Package
sane
Sane aims to be fast, small, and reliable file system watcher.
Key numbers
As of 25 Sept 2026
- Weekly downloads
- 3.9m
- -19% over 12 months
- Gzip bundle size
- -
- No Bundlephobia data
- Dependencies
- 9
- Direct, from package.json
- Last release
- 5 years ago
- v5.0.1
- GitHub stars
- 385
- 65 forks
- Open issues / PRs
- 19 / 15
- Contributors
- -
- Commits, last 52 weeks
- 0
Downloads
Last week 2026-09-15 to 2026-09-21
3,913,621 downloads last week, 14,015,749 in the last month. The 12-month change of -19% compares the average of the last 4 weeks with the first 4 weeks of the series.
- Releases, last 12 months
- 057 in total
- Latest version
- 5.0.1, 28 Jun 20215 years ago
- First published
- 25 Feb 2014
- Last push to GitHub
- 18 Jun 2024828 days before the snapshot
- Repository archived
- No
- Open issues
- 19
- Open pull requests
- 15
- Commits, last 52 weeks
- 0
- Dependents on npm
- 421
Major versions
- v5 first release 5.0.0, 28 Jun 2021
- v4 first release 4.0.0, 26 Sept 2018
- v3 first release 3.0.0, 31 Jul 2018
- v2 first release 2.0.0, 25 Jun 2017
- v1 first release 1.0.0, 18 Dec 2014
- v0 first release 0.0.1, 25 Feb 2014
Recent releases
| Version | Published |
|---|---|
| 5.0.1 | 28 Jun 2021 |
| 5.0.0 | 28 Jun 2021 |
| 4.1.0 | 15 Mar 2019 |
| 4.0.3 | 3 Mar 2019 |
| 4.0.2 | 2 Nov 2018 |
| 4.0.1 | 27 Sept 2018 |
| 4.0.0 | 26 Sept 2018 |
| 3.1.0 | 26 Sept 2018 |
| 3.0.0 | 31 Jul 2018 |
| 2.5.2 | 7 May 2018 |
| 2.5.1 | 4 May 2018 |
| 2.5.0 | 16 Mar 2018 |
| 2.4.1 | 8 Feb 2018 |
| 2.4.0 | 8 Feb 2018 |
- Module format
- CommonJSFrom package.json type, main and exports fields
- TypeScript types
- None
- Node.js engine range
- 10.* || >= 12.*
- Runtimes
- -
- Unpacked size (npm)
- 50 kB
- Dependencies (9)
execawalkerexec-shanymatchminimistmicromatchfb-watchmancapture-exit@cnakazawa/watch
npm install sane- jsDelivr
https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/sane@5.0.1/ - unpkg
https://unpkg.com/sane@5.0.1/ - esm.sh
https://esm.sh/sane@5.0.1
| Package | Weekly downloads | Gzip | Last release | Module | Comparison |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| filewatcher | 119.6k | - | 10 years ago | CommonJS | - |
| chokidar | 160.9m | - | 9 months ago | ESM only | - |
Indexability: Indexed.