SPFx compatibility and other reference commands

[DonKirkham]

I was thinking that a command that listed all of the compatibilty dependencies for every version of SPFx might be useful. This command would not "do anything," but be a reference to useful material. This particular command would show the same information in the matrix located at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/spfx/compatibility#spfx-development-environment-compatibility. It would just be a different way to quickly get the information. It could even have a link to the above reference!

Would this be useful to developers? Are there other reference commands that might be useful?

[waldekmastykarz]

Good question @DonKirkham. Looking forward to hear what folks think of it.

[Adam-it]

interesting. What do you think that the command could also check you current SPFx version installed and return compatibility info only for that. This could be to get by specifying some option like --checkCurrent. Would that be useful 🤔?

[DonKirkham]

There are already commands that do that. "spfx doctor" and "spfx project doctor"

[Adam-it]

There are already commands that do that. "spfx doctor" and "spfx project doctor"

It depends 😉. The doctor commands usually will give you a list of recommendation how to address issues if miss any required tools or use a version that doesn't meet the SharePoint Framework requirements.
Here I got a feeling that we are just aiming to retrieve get the information what is compatible with which SPFx version, nothing more.
But I could be wrong 😉, sorry for the confusion 👍