# Install wait-on with npm

wait-on is a cross platform command line utility and Node.js API which will wait for files, ports, sockets, and http(s) resources to become available. Version 9.0.10 via npm; verified 2026-05-11.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install npm:wait-on
```

Additional install commands:

### Portable and language managers

- npm (100%):

```sh
npm install -g wait-on
```

  Evidence: local npm package metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** npm:wait-on
- **Package manager:** npm
- **Package manager page:** <https://www.npmjs.com/package/wait-on>
- **Version:** 9.0.10
- **Source summary:** wait-on is a cross platform command line utility and Node.js API which will wait for files, ports, sockets, and http(s) resources to become available
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/jeffbski/wait-on#readme>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/jeffbski/wait-on>
- **Upstream docs:** <https://github.com/jeffbski/wait-on#readme>
- **License:** MIT
- **Source archive:** <https://registry.npmjs.org/wait-on/-/wait-on-9.0.10.tgz>
- **Issue tracker:** <http://github.com/jeffbski/wait-on/issues>
- **Published:** 2026-05-11T11:05:53.203Z
- **Last updated:** 2026-05-11T11:05:53.203Z
- **Generated:** 2026-07-08T18:08:21+00:00

## Executables

- wait-on (cli)
- wait-on (alias)

## Dependencies

- axios
- joi
- lodash
- minimist
- rxjs

## Build dependencies

- chai
- eslint
- eslint-plugin-chai-friendly
- mkdirp
- mocha
- nyc
- temp

## Install behavior

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

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-07-08
- Package-manager version: 9.0.10
- Package-manager updated: 2026-05-11
- Local data: ok
- Upstream repository: https://github.com/jeffbski/wait-on
- info: No cached GitHub release or tag data was available.

## Security Notes

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for wait-on. 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: 9.0.10, Next: 5.1.0-rc.1
- **Version Count:** 67
- **Maintainers:** jeffbski
- **Author:** Jeff Barczewski
- **Publisher:** jeffbski
- **Engines:** Node: >=20.0.0
- **Integrity:** sha512-rCoJEhvMr0X6alHmwc9abbrA5ZrLZFKpFQVKPNFwl2h7DapXOGdmimIHDtLOWhT4PjhZhxFEtZoQgEXbkDWdZw==
- **Shasum:** 9c73ad1908b8e46e853e1271b2c9563f2c2d8e02
- **Unpacked Size:** 34,821
- **File Count:** 0
- **Created At:** 2015-07-23T15:38:45.589Z
- **Latest Published At:** 2026-05-11T11:05:53.203Z
- **Modified At:** 2026-05-11T11:05:53.336Z

## Other Package-Manager Records

- MacPorts - wait_on: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: sysutils/wait_on/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Related links

- [Web development packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/web-dev-tools/) - Matched curated package taxonomy and local package facts.
- [chokidar-cli](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/npm/chokidar-cli/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: cli, cross, cross-platform, files, http.
- [bestzip](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/npm/bestzip/) - Both packages touch the same language runtime or ecosystem. Shared terms: available, cli, http, is, line.
- [copy-files-from-to](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/npm/copy-files-from-to/) - Both packages touch the same language runtime or ecosystem. Shared terms: axios, cli, files, http, lodash.
- [wait_on](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/wait-on/) - 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
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph