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foreground-child

npm · v4.0.3 · BlueOak-1.0.0

Run a child as if it's the foreground process. Give it stdio. Exit when it exits.

Not filed under any category yet: no assignment reached confidence 0.5.

Install

npm install foreground-child

Adoption

Downloads (30 days)
414.5M
Observeddownloads / 30 days
Popularity
Top 10% on npm
Derived98th percentile within npm
Dependents
727
Observedpackages that depend on it
Maintenance
0.32
DerivedRelease cadence and recency, 0 to 1
Releases per year
2.7
29 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
−3.5% · 30d
Derived−14.9M downloads / 30 days, SEP 24 → OCT 24
90 days
−11.8% · 90d
Derived−55.2M downloads / 30 days, JUL 26 → OCT 24
1 year
+65.9% · 1y
Derived+164.6M downloads / 30 days, NOV 3 → OCT 24

Adoption historydownloads / 30 days · 13 observations

SEP 24, 2026: 429,365,169 downloads / 30 daysSEP 25, 2026: 429,526,781 downloads / 30 daysSEP 26, 2026: 419,461,923 downloads / 30 daysSEP 27, 2026: 412,164,228 downloads / 30 daysSEP 28, 2026: 426,451,102 downloads / 30 daysSEP 29, 2026: 441,296,392 downloads / 30 daysSEP 30, 2026: 446,090,711 downloads / 30 daysOCT 1, 2026: 449,113,222 downloads / 30 daysOCT 2, 2026: 447,967,375 downloads / 30 daysOCT 3, 2026: 458,381,809 downloads / 30 daysOCT 4, 2026: 450,430,254 downloads / 30 daysOCT 5, 2026: 450,430,254 downloads / 30 daysOCT 24, 2026: 414,483,449 downloads / 30 days
Table of observations (13)
Daydownloads / 30 daysDependents
OCT 24, 2026414,483,449727
OCT 5, 2026450,430,254Not observed
OCT 4, 2026450,430,254Not observed
OCT 3, 2026458,381,809Not observed
OCT 2, 2026447,967,375Not observed
OCT 1, 2026449,113,222Not observed
SEP 30, 2026446,090,711Not observed
SEP 29, 2026441,296,392Not observed
SEP 28, 2026426,451,102Not observed
SEP 27, 2026412,164,228Not observed
SEP 26, 2026419,461,923Not observed
SEP 25, 2026429,526,781Not observed
SEP 24, 2026429,365,169Not observed

Facts from the registry

Latest version
v4.0.3
29 versions
First published
MAY 15, 2015
Last release
FEB 6, 2026
9mo ago
Licence
BlueOak-1.0.0
Links
npm page
Homepage · github.com
Source · github.com

Repository

Not in the Crest catalog

tapjs/foreground-child

The catalog tracks GitHub repositories with more than 500 stars; this one has no Crest page, so its figures are not shown here.

Dependencies latest version · v4.0.3

Runtime 1

  • signal-exit^4.0.1

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