yargs 17.4.0
yargs the modern, pirate-themed, successor to optimist.
yargs@17.4.0 was published on 2022-03-19. Its manifest declares 7 runtime dependencies and 0 peer requirements. Bundled type declarations are not declared in the inspected metadata. The declared Node.js requirement is >=12.
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Package specifications
| Version | 17.4.0 |
|---|---|
| License declaration | MIT |
| Published | 2022-03-19T16:07:01.818Z |
| Node.js requirement | >=12 |
| Type declarations | Not declared |
| Runtime dependency count | 7 |
| Peer requirement count | 0 |
| Optional dependency count | 0 |
| Minified size | Measurement not available yet |
| Minified + gzip | Measurement not available yet |
| Unpacked distribution size | 276.58 KiB |
| Published file count | 59 |
| Package type | module |
| ES module entry | ./index.mjs |
| Default entry | ./index.cjs |
| Side effects declaration | Not declared |
| Direct advisories | 0 |
| Resolved graph dependencies | 15 |
| Repository stars | 11505 |
| Repository forks | 1058 |
Install yargs 17.4.0
npm install yargs@17.4.0 pnpm add yargs@17.4.0 yarn add yargs@17.4.0
Runtime dependencies
- y18n ^5.0.5
- cliui ^7.0.2
- escalade ^3.1.1
- string-width ^4.2.3
- yargs-parser ^21.0.0
- get-caller-file ^2.0.5
- require-directory ^2.1.1
Peer requirements
- None declared
Optional dependencies
- None declared
Resolved dependency graph
This deps.dev graph describes a generic 64-bit Linux environment, not your application lockfile.
- ansi-regex@5.0.1 — indirect
- ansi-styles@4.3.0 — indirect
- cliui@7.0.4 — direct
- color-convert@2.0.1 — indirect
- color-name@1.1.4 — indirect
- emoji-regex@8.0.0 — indirect
- escalade@3.2.0 — direct
- get-caller-file@2.0.5 — direct
- is-fullwidth-code-point@3.0.0 — indirect
- require-directory@2.1.1 — direct
- string-width@4.2.3 — direct
- strip-ansi@6.0.1 — indirect
- wrap-ansi@7.0.0 — indirect
- y18n@5.0.8 — direct
- yargs-parser@21.1.1 — direct
How to interpret the specifications
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Advisories apply to this package version directly; transitive dependencies need separate inspection. Repository signals describe the whole repository and are current observations, including on historical-version pages.
OpenSSF repository checks
Provider assessment: 2026-08-24T00:00:00Z. These are repository checks, not a jsL maintenance score.
| Dangerous-Workflow | 10/10 — no dangerous workflow patterns detected |
|---|---|
| Maintained | 10/10 — 16 commit(s) and 27 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10 |
| Code-Review | 6/10 — Found 16/26 approved changesets -- score normalized to 6 |
| Binary-Artifacts | 10/10 — no binaries found in the repo |
| Token-Permissions | 10/10 — GitHub workflow tokens follow principle of least privilege |
| Pinned-Dependencies | 9/10 — dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 9 |
| CII-Best-Practices | 0/10 — no effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected |
| Security-Policy | 0/10 — security policy file not detected |
| Fuzzing | 0/10 — project is not fuzzed |
| License | 10/10 — license file detected |
| SAST | 0/10 — SAST tool is not run on all commits -- score normalized to 0 |
Evidence and freshness
- https://registry.npmjs.org/yargs/17.4.0 — retrieved 2026-10-29T11:23:38.328Z
- https://api.deps.dev/v3/projects/github.com%2Fyargs%2Fyargs — retrieved 2026-10-29T05:58:28.988Z
- https://api.deps.dev/v3/systems/npm/packages/yargs/versions/17.4.0 — retrieved 2026-10-29T11:23:39.023Z
- https://api.deps.dev/v3/systems/npm/packages/yargs/versions/17.4.0:dependencies — retrieved 2026-10-29T11:23:39.050Z