https://github.com/sindresorhus/leven

Score: 31.10358650665776

Last synced: about 18 hours ago
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Measure the difference between two strings with the fastest JS implementation of the Levenshtein distance algorithm

Host: GitHub
URL: https://github.com/sindresorhus/leven
Owner: sindresorhus
License: mit
Created: 2014-08-09T20:34:03.000Z (almost 12 years ago)
Default Branch: main
Last Pushed: 2025-09-11T12:27:54.000Z (10 months ago)
Last Synced: 2026-06-19T15:11:25.272Z (about 1 month ago)
Language: JavaScript
Homepage:
Size: 33.2 KB
Stars: 734
Watchers: 12
Forks: 31
Open Issues: 0
Metadata Files:
- Readme: readme.md
- License: license
- Security: .github/security.md
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

Fork event: 4
Issue comment event: 8
Issues event: 8
Pull request event: 4
Push event: 2
Release event: 1
Watch event: 16
Total: 43

Last Year

Fork event: 1
Issue comment event: 2
Issues event: 2
Push event: 1
Release event: 1
Watch event: 5
Total: 12

Committers metadata

Last synced: about 20 hours ago

Total Commits: 39
Total Committers: 8
Avg Commits per committer: 4.875
Development Distribution Score (DDS): 0.256

Commits in past year: 4
Committers in past year: 1
Avg Commits per committer in past year: 4.0
Development Distribution Score (DDS) in past year: 0.0

Name	Email	Commits
Sindre Sorhus	s**s@g**m	29
Guillaume Plique	g**e@g**m	3
Dimitri Benin	B****r	2
fisker Cheung	l**y@g**m	1
Richie Bendall	r**l@g**m	1
Kevin Martensson	k**n@g**m	1
Gustaf Andersson	g**f@m**m	1
Benjamin Tan	d**x@g**m	1

Issue and Pull Request metadata

Last synced: 7 months ago

Total issues: 8
Total pull requests: 21
Average time to close issues: 12 months
Average time to close pull requests: 28 days
Total issue authors: 8
Total pull request authors: 15
Average comments per issue: 2.88
Average comments per pull request: 3.33
Merged pull request: 10
Bot issues: 0
Bot pull requests: 0

Past year issues: 4
Past year pull requests: 4
Past year average time to close issues: about 2 months
Past year average time to close pull requests: about 14 hours
Past year issue authors: 4
Past year pull request authors: 2
Past year average comments per issue: 1.25
Past year average comments per pull request: 0.5
Past year merged pull request: 2
Past year bot issues: 0
Past year bot pull requests: 0

More stats: https://issues.ecosyste.ms/repositories/lookup?url=https://github.com/sindresorhus/leven

Top Issue Authors

fisker (1)
larsroettig (1)
wshixjrnjr (1)
coldzonelin (1)
bittlingmayer (1)
wooorm (1)
renzi-fidele-frontend (1)
livthomas (1)

Top Pull Request Authors

Yomguithereal (3)
renzi-fidele-frontend (2)
simlevesque (2)
BendingBender (2)
fisker (2)
jmalonzo (1)
gustf (1)
edokan (1)
cbbfcd (1)
ka-weihe (1)
SeppaIlmarinen (1)
reganmeloche (1)
bnjmnt4n (1)
Richienb (1)
MaximDevoir (1)

Top Issue Labels

help wanted (2)
enhancement (2)
bug (1)

Top Pull Request Labels

enhancement (1)

Package metadata

Total packages: 15
Total downloads:
- npm: 224,110,806 last-month
Total docker downloads: 5,260,156,992
Total dependent packages: 1,531 (may contain duplicates)
Total dependent repositories: 2,646,898 (may contain duplicates)
Total versions: 46
Total maintainers: 1

npmjs.org: leven

Measure the difference between two strings using the Levenshtein distance algorithm

Homepage: https://github.com/sindresorhus/leven#readme
Licenses: MIT
Latest release: 4.1.0 (published 10 months ago)
Last Synced: 2026-07-22T11:58:31.444Z (about 19 hours ago)
Versions: 9
Dependent Packages: 1,515
Dependent Repositories: 2,646,898
Downloads: 224,110,806 Last month
Docker Downloads: 5,260,156,992
Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 0.008%
- Downloads: 0.014%
- Docker downloads count: 0.028%
- Dependent packages count: 0.049%
- Average: 1.187%
- Stargazers count: 2.672%
- Forks count: 4.351%
Maintainers (1)
- sindresorhus
Funding:
- https://github.com/sponsors/sindresorhus

proxy.golang.org: github.com/sindresorhus/leven

Homepage:
Documentation: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/sindresorhus/leven#section-documentation
Licenses: mit
Latest release: v4.1.0+incompatible (published 10 months ago)
Last Synced: 2026-07-22T11:58:34.496Z (about 19 hours ago)
Versions: 8
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:
- Dependent packages count: 5.662%
- Average: 5.852%
- Dependent repos count: 6.042%

bower.io: leven

Homepage:
Licenses: mit
Latest release: v4.1.0 (published 10 months ago)
Last Synced: 2026-03-22T06:10:41.894Z (4 months ago)
Versions: 9
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:
- Stargazers count: 4.043%
- Dependent packages count: 5.144%
- Forks count: 8.513%
- Average: 13.803%
- Dependent repos count: 37.512%

repo1.maven.org: org.webjars.npm:leven

WebJar for leven

Homepage: https://www.webjars.org
Documentation: https://appdoc.app/artifact/org.webjars.npm/leven/
Licenses: MIT
Latest release: 4.1.0 (published 5 months ago)
Last Synced: 2026-07-22T11:58:31.607Z (about 19 hours ago)
Versions: 5
Dependent Packages: 16
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:
- Dependent packages count: 3.754%
- Stargazers count: 10.664%
- Average: 16.101%
- Forks count: 18.006%
- Dependent repos count: 31.98%

repo1.maven.org: org.mvnpm:leven

Measure the difference between two strings using the Levenshtein distance algorithm

