# GOV.UK Frontend

CSS, JavaScript and Nunjucks components for building government services in the style of GOV.UK.


Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/govuk-frontend/
Last reviewed: 2026-10-27
Updated: 2026-10-28
Listed since: 2026-10-27

## Record

### Links

- home: https://frontend.design-system.service.gov.uk/
- repository: https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-frontend
- docs: https://frontend.design-system.service.gov.uk/installing-with-npm/

### Identity

- status: active
- maintainer: Government Digital Service
- maintainerType: unknown
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2018
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: ui-library, css-framework
- hosting: not applicable
- language: javascript
- runtime: unknown
- runtimeMin: not applicable
- basedOn: unknown

### Content

- contentStore: not applicable
- databases: not applicable
- adminUi: not applicable
- headlessApi: not applicable
- templating: nunjucks
- i18n: yes, component text can be translated

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: unknown
- renderingModes: not applicable
- installMethod: npm

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: MIT, Open Government Licence v3.0

### Releases

- currentMajor: 6
- latestReleaseDate: 2026-10-15

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 1476
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: 278965
- contributors: 77
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: 1529
- dependentPackages: 140

### Sources

- urls: https://frontend.design-system.service.gov.uk/ (read 2026-10-27)
- urls: https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-frontend (read 2026-10-27)
- urls: https://frontend.design-system.service.gov.uk/installing-with-npm/ (read 2026-10-27)
- firstRelease: https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-frontend/releases (read 2026-10-27)
- maintainer: https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-frontend/blob/main/LICENSE.txt (read 2026-10-27)
- language: https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-frontend (read 2026-10-27)
- category: https://frontend.design-system.service.gov.uk/ (read 2026-10-27)
- installMethod: https://frontend.design-system.service.gov.uk/installing-with-npm/ (read 2026-10-27)
- installMethod: https://frontend.design-system.service.gov.uk/install-using-precompiled-files/ (read 2026-10-27)
- templating: https://frontend.design-system.service.gov.uk/use-nunjucks/ (read 2026-10-27)
- i18n: https://frontend.design-system.service.gov.uk/localise-govuk-frontend/ (read 2026-10-27)
- license: https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-frontend (read 2026-10-27)
- license: https://frontend.design-system.service.gov.uk/ (read 2026-10-27)
- currentMajor: https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-frontend/releases/tag/v6.6.0 (read 2026-10-27)
- latestReleaseDate: https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-frontend/releases/tag/v6.6.0 (read 2026-10-27)
- githubStargazers: https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-frontend (read 2026-10-27)
- contributors: https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-frontend (read 2026-10-27)
- npmWeeklyDownloads: https://api.npmjs.org/downloads/range/2026-09-28:2026-10-04/govuk-frontend (read 2026-10-28)
- dependentPackages: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/npmjs.org/packages/govuk-frontend (read 2026-10-27)
- dependentRepos: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/npmjs.org/packages/govuk-frontend (read 2026-10-27)

## Notes

GOV.UK Frontend is the code behind the GOV.UK Design System, published by the Government Digital Service. It provides components as CSS, browser JavaScript and [Nunjucks](https://frontend.design-system.service.gov.uk/use-nunjucks/) macros that generate the HTML. The [install guide](https://frontend.design-system.service.gov.uk/installing-with-npm/) adds the package with npm, and a precompiled release archive is the other documented route.

## Worth knowing

The Nunjucks macros need Node.js in the application and in any framework that supports it, according to the Nunjucks page.

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