strip-ansi is a crucial utility for developers dealing with console output or text that might contain ANSI escape codes. These codes are used for styling text with colors, bolding, and more, but they can be problematic when displaying output in environments that don't support them. strip-ansi efficiently removes these ANSI escape sequences from a string, ensuring clean, unformatted text that renders correctly across diverse platforms and applications. It's a simple yet powerful tool for text sanitization.
The strip-ansi npm package was first released in December 2013. Releases were frequent in 2014, slowing down significantly after that. There were occasional releases in subsequent years, including versions 3.0.0, 4.0.0, 5.0.0, 6.0.0, 7.0.0 and the latest update 7.1.0 in May 2023. There have been no releases in 2024 or in the first seven months of 2025.
Strip-ansi npm package downloads show a strong upward trend from February 2024 to July 2025, peaking at over 1.27 billion downloads. August 2025 data is incomplete but indicates a significant drop, likely due to the month not being finished.
