Is chokidar safe to use?

chokidar has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (5.0.0). DepScope rates its health at 77/100 (moderate risk).

What is the latest version of chokidar?

The latest version of chokidar is 5.0.0, released 2025-11-25.

Does chokidar have known vulnerabilities?

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of chokidar.

Is chokidar deprecated?

No, chokidar is actively maintained. Latest release: 5.0.0 (2025-11-25).

What are alternatives to chokidar?

Popular alternatives to chokidar in npm include: debug, minimatch, ansi-styles, brace-expansion, strip-ansi.

What license does chokidar use?

chokidar is licensed under MIT.

chokidar

npmv5.0.0

Minimal and efficient cross-platform file watching library

License MITpermissive109 versions1 maintainers1 deps164,953,305 weekly dl

paulmillr/chokidar

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Health

safe to use

[email protected] is safe to use (health: 77/100)

Health breakdown0 – 100

15/25

maintenance

20/20

popularity

25/25

security

15/15

maturity

2/15

community

Vulnerabilities

none known

Bundle & TypeScript

🌟

TypeScript

10/10typed

bundled

Maintainer trust

Active maintainers (3m)

1

Contributors (12m)

5

Primary author dominance

47%

GitHub stars

12,077

single active maintainer 3m

Quality signals

OSS Criticality

0.78critical

Download trend

stable(+3.1%)

Publish security

npm attested

Health History

Dependency Tree

License Audit

Dependencies (1)

readdirp

API access

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