recently-published

A simple CLI tool to get the most recently published versions of a package on npm or see which installed package versions were most recently published.

Usage

Usage: recently-published [options] [optionalPackageName]

Arguments:
  optionalPackageName       Optional package name whose recently published versions you want to see. If not provided, will display recently published packages installed in the current directory.

Options:
  -V, --version             output the version number
  -d, --display <number>    Number of recently published versions you would like displayed or "all" if you want to display all of them (default: "5")
  -ep, --excludePrerelease  Exclude prerelease versions from the list of recently published versions
  --json                    Output the result in JSON format
  -h, --help                display help for command

Examples

Get 5 most recently published packages installed in the current directory

npx recently-published

returns

 Name                       Version  Published     Date                   
 eslint                     9.10.0   46 hours ago  Fri Sep 6 2024 4:26 PM
 @eslint/js                 9.10.0   46 hours ago  Fri Sep 6 2024 4:06 PM
 picocolors                 1.1.0    5 days ago    Mon Sep 2 2024 7:46 PM
 typescript-eslint          8.4.0    6 days ago    Mon Sep 2 2024 1:16 PM
 @typescript-eslint/parser  8.4.0    6 days ago    Mon Sep 2 2024 1:16 PM

Get 5 most recently published versions of "react"

npx recently-published react

returns

 react
 Version                               Published   Date                    
 0.0.0-experimental-a03254bc-20240905  2 days ago  Fri Sep 6 2024 12:20 PM
 19.0.0-rc-a03254bc-20240905           2 days ago  Fri Sep 6 2024 12:18 PM
 0.0.0-experimental-4c58fce7-20240904  3 days ago  Thu Sep 5 2024 12:20 PM
 19.0.0-rc-4c58fce7-20240904           3 days ago  Thu Sep 5 2024 12:18 PM
 0.0.0-experimental-d1afcb43-20240903  4 days ago  Wed Sep 4 2024 12:20 PM

Get 5 most recently published versions of "react" excluding prerelease versions

npx recently-published react -ep

returns

 react
 Version  Published     Date                     
 18.3.1   4 months ago  Fri Apr 26 2024 12:42 PM
 18.3.0   4 months ago  Thu Apr 25 2024 12:45 PM
 18.2.0   2 years ago   Tue Jun 14 2022 3:46 PM
 18.1.0   2 years ago   Tue Apr 26 2022 4:40 PM
 18.0.0   2 years ago   Tue Mar 29 2022 12:00 PM

Get all published versions of "ink-spinner" sorted by publish date

npx recently-published ink-spinner -d all

returns

 ink-spinner
 Version  Published      Date                     
 5.0.0    18 months ago  Wed Mar 1 2023 4:04 PM
 4.0.3    2 years ago    Tue Oct 5 2021 1:19 PM
 4.0.2    3 years ago    Fri May 7 2021 3:09 PM
 4.0.1    4 years ago    Tue Aug 18 2020 2:58 PM
 4.0.0    4 years ago    Sun Jul 26 2020 3:49 PM
 4.0.0-0  4 years ago    Tue Jun 23 2020 3:51 PM
 3.1.0    4 years ago    Tue Jun 23 2020 3:22 PM
 3.0.1    5 years ago    Sun Apr 14 2019 11:14 PM
 3.0.0    5 years ago    Mon Mar 4 2019 2:59 AM
 2.0.0    6 years ago    Sun May 20 2018 2:58 PM
 1.0.0    7 years ago    Sat Jul 15 2017 3:10 PM