Story of ^ and ~ in package.json
Ever wondered what are these characters in your package.json file. Let’s decipher it together. In package.json you write external modules your application depends on. Every module has a release which is in a format 16.0.1. These three digits mean something. 16 is a major release, 0 is a minor release and 1 is for bug fixes/patches. In technical terms its called Semver. For more info follow this link. Say we wanted only minor fixes for a package we will write ^16.0.1 and do npm install. This will only fetch minor releases from the repository instead of the whole thing. If we want just patches then we will write ~16.0.1. If we specify version then we will write nothing just 16.0.1.
Concluding we have three option ^,~ and nothing. Depending on what are the requirements choose the correct version
