Package

fast-glob

It's a very fast and efficient glob library for Node.js

v3.3.3, 5 Jan 2025MITCommonJSTypes: BundledFiles and file systems

$ npm install fast-glob

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Key numbers

As of 25 Sept 2026

Weekly downloads: 114.5m; +73% over 12 months
Gzip bundle size: -; No Bundlephobia data
Dependencies: 5; Direct, from package.json
Last release: 1 year ago; v3.3.3
GitHub stars: 2.8k; 144 forks
Open issues / PRs: 23 / 11
Contributors: 39
Commits, last 52 weeks: 44

Downloads

Last week 2026-09-15 to 2026-09-21

Weekly npm downloads, one point per week, weeks starting 23 Sept 2025 to 15 Sept 2026. The y axis starts at zero.

114,523,958 downloads last week, 553,992,958 in the last month. The 12-month change of +73% compares the average of the last 4 weeks with the first 4 weeks of the series.

Maintenance

Releases, last 12 months: 040 in total
Latest version: 3.3.3, 5 Jan 20251 year ago
First published: 28 Dec 2016
Last push to GitHub: 22 Sept 20263 days before the snapshot
Repository archived: No
Open issues: 23
Open pull requests: 11
Commits, last 52 weeks: 44
Dependents on npm: 12,298

Major versions

v3 first release 3.0.0, 16 Jun 2019
v2 first release 2.0.0, 21 Jan 2018
v1 first release 1.0.0, 28 Dec 2016

Recent releases

Version	Published
3.3.3	5 Jan 2025
3.3.2	6 Nov 2023
3.3.1	22 Jul 2023
3.3.0	30 Jun 2023
3.2.12	9 Sept 2022
3.2.11	14 Jan 2022
3.2.10	9 Jan 2022
3.2.9	7 Jan 2022
3.2.8	7 Jan 2022
3.2.7	8 Jul 2021
3.2.6	27 Jun 2021
3.2.5	17 Jan 2021
3.2.4	16 Jun 2020
3.2.3	15 Jun 2020

Compatibility

Module format: CommonJSFrom package.json type, main and exports fields
TypeScript types: Bundled
Node.js engine range: >=8.6.0
Runtimes: -
Unpacked size (npm): 96 kB
Dependencies (5): merge2micromatchglob-parent@nodelib/fs.stat@nodelib/fs.walk

Install

npm install fast-glob

CDN

jsDelivrhttps://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/fast-glob@3.3.3/
unpkghttps://unpkg.com/fast-glob@3.3.3/
esm.shhttps://esm.sh/fast-glob@3.3.3

Alternatives

Package	Weekly downloads	Gzip	Last release	Module	Comparison
tinyglobby A fast and minimal alternative to globby and fast-glob	146.2m	-	3 months ago	ESM + CommonJS	fast-glob vs tinyglobby
globrex Glob to regular expression with support for extended globs	24.5m	-	7 years ago	CommonJS	-
parse-glob Parse a glob pattern into an object of tokens.	2.4m	-	11 years ago	CommonJS	-
nanomatch Fast, minimal glob matcher for node.js. Similar to micromatch, minimatch and multimatch, but complete Bash 4.3 wildcard support only (no support for exglobs, posix brackets or braces)	9.2m	-	8 years ago	CommonJS	-
is-glob Returns `true` if the given string looks like a glob pattern or an extglob pattern. This makes it easy to create code that only uses external modules like node-glob when necessary, resulting in much faster code execution and initialization time, and a bet	152.5m	-	4 years ago	CommonJS	-
is-extglob Returns true if a string has an extglob.	141.4m	-	9 years ago	CommonJS	-
picomatch Blazing fast and accurate glob matcher written in JavaScript, with no dependencies and full support for standard and extended Bash glob features, including braces, extglobs, POSIX brackets, and regular expressions.	363.4m	-	1 month ago	CommonJS	-
readdirp Recursive version of fs.readdir with small RAM & CPU footprint	156.3m	-	1 month ago	ESM only	-

Comparisons

fast-glob vs tinyglobby

Comparisonfast-glob vs tinyglobby

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

Indexability: Indexed.

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