A word about semantic versioning
Speaking of updates, let’s talk about versioning and—especially—semantic versioning. If the external library you want to use follows the rules of semantic versioning, this could have an incredibly positive and reassuring impact on your developments and updates. Let’s take a look at what this means exactly.
What is semantic versioning?
Versioning is simply putting a number on a version of the source code. We are all familiar with versions such as 1.0, 1.5.0, 2.0.0, and so on. The semantic versioning adds a semantic—that is to say, precise meaning to each of these numbers. Let’s take version 2.3.15 as an example. Here is how semantic versioning breaks down this version number:
- The “2” indicates a major version. A major version can introduce new features, bug fixes, and—most importantly—changes that break backward compatibility. This last point is the most important. Indeed...