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+# latest-version [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/sindresorhus/latest-version.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/sindresorhus/latest-version)
+
+> Get the latest version of an npm package
+
+Fetches the version directly from the registry instead of depending on the massive [npm](https://github.com/npm/npm/blob/8b5e7b6ae5b4cd2d7d62eaf93b1428638b387072/package.json#L37-L85) module like the [latest](https://github.com/bahamas10/node-latest) module does.
+
+
+## Install
+
+```
+$ npm install --save latest-version
+```
+
+
+## Usage
+
+```js
+const latestVersion = require('latest-version');
+
+latestVersion('ava').then(version => {
+ console.log(version);
+ //=> '0.18.0'
+});
+
+latestVersion('@sindresorhus/df').then(version => {
+ console.log(version);
+ //=> '1.0.1'
+});
+```
+
+
+## Related
+
+- [latest-version-cli](https://github.com/sindresorhus/latest-version-cli) - CLI for this module
+- [package-json](https://github.com/sindresorhus/package-json) - Get the package.json of a package from the npm registry
+
+
+## License
+
+MIT © [Sindre Sorhus](https://sindresorhus.com)