Package
jackspeak
A very strict and proper argument parser.
Key numbers
As of 25 Sept 2026
- Weekly downloads
- 81.1m
- +48% over 12 months
- Gzip bundle size
- -
- No Bundlephobia data
- Dependencies
- 1
- Direct, from package.json
- Last release
- 7 months ago
- v4.2.3
- GitHub stars
- 61
- 7 forks
- Open issues / PRs
- 2 / 0
- Contributors
- 3
- Commits, last 52 weeks
- 11
Downloads
Last week 2026-09-15 to 2026-09-21
81,121,904 downloads last week, 411,530,748 in the last month. The 12-month change of +48% compares the average of the last 4 weeks with the first 4 weeks of the series.
- Releases, last 12 months
- 566 in total
- Latest version
- 4.2.3, 7 Feb 20267 months ago
- First published
- 18 Jan 2019
- Last push to GitHub
- 7 Feb 2026230 days before the snapshot
- Repository archived
- No
- Open issues
- 2
- Open pull requests
- 0
- Commits, last 52 weeks
- 11
- Dependents on npm
- 631
Major versions
- v4 first release 4.0.0, 8 Jul 2024
- v3 first release 3.0.0, 18 May 2024
- v2 first release 2.0.0, 10 Apr 2023
- v1 first release 1.0.0, 20 Jan 2019
- v0 first release 0.0.1, 18 Jan 2019
Recent releases
| Version | Published |
|---|---|
| 4.2.3 | 7 Feb 2026 |
| 4.2.2 | 7 Feb 2026 |
| 4.2.1 | 5 Feb 2026 |
| 4.2.0 | 5 Feb 2026 |
| 4.1.2 | 5 Feb 2026 |
| 4.1.1 | 22 May 2025 |
| 4.1.0 | 22 Feb 2025 |
| 4.0.3 | 11 Feb 2025 |
| 4.0.2 | 23 Sept 2024 |
| 3.4.3 | 10 Jul 2024 |
| 4.0.1 | 8 Jul 2024 |
| 4.0.0 | 8 Jul 2024 |
| 3.4.2 | 8 Jul 2024 |
| 3.4.1 | 6 Jul 2024 |
- Module format
- ESM + CommonJSFrom package.json type, main and exports fields
- TypeScript types
- Bundled
- Node.js engine range
- 20 || >=22
- Runtimes
- -
- Unpacked size (npm)
- 635 kB
- Dependencies (1)
@isaacs/cliui
npm install jackspeak- jsDelivr
https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/jackspeak@4.2.3/ - unpkg
https://unpkg.com/jackspeak@4.2.3/ - esm.sh
https://esm.sh/jackspeak@4.2.3
| Package | Weekly downloads | Gzip | Last release | Module | Comparison |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| command-line-args | 5.7m | - | 6 months ago | ESM + CommonJS | - |
| yargs | 194.7m | - | 4 days ago | ESM only | - |
| clipanion | 3.6m | - | 2 years ago | ESM + CommonJS | - |
| optimist | 3.5m | - | 12 years ago | CommonJS | - |
| yargs-parser | 193.6m | - | 1 year ago | ESM only | - |
| commander | 375.2m | - | 3 months ago | ESM only | - |
| dashdash | 16.1m | - | 5 years ago | CommonJS | - |
Indexability: Indexed.