Used in agent projects
25
0.2% of 12,697 public repos built with AI coding agents
Rank in utilities
#84 of 109
by use in those projects
Downloads
285M
npm, last 7 days, mime-types
GitHub stars
1,476
last push Jun 2, 2026
How mime-types is used
mime-types is a dependency in 25 of the 12,697 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (0.2%), #84 of 109 in utilities. The most used alternative there is clsx. Projects that use it most often also use Zod (68.0%), Axios (48.0%), TypeScript (96.0%).
Often used with mime-types
| Zod | 68.0% of mime-types projects · 4.0× more than average |
|---|---|
| Axios | 48.0% of mime-types projects · 4.8× more than average |
| TypeScript | 96.0% of mime-types projects · 1.7× more than average |
| lint-staged | 40.0% of mime-types projects · 8.6× more than average |
| Prettier | 52.0% of mime-types projects · 3.0× more than average |
| dotenv | 48.0% of mime-types projects · 3.0× more than average |
| Husky | 36.0% of mime-types projects · 5.7× more than average |
| ws | 36.0% of mime-types projects · 15.9× more than average |
By coding agent
| Claude Code | 0.4% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| Cursor | 0.4% of projects set up for it |
| GitHub Copilot | 0.2% of projects set up for it |
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list mime-types as a dependency.
Install
| Package | npm install mime-types |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | TypeScript / JavaScript (16), Next.js (9) |
| Example projects | LeagueAkari/LeagueAkari, PageAI-Pro/vibe-coding-starter, liviuepure/baron-wallet, bsmi021/mcp-file-context-server, LastBotInc/nextjs-supabase-ai-webapp |
Alternatives to mime-types
| 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 |