https://github.com/sindresorhus/execa
binary child-process exec execute javascript nodejs shell spawn spawned-processes streams
Score: 36.252244569490216
Last synced: about 9 hours ago
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Process execution for humans
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/sindresorhus/execa
- Owner: sindresorhus
- License: mit
- Created: 2015-12-05T22:57:03.000Z (over 10 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2026-01-29T03:54:57.000Z (about 2 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2026-03-18T03:41:04.491Z (2 days ago)
- Topics: binary, child-process, exec, execute, javascript, nodejs, shell, spawn, spawned-processes, streams
- Language: JavaScript
- Homepage:
- Size: 2.52 MB
- Stars: 7,463
- Watchers: 42
- Forks: 245
- Open Issues: 16
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: readme.md
- License: license
- Security: .github/security.md
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Funding:
- Github: sindresorhus
- Open collective: sindresorhus
- Buy me a coffee: sindresorhus
- Custom: https://sindresorhus.com/donate
Owner metadata:
- Name: Sindre Sorhus
- Login: sindresorhus
- Email:
- Kind: user
- Description: Full-Time Open-Sourcerer. Focused on Swift & JavaScript. Makes macOS apps, CLI tools, npm packages.
- Website: https://sindresorhus.com/apps
- Location:
- Twitter: sindresorhus
- Company:
- Icon url: https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/170270?u=34acd557a042ac478d273a4621570cadb6b0bd89&v=4
- Repositories: 1111
- Last Synced at: 2024-10-29T21:14:09.635Z
- Profile URL: https://github.com/sindresorhus
GitHub Events
Total
- Create event: 19
- Delete event: 13
- Fork event: 33
- Issue comment event: 116
- Issues event: 42
- Pull request event: 47
- Pull request review comment event: 21
- Pull request review event: 26
- Push event: 74
- Release event: 5
- Watch event: 495
- Total: 891
Last Year
- Create event: 10
- Delete event: 8
- Fork event: 14
- Issue comment event: 39
- Issues event: 11
- Pull request event: 20
- Pull request review comment event: 8
- Pull request review event: 10
- Push event: 52
- Release event: 1
- Watch event: 240
- Total: 413
Committers metadata
Last synced: 1 day ago
Total Commits: 822
Total Committers: 64
Avg Commits per committer: 12.844
Development Distribution Score (DDS): 0.277
Commits in past year: 21
Committers in past year: 4
Avg Commits per committer in past year: 5.25
Development Distribution Score (DDS) in past year: 0.571
| Name | Commits | |
|---|---|---|
| ehmicky | e****y | 594 |
| Sindre Sorhus | s****s@g****m | 128 |
| Sam Verschueren | s****n@g****m | 16 |
| James Talmage | j****e@j****m | 11 |
| Guillaume Martigny | g****y@g****m | 3 |
| Kevin Mårtensson | k****n@g****m | 3 |
| M.K. | m****b | 3 |
| fisker Cheung | l****y@g****m | 3 |
| Aaron Casanova | 3****a | 2 |
| Dan Levy | 3****l | 2 |
| Dimitri Benin | B****r | 2 |
| Mikael Finstad | f****n@g****m | 2 |
| Pedro Augusto de Paula Barbosa | p****6@g****m | 2 |
| Federico | m****e@f****m | 1 |
| Emily Marigold Klassen | 7****l | 1 |
| Corey Farrell | g****t@c****m | 1 |
| CJ | c****j@n****r | 1 |
| Brandon Smith | b****s@g****m | 1 |
| Friedel Ziegelmayer | d****e@g****m | 1 |
| Gray Zhang | o****y@g****m | 1 |
| Gyubong | j****e@n****m | 1 |
| Honza Javorek | m****l@h****z | 1 |
| Iiro Jäppinen | i****o@j****i | 1 |
| Bradford Lemley | b****y@g****m | 1 |
| Austin Burdine | a****e@g****m | 1 |
| Anna Henningsen | g****b@a****t | 1 |
| André Cruz | a****z@m****m | 1 |
| Ammar | b****r@g****m | 1 |
| Alexey Bystrov | s****o@g****m | 1 |
| Aaron Dandy | 4****y | 1 |
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Issue and Pull Request metadata
Last synced: 7 days ago
Total issues: 290
Total pull requests: 798
Average time to close issues: 4 months
Average time to close pull requests: 3 days
Total issue authors: 135
Total pull request authors: 40
Average comments per issue: 2.86
Average comments per pull request: 0.59
Merged pull request: 716
Bot issues: 0
Bot pull requests: 0
Past year issues: 12
Past year pull requests: 19
Past year average time to close issues: about 1 month
Past year average time to close pull requests: 1 day
Past year issue authors: 9
Past year pull request authors: 7
Past year average comments per issue: 3.42
Past year average comments per pull request: 0.74
Past year merged pull request: 12
Past year bot issues: 0
Past year bot pull requests: 0
Top Issue Authors
- ehmicky (135)
- sindresorhus (7)
- jamestalmage (5)
- karlhorky (2)
- Zamiell (2)
- iiroj (2)
- FreePhoenix888 (2)
- MaddyGuthridge (2)
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- qmonmert (2)
- koshic (2)
- anomiex (2)
