title: Get versions from npm registry api
body: <p>I'm looking for a way to query npm package versions from the npm registry api.
  All I found until now is that I need to query the whole package metadata and filter the versions from there, Example: <a href="https://registry.npmjs.org/react-chuck/" rel="noreferrer">https://registry.npmjs.org/react-chuck/</a></p>
  
  <p>It's ok for package with small amount of versions but for large amount of versions it's just too much time to query.</p>
  
  <p>I thought that maybe there is something like the dist-tags api that query only the dist-tags, Example: <a href="https://registry.npmjs.org/-/package/react-chuck/dist-tags" rel="noreferrer">https://registry.npmjs.org/-/package/react-chuck/dist-tags</a> , the dist-tags are in the same scope as versions...
  <a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/JwhfV.png" rel="noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/JwhfV.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>
  
  <p>I don't mind to do it cli also <code>npm view react-chuck versions</code> but this returns array as a string and array of strings.</p>
  
  <p>I looked at those two links:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/npm/npm-registry-client" rel="noreferrer">https://github.com/npm/npm-registry-client</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/npm/registry/blob/master/docs/REGISTRY-API.md" rel="noreferrer">https://github.com/npm/registry/blob/master/docs/REGISTRY-API.md</a></li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>Anyone has a tip of champs maybe?</p>