parse-entities is a small, fast decoder for HTML character references (HTML entities), providing spec-compliant decoding of strings like `&` and numeric references. It is useful in tools like linters, where you may want different warnings with reasons and positional info about where each reference occurred.
Project status
- The repository appears actively maintained, with an upstream push as recent as 2026-01-22 (though the last documented
updatesentry provided is 4.0.2 from 2024-12-13). - The apparent update cadence is roughly yearly to multi-year, with
updatesat 4.0.1 (2023-02-09) and 4.0.2 (2024-12-13), following a larger change at 4.0.0 (2021-11-22).
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Recent updates
4.0.2
12/13/2024parse-entities 4.0.2 makes a set of mostly type-focused refactors and build metadata adjustments. It also removes the unused `character-entities` runtime dependency, keeping `character-entities-legacy` as the actual dependency used for reference decoding.
4.0.1
2/9/2023parse-entities 4.0.1 is a tooling and type-related release, with changes centered around TypeScript configuration and minor documentation refactors. The release notes mention a typo fix in types and removing skipLibCheck, plus doc/tsconfig refactoring.
4.0.0
11/22/2021Version 4.0.0 contains a webpack-related fix per the release notes, but the actual code changes also include a significant public API change. The release notes do not mention the removal of the exported `decodeEntity` helper or the underlying named character reference decoding implementation swap.