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yargs the modern, pirate-themed, successor to optimist.
Last release 11 days ago
20 Sep 2026
Ships unpredictably
gaps range from 2 weeks to 2.0 years
Most releases are documented
notes for 41 of the last 60 stable releases
Nothing withdrawn
no release was ever pulled
13 years old
267 releases · first in 2013
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e2b1fc0 1.0.15 update to badges (@chevex)
6509e5e Fixed issue which caused .demand function not to work correctly. (@chevex)
- 05eb267 1.0.12 (@chevex)
- c1bde46 1.0.11 (@chevex)
dfebf81 Fixed formatting in README (@chevex)
0b4e34a Update README.md (@chevex)
- #1 fix error caused by check() see #1 (@martinheidegger)
a247d88 Modified Pirate Joe image. (@chevex)
d7f69e1 Updated Pirate Joe image. (@chevex)
ece809c Updated readme notice again. (@chevex)
9e81e81 Updated README with a notice about yargs being a fork of optimist and what that implies. (@chevex)
65e7a78 Changed some small wording in README.md. (@chevex)
f80ff36 Updated image. (@chevex)
54e31d5 Rebranded from optimist to yargs in the spirit of the fork :D (@chevex)
help and showHelp functions and fixed few formatting issues (@thefourtheye)Your coding agent can read these notes before it upgrades. Set up the MCP server →