Get previous versions of a package in NPM

How do I find out all previous versions of a package using npm?

In this instance, I am interested in cordova. If I execute npm install -g cordova, I will install the latest version (which is what you'd expect).

If I do npm install -g [email protected] then I get the specific version installed - I would like to know because I am having troubles with the latest version of a package, and would like to test which version the problem occurred in - but cannot do that if I don't know which npm package versions there have been.

Try:

In your terminal:

npm view cordova versions

Output:

[ '0.0.0-fake',  '0.0.1',  '0.0.2',  '0.0.3',  '0.0.4',  '0.0.5',  '0.0.6',  '0.0.7',  '0.0.8',  '0.0.9',  '0.1.0',  '0.1.1',  '0.1.2',  '0.1.3',  '0.1.4',  '0.1.5',  '0.1.6',  '0.1.7',  '0.1.8',  '0.1.9',  '0.1.10',  '0.1.11',  '0.1.12',  '0.1.13',  '0.1.14',  '2.2.0',  '2.3.0',  '2.3.1',  '2.3.2',  '2.3.3',  '2.3.5',  '2.3.6',  '2.4.0',  '2.4.1',  '2.4.2',  '2.4.3',  '2.4.4',  '2.4.5',  '2.4.6',  '2.4.7',  '2.4.8',  '2.4.9',  '2.4.10',  '2.5.0',  '2.5.2',  '2.5.3',  '2.5.4',  '2.5.5',  '2.6.0',  '2.6.1',  '2.6.2',  '2.7.0-rc.1',  '2.7.1-rc.1',  '2.7.2',  '2.7.3',  '2.7.4',  '2.8.0',  '2.8.1',  '2.8.2',  '2.8.3',  '2.8.4',  '2.8.5',  '2.8.6',  '2.8.7',  '2.8.8',  '2.8.9',  '2.8.10',  '2.8.11',  '2.8.12',  '2.8.13',  '2.8.14',  '2.8.15',  '2.8.16',  '2.8.17',  '2.8.18',  '2.8.19',  '2.8.20',  '2.8.21',  '2.8.22',  '2.8.23',  '2.8.24',  '2.8.25',  '2.9.0-rc1',  '2.9.0',  '2.9.1',  '2.9.2',  '2.9.3',  '2.9.4',  '2.9.5',  '2.9.6',  '2.9.7',  '3.0.0-rc1',  '3.0.0-rc1-1',  '3.0.0-rc1-3',  '3.0.0',  '3.0.1',  '3.0.2',  '3.0.3',  '3.0.4',  '3.0.5',  '3.0.6',  '3.0.7',  '3.0.8',  '3.0.9',  '3.0.10',  '3.1.0-0.1.0',  '3.1.0-0.2.0',  '3.2.0-0.1.0',  '3.2.0-0.2.0',  '3.2.0-0.3.0',  '3.2.0-0.4.0',  '3.2.0-rc.1',  '3.3.0-0.1.1',  '3.3.0-rc.1',  '3.3.1-0.1.2',  '3.3.1-0.3.0',  '3.3.1-0.3.1',  '3.3.1-0.4.1',  '3.3.1-0.4.2',  '3.4.0-0.1.0',  '3.4.0-0.1.1',  '3.4.0-0.1.2',  '3.4.0-0.1.3',  '3.4.1-0.1.0',  '3.5.0-0.2.0',  '3.5.0-0.2.1',  '3.5.0-0.2.2',  '3.5.0-0.2.3',  '3.5.0-0.2.4',  '3.5.0-0.2.6',  '3.5.0-0.2.7',  '3.6.0-0.2.8',  '3.6.0-0.2.9',  '3.6.1-0.2.10',  '3.6.3-0.2.11',  '3.6.3-0.2.12',  '3.6.3-0.2.13',  '4.0.0',  '4.0.1',  '4.1.0',  '4.1.1',  '4.1.2',  '4.1.3-nightly.2014.10.21',  '4.2.0',  '4.3.0',  '4.3.1',  '5.0.0',  '5.1.1',  '5.2.0',  '5.3.1',  '5.3.3',  '5.4.0' ]

That should list the old versions of the package you're looking for -- in this case, the package is "cordova."

Then you can install what you want using whichever npm install command you choose to install with.

To get a list of all versions available:

npm view cordova versions

to install an older version:

npm install -g cordova@5.2.0

In your CLI type npm view cordova versions, this would show you all the versions of cordova. Then type npm -g install cordova@versionno. For example, if u want to install version 5.0.0, type npm install -g [email protected]