# Install gel with npm

The official Node.js client library for Gel. Version 2.2.0 via npm; verified 2025-11-14. Also installable with nix: nix profile install nixpkgs#gel.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install npm:gel
```

Additional install commands:

### Portable and language managers

- npm (100%):

```sh
npm install -g gel
```

  Evidence: local npm package metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** npm:gel
- **Package manager:** npm
- **Package manager page:** <https://www.npmjs.com/package/gel>
- **Version:** 2.2.0
- **Source summary:** The official Node.js client library for Gel
- **Homepage:** <https://geldata.com/docs>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/geldata/gel-js>
- **Upstream docs:** <https://geldata.com/docs>
- **License:** Apache-2.0
- **Source archive:** <https://registry.npmjs.org/gel/-/gel-2.2.0.tgz>
- **Issue tracker:** <https://github.com/geldata/gel-js/issues>
- **Published:** 2025-11-14T14:57:38.912Z
- **Last updated:** 2025-11-14T14:57:38.912Z
- **Generated:** 2026-08-04T22:13:35+00:00

## Executables

- gel (cli)

## Dependencies

- @petamoriken/float16
- debug
- env-paths
- semver
- shell-quote
- which

## Build dependencies

- @js-temporal/polyfill
- @repo/tsconfig
- @types/jest
- @types/node
- @types/semver
- @types/shell-quote
- @types/which
- fast-check
- get-stdin
- globby
- jest
- jest-environment-jsdom
- ts-jest
- tsx
- typescript

## Install behavior

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

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-04
- Package-manager version: 2.2.0
- Package-manager updated: 2025-11-14
- Local data: ok
- Upstream repository: https://github.com/geldata/gel-js
- 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 gel. Package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.


## Source Database Details

- **Source Database:** npm registry
- **Dist Tags:** Canary: 2.2.0-canary.20251029T032732, Latest: 2.2.0, Rc: 2.0.0-rc.1
- **Version Count:** 88
- **Maintainers:** 1st1, scotttrinh
- **Author:** Gel
- **Publisher:** 1st1
- **Engines:** Node: >= 18.0.0
- **Integrity:** sha512-q0ma7z2swmoamHQusey8ayo8+ilVdzDt4WTxSPzq/yRqvucWRfymRVMvNgmSC0XK7eNjjEZEcplxpgaNojKdmQ==
- **Shasum:** b200af54560e635ba355cbe54d2096952d7e22d6
- **Unpacked Size:** 626,711
- **File Count:** 0
- **Created At:** 2012-04-10T14:00:42.219Z
- **Latest Published At:** 2025-11-14T14:57:38.912Z
- **Modified At:** 2025-11-14T14:57:39.123Z

## Other Package-Manager Records

- Nix - gel: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ge/gel/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Related links

- [Database and data packages](https://pkg.so/database-data-tools/) - Matched curated package taxonomy and local package facts.
- [db-migrate](https://pkg.so/npm/db-migrate/) - Both packages touch the same language runtime or ecosystem. Shared terms: cli, data, database, databases, node.
- [elasticdump](https://pkg.so/npm/elasticdump/) - Local metadata places this package in an adjacent workflow. Shared terms: cli, client, data, database, databases.
- [typeorm](https://pkg.so/npm/typeorm/) - Both packages touch the same language runtime or ecosystem. Shared terms: cli, data, database, databases, debug.
- [gel](https://pkg.so/brew/gel/) - Same normalized package name exists in another local package ecosystem.

## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- package-page enrichment
- package version freshness
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- package relationship graph
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph