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execa

Process execution for humans

v10.0.1, 31 Jul 2026MITESM onlyTypes: BundledNode.js utilities
$ npm install execa
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Key numbers

As of 25 Sept 2026
Weekly downloads
126.6m
+52% over 12 months
Gzip bundle size
-
No Bundlephobia data
Dependencies
12
Direct, from package.json
Last release
1 month ago
v10.0.1
GitHub stars
7.6k
941 forks
Open issues / PRs
2 / 0
Contributors
65
Commits, last 52 weeks
32

Downloads

Last week 2026-09-15 to 2026-09-21
050m100m150m200mSept 2025Mar 2026Sept 2026High 170.2m (25 Aug 2026)Low 55.5m (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.

126,553,290 downloads last week, 612,137,944 in the last month. The 12-month change of +52% compares the average of the last 4 weeks with the first 4 weeks of the series.

Maintenance

Releases, last 12 months
365 in total
Latest version
10.0.1, 31 Jul 20261 month ago
First published
5 Dec 2015
Last push to GitHub
31 Jul 202656 days before the snapshot
Repository archived
No
Open issues
2
Open pull requests
0
Commits, last 52 weeks
32
Dependents on npm
20,533

Major versions

  1. v10 first release 10.0.0, 17 Jul 2026
  2. v9 first release 9.0.0, 8 May 2024
  3. v8 first release 8.0.0, 19 Aug 2023
  4. v7 first release 7.0.0, 11 Feb 2023
  5. v6 first release 6.0.0, 17 Nov 2021
  6. v5 first release 5.0.0, 3 Dec 2020
  7. v4 first release 4.0.0, 19 Dec 2019
  8. v3 first release 3.0.0, 14 Oct 2019
  9. v2 first release 2.0.0, 25 Jun 2019
  10. v1 first release 1.0.0, 26 Aug 2018
  11. v0 first release 0.1.0, 5 Dec 2015

Recent releases

VersionPublished
10.0.131 Jul 2026
10.0.017 Jul 2026
9.6.129 Nov 2025
9.6.026 May 2025
9.5.38 May 2025
9.5.27 Dec 2024
9.5.129 Oct 2024
9.5.027 Oct 2024
9.4.116 Oct 2024
9.4.016 Sept 2024
9.3.114 Aug 2024
9.3.021 Jun 2024
9.2.06 Jun 2024
9.1.013 May 2024

Compatibility

Module format
ESM onlyFrom package.json type, main and exports fields
TypeScript types
Bundled
Node.js engine range
>=22
Runtimes
-
Unpacked size (npm)
352 kB
Dependencies (12)
figuresis-streampretty-msget-streamsignal-exityoctocolorsis-plain-objnpm-run-pathhuman-signalswhich-commandstrip-final-newline@sindresorhus/merge-streams

Install

npm install execa

CDN

  • jsDelivrhttps://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/execa@10.0.1/
  • unpkghttps://unpkg.com/execa@10.0.1/
  • esm.shhttps://esm.sh/execa@10.0.1

Related

Sources: npm registry, npm downloads API, GitHub API. Data fetched 25 Sept 2026.

Indexability: Indexed.