Package

libsodium

The Sodium cryptographic library compiled to pure JavaScript (raw library, no wrappers)

v0.8.4, 19 Apr 2026ISCESM + CommonJSTypes: NoneCryptography and hashing

$ npm install libsodium

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Key numbers

As of 25 Sept 2026

Weekly downloads: 3m; +193% over 12 months
Gzip bundle size: -; No Bundlephobia data
Dependencies: 0; Direct, from package.json
Last release: 5 months ago; v0.8.4
GitHub stars: 1.2k; 166 forks
Open issues / PRs: 0 / 0
Contributors: -
Commits, last 52 weeks: 150

Downloads

Last week 2026-09-15 to 2026-09-21

Weekly npm downloads, one point per week, weeks starting 23 Sept 2025 to 15 Sept 2026. The y axis starts at zero.

3,047,100 downloads last week, 15,029,649 in the last month. The 12-month change of +193% compares the average of the last 4 weeks with the first 4 weeks of the series.

Maintenance

Releases, last 12 months: 643 in total
Latest version: 0.8.4, 19 Apr 20265 months ago
First published: 25 Jan 2015
Last push to GitHub: 22 Sept 20262 days before the snapshot
Repository archived: No
Open issues: 0
Open pull requests: 0
Commits, last 52 weeks: 150
Dependents on npm: 77

Major versions

v0 first release 0.2.2, 25 Jan 2015

Recent releases

Version	Published
0.8.4	19 Apr 2026
0.8.3	9 Apr 2026
0.8.2	24 Jan 2026
0.8.1	17 Jan 2026
0.8.0	6 Jan 2026
0.7.16	29 Dec 2025
0.7.15	13 Aug 2024
0.7.14	9 Jul 2024
0.7.13	13 Sept 2023
0.7.11	16 Feb 2023
0.7.10	22 Mar 2022
0.7.9	29 Jan 2021
0.7.8	4 Aug 2020
0.7.7	4 Aug 2020

Compatibility

Module format: ESM + CommonJSFrom package.json type, main and exports fields
TypeScript types: None
Node.js engine range: Not declared
Runtimes: -
Unpacked size (npm): 1.2 MB
Dependencies (0): None

Install

npm install libsodium

CDN

jsDelivr: 22.3m requests in 30 days

jsDelivrhttps://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/libsodium@0.8.4/
unpkghttps://unpkg.com/libsodium@0.8.4/
esm.shhttps://esm.sh/libsodium@0.8.4

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Sources: npm registry, npm downloads API, GitHub API, jsDelivr. Data fetched 25 Sept 2026.

Indexability: Indexed.