Bower dependency tilde in Node
In bower (a node dependency package manager), on some dependencies the version is preceded by a tilde. What does this mean?
{
"name": "mean",
"version": "1.0.0",
"dependencies": {
"bootstrap": "3.0.0",
"angular": "~1.0.6"
}
{
Solution 1:
~1.2.3 := >=1.2.3-0 <1.3.0-0 "Reasonably close to 1.2.3". When using tilde operators, prerelease versions are supported as well, but a prerelease of the next significant digit will NOT be satisfactory, so 1.3.0-beta will not satisfy ~1.2.3.
From the documentation of the underlying semver