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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

url-loader

Webpack loader to inline small files as base64 data URIs.

Build tools and bundlers npm MIT

Used in agent projects
26
0.2% of 12,697 public repos built with AI coding agents
Rank in build tools and bundlers
#69 of 81
by use in those projects
Downloads
5.8M
npm, last 7 days, url-loader
GitHub stars
1,393
last push Mar 15, 2021

How url-loader is used

url-loader is a dependency in 26 of the 12,697 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (0.2%), #69 of 81 in build tools and bundlers. The most used alternative there is Vite. Projects that use it most often also use file-loader (69.2%), webpack (69.2%), Phaser (50.0%).

Often used with url-loader

file-loader69.2% of url-loader projects · 107.2× more than average
webpack69.2% of url-loader projects · 34.5× more than average
Phaser50.0% of url-loader projects · 12.3× more than average
webpack-dev-server46.2% of url-loader projects · 39.9× more than average
css-loader42.3% of url-loader projects · 62.5× more than average
Babel (JavaScript)38.5% of url-loader projects · 10.1× more than average
style-loader38.5% of url-loader projects · 74.0× more than average
ESLint73.1% of url-loader projects · 1.9× more than average

Install

Packagenpm install url-loader
Main stacksTypeScript / JavaScript (19), Next.js (6), React Native / Expo (1)
Example projectsultrabolido/PrinceJS, near/wallet-selector, Aristona/react-phaser-three-game, JesusFilm/core, Nightspeller/Weakling

Alternatives to url-loader

All build tools and bundlers

Tool Used in agent projectsDownloads / wk GitHub starsLicense
Vite npm
Fast native-ESM powered web development build tool and dev server.
2,897 (22.8%) 194M 83.3K MIT
Babel (JavaScript) npm
JavaScript compiler for transforming modern JavaScript to compatible code.
484 (3.8%) 187M 44.1K MIT
Turborepo npm
High-performance build system for monorepos with task parallelization.
399 (3.1%) 29.5M 31.2K MIT
esbuild npm
Extremely fast JavaScript and CSS bundler and minifier written in Go.
342 (2.7%) 3M 40.1K MIT
webpack npm
Module bundler that packages JavaScript, assets and dependencies for browser deployment.
255 (2.0%) 54.9M 66.1K MIT
react-scripts npm
Build configuration and scripts for Create React App zero-configuration setup.
231 (1.8%) 2.4M 103K MIT
React Compiler Babel Plugin npm
Babel plugin for React Compiler that optimizes React component rendering.
202 (1.6%) 17.8M 251K MIT
webpack CLI npm
Command-line interface for webpack bundler and related build tools.
201 (1.6%) 10.4M 2,617 MIT
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