From 21e0aa28b53e443a94f70a3e7466d904f43150d2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Braydon Fuller <braydon@bitpay.com>
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2015 22:50:07 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Added a Node.js version check based on the package.json
 engine.

---
 index.js           | 11 +++++++++++
 package.json       |  2 +-
 test/index.unit.js | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 test/index.unit.js

diff --git a/index.js b/index.js
index da3b0539..4b2aa56a 100644
--- a/index.js
+++ b/index.js
@@ -1,6 +1,17 @@
 'use strict';
 
+var semver = require('semver');
+var packageData = require('./package.json');
+
+function nodeVersionCheck(version, expected) {
+  if (!semver.satisfies(version, expected)) {
+    throw new Error('Node.js version ' + version + ' is expected to be ' + expected);
+  }
+}
+nodeVersionCheck(process.versions.node, packageData.engines.node);
+
 module.exports = require('./lib');
+module.exports.nodeVersionCheck = nodeVersionCheck;
 module.exports.Node = require('./lib/node');
 module.exports.Transaction = require('./lib/transaction');
 module.exports.Service = require('./lib/service');
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 8f7de0bd..c4564730 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@
     "bitcore-p2p": "~1.0.0"
   },
   "engines": {
-    "node": ">=0.12.0"
+    "node": "^0.12"
   },
   "os": [
     "darwin",
diff --git a/test/index.unit.js b/test/index.unit.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c2190441
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/index.unit.js
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+'use strict';
+
+var should = require('chai').should();
+var index = require('..');
+
+describe('Index', function() {
+  describe('#nodeVersionCheck', function() {
+    it('will throw informative error message with incompatible Node.js version 4.1.2', function() {
+      (function() {
+        index.nodeVersionCheck('4.1.2', '>=0.12.0 <1');
+      }).should.throw('Node.js version');
+    });
+    it('will throw informative error message with incompatible Node.js version 0.10.40', function() {
+      (function() {
+        index.nodeVersionCheck('4.1.2', '>=0.12.0 <1');
+      }).should.throw('Node.js version');
+    });
+  });
+});