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yargs
npm · v18.2.0 · MIT
yargs the modern, pirate-themed, successor to optimist.
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Install
npm install yargsAdoption
- Downloads (30 days)
- 1B
- Observeddownloads / 30 days
- Popularity
- Top 1% on npm
- Derived100th percentile within npm
- Dependents
- 42.5K
- Observedpackages that depend on it
- Maintenance
- 0.95
- DerivedRelease cadence and recency, 0 to 1
- Releases per year
- 21
- 267 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−13.4M downloads / 30 days, SEP 24 → OCT 24
- 90 days
- +12.6% · 90d
- Derived+113.6M downloads / 30 days, JUL 26 → OCT 24
- 1 year
- +89.2% · 1y
- Derived+479.8M downloads / 30 days, OCT 27 → OCT 24
Adoption history
Adoption historydownloads / 30 days · 13 observations
Table of observations (13)
| Day | downloads / 30 days | Dependents |
|---|---|---|
| OCT 24, 2026 | 1,017,787,626 | 42,451 |
| OCT 5, 2026 | 1,092,353,635 | Not observed |
| OCT 4, 2026 | 1,092,353,635 | Not observed |
| OCT 3, 2026 | 1,110,106,942 | Not observed |
| OCT 2, 2026 | 1,084,550,774 | Not observed |
| OCT 1, 2026 | 1,086,111,910 | Not observed |
| SEP 30, 2026 | 1,077,685,148 | Not observed |
| SEP 29, 2026 | 1,064,791,463 | Not observed |
| SEP 28, 2026 | 1,029,147,536 | Not observed |
| SEP 27, 2026 | 994,542,213 | Not observed |
| SEP 26, 2026 | 1,010,891,768 | Not observed |
| SEP 25, 2026 | 1,033,034,537 | Not observed |
| SEP 24, 2026 | 1,031,203,168 | Not observed |
Facts from the registry
- Latest version
- v18.2.0
- 267 versions
- First published
- NOV 23, 2013
- Last release
- SEP 20, 2026
- 33d ago
- Licence
- MIT
Repository
Not in the Crest catalog
yargs/yargs (GitHub, opens in a new tab)
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Dependencies latest version · v18.2.0
Runtime 6
- cliui
^9.0.1 - escalade
^3.1.1 - get-caller-file
^2.0.5 - string-width
^8.2.1 - y18n
^5.0.5 - yargs-parser
^22.0.0
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