Is brace-expansion safe to use?

brace-expansion has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (5.0.6). DepScope rates its health at 90/100 (low risk).

What is the latest version of brace-expansion?

The latest version of brace-expansion is 5.0.6, released 2026-05-08.

Does brace-expansion have known vulnerabilities?

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of brace-expansion.

Is brace-expansion deprecated?

No, brace-expansion is actively maintained. Latest release: 5.0.6 (2026-05-08).

What are alternatives to brace-expansion?

Popular alternatives to brace-expansion in npm include: ?, semver, debug, ansi-styles, minimatch.

What license does brace-expansion use?

brace-expansion is licensed under MIT.

brace-expansion

npmv5.0.6

Brace expansion as known from sh/bash

License MITpermissive35 versions2 maintainers1 deps510,843,890 weekly dl

juliangruber/brace-expansion

/ 100

Health

safe to use

[email protected] is safe to use (health: 90/100)

Health breakdown0 – 100

25/25

maintenance

20/20

popularity

25/25

security

15/15

maturity

5/15

community

0/15

popularity_floor

Vulnerabilities

none known

Bundle & TypeScript

📦

Bundle Size

2.9 KBminified

1.4 KB gzipped

1 direct dependencies

ESMside effects

🌟

TypeScript

10/10typed

bundled

OSS Scorecard

OpenSSF security posture score

6.3/10

moderate

Maintainer trust

Active maintainers (3m)

4

Contributors (12m)

6

Primary author dominance

43%

GitHub stars

207

Quality signals

OSS Criticality

0.80critical

Download trend

stable(+1.8%)

Publish security

npm signed

Health History

Dependency Tree

License Audit

Dependencies (1)

balanced-match

API access

Get this data programmatically — free, no authentication.

curl https://depscope.dev/api/check/npm/brace-expansion

brace-expansion

npmv5.0.6

Brace expansion as known from sh/bash

License MITpermissive35 versions2 maintainers1 deps510,843,890 weekly dl

juliangruber/brace-expansion

/ 100

Health

safe to use

[email protected] is safe to use (health: 90/100)

Health breakdown0 – 100

25/25

maintenance

20/20

popularity

25/25

security

15/15

maturity

5/15

community

0/15

popularity_floor

Vulnerabilities

none known

Bundle & TypeScript

📦

Bundle Size

2.9 KBminified

1.4 KB gzipped

1 direct dependencies

ESMside effects

🌟

TypeScript

10/10typed

bundled

OSS Scorecard

OpenSSF security posture score

6.3/10

moderate

Maintainer trust

Active maintainers (3m)

4

Contributors (12m)

6

Primary author dominance

43%

GitHub stars

207

Quality signals

OSS Criticality

0.80critical

Download trend

stable(+1.8%)

Publish security

npm signed

Health History

Dependency Tree

License Audit

Dependencies (1)

balanced-match

API access

Get this data programmatically — free, no authentication.

curl https://depscope.dev/api/check/npm/brace-expansion