Used in agent projects
34
0.3% of 12,697 public repos built with AI coding agents
Rank in state and data fetching
#13 of 20
by use in those projects
Downloads
26.1M
npm, last 7 days, idb
GitHub stars
7,420
last push Oct 6, 2026
How idb is used
idb is a dependency in 34 of the 12,697 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (0.3%), #13 of 20 in state and data fetching. The most used alternative there is TanStack Query. Projects that use it most often also use Vitest (52.9%), Tailwind Merge (55.9%), Vite (64.7%).
Often used with idb
| Vitest | 52.9% of idb projects · 4.3× more than average |
|---|---|
| Tailwind Merge | 55.9% of idb projects · 3.3× more than average |
| Vite | 64.7% of idb projects · 2.8× more than average |
| clsx | 55.9% of idb projects · 3.2× more than average |
| Lucide React | 58.8% of idb projects · 3.0× more than average |
| ESLint | 79.4% of idb projects · 2.1× more than average |
| Playwright (JavaScript) | 41.2% of idb projects · 4.7× more than average |
| Zod | 52.9% of idb projects · 3.1× more than average |
By coding agent
| Claude Code | 0.5% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| GitHub Copilot | 0.5% of projects set up for it |
| Cursor | 0.4% of projects set up for it |
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list idb as a dependency.
Install
| Package | npm install idb |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | TypeScript / JavaScript (20), Next.js (13), Rust (1) |
| Example projects | miantiao-me/bm.md, 1600822305/AetherLink, hzrd149/nostrudel, kupzed/catatz, Vectreal/vectreal-platform |
Alternatives to idb
| Tool | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TanStack Query npm Hooks for managing, caching and synchronizing remote data in React. |
1,217 (9.6%) | 65.8M | 50.4K | MIT |
| Zustand npm Lightweight state management for React with minimal boilerplate. |
752 (5.9%) | 60.8M | 58.8K | MIT |
| RxJS npm Reactive programming library for composing async events and data streams in JavaScript. |
176 (1.4%) | 104M | 31.7K | Apache-2.0 |
| React Redux npm Official React bindings for Redux state management with hooks. |
135 (1.1%) | 39.2M | 23.4K | MIT |
| Jotai npm Minimal React state management with atoms as primitive building blocks for flexibility. |
124 (1.0%) | 6.6M | 21.3K | MIT |
| SWR npm React hooks library for data fetching with caching, revalidation and real-time updates. |
123 (1.0%) | 18.8M | 32.5K | MIT |
| Redux Toolkit npm Official Redux library with built-in best practices and reduced boilerplate for state management. |
120 (0.9%) | 32.6M | 11.2K | MIT |
| Immer npm Immutable state management by mutating a draft in a simpler API. |
77 (0.6%) | 64.6M | 29K | MIT |