reading-time
Estimates reading time for text content, useful for articles, blog posts and content platforms.
Utilities npm MIT
Used in agent projects
23
0.2% of 12,697 public repos built with AI coding agents
Rank in utilities
#96 of 109
by use in those projects
Downloads
1M
npm, last 7 days, reading-time
GitHub stars
1,428
last push Apr 22, 2025
How reading-time is used
reading-time is a dependency in 23 of the 12,697 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (0.2%), #96 of 109 in utilities. The most used alternative there is clsx. Projects that use it most often also use Prettier (73.9%), remark-gfm (69.6%), clsx (65.2%).
Often used with reading-time
| Prettier | 73.9% of reading-time projects · 4.2× more than average |
|---|---|
| remark-gfm | 69.6% of reading-time projects · 30.7× more than average |
| clsx | 65.2% of reading-time projects · 3.7× more than average |
| Tailwind CSS | 91.3% of reading-time projects · 2.6× more than average |
| Tailwind Merge | 60.9% of reading-time projects · 3.6× more than average |
| gray-matter | 52.2% of reading-time projects · 62.5× more than average |
| rehype-slug | 52.2% of reading-time projects · 122.7× more than average |
| Husky | 47.8% of reading-time projects · 7.6× more than average |
By coding agent
| Claude Code | 0.4% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| Cursor | 0.5% 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 reading-time as a dependency.
Install
| Package | npm install reading-time |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Next.js (14), TypeScript / JavaScript (9) |
| Example projects | PageAI-Pro/vibe-coding-starter, ChrisTitusTech/website, Nsttt/my-portfolio |
Alternatives to reading-time
| 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 |