Is foreground-child safe to use?

foreground-child has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (4.0.3). DepScope rates its health at 85/100 (low risk).

What is the latest version of foreground-child?

The latest version of foreground-child is 4.0.3, released 2026-02-06.

Does foreground-child have known vulnerabilities?

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of foreground-child.

Is foreground-child deprecated?

No, foreground-child is actively maintained. Latest release: 4.0.3 (2026-02-06).

What are alternatives to foreground-child?

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

What license does foreground-child use?

foreground-child is licensed under BlueOak-1.0.0.

foreground-child

npmv4.0.3

Run a child as if it's the foreground process. Give it stdio. Exit when it exits.

License BlueOak-1.0.0permissive29 versions3 maintainers1 deps118,365,577 weekly dl

tapjs/foreground-child

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Health

safe to use

[email protected] is safe to use (health: 85/100)

Health breakdown0 – 100

20/25

maintenance

20/20

popularity

25/25

security

15/15

maturity

5/15

community

0/15

popularity_floor

Vulnerabilities

none known

Bundle & TypeScript

📦

Bundle Size

2.5 KBminified

1.2 KB gzipped

1 direct dependencies

ESMside effects

🌟

TypeScript

10/10typed

bundled

Maintainer trust

Active maintainers (3m)

Contributors (12m)

GitHub stars

0

Quality signals

OSS Criticality

0.82critical

Download trend

stable(+3.8%)

Publish security

npm signed

Health History

Dependency Tree

License Audit

Dependencies (1)

signal-exit

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