How to add dependency to NPM package so that I get the latest version that ends with a specific tag

Question

The npm package for NW.js (package name "nw") has versions like this:

0.16.0-beta2sdk, 0.16.0-beta1sdk, 0.15.4, 0.15.4-sdk, 0.15.3, 0.15.3-sdk, 0.15.2, 0.15.2-sdk,...

I am currently using nw as a dependency in my package.json manifest, and I was wondering what version I need to specify to get "the latest version that ends with -sdk".

I have tried things like '*-sdk' and '0.x-sdk' but that didn't quite work as intended. I had a look at the syntax for semantic versioning but couldn't immediately find something for tags like this.

Anyone know if this can be done via semantic versioning syntax?

Thanks

Answer 1

You can add "latest" as the value in the packages.json file with the key being any package that you want to install like:

{
   "package_name": "latest"
}