devEngines

[justinbmeyer]

A few of my projects require a certain version of NPM to do development work. For example, they use preversion, version, and postversion scripts. I'd like to let people know they need to upgrade npm, but only if they are doing development work. I don't want them to update if they are simply using the project.

Would you consider adding a devEngines config that would warn only when a package is being used in a development context?

Thanks!

[nrempel]

I'd like to see this functionality too!

In the meantime, you can set it up manually by following the lead of https://github.com/facebook/react.

Steps:

• Add devEngines to your package.json (example)
• Install this package: https://www.npmjs.com/package/fbjs-scripts
• Add a postinstall hook to check dev dependencies (example)

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[danny-andrews]

Alternatively, you can just use existing tools for this: nvm + .nvmrc.