Package
js-levenshtein-esm
The most efficient JS implementation calculating the Levenshtein distance, i.e. the difference between two strings.
Key numbers
As of 25 Sept 2026
- Weekly downloads
- 69.7k
- +50% over 12 months
- Gzip bundle size
- -
- No Bundlephobia data
- Dependencies
- 0
- Direct, from package.json
- Last release
- 1 year ago
- v2.0.0
- GitHub stars
- 3
- 1 forks
- Open issues / PRs
- 0 / 0
- Contributors
- -
- Commits, last 52 weeks
- 0
Downloads
Last week 2026-09-15 to 2026-09-21
69,727 downloads last week, 333,725 in the last month. The 12-month change of +50% compares the average of the last 4 weeks with the first 4 weeks of the series.
- Releases, last 12 months
- -
- Latest version
- 2.0.0, 18 Mar 20251 year ago
- First published
- -
- Last push to GitHub
- 18 Mar 2025555 days before the snapshot
- Repository archived
- No
- Open issues
- 0
- Open pull requests
- 0
- Commits, last 52 weeks
- 0
- Dependents on npm
- 6
Major versions
-
Recent releases
-
- Module format
- ESM onlyFrom package.json type, main and exports fields
- TypeScript types
- Bundled
- Node.js engine range
- Not declared
- Runtimes
- -
- Unpacked size (npm)
- 6.8 kB
- Dependencies (0)
- None
npm install js-levenshtein-esm- jsDelivr
https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/js-levenshtein-esm@2.0.0/ - unpkg
https://unpkg.com/js-levenshtein-esm@2.0.0/ - esm.sh
https://esm.sh/js-levenshtein-esm@2.0.0
| Package | Weekly downloads | Gzip | Last release | Module | Comparison |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| js-levenshtein | 8.6m | - | 7 years ago | - | - |
| levenary | 1.1m | - | 6 years ago | ESM + CommonJS | - |
| leven | 49m | - | 1 year ago | ESM only | - |
Indexability: Indexed.