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    meta/flow

    Adds static typing to JavaScript to improve developer productivity and code quality.

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    Rust
    MIT
    22.3K stars
    1.9K forks
    378 GitHub watchers
    Updated Nov 7, 2026
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    Where it stands

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    5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 7 days ago, with 324 contributors on GitHub.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Adds static typing to JavaScript to improve developer productivity and code quality.
    • Provides early error detection and type safety in JavaScript without requiring a full migration to TypeScript.
    • Use for enhancing code reliability in large JavaScript codebases by catching type errors during development.
    • Use for integrating static type checking into existing JavaScript projects to improve maintainability.
    • Use for building developer tools that require parsing and analyzing Flow-typed JavaScript syntax trees.

    Should you depend on it?

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    License

    MIT

    Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.

    Community files

    • README: present
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    • Code of conduct: present

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    From the README

    Flow is a static typechecker for JavaScript. To find out more about Flow, check out flow.org.

    There are binary distributions for each of these platforms and you can also build it from source on any of them as well.

    Excerpt from the meta/flow README on GitHub (MIT license). © its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

    Daily snapshots

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    Forks

    1.9K-2

    Open issues

    509-15

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