parcel
Blazing fast, zero configuration web application bundler
npm says
424,021
per week
Every tarball fetch: mirrors, scanners, CI and people.
real installs
high confidence≈ 423K–424K
per week
best guess 424K
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.
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 parcel?
npm counted 424,021 downloads of parcel 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 423K–424K 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 parcel still maintained?
Less clear: the last release is more than six months old. The latest version, 2.16.4, came out on Feb 2, 2026. The last 12 months saw 3 stable releases, plus 5 pre-releases. It was first published on May 2, 2013. npm lists 1 maintainer.
Is parcel still used?
Downloads with publish spikes removed are about flat over 3 months and up 56% 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, 97% of downloads above the crawler floor were on major version 2, the latest one; the most used single version was 2.16.4, with 49%. Weekdays get 1.8× the downloads of weekends, which fits people at work, though CI follows the same rhythm. Crawlers account for about 217 downloads a week, roughly 1 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.