fs — open-source software health

npm · PyPI

79Goodhealth index

facebook/watchman

Watches files and records, or triggers actions, when they change.

C++ · Python★ 13.7K↓ 181M/moJul 22, 2026

MITJul 22, 2026 · metrics 1.13.0

npm

69Moderatehealth index

jprichardson/node-fs-extra

Node.js: extra methods for the fs object like copy(), remove(), mkdirs()

JavaScript★ 9,605↓ 824M/moJul 22, 2026

MITJul 22, 2026 · metrics 1.13.0

npm

68Moderatehealth index

sindresorhus/globby

User-friendly glob matching

JavaScript★ 2,644↓ 339M/moJul 17, 2026

MITJul 17, 2026 · metrics 1.13.0

npm

61Moderatehealth index

humanwhocodes/humanfs

A modern filesystem API for JavaScript

JavaScript★ 550↓ 988M/moJul 22, 2026

No licenseJul 22, 2026 · metrics 1.13.0

npm

61Moderatehealth index

stackpress/lib

Common typescript types

TypeScript · HTML★ 8↓ 6,604/moJul 15, 2026

Apache-2.0Jul 15, 2026 · metrics 1.13.0

npm

60Moderatehealth index

thecodrr/fdir

⚡ The fastest directory crawler & globbing library for NodeJS. Crawls 1m files in < 1s

TypeScript★ 1,726↓ 612M/moJul 22, 2026

MITJul 22, 2026 · metrics 1.13.0

npm

56Moderatehealth index

sindresorhus/read-pkg

Read a package.json file

JavaScript★ 175↓ 197M/moJul 22, 2026

MITJul 22, 2026 · metrics 1.13.0

npm

55Moderatehealth index

jprichardson/node-jsonfile

Easily read/write JSON files.

JavaScript★ 1,212↓ 526M/moJul 22, 2026

MITJul 22, 2026 · metrics 1.13.0

npm

54Moderatehealth index

sindresorhus/make-dir

Make a directory and its parents if needed - Think `mkdir -p`

JavaScript★ 481↓ 510M/moJul 22, 2026

MITJul 22, 2026 · metrics 1.13.0

npm

52Moderatehealth index

gulpjs/glob-stream

Readable streamx interface over anymatch.

JavaScript★ 181↓ 15.1M/moJul 18, 2026

MITJul 18, 2026 · metrics 1.13.0

npm

50Moderatehealth index

sindresorhus/path-type

Check if a path is a file, directory, or symlink

JavaScript · TypeScript★ 80↓ 381M/moJul 22, 2026

MITJul 22, 2026 · metrics 1.13.0

npm

49At riskhealth index

paulmillr/chokidar

Minimal and efficient cross-platform file watching library

TypeScript★ 12.2K↓ 836M/moJul 22, 2026

MITJul 22, 2026 · metrics 1.13.0

npm

45At riskhealth index

micromatch/anymatch

:bangbang: Matches strings against configurable strings, globs, regular expressions, and/or functions

JavaScript★ 402↓ 507M/moJul 22, 2026

ISCJul 22, 2026 · metrics 1.13.0

npm

45At riskhealth index

sindresorhus/path-exists

Check if a path exists

JavaScript · TypeScript★ 156↓ 827M/moJul 22, 2026

MITJul 22, 2026 · metrics 1.13.0

npm

43At riskhealth index

isaacs/fs.realpath

Use node's fs.realpath, but fall back to the JS implementation if the native one fails

JavaScript★ 25↓ 366M/moJul 22, 2026

BlueOak-1.0.0Jul 22, 2026 · metrics 1.13.0

npm

42At riskhealth index

isaacs/node-graceful-fs

fs with incremental backoff on EMFILE

JavaScript★ 1,303↓ 753M/moJul 22, 2026

BlueOak-1.0.0Jul 22, 2026 · metrics 1.13.0

npm

41At riskhealth index

paulmillr/readdirp

Recursive version of fs.readdir with small RAM & CPU footprint.

JavaScript · TypeScript★ 421↓ 808M/moJul 22, 2026

MITJul 22, 2026 · metrics 1.13.0

npm

40At riskhealth index

sindresorhus/load-json-file

Read and parse a JSON file

JavaScript · TypeScript★ 249↓ 98.9M/moJul 22, 2026

MITJul 22, 2026 · metrics 1.13.0

npm

37At riskhealth index

daaku/nodejs-walker

A directory walker for nodejs

JavaScript★ 105↓ 181M/moJul 22, 2026

Custom licenseJul 22, 2026 · metrics 1.13.0

npm

34At riskhealth index

jonschlinkert/normalize-path

Normalize file path slashes to be unix-like forward slashes. Used by chokidar, anymatch, and many others!

JavaScript★ 112↓ 583M/moJul 22, 2026

MITJul 22, 2026 · metrics 1.13.0

npm · Maven

29Criticalhealth index

itinance/react-native-fs

Native filesystem access for react-native

C++ · C# · Objective-C★ 5,042↓ 2.2M/moJul 22, 2026

MITJul 22, 2026 · metrics 1.13.0

npm

26Criticalhealth index

micromatch/braces

Faster brace expansion for node.js. Besides being faster, braces is not subject to DoS attacks like minimatch, is more accurate, and has more complete support for Bash 4.3.

JavaScript★ 249↓ 664M/moJul 22, 2026

MITJul 22, 2026 · metrics 1.13.0

npm

12Criticalhealth index

mrmlnc/fast-glob

:rocket: It's a very fast and efficient glob library for Node.js

JavaScript · TypeScript★ 2,818↓ 593M/moJul 22, 2026

MITJul 22, 2026 · metrics 1.13.0

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