Key numbers
As of 25 Sept 2026
- Weekly downloads
- 78.7m
- +62% over 12 months
- Gzip bundle size
- -
- No Bundlephobia data
- Dependencies
- 1
- Direct, from package.json
- Last release
- 7 months ago
- v4.0.3
- GitHub stars
- 46
- 22 forks
- Open issues / PRs
- 0 / 5
- Contributors
- 11
- Commits, last 52 weeks
- 13
Downloads
Last week 2026-09-15 to 2026-09-21
78,733,108 downloads last week, 380,289,408 in the last month. The 12-month change of +62% compares the average of the last 4 weeks with the first 4 weeks of the series.
- Releases, last 12 months
- 428 in total
- Latest version
- 4.0.3, 6 Feb 20267 months ago
- First published
- 15 May 2015
- Last push to GitHub
- 6 May 2026141 days before the snapshot
- Repository archived
- No
- Open issues
- 0
- Open pull requests
- 5
- Commits, last 52 weeks
- 13
- Dependents on npm
- 720
Major versions
- v4 first release 4.0.0, 5 Feb 2026
- v3 first release 3.0.0, 17 Apr 2023
- v2 first release 2.0.0, 6 Sept 2019
- v1 first release 1.0.0, 15 May 2015
Recent releases
| Version | Published |
|---|---|
| 4.0.3 | 6 Feb 2026 |
| 4.0.2 | 6 Feb 2026 |
| 4.0.1 | 6 Feb 2026 |
| 4.0.0 | 5 Feb 2026 |
| 3.3.1 | 24 Feb 2025 |
| 3.3.0 | 7 Aug 2024 |
| 3.2.1 | 14 Jun 2024 |
| 3.2.0 | 12 Jun 2024 |
| 3.1.1 | 18 Apr 2023 |
| 3.1.0 | 17 Apr 2023 |
| 3.0.0 | 17 Apr 2023 |
| 2.0.0 | 6 Sept 2019 |
| 1.5.6 | 16 Dec 2016 |
| 1.5.5 | 16 Dec 2016 |
- Module format
- ESM + CommonJSFrom package.json type, main and exports fields
- TypeScript types
- Bundled
- Node.js engine range
- >=16
- Runtimes
- -
- Unpacked size (npm)
- 71 kB
- Dependencies (1)
signal-exit
npm install foreground-child- jsDelivr
https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/foreground-child@4.0.3/ - unpkg
https://unpkg.com/foreground-child@4.0.3/ - esm.sh
https://esm.sh/foreground-child@4.0.3
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