Package
ably
Realtime client library for Ably, the realtime messaging service
v2.29.0, 23 Sept 2026Apache-2.0ESM + CommonJSTypes: BundledWebSockets and realtimeTypeScript tooling
Key numbers
As of 25 Sept 2026
- Weekly downloads
- 924.3k
- +375% over 12 months
- Gzip bundle size
- -
- No Bundlephobia data
- Dependencies
- 6
- Direct, from package.json
- Last release
- 1 day ago
- v2.29.0
- GitHub stars
- 366
- 63 forks
- Open issues / PRs
- 156 / 43
- Contributors
- -
- Commits, last 52 weeks
- 494
Downloads
Last week 2026-09-15 to 2026-09-21
924,250 downloads last week, 4,707,912 in the last month. The 12-month change of +375% compares the average of the last 4 weeks with the first 4 weeks of the series.
- Releases, last 12 months
- 18185 in total
- Latest version
- 2.29.0, 23 Sept 20261 day ago
- First published
- 12 Apr 2015
- Last push to GitHub
- 24 Sept 2026same day as the snapshot
- Repository archived
- No
- Open issues
- 156
- Open pull requests
- 43
- Commits, last 52 weeks
- 494
- Dependents on npm
- -
Major versions
- v2 first release 2.0.0, 22 Mar 2024
- v1 first release 1.0.0, 8 Mar 2017
- v0 first release 0.7.9, 12 Apr 2015
Recent releases
| Version | Published |
|---|---|
| 2.29.0 | 23 Sept 2026 |
| 2.28.0 | 24 Aug 2026 |
| 2.27.0 | 10 Aug 2026 |
| 2.26.0 | 23 Jul 2026 |
| 2.25.0 | 17 Jul 2026 |
| 2.24.0 | 9 Jul 2026 |
| 2.23.0 | 19 Jun 2026 |
| 2.22.1 | 8 Jun 2026 |
| 2.22.0 | 5 Jun 2026 |
| 2.21.0 | 19 Mar 2026 |
| 2.20.0 | 13 Mar 2026 |
| 2.19.0 | 3 Mar 2026 |
| 2.18.0 | 23 Feb 2026 |
| 2.17.1 | 30 Jan 2026 |
- Module format
- ESM + CommonJSFrom package.json type, main and exports fields
- TypeScript types
- Bundled
- Node.js engine range
- >=16
- Runtimes
- -
- Unpacked size (npm)
- 9.5 MB
- Dependencies (6)
wsgotuliddequal@ably/msgpack-jsfastestsmallesttextencoderdecoder- Peer dependencies (2)
reactreact-dom
npm install ablyCDN
jsDelivr: 232.2k requests in 30 days
- jsDelivr
https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/ably@2.29.0/ - unpkg
https://unpkg.com/ably@2.29.0/ - esm.sh
https://esm.sh/ably@2.29.0
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Indexability: Indexed.