npm-deprecate - Deprecate a version of a package Synopsis npm deprecate <pkg>[@<version>] <message> Note: This command is unaware of workspaces. Description This command will update the npm registry entry for a package, provid- ing a deprecation warning to all who attempt to install it. It works on version ranges https://semver.npmjs.com/ as well as spe- cific versions, so you can do something like this: npm deprecate my-thing@"< 0.2.3" "critical bug fixed in v0.2.3" SemVer ranges passed to this command are interpreted such that they do include prerelease versions. For example: npm deprecate my-thing@1.x "1.x is no longer supported" In this case, a version my-thing@1.0.0-beta.0 will also be deprecated. You must be the package owner to deprecate something. See the owner and adduser help topics. To un-deprecate a package, specify an empty string ("") for the message argument. Note that you must use double quotes with no space between them to format an empty string. Configuration registry o Default: "https://registry.npmjs.org/" o Type: URL The base URL of the npm registry. otp o Default: null o Type: null or String This is a one-time password from a two-factor authenticator. It's needed when publishing or changing package permissions with npm access. If not set, and a registry response fails with a challenge for a one-time password, npm will prompt on the command line for one. See Also o npm help publish o npm help registry o npm help owner o npm help adduser
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NAME
npm-deprecate - Deprecate a version of a package
Synopsis
npm deprecate <pkg>[@<version>] <message>
Note: This command is unaware of workspaces.
Description
This command will update the npm registry entry for a package, provid-
ing a deprecation warning to all who attempt to install it.
It works on version ranges https://semver.npmjs.com/ as well as spe-
cific versions, so you can do something like this:
npm deprecate my-thing@"< 0.2.3" "critical bug fixed in v0.2.3"
SemVer ranges passed to this command are interpreted such that they do
include prerelease versions. For example:
npm deprecate my-thing@1.x "1.x is no longer supported"
In this case, a version my-thing@1.0.0-beta.0 will also be deprecated.
You must be the package owner to deprecate something. See the owner
and adduser help topics.
To un-deprecate a package, specify an empty string ("") for the message
argument. Note that you must use double quotes with no space between
them to format an empty string.
Configuration
registry
o Default: "https://registry.npmjs.org/"
o Type: URL
The base URL of the npm registry.
otp
o Default: null
o Type: null or String
This is a one-time password from a two-factor authenticator. It's
needed when publishing or changing package permissions with npm access.
If not set, and a registry response fails with a challenge for a
one-time password, npm will prompt on the command line for one.
See Also
o npm help publish
o npm help registry
o npm help owner
o npm help adduser
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+---------------+--------------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+--------------------------+
|Availability | runtime/nodejs/nodejs-18 |
+---------------+--------------------------+
|Stability | Pass-thru volatile |
+---------------+--------------------------+
NOTES
Source code for open source software components in Oracle Solaris can
be found at https://www.oracle.com/downloads/opensource/solaris-source-
code-downloads.html.
This software was built from source available at
https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland. The original community
source was downloaded from https://github.com/nodejs/node/ar-
chive/v18.1.0.zip.
Further information about this software can be found on the open source
community website at https://github.com/nodejs/node.
April 2022 NPM-DEPRECATE(1)