Key numbers
As of 25 Sept 2026
- Weekly downloads
- 2.8m
- -3% over 12 months
- Gzip bundle size
- -
- No Bundlephobia data
- Dependencies
- 1
- Direct, from package.json
- Last release
- 6 years ago
- v4.0.2
- GitHub stars
- 693
- 76 forks
- Open issues / PRs
- 26 / 6
- Contributors
- -
- Commits, last 52 weeks
- 0
Downloads
Last week 2026-09-15 to 2026-09-21
2,820,324 downloads last week, 14,688,840 in the last month. The 12-month change of -3% compares the average of the last 4 weeks with the first 4 weeks of the series.
- Releases, last 12 months
- 037 in total
- Latest version
- 4.0.2, 29 May 20206 years ago
- First published
- 25 Jun 2012
- Last push to GitHub
- 22 Aug 20231,129 days before the snapshot
- Repository archived
- No
- Open issues
- 26
- Open pull requests
- 6
- Commits, last 52 weeks
- 0
- Dependents on npm
- -
Major versions
- v4 first release 4.0.0, 21 May 2020
- v3 first release 3.0.0, 5 Oct 2018
- v2 first release 2.0.0, 20 Oct 2015
- v1 first release 1.0.0, 2 Mar 2015
- v0 first release 0.0.1, 25 Jun 2012
Recent releases
| Version | Published |
|---|---|
| 4.0.2 | 29 May 2020 |
| 4.0.1 | 27 May 2020 |
| 4.0.0 | 21 May 2020 |
| 3.2.1 | 13 May 2020 |
| 3.2.0 | 11 May 2020 |
| 3.1.0 | 7 Jan 2020 |
| 3.0.2 | 15 Apr 2019 |
| 3.0.1 | 1 Nov 2018 |
| 3.0.0 | 5 Oct 2018 |
| 2.3.0 | 4 Nov 2017 |
| 2.2.0 | 26 Aug 2017 |
| 2.1.2 | 26 Jan 2017 |
| 2.1.1 | 18 Nov 2016 |
| 2.1.0 | 5 Jun 2016 |
- Module format
- CommonJSFrom package.json type, main and exports fields
- TypeScript types
- None
- Node.js engine range
- Not declared
- Runtimes
- -
- Unpacked size (npm)
- 11 kB
- Dependencies (1)
js-yaml
npm install front-matter- jsDelivr
https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/front-matter@4.0.2/ - unpkg
https://unpkg.com/front-matter@4.0.2/ - esm.sh
https://esm.sh/front-matter@4.0.2
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