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base-x

Fast base encoding / decoding of any given alphabet

v5.0.1, 8 Mar 2025MITESM + CommonJSTypes: BundledCryptography and hashing
$ npm install base-x

Key numbers

As of 25 Sept 2026
Weekly downloads
8.9m
+72% over 12 months
Gzip bundle size
-
No Bundlephobia data
Dependencies
0
Direct, from package.json
Last release
1 year ago
v5.0.1
GitHub stars
339
80 forks
Open issues / PRs
1 / 2
Contributors
-
Commits, last 52 weeks
0

Downloads

Last week 2026-09-15 to 2026-09-21
05m10m15mSept 2025Mar 2026Sept 2026High 12.3m (25 Aug 2026)Low 3.6m (23 Dec 2025)
Weekly npm downloads, one point per week, weeks starting 23 Sept 2025 to 15 Sept 2026. The y axis starts at zero.

8,895,511 downloads last week, 43,195,659 in the last month. The 12-month change of +72% compares the average of the last 4 weeks with the first 4 weeks of the series.

Releases, last 12 months
029 in total
Latest version
5.0.1, 8 Mar 20251 year ago
First published
19 May 2015
Last push to GitHub
15 Nov 2025313 days before the snapshot
Repository archived
No
Open issues
1
Open pull requests
2
Commits, last 52 weeks
0
Dependents on npm
645

Major versions

  1. v5 first release 5.0.0, 22 Jun 2024
  2. v4 first release 4.0.0, 17 Feb 2022
  3. v3 first release 3.0.0, 13 Feb 2017
  4. v2 first release 2.0.0, 17 Dec 2016
  5. v1 first release 1.0.0, 19 May 2015

Recent releases

VersionPublished
3.0.118 Mar 2025
4.0.18 Mar 2025
5.0.18 Mar 2025
3.0.104 Jul 2024
5.0.022 Jun 2024
4.0.017 Feb 2022
3.0.922 Oct 2021
3.0.825 Feb 2020
3.0.75 Sept 2019
3.0.63 Jul 2019
3.0.52 Nov 2018
3.0.428 Dec 2017
3.0.35 Dec 2017
3.0.224 May 2017
Module format
ESM + CommonJSFrom package.json type, main and exports fields
TypeScript types
Bundled
Node.js engine range
Not declared
Runtimes
-
Unpacked size (npm)
14 kB
Dependencies (0)
None
npm install base-x
  • jsDelivrhttps://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/base-x@5.0.1/
  • unpkghttps://unpkg.com/base-x@5.0.1/
  • esm.shhttps://esm.sh/base-x@5.0.1
PackageWeekly downloadsGzipLast releaseModuleComparison
@multiformats/base-x208.7k-6 years agoCommonJS-
Sources: npm registry, npm downloads API, GitHub API. Data fetched 25 Sept 2026.

Indexability: Indexed.