node-sass
Wrapper around libsass
Deprecated on npm. The maintainers' message: “Node Sass is no longer supported. Please use `sass` or `sass-embedded` instead.”
npm says
872,930
per week
Every tarball fetch: mirrors, scanners, CI and people.
real installs
high confidence≈ 871K–873K
per week
best guess 873K
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: 4, not the latest one, with 60% of last week's downloads above the crawler floor. Most used single version: 4.14.1.
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 node-sass?
npm counted 872,930 downloads of node-sass 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 871K–873K 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 node-sass still maintained?
No: the latest version is marked deprecated on npm, with the message “Node Sass is no longer supported. Please use `sass` or `sass-embedded` instead.”. The latest version, 9.0.0, came out on May 20, 2023. There were no stable releases in the last 12 months. It was first published on Jun 12, 2012. npm lists 2 maintainers.
Is node-sass still used?
Downloads with publish spikes removed are up 14% over 3 months and down 18% 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, 60% of downloads above the crawler floor were on major version 4, not the latest one; the most used single version was 4.14.1, with 35%. Weekdays get 1.01× the downloads of weekends, so there is no clear work-week rhythm. Crawlers account for about 1,036 downloads a week, roughly 7 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.