Find the version of an installed npm package

How can I find the version of an installed Node.js or npm **package**?

This prints the version of npm itself:

npm -v <package-name>

This prints a cryptic error:

npm version <package-name>

This prints the package version *on the registry* (i.e., the latest version available):

npm view <package-name> version

How do I get the **installed version**?

To see all the installed packages locally or globally, use these commands:

1. `npm list` for local packages or `npm list -g` for globally installed packages.
2. `npm list --depth=0`
3. `npm list | sls <package name>`
4. `node -v`

You may try this:
```npm show {package} version``` shows the latest package version.
And if your package is outdated, ```npm outdated``` will show it with version info.

You can also check the version with this command:

`npm info <package name> version`

To list local packages with the version number use:

```npm ls --depth=0```

To list global packages with the version number use:

```npm ls -g --depth=0```

**npm list package-name** gives the currently installed version

Just check your package.json file.

"dependencies": {
"ajv": "^8.9.0",
"ajv-keywords": "^5.1.0",
"fastify": "^3.27.0"

Another quick way of finding out what packages are installed **locally** and **without their dependencies** is to use:

```lang-none
npm list --depth=0
```

Which gives you something like

```lang-none
├── [email protected]
├── [email protected]
├── [email protected]
├── [email protected]
├── [email protected]
├── [email protected]
├── [email protected]
├── [email protected]
├── [email protected]
├── [email protected]
├── [email protected]
└── [email protected]
```

Obviously, the same can be done globally with `npm list -g --depth=0`.

This method is clearer if you have installed a lot of packages.

To find out which packages need to be updated, you can use `npm outdated -g --depth=0`.

`npm view <package> version` - returns the latest available version on the package.

`npm list --depth=0` - returns versions of all installed modules without dependencies.

`npm list` - returns versions of all modules and dependencies.

And lastly to get the Node.js version: `node -v`

Use `npm list` for local packages or `npm list -g` for globally installed packages.

You can find the version of a specific package by passing its name as an argument. For example, `npm list grunt` will result in:

```lang-none
projectName@projectVersion /path/to/project/folder
└── [email protected]
```

Alternatively, you can just run `npm list` without passing a package name as an argument to see the versions of all your packages:

```lang-none
├─┬ [email protected]
│ └── [email protected]
├── [email protected]
├── [email protected]
├─┬ [email protected]
│ ├── [email protected]
│ └── [email protected]
└── [email protected]
```

You can also add `--depth=0` argument to list installed packages without their dependencies.