Use bit show --remote to get aspect version

[itaymendel]

You can use the bit show teambit.angular/angular-v12 --remote command syntax to get the latest version of any aspect (also - bit list teambit.angular --remote to see versions for all aspects in a scope).

[itaymendel]

@ocombe
if the output is too verbose (as it gives a very complete information on the aspect), it's likely we'll want to add an option to only print the version before this is merged, to improve dev-ex.

[ocombe]

it's very verbose, and it takes a very long time, while the npm command is super fast and gives just what we need, I don't think we should change that for now 🙂

[itaymendel]

let's keep it open and add @davidfirst and @GiladShoham to the mix.
ideally id' like to use the same tool for all commands. so for now we can keep npm, but i would want to replace with bit. need to see about our options.

[davidfirst]

I'm good either way. It'd be nice to add an option to show only the remote version. Agree that it's too verbose. On my local it's not that slow, it takes 3 seconds.

[GiladShoham]

@davidfirst We already have the _latest command, we can expose it as a public command and use it instead.

[davidfirst]

@GiladShoham , yes, we can do it. It'll probably require some work as it'll need to be implemented for HTTP.