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Agents tracked: 378 Downloads (7d): 244M down 5.7% GitHub stars: 8.4M VS Code installs: 151M Releases (7d): 407 Agent status: 1 with issues Updated Oct 10, 2026

fflate

High-performance DEFLATE compression and decompression in just 8kB.

Utilities npm MIT

Used in agent projects
37
0.3% of 12,697 public repos built with AI coding agents
Rank in utilities
#61 of 109
by use in those projects
Downloads
95.5M
npm, last 7 days, fflate
GitHub stars
3,043
last push May 16, 2026

How fflate is used

fflate is a dependency in 37 of the 12,697 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (0.3%), #61 of 109 in utilities. The most used alternative there is clsx. Projects that use it most often also use Vitest (67.6%), Vite (62.2%), TypeScript (94.6%).

Often used with fflate

Vitest67.6% of fflate projects · 5.5× more than average
Vite62.2% of fflate projects · 2.7× more than average
TypeScript94.6% of fflate projects · 1.7× more than average
Playwright (JavaScript)35.1% of fflate projects · 4.0× more than average
Zod43.2% of fflate projects · 2.6× more than average
Marked27.0% of fflate projects · 23.2× more than average
tsx32.4% of fflate projects · 3.3× more than average
jsdom24.3% of fflate projects · 4.5× more than average

By coding agent

Claude Code0.8% of projects set up for it
GitHub Copilot0.5% of projects set up for it
Cursor0.4% of projects set up for it
Gemini CLI1.1% of projects set up for it
OpenCode1.6% of projects set up for it

Share of public repos configured for each agent that list fflate as a dependency.

Install

Packagenpm install fflate
Main stacksTypeScript / JavaScript (29), Next.js (6), Rust (2)
Example projectsding113/claude-code-hub, nuxt/nuxt.com, nirholas/three.ws, hzrd149/nostrudel, avi12/youtube-downloader

Alternatives to fflate

All utilities

Tool Used in agent projectsDownloads / wk GitHub starsLicense
clsx npm
Tiny utility for conditionally constructing className strings.
2,251 (17.7%) 126M 9,847 MIT
date-fns npm
Modern JavaScript date utility library with comprehensive formatting functions.
1,079 (8.5%) 97.6M 36.6K MIT
uuid npm
Generate RFC9562 compliant UUIDs for unique identifiers in applications.
454 (3.6%) 296M 15.3K MIT
PyYAML pypi
YAML parser and emitter for reading and writing YAML configuration files.
385 (3.0%) 239M 2,954 MIT
Lodash npm
Modular utility library with methods for common programming tasks and data manipulation.
269 (2.1%) 162M 61.4K MIT
bn.js npm
Big number library for handling arbitrary-precision integers in JavaScript.
217 (1.7%) 62.1M 1,230 MIT
python-dateutil pypi
Extensions to Python's datetime module for advanced date and time manipulation.
165 (1.3%) 233M 2,638 Dual License
yaml npm
JavaScript YAML parser and stringifier with full spec compliance.
164 (1.3%) 179M 1,693 ISC
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