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kind-of

Get the native type of a value.

v6.0.3, 16 Jan 2020MITCommonJSTypes: NoneDate and timeStrings and text
$ npm install kind-of

Key numbers

As of 25 Sept 2026
Weekly downloads
115.1m
+4% over 12 months
Gzip bundle size
-
No Bundlephobia data
Dependencies
0
Direct, from package.json
Last release
6 years ago
v6.0.3
GitHub stars
354
44 forks
Open issues / PRs
6 / 7
Contributors
12
Commits, last 52 weeks
0

Downloads

Last week 2026-09-15 to 2026-09-21
050m100m150mSept 2025Mar 2026Sept 2026High 140.8m (25 Nov 2025)Low 53m (23 Dec 2025)
Weekly npm downloads, one point per week, weeks starting 23 Sept 2025 to 15 Sept 2026. The y axis starts at zero.

115,106,031 downloads last week, 460,659,138 in the last month. The 12-month change of +4% compares the average of the last 4 weeks with the first 4 weeks of the series.

Releases, last 12 months
026 in total
Latest version
6.0.3, 16 Jan 20206 years ago
First published
26 Sept 2014
Last push to GitHub
12 Jun 2024834 days before the snapshot
Repository archived
No
Open issues
6
Open pull requests
7
Commits, last 52 weeks
0
Dependents on npm
1,972

Major versions

  1. v6 first release 6.0.0, 13 Oct 2017
  2. v5 first release 5.0.0, 21 Jun 2017
  3. v4 first release 4.0.0, 19 May 2017
  4. v3 first release 3.0.0, 17 Nov 2015
  5. v2 first release 2.0.0, 31 May 2015
  6. v1 first release 1.0.0, 19 Jan 2015
  7. v0 first release 0.1.0, 26 Sept 2014

Recent releases

VersionPublished
6.0.316 Jan 2020
6.0.21 Dec 2017
6.0.119 Nov 2017
6.0.013 Oct 2017
5.1.013 Oct 2017
5.0.22 Aug 2017
5.0.131 Jul 2017
5.0.021 Jun 2017
4.0.019 May 2017
3.2.216 May 2017
3.2.116 May 2017
3.2.025 Apr 2017
3.1.07 Dec 2016
3.0.429 Jul 2016
Module format
CommonJSFrom package.json type, main and exports fields
TypeScript types
None
Node.js engine range
>=0.10.0
Runtimes
-
Unpacked size (npm)
22 kB
Dependencies (0)
None
npm install kind-of
  • jsDelivrhttps://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/kind-of@6.0.3/
  • unpkghttps://unpkg.com/kind-of@6.0.3/
  • esm.shhttps://esm.sh/kind-of@6.0.3
Sources: npm registry, npm downloads API, GitHub API. Data fetched 25 Sept 2026.

Indexability: Indexed.