Gathering detailed insights and metrics for leven
Gathering detailed insights and metrics for leven
Measure the difference between two strings with the fastest JS implementation of the Levenshtein distance algorithm
Installations
npm install levenDeveloper Guide
BETA
Typescript
No
Module System
ESM
Min. Node Version
^12.20.0 || ^14.13.1 || >=16.0.0
Node Version
16.2.0
NPM Version
7.13.0
Score
99.5
Supply Chain
73.6
Quality
75.5
Maintenance
100
Vulnerability
100
License
Releases
3
Languages
2
JavaScript
TypeScript
JavaScript (97.98%)
TypeScript (2.02%)
Developer
sindresorhus
Download Statistics
Total Downloads
5,558,884,360
Last Day
5,550,298
Last Week
30,553,764
Last Month
129,036,528
Last Year
1,361,606,535
GitHub Statistics
MIT License
722 Stars
36 Commits
28 Forks
13 Watchers
1 Branches
8 Contributors
Updated on Apr 12, 2025
Bundle Size
643.00 B
Minified
377.00 B
Minified + Gzipped
Sponsor this package
Maintainers
1
Package Meta Information
Latest Version
4.0.0
Package Id
leven@4.0.0
Size
2.40 kB
NPM Version
7.13.0
Node Version
16.2.0
Published on
Aug 10, 2021
Total Downloads
Cumulative downloads
Total Downloads
5,558,884,360
Last Day
44.7%
5,550,298
Compared to previous day
Last Week
6.3%
30,553,764
Compared to previous week
Last Month
-1.6%
129,036,528
Compared to previous month
Last Year
16.6%
1,361,606,535
Compared to previous year
Weekly Downloads
Monthly Downloads
Yearly Downloads
leven
Measure the difference between two strings using the Levenshtein distance algorithm
Install
$ npm install leven
Usage
1import leven from 'leven'; 2 3leven('cat', 'cow'); 4//=> 2
Related
- leven-cli - CLI for this module
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No vulnerabilities found.
Reason
no binaries found in the repo
Reason
security policy file detected
Details
- Info: security policy file detected: .github/security.md:1
- Info: Found linked content: .github/security.md:1
- Info: Found disclosure, vulnerability, and/or timelines in security policy: .github/security.md:1
- Info: Found text in security policy: .github/security.md:1
Reason
no dangerous workflow patterns detected
Reason
0 existing vulnerabilities detected
Reason
license file detected
Details
- Info: project has a license file: license:0
- Info: FSF or OSI recognized license: MIT License: license:0
Reason
Found 8/30 approved changesets -- score normalized to 2
Reason
1 commit(s) and 1 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 1
Reason
detected GitHub workflow tokens with excessive permissions
Details
- Warn: no topLevel permission defined: .github/workflows/main.yml:1
- Info: no jobLevel write permissions found
Reason
dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 0
Details
- Warn: GitHub-owned GitHubAction not pinned by hash: .github/workflows/main.yml:15: update your workflow using https://app.stepsecurity.io/secureworkflow/sindresorhus/leven/main.yml/main?enable=pin
- Warn: GitHub-owned GitHubAction not pinned by hash: .github/workflows/main.yml:16: update your workflow using https://app.stepsecurity.io/secureworkflow/sindresorhus/leven/main.yml/main?enable=pin
- Warn: npmCommand not pinned by hash: .github/workflows/main.yml:20
- Info: 0 out of 2 GitHub-owned GitHubAction dependencies pinned
- Info: 0 out of 1 npmCommand dependencies pinned
Reason
no effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected
Reason
project is not fuzzed
Details
- Warn: no fuzzer integrations found
Reason
branch protection not enabled on development/release branches
Details
- Warn: branch protection not enabled for branch 'main'
Reason
SAST tool is not run on all commits -- score normalized to 0
Details
- Warn: 0 commits out of 8 are checked with a SAST tool
Score
4.3
/10
Last Scanned on 2025-04-28
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