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@inquirer/external-editor

npm · v3.0.6 · MIT

Edit a string with the users preferred text editor using $VISUAL or $ENVIRONMENT

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npm install @inquirer/external-editor

Adoption

Downloads (30 days)
167.8M
Observeddownloads / 30 days
Popularity
Top 10% on npm
Derived94th percentile within npm
Dependents
8
Observedpackages that depend on it
Maintenance
0.95
DerivedRelease cadence and recency, 0 to 1
Releases per year
14
16 versions over its life

Growth by period

Derived by Crest of Tech from two observations of npm’s own figure, a period apart. Nothing is stored or estimated: without an observation near the period’s start, the period is still collecting.

7 days
Collectinghistory
Collecting
30 days
+3.4% · 30d
Derived+5.4M downloads / 30 days, SEP 24 → OCT 24
90 days
+25.1% · 90d
Derived+33.7M downloads / 30 days, JUL 26 → OCT 24
1 year
+294.6% · 1y
Derived+125.3M downloads / 30 days, OCT 27 → OCT 24

Adoption historydownloads / 30 days · 12 observations

SEP 24, 2026: 162,367,477 downloads / 30 daysSEP 25, 2026: 162,810,635 downloads / 30 daysSEP 26, 2026: 158,856,903 downloads / 30 daysSEP 27, 2026: 156,055,575 downloads / 30 daysSEP 28, 2026: 162,298,950 downloads / 30 daysSEP 29, 2026: 169,128,064 downloads / 30 daysSEP 30, 2026: 171,668,704 downloads / 30 daysOCT 1, 2026: 173,509,612 downloads / 30 daysOCT 2, 2026: 173,578,914 downloads / 30 daysOCT 3, 2026: 177,370,854 downloads / 30 daysOCT 4, 2026: 174,173,616 downloads / 30 daysOCT 24, 2026: 167,811,015 downloads / 30 days
Table of observations (13)
Daydownloads / 30 daysDependents
OCT 24, 2026167,811,0158
OCT 5, 2026Not observedNot observed
OCT 4, 2026174,173,616Not observed
OCT 3, 2026177,370,854Not observed
OCT 2, 2026173,578,914Not observed
OCT 1, 2026173,509,612Not observed
SEP 30, 2026171,668,704Not observed
SEP 29, 2026169,128,064Not observed
SEP 28, 2026162,298,950Not observed
SEP 27, 2026156,055,575Not observed
SEP 26, 2026158,856,903Not observed
SEP 25, 2026162,810,635Not observed
SEP 24, 2026162,367,477Not observed

Facts from the registry

Latest version
v3.0.6
16 versions
First published
AUG 8, 2025
Last release
OCT 4, 2026
20d ago
Licence
MIT
Links
npm page
Homepage · github.com
Source · github.com

Repository

In the Crest catalog

SBoudrias/Inquirer.js

A collection of common interactive command line user interfaces.

Stars
21.6K
Forks
1.4K
Language
TypeScript
Last push
22d ago
Last release
47d ago

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Dependencies latest version · v3.0.6

Runtime 2

  • chardet^2.1.1
  • iconv-lite^0.7.2

Peer 1

  • @types/node>=18

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