# Install harper with npm

Harper is an open-source Node.js performance platform that unifies database, cache, application, and messaging layers into one in-memory process. Version 5.1.6 via npm; verified 2026-06-19.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install npm:harper
```

Additional install commands:

### Portable and language managers

- npm (100%):

```sh
npm install -g harper
```

  Evidence: local npm package metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** npm:harper
- **Package manager:** npm
- **Package manager page:** <https://www.npmjs.com/package/harper>
- **Version:** 5.1.6
- **Source summary:** Harper is an open-source Node.js performance platform that unifies database, cache, application, and messaging layers into one in-memory process.
- **Homepage:** <https://harper.fast>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/harperfast/harper>
- **Upstream docs:** <https://harper.fast>
- **License:** Apache-2.0
- **Source archive:** <https://registry.npmjs.org/harper/-/harper-5.1.6.tgz>
- **Issue tracker:** <https://github.com/harperfast/harper/issues>
- **Published:** 2026-06-19T20:44:03.989Z
- **Last updated:** 2026-06-19T20:44:03.989Z
- **Generated:** 2026-07-08T07:18:31+00:00

## Executables

- harper (cli)
- harper (alias)

## Dependencies

- @aws-sdk/client-s3
- @aws-sdk/lib-storage
- @endo/static-module-record
- @fastify/autoload
- @fastify/compress
- @fastify/cors
- @fastify/static
- @harperfast/extended-iterable
- @harperfast/rocksdb-js
- @turf/area
- @turf/boolean-contains
- @turf/boolean-disjoint
- @turf/boolean-equal
- @turf/circle
- @turf/difference
- @turf/distance
- @turf/helpers
- @turf/length
- alasql
- amaro
- argon2
- asn1js
- busboy
- cbor-x
- chalk
- chokidar
- cli-progress
- clone
- dotenv
- easy-ocsp
- fast-glob
- fastify
- fastify-plugin
- fs-extra
- graphql
- graphql-http
- gunzip-maybe
- human-readable-ids
- inquirer
- is-number
- joi
- json-bigint-fixes
- jsonata
- jsonwebtoken
- lmdb
- lodash
- mathjs
- micromatch
- minimist
- moment
- mqtt-packet
- msgpackr
- needle
- node-forge
- node-stream-zip
- normalize-path
- ora
- ordered-binary
- papaparse
- passport
- passport-http
- passport-local
- pino
- pkijs
- prompt
- properties-reader
- recursive-iterator
- semver
- send
- ses
- stream-chain
- stream-json
- structon
- systeminformation
- tar-fs
- ulidx
- uuid
- validate.js
- ws
- yaml

## Build dependencies

- @harperdb/code-guidelines
- @harperfast/integration-testing
- @modelcontextprotocol/sdk
- @types/busboy
- @types/fs-extra
- @types/gunzip-maybe
- @types/jsonwebtoken
- @types/lodash
- @types/micromatch
- @types/mocha
- @types/sinon
- @types/tar-fs
- @typescript-eslint/parser
- axios
- chai
- chai-as-promised
- chai-integer
- eventsource
- globals
- intercept-stdout
- mkcert
- mocha
- mqtt
- oxlint
- prettier
- rewire
- sinon
- sinon-chai
- supertest
- tsx
- typescript
- typescript-eslint
- undici
- why-is-node-still-running

## Install behavior

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

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-07-08
- Package-manager version: 5.1.6
- Package-manager updated: 2026-06-19
- Local data: ok
- Upstream repository: https://github.com/harperfast/harper
- info: No cached GitHub release or tag data was available.

## Security Notes

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for harper. 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: 5.1.6, Next: 5.1.0-beta.3
- **Version Count:** 47
- **Maintainers:** kriszyp, harperdb_team
- **Author:** HarperDB, Inc.
- **Publisher:** harperdb_team
- **Engines:** Node: ^22.18.0 || >=24.0.0
- **Peer Dependencies:** @aws-sdk/client-bedrock-runtime
- **Optional Dependencies:** bufferutil, segfault-handler, utf-8-validate
- **Integrity:** sha512-T1VJiHuib3bR+36MoN/WY0iwGFqC0MkOtizd4MFYf1lqpWmzQnZQSEqVnafLCm7Lw9BoFWYjhbV8LTF+Az9l7A==
- **Shasum:** b00de540e6bfa6ae8d2e323bb0ab53a4116d9829
- **Unpacked Size:** 103,197,491
- **File Count:** 0
- **Created At:** 2025-02-07T20:38:22.132Z
- **Latest Published At:** 2026-06-19T20:44:03.989Z
- **Modified At:** 2026-06-19T20:44:04.102Z

## Other Package-Manager Records

- Nix - harper: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ha/harper/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- apk - harper - 2.1.0-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: harper from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | English grammar checker | https://github.com/Automattic/harper
- pacman - harper - 2.4.0-1: normalized package name match | Arch Linux sync databases: harper from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz | The Grammar Checker for Developers | https://github.com/Automattic/harper
- Scoop - main/harper: normalized package name match | Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/harper.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- winget - Automattic.harper-ls: normalized package name match | Windows Package Manager source index: Automattic.harper-ls from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix


## Related links

- [Cloud CLI packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/cloud-clis/) - Matched curated package taxonomy and local package facts.
- [harperdb](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/npm/harperdb/) - Executable or command metadata overlaps with this package. Shared terms: alasql, area, argon2, asn1js, autoload.
- [turborepo-remote-cache](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/npm/turborepo-remote-cache/) - Local metadata places this package in an adjacent workflow. Shared terms: aws, aws-sdk, cache, client, client-s3.
- [decocms](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/npm/decocms/) - Both packages touch the same language runtime or ecosystem. Shared terms: aws, aws-sdk, client, client-s3, lib.
- [harper](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/harper/) - Same normalized package name exists in another local package ecosystem.

## Sources

- Nucleus package database
- package-page enrichment
- package version freshness
- package relationship graph
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