- callumlocke (2)
- dh049 (2)
- Shakeskeyboarde (1)
Top Pull Request Authors
- ehmicky (735)
- codesmith-emmy (4)
- sindresorhus (3)
- w3cj (2)
- jimhigson (2)
- apupier (2)
- aaronccasanova (2)
- mifi (2)
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Top Issue Labels
- enhancement (16)
- help wanted (16)
- bug (2)
- question (2)
- docs (1)
- :dollar: Funded on Issuehunt (1)
Top Pull Request Labels
- enhancement (1)
Package metadata
- Total packages: 24
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Total downloads:
- npm: 525,773,319 last-month
- Total docker downloads: 11,064,373,606
- Total dependent packages: 17,623 (may contain duplicates)
- Total dependent repositories: 932,017 (may contain duplicates)
- Total versions: 178
- Total maintainers: 12
npmjs.org: execa
Process execution for humans
- Homepage: https://github.com/sindresorhus/execa#readme
- Licenses: MIT
- Latest release: 9.6.1 (published 4 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2026-03-18T13:32:05.739Z (1 day ago)
- Versions: 64
- Dependent Packages: 17,598
- Dependent Repositories: 932,013
- Downloads: 525,768,878 Last month
- Docker Downloads: 11,064,373,606
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Rankings:
- Downloads: 0.002%
- Dependent packages count: 0.006%
- Docker downloads count: 0.007%
- Dependent repos count: 0.036%
- Average: 0.591%
- Stargazers count: 1.252%
- Forks count: 2.242%
- Maintainers (2)
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Funding:
- https://github.com/sindresorhus/execa?sponsor=1
proxy.golang.org: github.com/sindresorhus/execa
- Homepage:
- Documentation: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/sindresorhus/execa#section-documentation
- Licenses: mit
- Latest release: v9.6.1+incompatible (published 4 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2026-03-18T18:01:07.000Z (1 day ago)
- Versions: 64
- Dependent Packages: 0
- Dependent Repositories: 2
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Rankings:
- Stargazers count: 0.884%
- Forks count: 1.944%
- Dependent repos count: 3.48%
- Average: 3.967%
- Dependent packages count: 9.561%
repo1.maven.org: org.webjars.npm:execa
WebJar for execa
- Homepage: https://www.webjars.org
- Documentation: https://appdoc.app/artifact/org.webjars.npm/execa/
- Licenses: MIT
- Latest release: 8.0.1 (published over 2 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2026-03-18T18:01:03.191Z (1 day ago)
- Versions: 15
- Dependent Packages: 18
- Dependent Repositories: 0
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Rankings:
- Stargazers count: 3.36%
- Dependent packages count: 3.362%
- Forks count: 10.427%
- Average: 12.282%
- Dependent repos count: 31.98%
npmjs.org: @marchyang/execa
Process execution for humans
- Homepage: https://github.com/sindresorhus/execa#readme
- Licenses: MIT
- Latest release: 6.0.1 (published over 4 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2026-03-18T18:01:03.433Z (1 day ago)
- Versions: 2
- Dependent Packages: 5
- Dependent Repositories: 1
- Downloads: 4 Last month
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Rankings:
- Stargazers count: 1.244%
- Forks count: 2.281%
- Dependent packages count: 3.699%
- Dependent repos count: 10.296%
- Average: 16.383%
- Downloads: 64.397%
- Maintainers (1)
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Funding:
- https://github.com/sindresorhus/execa?sponsor=1
npmjs.org: @nbarray/execa
A better `child_process`
- Homepage: https://github.com/sindresorhus/execa#readme
- Licenses: MIT
- Latest release: 1.0.0 (published over 7 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2026-03-18T18:01:04.852Z (1 day ago)
- Versions: 1
- Dependent Packages: 1
- Dependent Repositories: 1
- Downloads: 4 Last month
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Rankings:
- Stargazers count: 1.243%
- Forks count: 2.281%
- Dependent repos count: 10.296%
- Average: 17.926%
- Dependent packages count: 20.908%
- Downloads: 54.903%
- Maintainers (1)
npmjs.org: @commonify/execa
CommonJS version of execa 6.0.0. See https://github.com/mifi/commonify
- Homepage: https://github.com/sindresorhus/execa#readme
- Licenses: MIT
- Latest release: 6.0.0 (published about 4 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2026-03-18T18:01:05.279Z (1 day ago)
- Versions: 1
- Dependent Packages: 1
- Dependent Repositories: 0
- Downloads: 10 Last month
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Rankings:
- Stargazers count: 1.582%
- Forks count: 2.737%
- Dependent packages count: 16.224%
- Average: 18.327%
- Dependent repos count: 25.328%
- Downloads: 45.763%
- Maintainers (1)
npmjs.org: @drtz/execa
Process execution for humans
