Is cucumber still maintained?
No — cucumber stopped being maintained around December 2020. The same project continues under the name @cucumber/cucumber.
- Status
- No longer maintained
- Last maintained
- December 2020
- Use instead
@cucumber/cucumber— on npm- Succession
- Renamed package
- Drop-in
- yes — swap the import
- Confidence
- high
What should I use instead of cucumber?
The same project continues under the name @cucumber/cucumber. @cucumber/cucumber is close enough to a drop-in replacement that most projects only change the dependency and the import.
How to migrate from cucumber to @cucumber/cucumber
Swap the dependency and update imports from cucumber to @cucumber/cucumber; step definition and world APIs are unchanged across the rename itself, though moving from 6.x to 7.x has its own breaking changes.
Why cucumber is on this list
The Cucumber project moved its JavaScript implementation to the @cucumber scope, publishing @cucumber/cucumber 7.0.0 in December 2020; the unscoped line's last substantive release was 6.0.5 in November 2019. The unscoped cucumber package now carries an npm deprecation notice saying new releases are published under @cucumber/cucumber, added with the marker releases 6.0.6 and 6.0.7 in April 2022. It is the same codebase and the same maintainers.
The succession is settled: primary sources agree and the ecosystem has already moved.
cucumber alternatives
The dataset lists no second option: @cucumber/cucumber is where the ecosystem went, and nothing else has meaningful adoption.
Check your own project for cucumber
npx dead-deps --all --min-state unmaintainedRun that in the directory holding your lockfile. If cucumber is anywhere in your tree — a direct dependency or buried under something else — it appears in the report with this verdict, this successor and the same evidence links, alongside anything else that has stopped moving. Nothing is uploaded; the scan reads your lockfile locally and queries public registry metadata.
Exit code 1 means something was flagged, which makes npx dead-deps --min-state deprecated usable as a CI gate. See how verdicts are produced.
Evidence
Every claim on this page traces to a primary source. Check them:
- npm deprecation notice on cucumber ("publishing new releases under @cucumber/cucumber")npmjs.com
- cucumber-js installation docs (scoped package)github.com
Packages related to cucumber
- @hapi/joiRenamed package: joi · unmaintained since March 2020
- babel-eslintRenamed package: @babel/eslint-parser · unmaintained since February 2020
- popper.jsRenamed package: @popperjs/core · unmaintained since January 2020
- rollup-plugin-babelRenamed package: @rollup/plugin-babel · unmaintained since March 2020
- @material-ui/coreRenamed package: @mui/material · unmaintained since September 2021
See the full index of covered packages, or read the methodology for how a verdict is reached and why a quiet package is not a dead one.