How to check the version of an installed npm package

In this tutorial, we are going to learn about how to check the version of a installed npm package and its dependencies.

Installed version of all packages

To check the installed version of all npm packages in your project, you can use the npm list command.

npm list

Output:

├─┬ express@4.17.1
│ ├─┬ accepts@1.3.7
│ │ ├─┬ mime-types@2.1.26
│ │ │ └── mime-db@1.43.0
│ │ └── negotiator@0.6.2
│ ├── array-flatten@1.1.1
│ ├─┬ body-parser@1.19.0
│ │ ├── bytes@3.1.0
│ │ ├── content-type@1.0.4 deduped
│ │ ├── debug@2.6.9 deduped
│ │ ├── depd@1.1.2 deduped
│ │ ├─┬ http-errors@1.7.2
│ │ │ ├── depd@1.1.2 deduped
│ │ │ ├── inherits@2.0.3
│ │ │ ├── setprototypeof@1.1.1 deduped
│ │ │ ├── statuses@1.5.0 deduped
│ │ │ └── toidentifier@1.0.0
│ │ ├─┬ iconv-lite@0.4.24
│ │ │ └── safer-buffer@2.1.2
│ │ ├── on-finished@2.3.0 deduped
│ │ ├── qs@6.7.0 deduped

Note: The npm list command doesn’t only show the installed version of packages, but also their dependencies (version).

For globally installed packages, you can use the npm list -g command.

Installed version of a particular package

To check the installed version of a particular package, you can use the npm list command by specifying a package name.

Example:

npm list express

Output:

node-project@1.0.0 /Users/saigowtham/Desktop/node-project
└── express@4.17.1

If you want to check the latest version of a package available in npm repository, you can use the npm view package-name version command.

npm view express version

Output:

4.17.1