sonner
An opinionated toast component for React.
About
An opinionated toast component for React.
What detecting sonner tells you about a site
sonner is Emil Kowalski's opinionated toast component, and it has become the default notification layer of the shadcn/ui generation, so finding it is a near-certain marker of a modern, design-conscious React stack that values motion and polish. Its presence suggests the team copied components into their own tree rather than installing a monolithic UI library, and that they care about the small interaction details (stacking, swipe-to-dismiss, promise states). It reads as a recent build with current taste, frequently in a Next.js App Router project.
Why the exact sonner version matters
sonner moved quickly through its early versions, refining the API for promise toasts, positioning and the rich-content variants, so a given version pins which of those capabilities and prop names were available. Newer releases tightened theming and accessibility; an older pin usually correlates with an earlier shadcn snapshot frozen in the project.
sonner in a real-world stack
When you find sonner in a bundle, it rarely travels alone. shadcn/ui, Radix primitives, Tailwind CSS and Next.js.
Quick facts
npm install sonnerCommon pairings
Packages this one expects to find in the same project. Each is also a Sourcemap Explorer detection target.
How Sourcemap Explorer detects sonner
sonner ships as v2.0.7, published 2025-08-02 and carries 0 direct dependencies, 2 peer dependencies (react, react-dom), 64 versions on the registry. Those exact numbers are the footprint Sourcemap Explorer matches when sonner rides inside a deployed bundle — here is how the detection works.
We catch sonner from two complementary signals: bundled source paths and the embedded package.json. Modern bundlers (webpack, Vite, esbuild, Rollup, Turbopack) preserve the original node_modules/sonner/ paths inside the JavaScript sourcemap's sources[] array — that's the canonical signal. When the matching package.json is also captured in sourcesContent[], we read the exact version field — patch number included. No regex guessing, no version inference.
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Confirm the site exposes sourcemaps
In DevTools Network, check the response headers of any application script for `SourceMap` or `X-SourceMap`. Failing that, fetch the script's last 4 KB and look for a `//# sourceMappingURL=` comment — that map is where the `sonner` paths live.
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Find the package in the bundle
Open DevTools → Network → reload. Click any application script and look at its sourcemap. Inside, search `sources[]` for entries matching `node_modules/sonner/` — every match confirms the package is bundled. The matching `sourcesContent[i]` for `node_modules/sonner/package.json` gives you the exact installed version.
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Read the version directly from package.json
Run `jq -r '. as $m | $m.sources | to_entries[] | select(.value | endswith("node_modules/sonner/package.json")) | $m.sourcesContent[.key] | fromjson | .version' bundle.js.map`. Sourcemap Explorer automates the same query in the popup.
Major releases of sonner
When each major version first landed. Major bumps are where breaking changes live, so this timeline is the fastest way to date the sonner version a site actually ships against the ecosystem.
Recent versions
sonner README
Live mirror of the GitHub README, for reference. Updated whenever the repo's default branch changes.
https://github.com/vallezw/sonner/assets/50796600/59b95cb7-9068-4f3e-8469-0b35d9de5cf0
Sonner is an opinionated toast component for React. You can read more about why and how it was built here.
Usage
To start using the library, install it in your project:
npm install sonner
Add <Toaster /> to your app, it will be the place where all your toasts will be rendered.
After that you can use toast() from anywhere in your app.
import { Toaster, toast } from 'sonner';
// ...
function App() {
return (
<div>
<Toaster />
<button onClick={() => toast('My first toast')}>Give me a toast</button>
</div>
);
}
Documentation
Find the full API reference in the documentation.
FAQ
What is sonner used for?
An opinionated toast component for React.
How can I tell if a website is using sonner?
Open the page in Chrome with the Sourcemap Explorer extension installed and read the Stack tab. We catch `sonner` from two complementary signals: `node_modules/sonner/` paths inside the JavaScript sourcemap, and the embedded `package.json` we read for exact-version detection. Without the extension you can do the same lookup manually in DevTools — the steps are listed in the "How Sourcemap Explorer detects" section above.
How do I find out which version of sonner a website is running?
Read it straight from the site's JavaScript sourcemap. When a build ships source maps, the bundled `sonner/package.json` carries the exact `version` string — Sourcemap Explorer extracts it in one click on the Stack tab, and you can do it by hand in DevTools by opening the `.map` file and searching for `node_modules/sonner/package.json`. That is far more reliable than inferring the version from an asset-hash or a `?ver=` query string, which is all surface-level detectors have to go on. The current npm release is 2.0.7, but real deployments frequently run an older pinned version — which is exactly why reading the bundled number matters.
What is the latest version of sonner?
2.0.7, as published on the npm registry. The "Recent versions" table on this page lists the most recent 8 releases with their release dates. Sourcemap Explorer reports the version actually bundled into a site, which can lag the latest release by months on real-world deployments.
Is sonner actively maintained?
Maintained but slow-moving — releases come every several months rather than weekly. The last published release was 2025-08-02. Source code: https://github.com/emilkowalski/sonner.
Where can I read more?
Project homepage: https://sonner.emilkowal.ski/. Source code: https://github.com/emilkowalski/sonner. Published on npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/sonner. Licensed as MIT.
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Detected by Sourcemap Explorer
When a bundle ships sourcemaps, we read the embedded package.json for sonner and report the precise version (the registry's latest is v2.0.7, published 2025-08-02; the bundled copy is often older). Without sourcemaps, an import / require in the page's scripts is enough to flag it.