# Best Practices for Javascript Library Versioning

DevFeed: [Best Practices for Javascript Library Versioning](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/best-practices-for-javascript-library-versioning-32146.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://adambard.com/blog/on-library-versioning/>)

Author: What

Published: 2017-08-13T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Adam Bard](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/adam-bard.md>)

Topics: [JavaScript](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/javascript.md>), [Dependency management](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/dependency-management.md>), [Library](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/library.md>), [React](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/react.md>)

Tags: [best-practices](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/best-practices.md>), [dependencies](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/dependencies.md>), [dependency-management](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/dependency-management.md>), [javascript](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/javascript.md>), [library](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/library.md>), [versioning](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/versioning.md>)

## AI overview

The article argues that JavaScript library developers often mishandle dependency versioning, making upgrades painful, and recommends Semantic Versioning. It explains that patch releases should contain non-breaking bug fixes, minor releases should add functionality without changing the public API, and major releases should contain public API changes.

## Source excerpt

I spend most of my time on this blog talking about Clojure, but IRL I work on a lot of projects written in a lot of languages. Lately, much of my time has been spent writing and maintaining React-based frontends in Javascript. As far as I can tell, no language has solved the problem of dependency management. Some libraries are better than others, but upgrading dependencies is always an uncomfortable experience. That being said, I've never experienced more pain doing so than in Javascript's ecosystem.