# Install postgraphile with npm

Automatic, high performance, and highly customizable GraphQL API for PostgreSQL. Version 5.0.3 via npm; verified 2026-05-15.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install npm:postgraphile
```

Additional install commands:

### Portable and language managers

- npm (100%):

```sh
npm install -g postgraphile
```

  Evidence: local npm package metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** npm:postgraphile
- **Package manager:** npm
- **Package manager page:** <https://www.npmjs.com/package/postgraphile>
- **Version:** 5.0.3
- **Source summary:** Automatic, high performance, and highly customizable GraphQL API for PostgreSQL
- **Homepage:** <https://postgraphile.org/>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/graphile/crystal>
- **Upstream docs:** <https://postgraphile.org/>
- **License:** MIT
- **Source archive:** <https://registry.npmjs.org/postgraphile/-/postgraphile-5.0.3.tgz>
- **Issue tracker:** <https://github.com/graphile/crystal/issues>
- **Published:** 2026-05-15T13:29:44.593Z
- **Last updated:** 2026-05-15T13:29:44.593Z
- **Generated:** 2026-07-08T18:08:21+00:00

## Executables

- postgraphile (cli)

## Dependencies

- @dataplan/json
- @dataplan/pg
- @graphile/lru
- @types/node
- @types/pg
- debug
- grafast
- grafserv
- graphile-build
- graphile-build-pg
- graphile-config
- graphile-utils
- graphql
- iterall
- jsonwebtoken
- pg
- pg-sql2
- tamedevil
- tslib
- ws

## Install behavior

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

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-07-08
- Package-manager version: 5.0.3
- Package-manager updated: 2026-05-15
- Local data: ok
- Upstream repository: https://github.com/graphile/crystal
- info: No cached GitHub release or tag data was available.

## Security Notes

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for postgraphile. 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: 5.0.3
- **Version Count:** 280
- **Maintainers:** benjie
- **Author:** Benjie Gillam
- **Publisher:** GitHub Actions
- **Engines:** Node: >=22
- **Peer Dependencies:** @dataplan/json, @dataplan/pg, @envelop/core, grafast, grafserv, graphile-build, graphile-build-pg, graphile-config, graphql, pg, pg-sql2, tamedevil
- **Integrity:** sha512-gO8xOusrIykV65V1rmkqnUz3ZjDU+1y09uWruUshP+t811JFsEZsE7d3UJNjAxgrBcndU0CzgmEWCbvbD3kehA==
- **Shasum:** 74f7879289774a7e3a27f459fbe89c4a7d299822
- **Unpacked Size:** 157,400
- **File Count:** 0
- **Created At:** 2017-08-10T13:27:06.919Z
- **Latest Published At:** 2026-05-15T13:29:44.593Z
- **Modified At:** 2026-05-15T13:29:44.873Z


## Related links

- [Database and data packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/database-data-tools/) - Matched curated package taxonomy and local package facts.
- [postgraphile](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/postgraphile/) - Same normalized package name appears in another local ecosystem. Shared terms: api, cli, data, graphql, node.
- [pg-god](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/npm/pg-god/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: cli, config, data, databases, pg.
- [graphile-worker](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/npm/graphile-worker/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: cli, config, data, debug, graphile.
- [postgraphile](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/postgraphile/) - Same normalized package name exists in another local package ecosystem.

## Sources

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