Used in agent projects
85
0.7% of 12,697 public repos built with AI coding agents
Rank in utilities
#28 of 109
by use in those projects
Downloads
223M
npm, last 7 days, fs-extra
GitHub stars
9,589
last push Sep 22, 2026
How fs-extra is used
fs-extra is a dependency in 85 of the 12,697 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (0.7%), #28 of 109 in utilities. The most used alternative there is clsx. Projects that use it most often also use chalk (35.3%), Vitest (40.0%), Husky (27.1%).
Often used with fs-extra
| chalk | 35.3% of fs-extra projects · 20.2× more than average |
|---|---|
| Vitest | 40.0% of fs-extra projects · 3.3× more than average |
| Husky | 27.1% of fs-extra projects · 4.3× more than average |
| lint-staged | 24.7% of fs-extra projects · 5.3× more than average |
| uuid | 24.7% of fs-extra projects · 6.9× more than average |
| Commander | 24.7% of fs-extra projects · 17.0× more than average |
| Jest | 24.7% of fs-extra projects · 4.5× more than average |
| Playwright (JavaScript) | 29.4% of fs-extra projects · 3.3× more than average |
By coding agent
| Claude Code | 1.0% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| GitHub Copilot | 1.0% of projects set up for it |
| Cursor | 1.0% of projects set up for it |
| Gemini CLI | 3.0% of projects set up for it |
| OpenCode | 1.6% of projects set up for it |
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list fs-extra as a dependency.
Install
| Package | npm install fs-extra |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | TypeScript / JavaScript (69), Next.js (11), Python (3), .NET (1) |
| Example projects | handsontable/handsontable, NG-ZORRO/ng-zorro-antd, HoangNguyen0403/agent-skills-standard, lucasvieirasilva/nx-plugins, awslabs/nx-plugin-for-aws |
Alternatives to fs-extra
| Tool | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |