# Install metro with npm

🚇 The JavaScript bundler for React Native. Version 0.87.0 via npm; verified 2026-07-13.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install npm:metro
```

Additional install commands:

### Portable and language managers

- npm (100%):

```sh
npm install -g metro
```

  Evidence: local npm package metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** npm:metro
- **Package manager:** npm
- **Package manager page:** <https://www.npmjs.com/package/metro>
- **Version:** 0.87.0
- **Source summary:** 🚇 The JavaScript bundler for React Native.
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/react/metro#readme>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/react/metro>
- **Upstream docs:** <https://github.com/react/metro#readme>
- **License:** MIT
- **Source archive:** <https://registry.npmjs.org/metro/-/metro-0.87.0.tgz>
- **Issue tracker:** <https://github.com/react/metro/issues>
- **Published:** 2026-07-13T15:27:02.538Z
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-13T15:27:02.538Z
- **Generated:** 2026-08-04T22:13:35+00:00

## Executables

- metro (cli)
- metro (alias)

## Dependencies

- @babel/code-frame
- @babel/core
- @babel/generator
- @babel/parser
- @babel/template
- @babel/traverse
- @babel/types
- accepts
- ci-info
- connect
- debug
- error-stack-parser
- flow-enums-runtime
- graceful-fs
- hermes-parser
- image-size
- invariant
- jest-worker
- jsc-safe-url
- lodash.throttle
- metro-babel-transformer
- metro-cache
- metro-cache-key
- metro-config
- metro-core
- metro-file-map
- metro-resolver
- metro-runtime
- metro-source-map
- metro-symbolicate
- metro-transform-plugins
- metro-transform-worker
- mime-types
- nullthrows
- serialize-error
- source-map
- throat
- ws
- yargs

## Build dependencies

- @babel/plugin-transform-flow-strip-types
- @babel/plugin-transform-modules-commonjs
- @babel/plugin-transform-runtime
- @react-native/babel-preset
- @react-native/metro-babel-transformer
- @types/ws
- @types/yargs
- babel-jest
- dedent
- jest-snapshot
- jest-snapshot-serializer-raw
- metro-babel-register
- metro-memory-fs
- mock-req
- mock-res
- selfsigned
- stack-trace

## Install behavior

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

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-04
- Package-manager version: 0.87.0
- Package-manager updated: 2026-07-13
- Local data: ok
- Upstream repository: https://github.com/react/metro
- info: No cached GitHub release or tag data was available.

## Security Notes

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for metro. Package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.


## Source Database Details

- **Source Database:** npm registry
- **Dist Tags:** 0.76 Stable: 0.76.9, 0.80 Stable: 0.80.12, 0.81 Stable: 0.81.5, 0.83 Stable: 0.83.7, Alpha: 0.81.0-alpha.2, Latest: 0.87.0
- **Version Count:** 186
- **Maintainers:** fb, metro-bot
- **Publisher:** GitHub Actions
- **Engines:** Node: ^22.13.0 || ^24.3.0 || >= 26.0.0
- **Integrity:** sha512-fRqFhSzQhLNQSCvJFeuRzBRXAOOKXf1O8d2cvmMtG6yFR0jCllQ7vBsXoLP18yuqtf+N1XwWXTPF11eWy9q6dQ==
- **Shasum:** ebdc81166213dc0efc894d816d38e16b5f82892f
- **Unpacked Size:** 875,283
- **File Count:** 0
- **Created At:** 2011-10-12T03:27:14.232Z
- **Latest Published At:** 2026-07-13T15:27:02.538Z
- **Modified At:** 2026-07-13T15:27:02.810Z


## Related links

- [Developer build packages](https://pkg.so/developer-build-tools/) - Matched curated package taxonomy and local package facts.
- [metro-symbolicate](https://pkg.so/npm/metro-symbolicate/) - Package names and metadata indicate a similar tool family. Shared terms: cli, developer, developer-tools, enums, flow.
- [gatsby](https://pkg.so/npm/gatsby/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: babel, cache, cli, code, code-frame.
- [microbundle](https://pkg.so/npm/microbundle/) - Local metadata places this package in an adjacent workflow. Shared terms: babel, build, build-tools, bundler, cli.

## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- package-page enrichment
- package version freshness
- pkgdb category and tag curation
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