Check on the latest available versions

We will leverage npm CLI tool to discover the latest available versions of Angular Material:

  1. Execute npm info @angular/material and observe the output:
{   name: '@angular/material',  description: 'Angular Material',  'dist-tags': { latest: '5.0.0' },  versions:   [ ...     '5.0.0-rc.0',     '5.0.0-rc.1',     '5.0.0-rc.2',     '5.0.0-rc.3',     '5.0.0-rc0',     '5.0.0' ],...time: {  created: ...     '5.0.0-rc0': '2017-11-06T20:15:29.863Z',     '5.0.0-rc.1': '2017-11-21T00:38:56.394Z',     '5.0.0-rc.0': '2017-11-27T19:21:19.781Z',     '5.0.0-rc.2': '2017-11-28T00:13:13.487Z',     '5.0.0-rc.3': '2017-12-05T21:20:42.674Z',     '5.0.0': '2017-12-06T20:19:25.466Z' }

You can observe that, combined with the time information found deeper in the output, since the ...

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