- Homepage: https://github.com/sindresorhus/execa#readme
- Licenses: MIT
- Latest release: 8.0.3 (published almost 2 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2026-03-18T18:01:03.136Z (1 day ago)
- Versions: 1
- Dependent Packages: 0
- Dependent Repositories: 0
- Downloads: 7 Last month
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Rankings:
- Downloads: 12.771%
- Average: 24.586%
- Dependent repos count: 24.957%
- Dependent packages count: 36.029%
- Maintainers (1)
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Funding:
- https://github.com/sindresorhus/execa?sponsor=1
npmjs.org: @depup/execa
Process execution for humans
- Homepage: https://github.com/sindresorhus/execa#readme
- Licenses: MIT
- Latest release: 9.6.1-depup.0 (published 11 days ago)
- Last Synced: 2026-03-18T18:01:05.694Z (1 day ago)
- Versions: 1
- Dependent Packages: 0
- Dependent Repositories: 0
- Downloads: 92 Last month
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Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 22.53%
- Average: 27.513%
- Dependent packages count: 32.495%
- Maintainers (1)
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Funding:
- https://github.com/sindresorhus/execa?sponsor=1
npmjs.org: @dword-design/execa-fork
Process execution for humans
- Homepage: https://github.com/sindresorhus/execa#readme
- Status: deprecated
- Licenses: MIT
- Latest release: 0.0.1 (published 4 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2026-03-18T18:01:05.583Z (1 day ago)
- Versions: 1
- Dependent Packages: 0
- Dependent Repositories: 0
- Downloads: 13 Last month
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Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 23.311%
- Average: 28.467%
- Dependent packages count: 33.622%
- Maintainers (1)
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Funding:
- https://github.com/sindresorhus/execa?sponsor=1
npmjs.org: @thaitype/execa
Process execution for humans
- Homepage: https://github.com/sindresorhus/execa#readme
- Licenses: MIT
- Latest release: 9.5.2-2 (published about 1 year ago)
- Last Synced: 2026-03-18T18:01:06.035Z (1 day ago)
- Versions: 3
- Dependent Packages: 0
- Dependent Repositories: 0
- Downloads: 8 Last month
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Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 25.168%
- Average: 30.787%
- Dependent packages count: 36.407%
- Maintainers (1)
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Funding:
- https://github.com/sindresorhus/execa?sponsor=1
npmjs.org: execa-cjs-alt
Process execution for humans
- Homepage: https://github.com/sindresorhus/execa#readme
- Status: deprecated
- Licenses: MIT
- Latest release: 9.4.1 (published over 1 year ago)
- Last Synced: 2026-03-18T18:01:05.791Z (1 day ago)
- Versions: 2
- Dependent Packages: 0
- Dependent Repositories: 0
- Downloads: 3 Last month
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Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 25.698%
- Average: 31.473%
- Dependent packages count: 37.247%
- Maintainers (1)
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Funding:
- https://github.com/sindresorhus/execa?sponsor=1
npmjs.org: execa-cjs
Process execution for humans
- Homepage: https://github.com/sindresorhus/execa#readme
- Licenses: MIT
- Latest release: 9.1.1 (published almost 2 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2026-03-18T18:01:05.192Z (1 day ago)
- Versions: 2
- Dependent Packages: 0
- Dependent Repositories: 0
- Downloads: 4,110 Last month
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Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 28.857%
- Average: 35.399%
- Dependent packages count: 41.942%
- Maintainers (1)
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Funding:
- https://github.com/sindresorhus/execa?sponsor=1
repo1.maven.org: org.mvnpm:execa
Process execution for humans
- Homepage: https://github.com/sindresorhus/execa#readme
- Documentation: https://appdoc.app/artifact/org.mvnpm/execa/
- Licenses: MIT
- Latest release: 9.6.1 (published 4 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2026-03-18T18:01:05.798Z (1 day ago)
- Versions: 8
- Dependent Packages: 0
- Dependent Repositories: 0
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Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 31.064%
- Average: 37.738%
- Dependent packages count: 44.412%
npmjs.org: @rebundled/execa
Process execution for humans
- Homepage: https://github.com/sindresorhus/execa#readme
- Licenses: MIT
- Latest release: 8.0.2-next.2 (published about 2 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2026-03-18T18:01:05.656Z (1 day ago)
- Versions: 3
- Dependent Packages: 0
- Dependent Repositories: 0
- Downloads: 190 Last month
