CONTEXT Not infrequently in the forum the question is asked "What version of Node-red, node.js and node-red do you have?" node -v and npm -v happily report the version and exit pi@GlassPi:~ $ node -v v18.20.2 pi@GlassPi:~ $ npm -v 10.5.0 But Node-red attempts to start the program and (if it's al…

Already in Node-RED 4 - 🎉 Node-RED 4.0 Beta 4 (the final one) released Although only with --version as -v was already taken.

Good to know (my NR 4 machine is currently down). Does it report more than just the version no, as suggested?

With the introduction of Dashboard 2, it would be really helpful if that information could also be added, as users don't always make it clear in the forum, although I'm mindful of what you have said above - [image] knolleary: ... require more of the runtime to get initialised than we'd really w…

I thought the same regarding node-red-dashboard but decided that versions of installed nodes was a step too far. The info is available via cat .node-red/package.json (I expect other less familiar operating systems have something similar too) :upside_down_face:

[image] jbudd: but decided that versions of installed nodes was a step too far. I was suggesting an exception just for the dashboard due to it's unique integration with the core.

Provide an option node-red -v and --version

Core Development Feature Requests

knolleary 11 June 2024 17:05 4

It reports the Node-RED version, node.js version and os version:

$ node-red --version
Node-RED v4.0.0-beta.4
Node.js v18.18.2
Darwin 20.6.0 x64 LE

The other bits require more of the runtime to get initialised than we'd really want to do for this simple command.

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