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promisify-child-process

seriously like the best async child process library

v5.0.1, 4 Feb 2026MITESM + CommonJSTypes: BundledPromises and async control flowNode.js utilities
$ npm install promisify-child-process

Key numbers

As of 25 Sept 2026
Weekly downloads
332.5k
+69% over 12 months
Gzip bundle size
-
No Bundlephobia data
Dependencies
1
Direct, from package.json
Last release
7 months ago
v5.0.1
GitHub stars
63
3 forks
Open issues / PRs
2 / 39
Contributors
-
Commits, last 52 weeks
3

Downloads

Last week 2026-09-15 to 2026-09-21
0200k400k600kSept 2025Mar 2026Sept 2026High 551k (21 Jul 2026)Low 112.3k (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.

332,507 downloads last week, 1,745,707 in the last month. The 12-month change of +69% compares the average of the last 4 weeks with the first 4 weeks of the series.

Releases, last 12 months
225 in total
Latest version
5.0.1, 4 Feb 20267 months ago
First published
6 Dec 2017
Last push to GitHub
4 Feb 2026232 days before the snapshot
Repository archived
No
Open issues
2
Open pull requests
39
Commits, last 52 weeks
3
Dependents on npm
132

Major versions

  1. v5 first release 5.0.0, 3 Feb 2026
  2. v4 first release 4.0.0, 5 May 2020
  3. v3 first release 3.0.1, 26 Nov 2018
  4. v2 first release 2.0.0, 29 Jun 2018
  5. v1 first release 1.0.0, 6 Dec 2017

Recent releases

VersionPublished
5.0.14 Feb 2026
5.0.03 Feb 2026
4.1.210 Jul 2023
4.1.117 May 2020
4.1.08 May 2020
4.0.28 May 2020
4.0.15 May 2020
4.0.05 May 2020
3.1.419 Mar 2020
3.1.312 Dec 2019
3.1.211 Dec 2019
3.1.19 Jul 2019
3.1.027 Nov 2018
3.0.126 Nov 2018
Module format
ESM + CommonJSFrom package.json type, main and exports fields
TypeScript types
Bundled
Node.js engine range
>=16
Runtimes
-
Unpacked size (npm)
60 kB
Dependencies (1)
@babel/runtime
npm install promisify-child-process
  • jsDelivrhttps://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/promisify-child-process@5.0.1/
  • unpkghttps://unpkg.com/promisify-child-process@5.0.1/
  • esm.shhttps://esm.sh/promisify-child-process@5.0.1
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async-await-mutex-lock63.9k-1 year agoCommonJS-
p-every133.7k-7 years ago--
p-map61.6m-12 days agoESM only-
flush-promises218.6k-7 years agoCommonJS-
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Sources: npm registry, npm downloads API, GitHub API. Data fetched 25 Sept 2026.

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