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boxen

Create boxes in the terminal

v9.0.0, 21 Sept 2026MITESM onlyTypes: BundledCLI tools and terminal utilities
$ npm install boxen
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Key numbers

As of 25 Sept 2026
Weekly downloads
21.5m
+43% over 12 months
Gzip bundle size
-
No Bundlephobia data
Dependencies
7
Direct, from package.json
Last release
3 days ago
v9.0.0
GitHub stars
1.7k
59 forks
Open issues / PRs
0 / 0
Contributors
-
Commits, last 52 weeks
48

Downloads

Last week 2026-09-15 to 2026-09-21
020m40m60mSept 2025Mar 2026Sept 2026High 56.2m (3 Feb 2026)Low 14.8m (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.

21,527,488 downloads last week, 100,842,054 in the last month. The 12-month change of +43% compares the average of the last 4 weeks with the first 4 weeks of the series.

Maintenance

Releases, last 12 months
142 in total
Latest version
9.0.0, 21 Sept 20263 days ago
First published
21 Dec 2015
Last push to GitHub
21 Sept 20263 days before the snapshot
Repository archived
No
Open issues
0
Open pull requests
0
Commits, last 52 weeks
48
Dependents on npm
8,480

Major versions

  1. v9 first release 9.0.0, 21 Sept 2026
  2. v8 first release 8.0.0, 13 Jul 2024
  3. v7 first release 7.0.0, 13 Jun 2022
  4. v6 first release 6.0.0, 30 Sept 2021
  5. v5 first release 5.0.0, 29 Dec 2020
  6. v4 first release 4.0.0, 29 May 2019
  7. v3 first release 3.0.0, 19 Feb 2019
  8. v2 first release 2.0.0, 10 Sept 2018
  9. v1 first release 1.0.0, 13 Jan 2017
  10. v0 first release 0.1.0, 21 Dec 2015

Recent releases

VersionPublished
9.0.021 Sept 2026
8.0.15 Aug 2024
8.0.013 Jul 2024
7.1.14 Jul 2023
7.1.07 May 2023
7.0.23 Mar 2023
7.0.120 Dec 2022
7.0.013 Jun 2022
6.2.112 Oct 2021
6.2.07 Oct 2021
6.1.05 Oct 2021
6.0.030 Sept 2021
5.1.217 Sept 2021
5.1.113 Sept 2021

Compatibility

Module format
ESM onlyFrom package.json type, main and exports fields
TypeScript types
Bundled
Node.js engine range
>=22
Runtimes
-
Unpacked size (npm)
39 kB
Dependencies (7)
chalkcli-boxestype-festwrap-ansislice-ansiwidest-linestring-width

Install

npm install boxen

CDN

  • jsDelivrhttps://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/boxen@9.0.0/
  • unpkghttps://unpkg.com/boxen@9.0.0/
  • esm.shhttps://esm.sh/boxen@9.0.0
Sources: npm registry, npm downloads API, GitHub API. Data fetched 25 Sept 2026.

Indexability: Indexed.