# Install browser-sync with npm

Live CSS Reload & Browser Syncing. Version 3.0.4 via npm; verified 2025-04-02.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install npm:browser-sync
```

Additional install commands:

### Portable and language managers

- npm (100%):

```sh
npm install -g browser-sync
```

  Evidence: local npm package metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** npm:browser-sync
- **Package manager:** npm
- **Package manager page:** <https://www.npmjs.com/package/browser-sync>
- **Version:** 3.0.4
- **Source summary:** Live CSS Reload & Browser Syncing
- **Homepage:** <https://browsersync.io/>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/BrowserSync/browser-sync>
- **Upstream docs:** <https://browsersync.io/>
- **License:** Apache-2.0
- **Source archive:** <https://registry.npmjs.org/browser-sync/-/browser-sync-3.0.4.tgz>
- **Issue tracker:** <https://github.com/BrowserSync/browser-sync/issues>
- **Published:** 2025-04-02T13:55:27.164Z
- **Last updated:** 2025-04-02T13:55:27.164Z
- **Generated:** 2026-07-08T18:08:21+00:00

## Executables

- browser-sync (cli)
- browser-sync (alias)

## Dependencies

- browser-sync-client
- browser-sync-ui
- bs-recipes
- chalk
- chokidar
- connect
- connect-history-api-fallback
- dev-ip
- easy-extender
- eazy-logger
- etag
- fresh
- fs-extra
- http-proxy
- immutable
- micromatch
- opn
- portscanner
- raw-body
- resp-modifier
- rx
- send
- serve-index
- serve-static
- server-destroy
- socket.io
- ua-parser-js
- yargs

## Build dependencies

- @types/node
- bs-snippet-injector
- chai
- generate-changelog
- graceful-fs
- http2
- mocha
- prettier
- q
- request
- requirejs
- rimraf
- sinon
- socket.io-client
- source-map-support
- strip-ansi
- supertest
- typescript
- vinyl

## Install behavior

- Post-install hook: not defined
- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-07-08
- Package-manager version: 3.0.4
- Package-manager updated: 2025-04-02
- Local data: ok
- Upstream repository: https://github.com/BrowserSync/browser-sync
- warning: The package-manager record has not been updated in over a year.
- info: No cached GitHub release or tag data was available.

## Security Notes

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for browser-sync. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.


## Source Database Details

- **Source Database:** npm registry
- **Dist Tags:** Latest: 3.0.4, Next: 3.0.0-alpha.2, Rc: 2.24.3-rc1, Trim Deps: 2.29.1-alpha.0
- **Version Count:** 301
- **Maintainers:** shakyshane
- **Author:** Shane Osbourne
- **Publisher:** shakyshane
- **Engines:** Node: >= 8.0.0
- **Integrity:** sha512-mcYOIy4BW6sWSEnTSBjQwWsnbx2btZX78ajTTjdNfyC/EqQVcIe0nQR6894RNAMtvlfAnLaH9L2ka97zpvgenA==
- **Shasum:** 8209f36b7c8ea93118fa2ff5c6ca314c5eb832b7
- **Unpacked Size:** 582,324
- **File Count:** 0
- **Created At:** 2013-10-13T10:53:50.847Z
- **Latest Published At:** 2025-04-02T13:55:27.164Z
- **Modified At:** 2025-04-02T13:55:27.336Z

## Other Package-Manager Records

- Nix - browser-sync: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/br/browser-sync/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Related links

- [Networking and protocol packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/networking-protocol-tools/) - Matched curated package taxonomy and local package facts.
- [lite-server](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/npm/lite-server/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: api, browser, browser-sync, cli, connect.
- [backstopjs](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/npm/backstopjs/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: chalk, cli, css, extra, fs-extra.
- [live-server](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/npm/live-server/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: chokidar, cli, connect, http, index.

## Sources

- Nucleus package database
- package-page enrichment
- package version freshness
- av.db category and tag curation
- package relationship graph
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph