Used in agent projects
25
0.2% of 12,697 public repos built with AI coding agents
Rank in utilities
#86 of 109
by use in those projects
Downloads
188M
npm, last 7 days, qs
GitHub stars
8,943
last push Sep 12, 2026
How qs is used
qs is a dependency in 25 of the 12,697 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (0.2%), #86 of 109 in utilities. The most used alternative there is clsx. Projects that use it most often also use Axios (68.0%), lint-staged (48.0%), Husky (44.0%).
Often used with qs
| Axios | 68.0% of qs projects · 6.8× more than average |
|---|---|
| lint-staged | 48.0% of qs projects · 10.3× more than average |
| Husky | 44.0% of qs projects · 7.0× more than average |
| Testing Library | 40.0% of qs projects · 5.6× more than average |
| Prettier | 52.0% of qs projects · 3.0× more than average |
| ESLint | 76.0% of qs projects · 2.0× more than average |
| Playwright (JavaScript) | 36.0% of qs projects · 4.1× more than average |
| date-fns | 36.0% of qs projects · 4.2× more than average |
By coding agent
| Claude Code | 0.3% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| Cursor | 0.4% of projects set up for it |
| GitHub Copilot | 0.3% of projects set up for it |
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list qs as a dependency.
Install
| Package | npm install qs |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | TypeScript / JavaScript (17), Next.js (6), Python (1), React Native / Expo (1) |
| Example projects | thepower/PowerDapp, commercetools/ui-kit, JesusFilm/core, raminr77/raminr77.github.io, worm-emoji/seedbucks |
Alternatives to qs
| 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 |