Package
ava
Node.js test runner that lets you develop with confidence.
Key numbers
As of 25 Sept 2026
- Weekly downloads
- 402.6k
- -31% over 12 months
- Gzip bundle size
- -
- No Bundlephobia data
- Dependencies
- 40
- Direct, from package.json
- Last release
- 4 months ago
- v8.0.1
- GitHub stars
- 20.8k
- 1.5k forks
- Open issues / PRs
- 59 / 19
- Contributors
- -
- Commits, last 52 weeks
- 24
Downloads
Last week 2026-09-15 to 2026-09-21
402,649 downloads last week, 1,866,659 in the last month. The 12-month change of -31% compares the average of the last 4 weeks with the first 4 weeks of the series.
- Releases, last 12 months
- 3102 in total
- Latest version
- 8.0.1, 17 May 20264 months ago
- First published
- 5 Jul 2014
- Last push to GitHub
- 17 Jun 202699 days before the snapshot
- Repository archived
- No
- Open issues
- 59
- Open pull requests
- 19
- Commits, last 52 weeks
- 24
- Dependents on npm
- 492
Major versions
- v8 first release 8.0.0, 27 Apr 2026
- v7 first release 7.0.0, 27 Feb 2026
- v6 first release 6.0.0, 4 Dec 2023
- v5 first release 5.0.0, 4 Sept 2022
- v4 first release 4.0.0, 3 Jan 2022
- v3 first release 3.0.0, 19 Jan 2020
- v2 first release 2.0.0, 1 Jun 2019
- v1 first release 1.0.1, 15 Dec 2018
- v0 first release 0.0.3, 6 Jul 2014
Recent releases
| Version | Published |
|---|---|
| 8.0.1 | 17 May 2026 |
| 8.0.0 | 27 Apr 2026 |
| 7.0.0 | 27 Feb 2026 |
| 6.4.1 | 12 Jul 2025 |
| 6.4.0 | 7 Jun 2025 |
| 6.3.0 | 2 May 2025 |
| 6.2.0 | 27 Oct 2024 |
| 6.1.3 | 5 May 2024 |
| 6.1.2 | 28 Feb 2024 |
| 6.1.1 | 29 Jan 2024 |
| 6.1.0 | 21 Jan 2024 |
| 6.0.1 | 6 Dec 2023 |
| 6.0.0 | 4 Dec 2023 |
| 5.3.1 | 16 Jun 2023 |
- Module format
- ESM onlyFrom package.json type, main and exports fields
- TypeScript types
- Bundled
- Node.js engine range
- ^22.20 || ^24.12 || >=26
- Runtimes
- -
- Unpacked size (npm)
- 279 kB
- Dependencies (40)
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@ava/typescript
npm install ava- jsDelivr
https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/ava@8.0.1/ - unpkg
https://unpkg.com/ava@8.0.1/ - esm.sh
https://esm.sh/ava@8.0.1
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| async-await-mutex-lock | 63.9k | - | 1 year ago | CommonJS | - |
| run-parallel | 93.8m | - | 5 years ago | CommonJS | - |
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