expressjs/express
Fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework for node.
69.7k stars · 25.2k forks · JavaScript
Healthy
Healthy: actively maintained by 13 people, no known risks.
Why
No rule fired.
What would change this
- A dormant maintenance status, a deprecated or archived package, a successor link, or a critical advisory would change this.
Maintenance
CompleteActive
- Human commits, 30 days
- 9
- Human commits, 90 days
- 14
- Human commits, 365 days
- 58
- Bot share of commits, 365 days
- 39%
- Last commit
- Oct 9, 2026 (5 days ago)
- Last human commit
- Oct 9, 2026 (5 days ago)
- Authors, 90 days
- 13
- Last release
- Oct 9, 2026 (5 days ago)
- Median PR merge time
- 11 days
Responsiveness: of 17 recent issues, 29% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 4 hours.
Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues
People
Complete- Owner
- Organization
- Commits sampled
- 58 since Oct 14, 2025
- Authors for half of commits
- 12
- Authors for 80% of commits
- 30
- Contributors
- 333
Top committers
- bjohansebas: 12% of commits
- UlisesGascon: 10% of commits
- Phillip9587: 5% of commits
- blakeembrey: 3% of commits
- ctcpip: 3% of commits
Sources: Commits, Contributors
Stars
CompleteOrganic, confidence high
Bursts
- Dec 12, 2022 to Dec 12, 2022: about 57 more stars than usual, peak 68 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Sep 10, 2024 to Sep 14, 2024: about 268 more stars than usual, peak 88 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Oct 5, 2025 to Oct 6, 2025: about 82 more stars than usual, peak 69 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Dec 22, 2025 to Dec 23, 2025: about 52 more stars than usual, peak 50 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
- 1.7k stars on a repo created before February 2013 have no date, so they aren't in the chart.
- 7 stars GitHub has since removed (tracked since Oct 13, 2026).
Anyone can buy stars for any repo; bursts alone don't prove the owner did.
- The star history looks organic.
- 1661 stars on the creation day are undated (before 2013-02-10) and are not counted.
Sources: How star history is analyzed
Risk
CompleteFlags
No risk flags.
License
- Now
- MIT (OSI-approved)
- A year ago
- MIT (OSI-approved)
Packages
- express (NPM): latest 5.3.0, published Oct 9, 2026
Advisories for the latest version: none listed
Package and advisory data: deps.dev and OSV.
OpenSSF Scorecard: 8.5 out of 10 (via deps.dev).
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[](https://reporadar.ai/expressjs/express)Earlier verdicts
- Oct 14, 2026: Healthy
- Oct 13, 2026: Healthy
- Oct 13, 2026: Caution
- Oct 13, 2026: Caution
Computed 18 hours ago · method 2026.10.2