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Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 33.928%
- Average: 41.19%
- Dependent packages count: 48.451%
- Maintainers (1)
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Funding:
- https://github.com/sindresorhus/execa?sponsor=1
debian-12: node-execa
- Homepage: https://github.com/sindresorhus/execa
- Documentation: https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/node-execa
- Licenses: mit
- Latest release: 6.1.0+dfsg1+~cs16.0.4-8 (published about 1 month ago)
- Last Synced: 2026-03-13T05:26:33.975Z (7 days ago)
- Versions: 1
- Dependent Packages: 0
- Dependent Repositories: 0
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Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 0.0%
- Dependent packages count: 0.0%
- Average: 100%
ubuntu-24.04: node-execa
- Homepage: https://github.com/sindresorhus/execa
- Licenses: mit
- Latest release: 6.1.0+dfsg1+~cs16.0.4-9 (published about 1 month ago)
- Last Synced: 2026-03-06T06:57:20.471Z (14 days ago)
- Versions: 1
- Dependent Packages: 0
- Dependent Repositories: 0
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- Dependent repos count: 0.0%
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- Average: 100%
ubuntu-23.04: node-execa
- Homepage: https://github.com/sindresorhus/execa
- Licenses: mit
- Latest release: 6.1.0+dfsg1+~cs16.0.4-8 (published about 1 month ago)
- Last Synced: 2026-03-11T22:43:20.139Z (8 days ago)
- Versions: 1
- Dependent Packages: 0
- Dependent Repositories: 0
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- Dependent repos count: 0.0%
- Dependent packages count: 0.0%
- Average: 100%
ubuntu-20.04: node-execa
- Homepage: https://github.com/sindresorhus/execa#readme
- Licenses: mit
- Latest release: 0.10.0+dfsg-1 (published about 1 month ago)
- Last Synced: 2026-03-13T09:24:44.527Z (7 days ago)
- Versions: 1
- Dependent Packages: 0
- Dependent Repositories: 0
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- Average: 100%
debian-10: node-execa
- Homepage: https://github.com/sindresorhus/execa#readme
- Documentation: https://packages.debian.org/buster/node-execa
- Licenses: mit
- Latest release: 0.10.0+dfsg-1 (published about 1 month ago)
- Last Synced: 2026-03-13T16:00:48.598Z (6 days ago)
- Versions: 1
- Dependent Packages: 0
- Dependent Repositories: 0
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- Dependent repos count: 0.0%
- Dependent packages count: 0.0%
- Average: 100%
ubuntu-23.10: node-execa
- Homepage: https://github.com/sindresorhus/execa
- Licenses: mit
- Latest release: 6.1.0+dfsg1+~cs16.0.4-9 (published about 1 month ago)
- Last Synced: 2026-03-13T20:16:44.799Z (6 days ago)
- Versions: 1
- Dependent Packages: 0
- Dependent Repositories: 0
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Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 0.0%
- Dependent packages count: 0.0%
- Average: 100%
debian-13: node-execa
- Homepage: https://github.com/sindresorhus/execa
- Documentation: https://packages.debian.org/trixie/node-execa
- Licenses: mit
- Latest release: 8.0.1+dfsg1+~cs12.0.0-1 (published about 1 month ago)
- Last Synced: 2026-03-14T07:03:31.934Z (6 days ago)
- Versions: 1
- Dependent Packages: 0
- Dependent Repositories: 0
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- Dependent repos count: 0.0%
- Dependent packages count: 0.0%
- Average: 100%
debian-11: node-execa
- Homepage: https://github.com/sindresorhus/execa
- Documentation: https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/node-execa
- Licenses: mit
- Latest release: 4.1.0+dfsg+~cs19.3.6-5 (published about 1 month ago)
- Last Synced: 2026-03-14T01:23:40.382Z (6 days ago)
- Versions: 1
- Dependent Packages: 0
- Dependent Repositories: 0
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- Dependent repos count: 0.0%
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- Average: 100%
ubuntu-24.10: node-execa
- Homepage: https://github.com/sindresorhus/execa
- Licenses: mit
- Latest release: 8.0.1+dfsg1+~cs12.0.0-1build2 (published about 1 month ago)
- Last Synced: 2026-03-09T06:22:48.998Z (11 days ago)
- Versions: 1
- Dependent Packages: 0
- Dependent Repositories: 0
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- Dependent repos count: 0.0%
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- Average: 100%
ubuntu-22.04: node-execa
- Homepage: https://github.com/sindresorhus/execa
- Licenses: mit
- Latest release: 5.1.1+repack+~cs17.3.6-1 (published about 1 month ago)
- Last Synced: 2026-03-07T15:38:29.464Z (12 days ago)
- Versions: 1
- Dependent Packages: 0
- Dependent Repositories: 0
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