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protobufjs

npm · v8.8.1 · BSD-3-Clause

Protocol Buffers for JavaScript & TypeScript.

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Install

npm install protobufjs

Adoption

Downloads (30 days)
346M
Observeddownloads / 30 days
Popularity
Top 10% on npm
Derived98th percentile within npm
Dependents
6.4K
Observedpackages that depend on it
Maintenance
0.86
DerivedRelease cadence and recency, 0 to 1
Releases per year
16
221 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
+1.3% · 30d
Derived+4.5M downloads / 30 days, SEP 24 → OCT 24
90 days
+21.3% · 90d
Derived+60.9M downloads / 30 days, JUL 26 → OCT 24
1 year
+192.9% · 1y
Derived+227.9M downloads / 30 days, NOV 3 → OCT 24

Adoption history

Adoption historydownloads / 30 days · 13 observations

SEP 24, 2026: 341,495,941 downloads / 30 daysSEP 25, 2026: 342,756,347 downloads / 30 daysSEP 26, 2026: 336,484,608 downloads / 30 daysSEP 27, 2026: 331,943,401 downloads / 30 daysSEP 28, 2026: 342,672,348 downloads / 30 daysSEP 29, 2026: 354,325,892 downloads / 30 daysSEP 30, 2026: 358,875,843 downloads / 30 daysOCT 1, 2026: 362,122,785 downloads / 30 daysOCT 2, 2026: 362,376,395 downloads / 30 daysOCT 3, 2026: 371,756,375 downloads / 30 daysOCT 4, 2026: 366,299,006 downloads / 30 daysOCT 5, 2026: 366,299,006 downloads / 30 daysOCT 24, 2026: 346,019,036 downloads / 30 days
Table of observations (13)
Daydownloads / 30 daysDependents
OCT 24, 2026346,019,0366,363
OCT 5, 2026366,299,006Not observed
OCT 4, 2026366,299,006Not observed
OCT 3, 2026371,756,375Not observed
OCT 2, 2026362,376,395Not observed
OCT 1, 2026362,122,785Not observed
SEP 30, 2026358,875,843Not observed
SEP 29, 2026354,325,892Not observed
SEP 28, 2026342,672,348Not observed
SEP 27, 2026331,943,401Not observed
SEP 26, 2026336,484,608Not observed
SEP 25, 2026342,756,347Not observed
SEP 24, 2026341,495,941Not observed

Facts from the registry

Latest version
v8.8.1
221 versions
First published
MAR 1, 2013
Last release
OCT 11, 2026
13d ago
Licence
BSD-3-Clause

Repository

In the Crest catalog

protobufjs/protobuf.js

High-performance Protocol Buffers for JavaScript and TypeScript. Conformant through Edition 2026, and unusually versatile. No protoc required.

Stars
10.6K
Forks
1.8K
Language
JavaScript
Last push
22d ago
Last release
58d ago

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Dependencies latest version · v8.8.1

Runtime 1

  • long^5.3.2

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