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restify

REST framework

npm says

130,463

per week

Every tarball fetch: mirrors, scanners, CI and people.

real installs

high confidence

≈ 130K

per week

best guess 130K

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: 12, the latest one, with 28% of last week's downloads above the crawler floor. Most used single version: 11.1.0.

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 restify?

npm counted 130,463 downloads of restify 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 130K 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 restify still maintained?

Most likely yes, going by its releases. The latest version, 12.1.0, came out on Oct 23, 2026. The last 12 months saw 2 stable releases, plus 1 pre-release. It was first published on Apr 25, 2011. npm lists 15 maintainers.

Is restify still used?

Downloads with publish spikes removed are up 18% over 3 months and down 58% 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, 28% of downloads above the crawler floor were on major version 12, the latest one; the most used single version was 11.1.0, with 26%. Weekdays get 1.8× the downloads of weekends, which fits people at work, though CI follows the same rhythm. Crawlers account for about 187 downloads a week, roughly 1 per version.

How the estimate works

  1. Cut the spike every new version gets from mirrors in its first days.
  2. Subtract the flat floor robots download from every version each week.
  3. 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.

Read the methodology

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