Package
args
Minimal toolkit for building CLIs
Key numbers
As of 25 Sept 2026
- Weekly downloads
- 1.5m
- +22% over 12 months
- Gzip bundle size
- -
- No Bundlephobia data
- Dependencies
- 0
- Direct, from package.json
- Last release
- 4 years ago
- v5.0.3
- GitHub stars
- -
- Open issues / PRs
- - / -
- Contributors
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- Commits, last 52 weeks
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Downloads
Last week 2026-09-15 to 2026-09-21
1,522,264 downloads last week, 7,316,870 in the last month. The 12-month change of +22% compares the average of the last 4 weeks with the first 4 weeks of the series.
- Releases, last 12 months
- 043 in total
- Latest version
- 5.0.3, 1 May 20224 years ago
- First published
- 5 Apr 2012
- Last push to GitHub
- -
- Repository archived
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- Open issues
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- Open pull requests
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- Commits, last 52 weeks
- -
- Dependents on npm
- 597
Major versions
- v5 first release 5.0.0, 15 Jun 2018
- v4 first release 4.0.0, 9 Apr 2018
- v3 first release 3.0.0, 9 May 2017
- v2 first release 2.0.0, 22 Aug 2016
- v1 first release 1.0.0, 10 May 2016
- v0 first release 0.0.1, 5 Apr 2012
Recent releases
| Version | Published |
|---|---|
| 5.0.3 | 1 May 2022 |
| 5.0.1 | 5 Mar 2019 |
| 5.0.0 | 15 Jun 2018 |
| 4.0.0 | 9 Apr 2018 |
| 3.0.8 | 28 Nov 2017 |
| 3.0.7 | 11 Oct 2017 |
| 3.0.6 | 11 Oct 2017 |
| 3.0.5 | 9 Oct 2017 |
| 3.0.4 | 16 Jul 2017 |
| 3.0.3 | 16 Jul 2017 |
| 3.0.2 | 24 May 2017 |
| 3.0.1 | 12 May 2017 |
| 3.0.0 | 9 May 2017 |
| 2.6.1 | 25 Apr 2017 |
- Module format
- -Not determined from package.json
- TypeScript types
- -
- Node.js engine range
- Not declared
- Runtimes
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- Unpacked size (npm)
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- Dependencies (0)
- None
npm install args- jsDelivr
https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/args@5.0.3/ - unpkg
https://unpkg.com/args@5.0.3/ - esm.sh
https://esm.sh/args@5.0.3
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