Elixir dialect

NPM vs Elixir syntax cheat‐sheet

NPM/Elixir syntax equivalences

NPM	Elixir	Comment on Elixir syntax
'='	==	Only version
>	>	Anything later than
<	<	Anything older than
>=	>=	Anything later or equal than
<=	<=	Anything older or equal than
	and	Condition and between versions
||	or	Condition or between versions
~x.y.z	~> x.y.0	Allows patch-level changes if a minor version is specified on the comparator. Allows minor-level changes if not.
^x.y.z	~> x.y	Allows changes that do not modify the left-most non-zero element in the [major, minor, patch] tuple

Conversion examples

Conversion will be done on the fly to NPM standard before evaluation.

input	convert to
~> 2.0.0	>=2.0.0 <2.1.0
~> 2.1.2	>=2.1.2 <2.2.0
~> 2.1.3-dev	>=2.1.3-dev < 2.2.0
~> 2.0	>=2.0.0 <3.0.0
~> 2.1	>= 2.1.0 <3.0.0