show version number in cli

[tvld]

Just an idea: when I run feathers generate service I like to be certain I use a certain version. Sometimes, with npm global and what not, we might use the wrong one, so maybe show it by default:

$ feathers generate service
Feathers 5.0.0-pre.34
? What is the name of your service? teams
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[daffl]

I think part of the problem at the moment is that transitory period where the v4 CLI was installed globally vs in v5 apps where the CLI is a local development dependency by default. When going with the v5 process of npm create feathers my-app and then in my-app using npx feathers it will always use the proper local dependency first.

Essentially a global feathers command will no longer be available at all. We could do what some other tools are doing and alias the global to the local command and throw an error if a local version is not available.

[tvld]

The alias is a perfect solution. I always feel a bit ashamed when I stumble upon some error like this. Usually as part of investigation of another error :-))))