npm itself assumes projects use semver, so it's generally a useful assumption in the JS ecosystem at this point now that npm is the primary package manager for

npm itself assumes projects use semver, so it's generally a useful assumption in the JS ecosystem at this point now that npm is the primary package manager for all things JS that JS packages follow semver. https://docs.npmjs.com/about-semantic-versioning https://docs.npmjs.com/about-semantic-versioning