Used in agent projects
128
1.0% of 12,697 public repos built with AI coding agents
Rank in utilities
#16 of 109
by use in those projects
Downloads
397M
npm, last 7 days, glob
GitHub stars
8,711
last push Oct 5, 2026
How glob is used
glob is a dependency in 128 of the 12,697 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (1.0%), #16 of 109 in utilities. The most used alternative there is clsx. Projects that use it most often also use tsx (39.1%), Playwright (JavaScript) (35.9%), Husky (33.6%).
Often used with glob
| tsx | 39.1% of glob projects · 3.9× more than average |
|---|---|
| Playwright (JavaScript) | 35.9% of glob projects · 4.1× more than average |
| Husky | 33.6% of glob projects · 5.4× more than average |
| Prettier | 47.7% of glob projects · 2.7× more than average |
| Vitest | 39.1% of glob projects · 3.2× more than average |
| TypeScript | 81.2% of glob projects · 1.5× more than average |
| chalk | 29.7% of glob projects · 17.0× more than average |
| lint-staged | 27.3% of glob projects · 5.9× more than average |
By coding agent
| Claude Code | 2.0% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| GitHub Copilot | 1.7% of projects set up for it |
| Cursor | 1.9% of projects set up for it |
| OpenAI Codex | 2.9% of projects set up for it |
| Gemini CLI | 2.7% of projects set up for it |
| OpenCode | 3.8% of projects set up for it |
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list glob as a dependency.
Install
| Package | npm install glob |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | TypeScript / JavaScript (95), Next.js (18), Python (7), .NET (3) |
| Example projects | handsontable/handsontable, Automattic/wp-calypso, NG-ZORRO/ng-zorro-antd, getsentry/MobileBuildMCP, Nexus-Mods/Vortex |
Alternatives to glob
| 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 |