Used in agent projects
137
1.1% of 12,697 public repos built with AI coding agents
Rank in testing
#10 of 40
by use in those projects
Downloads
18.6M
npm, last 7 days, supertest
GitHub stars
14.4K
last push Oct 2, 2026
How SuperTest is used
SuperTest is a dependency in 137 of the 12,697 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (1.1%), #10 of 40 in testing. The most used alternative there is Vitest. Projects that use it most often also use Jest (65.7%), Express (62.0%), dotenv (60.6%). It is more common in projects set up for Kiro (5.5%) than for GitHub Copilot (1.4%).
Often used with SuperTest
| Jest | 65.7% of SuperTest projects · 11.9× more than average |
|---|---|
| Express | 62.0% of SuperTest projects · 9.6× more than average |
| dotenv | 60.6% of SuperTest projects · 3.8× more than average |
| ts-node | 51.8% of SuperTest projects · 7.6× more than average |
| tsx | 46.0% of SuperTest projects · 4.6× more than average |
| cors | 40.9% of SuperTest projects · 12.3× more than average |
| Prettier | 52.6% of SuperTest projects · 3.0× more than average |
| uuid | 38.7% of SuperTest projects · 10.8× more than average |
By coding agent
| Claude Code | 2.2% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| Cursor | 2.3% of projects set up for it |
| GitHub Copilot | 1.4% of projects set up for it |
| Gemini CLI | 4.1% of projects set up for it |
| OpenAI Codex | 3.1% of projects set up for it |
| Devin Desktop | 5.1% of projects set up for it |
| Kiro | 5.5% of projects set up for it |
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list SuperTest as a dependency.
Install
| Package | npm install supertest |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | TypeScript / JavaScript (112), Next.js (16), Python (6), .NET (2) |
| Example projects | adeze/raindrop-mcp, alkem-io/server, juanfran/tapiz, IAmAlexander/readwise-mcp, gopaljilab/Clinical-Insight-Engine |
Alternatives to SuperTest
| Tool | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vitest npm Next-generation testing framework powered by Vite with native ESM. |
1,549 (12.2%) | 123M | 17.2K | MIT |
| Playwright (JavaScript) npm Cross-browser automation library for end-to-end testing. |
1,117 (8.8%) | 74.2M | 97.4K | Apache-2.0 |
| Testing Library npm Testing utilities for React encouraging testing user behavior. |
915 (7.2%) | 68.7M | 19.7K | MIT |
| Jest npm Delightful JavaScript testing framework with minimal configuration. |
702 (5.5%) | 46.3M | 45.6K | MIT |
| jsdom npm JavaScript implementation of web standards for testing DOM interactions. |
681 (5.4%) | 112M | 21.7K | MIT |
| pytest pypi Simple, powerful Python testing framework with fixtures and plugins. |
330 (2.6%) | 196M | 14.6K | — |
| Chai npm BDD/TDD assertion library for Node.js and browsers with expressive syntax. |
305 (2.4%) | 14M | 8,265 | MIT |
| Mocha npm Feature-rich JavaScript test framework for Node.js and browsers. |
281 (2.2%) | 12.6M | 22.9K | MIT |