Key numbers
As of 25 Sept 2026
- Weekly downloads
- 17.9m
- -8% over 12 months
- Gzip bundle size
- -
- No Bundlephobia data
- Dependencies
- 3
- Direct, from package.json
- Last release
- 7 years ago
- v3.1.0
- GitHub stars
- -
- Open issues / PRs
- - / -
- Contributors
- -
- Commits, last 52 weeks
- -
Downloads
Last week 2026-09-15 to 2026-09-21
17,930,111 downloads last week, 83,341,842 in the last month. The 12-month change of -8% compares the average of the last 4 weeks with the first 4 weeks of the series.
- Releases, last 12 months
- 018 in total
- Latest version
- 3.1.0, 8 Jul 20197 years ago
- First published
- 24 Jun 2016
- Last push to GitHub
- -
- Repository archived
- -
- Open issues
- -
- Open pull requests
- -
- Commits, last 52 weeks
- -
- Dependents on npm
- 1,208
Major versions
- v3 first release 3.0.0, 7 May 2018
- v2 first release 2.0.0, 1 Dec 2016
- v1 first release 1.0.1, 24 Jun 2016
Recent releases
| Version | Published |
|---|---|
| 3.1.0 | 8 Jul 2019 |
| 3.0.3 | 30 Aug 2018 |
| 3.0.2 | 30 Aug 2018 |
| 3.0.1 | 9 Aug 2018 |
| 3.0.0 | 7 May 2018 |
| 2.2.0 | 2 Apr 2018 |
| 2.1.0 | 17 Nov 2017 |
| 2.0.5 | 19 Sept 2017 |
| 2.0.4 | 23 May 2017 |
| 2.0.3 | 23 May 2017 |
| 2.0.2 | 22 May 2017 |
| 2.0.1 | 8 Dec 2016 |
| 2.0.0 | 1 Dec 2016 |
| 1.1.1 | 28 Oct 2016 |
- Module format
- CommonJSFrom package.json type, main and exports fields
- TypeScript types
- Bundled
- Node.js engine range
- >=4
- Runtimes
- -
- Unpacked size (npm)
- 26 kB
- Dependencies (3)
tmpchardeticonv-lite
npm install external-editor- jsDelivr
https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/external-editor@3.1.0/ - unpkg
https://unpkg.com/external-editor@3.1.0/ - esm.sh
https://esm.sh/external-editor@3.1.0
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