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dotenv

npm · v18.0.9 · BSD-2-Clause

Loads environment variables from .env file

Install

npm install dotenv

Adoption

Downloads (30 days)
715.8M
Observeddownloads / 30 days
Popularity
Top 1% on npm
Derived99th percentile within npm
Dependents
81K
Observedpackages that depend on it
Maintenance
0.87
DerivedRelease cadence and recency, 0 to 1
Releases per year
8.6
114 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
+0.7% · 30d
Derived+5.2M downloads / 30 days, SEP 24 → OCT 24
90 days
+16.5% · 90d
Derived+101.3M downloads / 30 days, JUL 26 → OCT 24
1 year
+143.9% · 1y
Derived+422.3M downloads / 30 days, OCT 27 → OCT 24

Adoption history

Adoption historydownloads / 30 days · 13 observations

SEP 24, 2026: 710,558,181 downloads / 30 daysSEP 25, 2026: 712,231,001 downloads / 30 daysSEP 26, 2026: 698,097,779 downloads / 30 daysSEP 27, 2026: 688,214,571 downloads / 30 daysSEP 28, 2026: 712,899,512 downloads / 30 daysSEP 29, 2026: 738,121,896 downloads / 30 daysSEP 30, 2026: 747,884,017 downloads / 30 daysOCT 1, 2026: 754,374,174 downloads / 30 daysOCT 2, 2026: 753,686,249 downloads / 30 daysOCT 3, 2026: 771,728,920 downloads / 30 daysOCT 4, 2026: 759,771,415 downloads / 30 daysOCT 5, 2026: 759,771,415 downloads / 30 daysOCT 24, 2026: 715,784,837 downloads / 30 days
Table of observations (13)
Daydownloads / 30 daysDependents
OCT 24, 2026715,784,83781,010
OCT 5, 2026759,771,415Not observed
OCT 4, 2026759,771,415Not observed
OCT 3, 2026771,728,920Not observed
OCT 2, 2026753,686,249Not observed
OCT 1, 2026754,374,174Not observed
SEP 30, 2026747,884,017Not observed
SEP 29, 2026738,121,896Not observed
SEP 28, 2026712,899,512Not observed
SEP 27, 2026688,214,571Not observed
SEP 26, 2026698,097,779Not observed
SEP 25, 2026712,231,001Not observed
SEP 24, 2026710,558,181Not observed

Facts from the registry

Latest version
v18.0.9
114 versions
First published
JUL 5, 2013
Last release
OCT 22, 2026
38h ago
Licence
BSD-2-Clause

Repository

In the Crest catalog

motdotla/dotenv

Loads environment variables from .env for nodejs projects.

Stars
20.5K
Forks
968
Language
JavaScript
Last push
24d ago
Last release
None recorded

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Dependencies latest version · v18.0.9

No dependencies are recorded for the latest version.

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