Dev-null npm package downloads show a generally increasing trend from March 2024 to August 2025, peaking at over 2.2 million downloads. However, September 2025 shows a significant drop, likely due to incomplete data for the month as of September 10th.
The npm package dev-null was initially released in September 2013 with versions 0.1.0 and 0.1.1. Since then, there have been no further releases. The package has been inactive for over eleven years, with no new versions published from October 2013 to August 2025.
dev-null is a simple, lightweight npm package that provides a platform-independent /dev/null stream. It enables you to easily discard any data written to it, effectively silencing any output. Useful for testing, suppressing verbose logging, or when you simply need a black hole for data. This package offers stream versions for Node.js supporting both readable and writable operations. It simplifies the process of piping output to oblivion in your applications.
