# @backstage/cli-common

> Common functionality used by cli, backend, and create-app

Latest version **0.3.1** (published 2026-09-15) · Apache-2.0 license · 0 weekly downloads

## Install

```sh
npm install @backstage/cli-common
pnpm add @backstage/cli-common
yarn add @backstage/cli-common
bun add @backstage/cli-common
```

## Health

**Score 75/100 (B)** — status: active.

Positive: has types; esm support; no vulnerabilities; recently updated; high maintenance score; high quality score; popular repo.

Warnings: low downloads; pre 1.0.

## Facts

| | |
|---|---|
| Version | 0.3.1 |
| Published | 2026-09-15 |
| First published | 2020-08-05 |
| Weekly downloads | 0 |
| License | Apache-2.0 |
| TypeScript types | bundled |
| Module format | ESM + CommonJS |
| Dependencies | 2 |
| Unpacked size | 59.7 KB |
| Known vulnerabilities | 0 |
| Install scripts | no |
| GitHub stars | 34441 |
| Maintainers | patriko, freben, marcuseide |
| Keywords | backstage |

## Links

- npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@backstage/cli-common
- Repository: https://github.com/backstage/backstage
- Homepage: https://backstage.io
- npm.io page: https://npm.io/package/@backstage/cli-common

## Dependencies (2)

- [cross-spawn](https://npm.io/package/cross-spawn.md) ^7.0.3
- [@backstage/errors](https://npm.io/package/@backstage/errors.md) ^1.3.1

## Recent versions

- 0.3.1 (latest) — 2026-09-15
- 0.0.0-nightly-20260925022940 (nightly) — 2026-09-25
- 0.3.2-next.0 (next) — 2026-09-22
- 0.0.0-nightly-20260924023050 — 2026-09-24
- 0.0.0-nightly-20260923023054 — 2026-09-23
- 0.0.0-nightly-20260922023058 — 2026-09-22
- 0.0.0-nightly-20260921023416 — 2026-09-21
- 0.0.0-nightly-20260920023043 — 2026-09-20
- 0.3.0 — 2026-07-14
- 0.0.0-nightly-20260714031447 — 2026-07-14
- 0.0.0-nightly-20260713031604 — 2026-07-13
- 0.0.0-nightly-20260712031654 — 2026-07-12
- 0.0.0-nightly-20260711031351 — 2026-07-11
- 0.0.0-nightly-20260710031816 — 2026-07-10
- 0.0.0-nightly-20260709031947 — 2026-07-09
- … 302 more at https://npm.io/package/@backstage/cli-common/versions

## README

# @backstage/cli-common

This package provides config loading functionality used by the backend, and CLI.

## Installation

Do not install this package directly, it is an internal package used by [@backstage/cli](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@backstage/cli), and [@backstage/create-app](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@backstage/create-app). Depend on either of those instead.

## Documentation

- [Backstage Readme](https://github.com/backstage/backstage/blob/master/README.md)
- [Backstage Documentation](https://backstage.io/docs)

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