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chokidar

npm · v6.0.0 · MIT

Minimal and efficient cross-platform file watching library

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npm install chokidar

Adoption

Downloads (30 days)
773.6M
Observeddownloads / 30 days
Popularity
Top 1% on npm
Derived100th percentile within npm
Dependents
21.4K
Observedpackages that depend on it
Maintenance
0.39
DerivedRelease cadence and recency, 0 to 1
Releases per year
7.6
110 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
−8.1% · 30d
Derived−67.8M downloads / 30 days, SEP 24 → OCT 24
90 days
−4.3% · 90d
Derived−34.9M downloads / 30 days, JUL 26 → OCT 24
1 year
+100.9% · 1y
Derived+388.5M downloads / 30 days, OCT 27 → OCT 24

Adoption historydownloads / 30 days · 13 observations

SEP 24, 2026: 841,449,601 downloads / 30 daysSEP 25, 2026: 842,627,076 downloads / 30 daysSEP 26, 2026: 825,182,618 downloads / 30 daysSEP 27, 2026: 813,259,794 downloads / 30 daysSEP 28, 2026: 841,299,686 downloads / 30 daysSEP 29, 2026: 870,246,973 downloads / 30 daysSEP 30, 2026: 880,974,958 downloads / 30 daysOCT 1, 2026: 887,809,810 downloads / 30 daysOCT 2, 2026: 886,889,258 downloads / 30 daysOCT 3, 2026: 908,043,930 downloads / 30 daysOCT 4, 2026: 894,059,406 downloads / 30 daysOCT 5, 2026: 894,059,406 downloads / 30 daysOCT 24, 2026: 773,608,335 downloads / 30 days
Table of observations (13)
Daydownloads / 30 daysDependents
OCT 24, 2026773,608,33521,426
OCT 5, 2026894,059,406Not observed
OCT 4, 2026894,059,406Not observed
OCT 3, 2026908,043,930Not observed
OCT 2, 2026886,889,258Not observed
OCT 1, 2026887,809,810Not observed
SEP 30, 2026880,974,958Not observed
SEP 29, 2026870,246,973Not observed
SEP 28, 2026841,299,686Not observed
SEP 27, 2026813,259,794Not observed
SEP 26, 2026825,182,618Not observed
SEP 25, 2026842,627,076Not observed
SEP 24, 2026841,449,601Not observed

Facts from the registry

Latest version
v6.0.0
110 versions
First published
APR 26, 2012
Last release
OCT 19, 2026
4d ago
Licence
MIT
Links
npm page
Homepage · github.com

Repository

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paulmillr/chokidar

Minimal and efficient cross-platform file watching library

Stars
12.2K
Forks
638
Language
TypeScript
Last push
2mo ago
Last release
11mo ago

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Dependencies latest version · v6.0.0

Runtime 1

  • readdirp^5.1.1

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