Package

retext

natural language processor powered by plugins part of the unified collective

v9.0.0, 6 Sept 2023MITESM onlyTypes: BundledMarkdown

$ npm install retext

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Key numbers

As of 25 Sept 2026

Weekly downloads: 3.3m; +275% over 12 months
Gzip bundle size: -; No Bundlephobia data
Dependencies: 4; Direct, from package.json
Last release: 3 years ago; v9.0.0
GitHub stars: 2.4k; 92 forks
Open issues / PRs: 0 / 0
Contributors: -
Commits, last 52 weeks: 0

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.

3,324,956 downloads last week, 14,600,796 in the last month. The 12-month change of +275% compares the average of the last 4 weeks with the first 4 weeks of the series.

Maintenance

Releases, last 12 months: 032 in total
Latest version: 9.0.0, 6 Sept 20233 years ago
First published: 23 May 2014
Last push to GitHub: 4 Feb 2025597 days before the snapshot
Repository archived: No
Open issues: 0
Open pull requests: 0
Commits, last 52 weeks: 0
Dependents on npm: 93

Major versions

v9 first release 9.0.0, 6 Sept 2023
v8 first release 8.0.0, 16 Jul 2021
v7 first release 7.0.0, 1 Jul 2019
v6 first release 6.0.0, 6 Nov 2018
v5 first release 5.0.0, 23 Feb 2017
v4 first release 4.0.0, 7 Sept 2016
v3 first release 3.0.0, 22 Jun 2016
v2 first release 2.0.0, 2 Mar 2016
v1 first release 1.0.0, 16 Sept 2015
v0 first release 0.0.2, 3 Jun 2014

Recent releases

Version	Published
9.0.0	6 Sept 2023
8.1.0	27 Aug 2021
8.0.0	16 Jul 2021
7.0.1	9 Nov 2019
7.0.0	1 Jul 2019
6.0.2	5 Jun 2019
6.0.1	17 Nov 2018
6.0.0	6 Nov 2018
5.0.0	23 Feb 2017
4.0.0	7 Sept 2016
3.0.0	22 Jun 2016
2.0.0	2 Mar 2016
1.0.0	16 Sept 2015
0.6.0	31 Jul 2015

Compatibility

Module format: ESM onlyFrom package.json type, main and exports fields
TypeScript types: Bundled
Node.js engine range: Not declared
Runtimes: -
Unpacked size (npm): 10 kB
Dependencies (4): unified@types/nlcstretext-latinretext-stringify

Install

npm install retext

CDN

jsDelivrhttps://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/retext@9.0.0/
unpkghttps://unpkg.com/retext@9.0.0/
esm.shhttps://esm.sh/retext@9.0.0

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recma-stringify recma plugin to serialize JavaScript	6.9m	-	1 year ago	ESM only	-
rehype-stringify rehype plugin to serialize HTML	6m	-	1 year ago	ESM only	-
remark-stringify remark plugin to add support for serializing markdown	28.4m	-	3 years ago	ESM only	-

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

Indexability: Indexed.