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broadcast-channel

A BroadcastChannel that works in New Browsers, Old Browsers, WebWorkers, NodeJs, Deno and iframes

v7.4.0, 3 Aug 2026MITESM + CommonJSTypes: BundledPolyfills and shims
$ npm install broadcast-channel
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Key numbers

As of 25 Sept 2026
Weekly downloads
2.2m
+12% over 12 months
Gzip bundle size
-
No Bundlephobia data
Dependencies
4
Direct, from package.json
Last release
1 month ago
v7.4.0
GitHub stars
2k
131 forks
Open issues / PRs
0 / 11
Contributors
-
Commits, last 52 weeks
73

Downloads

Last week 2026-09-15 to 2026-09-21
01m2m3m4mSept 2025Mar 2026Sept 2026High 3.4m (18 Aug 2026)Low 1.1m (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.

2,166,640 downloads last week, 10,613,983 in the last month. The 12-month change of +12% compares the average of the last 4 weeks with the first 4 weeks of the series.

Maintenance

Releases, last 12 months
3102 in total
Latest version
7.4.0, 3 Aug 20261 month ago
First published
19 Aug 2016
Last push to GitHub
19 Sept 20265 days before the snapshot
Repository archived
No
Open issues
0
Open pull requests
11
Commits, last 52 weeks
73
Dependents on npm
197

Major versions

  1. v7 first release 7.0.0, 27 Nov 2023
  2. v6 first release 6.0.0, 30 Oct 2023
  3. v5 first release 5.0.0, 22 Mar 2023
  4. v4 first release 4.0.0, 25 Jul 2021
  5. v3 first release 3.0.0, 14 Nov 2019
  6. v2 first release 2.0.0, 3 Sept 2018
  7. v1 first release 1.0.0, 24 Jun 2018
  8. v0 first release 0.0.0, 19 Aug 2016

Recent releases

VersionPublished
7.4.03 Aug 2026
7.3.020 Jan 2026
7.2.027 Oct 2025
7.1.025 Mar 2025
7.0.027 Nov 2023
6.0.030 Oct 2023
5.5.123 Oct 2023
5.5.016 Oct 2023
5.4.010 Oct 2023
5.3.018 Aug 2023
5.2.010 Aug 2023
5.1.025 Apr 2023
5.0.323 Mar 2023
5.0.223 Mar 2023

Compatibility

Module format
ESM + CommonJSFrom package.json type, main and exports fields
TypeScript types
Bundled
Node.js engine range
Not declared
Runtimes
-
Unpacked size (npm)
528 kB
Dependencies (4)
unloadp-queueoblivious-set@babel/runtime

Install

npm install broadcast-channel

CDN

jsDelivr: 63.9k requests in 30 days
  • jsDelivrhttps://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/broadcast-channel@7.4.0/
  • unpkghttps://unpkg.com/broadcast-channel@7.4.0/
  • esm.shhttps://esm.sh/broadcast-channel@7.4.0

Alternatives

PackageWeekly downloadsGzipLast releaseModuleComparison
@toruslabs/broadcast-channel148.2k-6 months agoESM + CommonJS-
Sources: npm registry, npm downloads API, GitHub API, jsDelivr. Data fetched 25 Sept 2026.

Indexability: Indexed.