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Edge Runtime VM

Runs code in a Web-standard context like Vercel's Edge Runtime, for tests.

Testing npm MIT

Website GitHub npm

Used in agent projects
4
0.1% of 4,839 JS/TS repos built with AI coding agents; 56 counting our dependency samples
Gid Score
47 /100
#1976 of 4,121 tools, #51 in testing · ranking
Rank in testing
#70 of 117
by use in those projects
Downloads
3.8M
npm, last 7 days, @edge-runtime/vm
GitHub stars
915
92 forks · last push Nov 2, 2026

How Edge Runtime VM is used

Edge Runtime VM is a dependency in 4 of the 6,230 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned, too few to describe it from them alone. Our scan also samples projects by dependency (Solana 3,043, Ethereum and EVM 1,756, 3D and games 3,105, agent frameworks and SDKs 13,447); counting those, it appears in 56 projects, and what it is used with below comes from all of them. Projects that use it most often also use Vitest (100.0%), Convex (75.0%), convex-test (75.0%).

Edge Runtime VM popularity over time

Top tools by Gid Score

Edge Runtime VM: downloads per weeknpm, @edge-runtime/vm 8,508,042
Edge Runtime VM: GitHub starsvercel/edge-runtime 915

Gid Score 47: downloads 76, use in agent projects 42, GitHub stars 10, downloads trend 49 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.

Often used with Edge Runtime VM

Vitest100.0% of Edge Runtime VM projects · 4.8× more than average
Convex75.0% of Edge Runtime VM projects · 133.5× more than average
convex-test75.0% of Edge Runtime VM projects · 934.5× more than average
AI SDK71.4% of Edge Runtime VM projects · 16.2× more than average
React91.1% of Edge Runtime VM projects · 2.8× more than average
Zod76.8% of Edge Runtime VM projects · 3.1× more than average
Next.js62.5% of Edge Runtime VM projects · 3.5× more than average
ESLint87.5% of Edge Runtime VM projects · 2.4× more than average

From all 56 projects in our scan that use Edge Runtime VM, including the dependency samples.

Install

Packagenpm install @edge-runtime/vm
Main stacksNext.js (34), TypeScript / JavaScript (21), Python (1)
Example projectslobehub/lobehub, convex/agent, vual/lobe-chat-pro, schelskedevco/ignidash, LayerNorm/overlay-web

Alternatives to Edge Runtime VM

All testing

In our scan, none of the most used tools in Testing does the same job as Edge Runtime VM: they are add-ons, companions or tools for a different task.

More in Testing: Vitest Playwright (JavaScript) Testing Library jsdom Jest pytest Happy DOM axe-core Playwright

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