escape-string-regexp safeguards regular expressions by escaping special characters in a string. This prevents unintended behavior and ensures your regexes match literals accurately. Easily protect your regular expressions from unexpected interpretations by transforming strings into safe patterns, handling potential vulnerabilities and errors arising from user-provided input impacting regex construction. It's a simple, dependency-free utility for robust regex handling.
The escape-string-regexp npm package has sporadic releases. Initial versions (1.x) were released between June 2014 and February 2016. Version 2.0.0 was released in April 2019. Versions 3.0.0 and 4.0.0 were released in April 2020, and version 5.0.0 was released in April 2021. There have been no releases since April 2021.
The npm package escape-string-regexp experienced significant download growth from March 2024 to August 2025, peaking in June 2025. However, downloads sharply decreased in September 2025, the current month, suggesting a potential shift in usage or data collection.