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uvu

uvu is an extremely fast and lightweight test runner for Node.js and the browser

v0.5.6, 3 Jul 2022MITESM + CommonJSTypes: BundledTesting
$ npm install uvu
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Key numbers

As of 25 Sept 2026
Weekly downloads
3.7m
+48% over 12 months
Gzip bundle size
-
No Bundlephobia data
Dependencies
4
Direct, from package.json
Last release
4 years ago
v0.5.6
GitHub stars
3k
102 forks
Open issues / PRs
67 / 21
Contributors
-
Commits, last 52 weeks
1

Downloads

Last week 2026-09-15 to 2026-09-21
02m4m6mSept 2025Mar 2026Sept 2026High 5.5m (25 Aug 2026)Low 1.6m (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.

3,745,584 downloads last week, 18,986,893 in the last month. The 12-month change of +48% compares the average of the last 4 weeks with the first 4 weeks of the series.

Maintenance

Releases, last 12 months
041 in total
Latest version
0.5.6, 3 Jul 20224 years ago
First published
11 May 2020
Last push to GitHub
22 Sept 20262 days before the snapshot
Repository archived
No
Open issues
67
Open pull requests
21
Commits, last 52 weeks
1
Dependents on npm
54

Major versions

  1. v0 first release 0.0.0, 11 May 2020

Recent releases

VersionPublished
0.5.63 Jul 2022
0.5.53 Jul 2022
0.5.421 Jun 2022
0.5.34 Jan 2022
0.5.28 Oct 2021
0.5.11 Dec 2020
0.5.024 Nov 2020
0.4.19 Nov 2020
0.4.03 Nov 2020
0.3.52 Nov 2020
0.3.41 Oct 2020
0.3.311 Aug 2020
0.3.28 Aug 2020
0.3.131 Jul 2020

Compatibility

Module format
ESM + CommonJSFrom package.json type, main and exports fields
TypeScript types
Bundled
Node.js engine range
>=8
Runtimes
-
Unpacked size (npm)
47 kB
Dependencies (4)
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Install

npm install uvu

CDN

  • jsDelivrhttps://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/uvu@0.5.6/
  • unpkghttps://unpkg.com/uvu@0.5.6/
  • esm.shhttps://esm.sh/uvu@0.5.6
Sources: npm registry, npm downloads API, GitHub API. Data fetched 25 Sept 2026.

Indexability: Indexed.