What's the difference between tilde(~) and caret(^) in package.json? Back

Sometimes, we will construct our package.json to set up dependencies which will be used in projects, but when specifying versions, we should always see two notation: tilde (~), and caret (^). So, what is the difference between them?

• tilde (~):

  this notation matches the most recent minor version. For example, ~1.2.3 matches all 1.2.x versions, but not 1.3.0.

• caret (^):

  this notation matches the most recent major version. For instance, ^1.2.3 matches all 1.x.x versions, but not 2.0.0.