Homepage: https://github.com/sindresorhus/leven#readme
Documentation: https://appdoc.app/artifact/org.mvnpm/leven/
Licenses: MIT
Latest release: 4.1.0 (published 10 months ago)
Last Synced: 2026-07-22T11:58:31.509Z (about 19 hours ago)
Versions: 5
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:
- Stargazers count: 14.384%
- Forks count: 29.122%
- Average: 30.369%
- Dependent repos count: 32.091%
- Dependent packages count: 45.878%

ubuntu-20.04: node-leven

Homepage: https://github.com/sindresorhus/leven#readme
Licenses:
Latest release: 3.1.0-2 (published 5 months ago)
Last Synced: 2026-03-13T17:24:33.894Z (4 months ago)
Versions: 1
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 0.0%
- Dependent packages count: 0.0%
- Average: 100%

ubuntu-24.04: node-leven

Homepage: https://github.com/sindresorhus/leven#readme
Licenses:
Latest release: 4.0.0+~cs1.1.1-2 (published 6 months ago)
Last Synced: 2026-03-06T06:59:33.940Z (5 months ago)
Versions: 1
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 0.0%
- Dependent packages count: 0.0%
- Average: 100%

ubuntu-23.10: node-leven

Homepage: https://github.com/sindresorhus/leven#readme
Licenses: mit
Latest release: 4.0.0+~cs1.1.1-2 (published 5 months ago)
Last Synced: 2026-03-13T22:15:28.889Z (4 months ago)
Versions: 1
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 0.0%
- Dependent packages count: 0.0%
- Average: 100%

debian-11: node-leven

Homepage: https://github.com/sindresorhus/leven#readme
Documentation: https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/node-leven
Licenses:
Latest release: 3.1.0+~cs1.1.1-1 (published 5 months ago)
Last Synced: 2026-03-13T23:35:44.956Z (4 months ago)
Versions: 1
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 0.0%
- Dependent packages count: 0.0%
- Average: 100%

ubuntu-23.04: node-leven

Homepage: https://github.com/sindresorhus/leven#readme
Licenses:
Latest release: 4.0.0+~cs1.1.1-2 (published 5 months ago)
Last Synced: 2026-03-12T00:16:56.739Z (4 months ago)
Versions: 1
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 0.0%
- Dependent packages count: 0.0%
- Average: 100%

ubuntu-24.10: node-leven

Homepage: https://github.com/sindresorhus/leven#readme
Licenses:
Latest release: 4.0.0+~cs1.1.1-2 (published 5 months ago)
Last Synced: 2026-03-09T07:26:35.802Z (5 months ago)
Versions: 1
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 0.0%
- Dependent packages count: 0.0%
- Average: 100%

debian-10: node-leven

Homepage: https://github.com/sindresorhus/leven#readme
Documentation: https://packages.debian.org/buster/node-leven
Licenses:
Latest release: 2.1.0-2 (published 5 months ago)
Last Synced: 2026-03-14T01:06:41.898Z (4 months ago)
Versions: 1
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 0.0%
- Dependent packages count: 0.0%
- Average: 100%

ubuntu-22.04: node-leven

Homepage: https://github.com/sindresorhus/leven#readme
Licenses:
Latest release: 3.1.0+~cs1.1.1-2 (published 6 months ago)
Last Synced: 2026-03-07T16:31:23.409Z (5 months ago)
Versions: 1
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 0.0%
- Dependent packages count: 0.0%
- Average: 100%

debian-13: node-leven

Homepage: https://github.com/sindresorhus/leven#readme
Documentation: https://packages.debian.org/trixie/node-leven
Licenses:
Latest release: 4.0.0+~cs1.1.1-2 (published 5 months ago)
Last Synced: 2026-03-14T07:05:54.861Z (4 months ago)
Versions: 1
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 0.0%
- Dependent packages count: 0.0%
- Average: 100%

debian-12: node-leven

Homepage: https://github.com/sindresorhus/leven#readme
Documentation: https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/node-leven
Licenses:
Latest release: 4.0.0+~cs1.1.1-2 (published 5 months ago)
Last Synced: 2026-03-13T20:41:53.274Z (4 months ago)
Versions: 1
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 0.0%
- Dependent packages count: 0.0%
- Average: 100%

Dependencies

package.json npm

ava ^3.15.0 development
fast-levenshtein ^3.0.0 development
ld ^0.1.0 development
levdist ^2.2.10 development
levenshtein ^1.0.5 development
levenshtein-component ^0.0.1 development
levenshtein-edit-distance ^3.0.0 development
matcha ^0.7.0 development
natural ^5.0.4 development
talisman ^1.1.4 development
tsd ^0.17.0 development
xo ^0.44.0 development

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actions/setup-node v2 composite

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