresorhus.com) 41
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