# Install zx with npm

A tool for writing better scripts. Version 8.8.5 via npm; verified 2025-10-19.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install npm:zx
```

Additional install commands:

### Portable and language managers

- npm (100%):

```sh
npm install -g zx
```

  Evidence: local npm package metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** npm:zx
- **Package manager:** npm
- **Package manager page:** <https://www.npmjs.com/package/zx>
- **Version:** 8.8.5
- **Source summary:** A tool for writing better scripts
- **Homepage:** <https://google.github.io/zx/>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/google/zx>
- **Upstream docs:** <https://google.github.io/zx/>
- **License:** Apache-2.0
- **Source archive:** <https://registry.npmjs.org/zx/-/zx-8.8.5.tgz>
- **Issue tracker:** <https://github.com/google/zx/issues>
- **Published:** 2025-10-19T13:48:42.492Z
- **Last updated:** 2025-10-19T13:48:42.492Z
- **Generated:** 2026-07-08T18:08:21+00:00

## Executables

- zx (cli)

## Install behavior

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

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-07-08
- Package-manager version: 8.8.5
- Package-manager updated: 2025-10-19
- Local data: ok
- Upstream repository: https://github.com/google/zx
- notice: The package-manager record has not changed recently.
- info: No cached GitHub release or tag data was available.

## Security Notes

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


## Source Database Details

- **Source Database:** npm registry
- **Dist Tags:** Dev: 8.8.1-dev.976a74a, Latest: 8.8.5, Legacy: 6.2.6, Lite: 8.8.5-lite
- **Version Count:** 263
- **Maintainers:** medv, google-wombot
- **Author:** Anton Medvedev
- **Publisher:** google-wombot
- **Engines:** Node: >= 12.17.0
- **Integrity:** sha512-SNgDF5L0gfN7FwVOdEFguY3orU5AkfFZm9B5YSHog/UDHv+lvmd82ZAsOenOkQixigwH2+yyH198AwNdKhj+RA==
- **Shasum:** d092d8c0017aa7c5a276fda88ff19e4b1d91cc64
- **Unpacked Size:** 880,412
- **File Count:** 0
- **Created At:** 2013-12-16T04:10:41.871Z
- **Latest Published At:** 2025-10-19T13:48:42.492Z
- **Modified At:** 2025-10-19T13:48:49.654Z

## Other Package-Manager Records

- Debian apt - zx - 7.1.1+~cs6.7.23-3: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: zx from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | tool to launch modern Javascript scripts | https://github.com/google/zx#readme
- Nix - zx: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/zx/zx/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Ubuntu apt - zx - 7.1.1+~cs6.7.23-3: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: zx from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | tool to launch modern Javascript scripts | https://github.com/google/zx#readme


## Related links

- [Web development packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/web-dev-tools/) - Matched curated package taxonomy and local package facts.
- [zx](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/zx/) - Same normalized package name appears in another local ecosystem. Shared terms: bash, better, cli, developer, developer-tools.
- [objc-run](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/objc-run/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: cli, developer, developer-tools, script, scripting.
- [rust-script](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/rust-script/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: cli, developer, developer-tools, script, scripting.
- [zx](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/zx/) - 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