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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

Nitro

Build and deploy universal JavaScript servers with zero-config.

HTTP servers and APIs npm MIT

Used in agent projects
34
0.3% of 12,697 public repos built with AI coding agents
Rank in http servers and apis
#25 of 30
by use in those projects
Downloads
13M
npm, last 7 days, nitro
GitHub stars
11.3K
last push Oct 10, 2026

How Nitro is used

Nitro is a dependency in 34 of the 12,697 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (0.3%), #25 of 30 in http servers and apis. The most used alternative there is Express. Projects that use it most often also use TanStack Router (97.1%), TanStack Start (97.1%), Lucide React (97.1%).

Often used with Nitro

TanStack Router97.1% of Nitro projects · 164.3× more than average
TanStack Start97.1% of Nitro projects · 286.6× more than average
Lucide React97.1% of Nitro projects · 4.9× more than average
Vite97.1% of Nitro projects · 4.3× more than average
Zod88.2% of Nitro projects · 5.2× more than average
Class Variance Authority82.4% of Nitro projects · 5.8× more than average
Tailwind Merge79.4% of Nitro projects · 4.7× more than average
TanStack Router Plugin76.5% of Nitro projects · 167.4× more than average

By coding agent

Claude Code0.5% of projects set up for it
Cursor0.6% of projects set up for it
GitHub Copilot0.4% of projects set up for it

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

Install

Packagenpm install nitro
Main stacksTypeScript / JavaScript (34)
Example projectsmiantiao-me/bm.md, NathanAB/statuslin.es, salmanrrana/brain-dump, FixMyBerlin/trassenscout

Alternatives to Nitro

All http servers and apis

Tool Used in agent projectsDownloads / wk GitHub starsLicense
Express npm
Fast, unopinionated minimalist web framework for Node.js.
822 (6.5%) 142M 69.6K MIT
Uvicorn pypi
Lightning-fast ASGI server for running async Python web applications.
544 (4.3%) 13M 11K —
FastAPI pypi
High-performance Python web framework with automatic API docs and async support.
537 (4.2%) 107M 103K —
cors npm
Express/Node.js middleware for handling Cross-Origin Resource Sharing.
422 (3.3%) 86.8M 6,195 MIT
python-multipart pypi
Streaming multipart parser for handling file uploads in Python web frameworks.
217 (1.7%) 92.8M 536 —
Flask pypi
Lightweight Python web framework for building web applications and APIs.
174 (1.4%) 40.9M 75K —
Hono npm
Ultrafast web framework for edge runtimes built on Web Standards.
136 (1.1%) 73.9M 32.5K MIT
express-rate-limit npm
Express middleware for rate limiting API requests by IP address.
105 (0.8%) 57.6M 3,311 MIT
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