nightwatch
Easy to use Node.js based end-to-end testing solution for web applications using the W3C WebDriver API.
npm says
138,964
per week
Every tarball fetch: mirrors, scanners, CI and people.
real installs
high confidence≈ 138K–139K
per week
best guess 139K
Mirror spikes and crawlers removed. CI and dependency installs still count, so this is not a head count.
About 0% of npm's count looks like noise. noise real installs
Why this estimate
With JavaScript on, this lists what the filter found for this package.
Most used major version: 3, the latest one, with 49% of last week's downloads above the crawler floor. Most used single version: 3.16.0.
Snapshot from the daily build of Nov 6, 2026, last 7 days of npm data. With JavaScript on, this page recomputes it live from the npm API.
How many people use nightwatch?
npm counted 138,964 downloads of nightwatch in the last 7 days. Nobody can count people exactly, npm included: it does not record who downloaded what. After removing mirror spikes and crawlers, about 138K–139K look like real installs. Noise is under 1% of npm's count. What remains still includes CI and installs as a dependency of other packages.
Is nightwatch still maintained?
Most likely yes, going by its releases. The latest version, 3.16.0, came out on May 25, 2026. The last 12 months saw 4 stable releases, typically 29 days apart. It was first published on Jan 3, 2014. npm lists 4 maintainers.
Is nightwatch still used?
Downloads with publish spikes removed are up 20% over 3 months and up 8% over 11 months. For scale, the median of the 269 packages we track, which lean towards today's most downloaded, is up 157% over 11 months, so this one is behind that. Last week, 49% of downloads above the crawler floor were on major version 3, the latest one; the most used single version was 3.16.0, with 16%. Weekdays get 1.5× the downloads of weekends, which fits people at work, though CI follows the same rhythm. Crawlers account for about 1,464 downloads a week, roughly 4 per version.
How the estimate works
- Cut the spike every new version gets from mirrors in its first days.
- Subtract the flat floor robots download from every version each week.
- Show what is left as a range, with a confidence level. It still includes CI and dependency installs, so it is not a count of people.