ianstormtaylor/slate
A completely customizable framework for building rich text editors. (Currently in beta.)
31.7k stars · 3.3k forks · TypeScript
Caution
Caution: one person wrote most of the recent commits.
Why
- One person wrote 73% of human commits in the last year, so the project depends on them continuing. (source 1, source 2)
What would change this
- A second person takes a substantial share of commits.
Maintenance
CompleteActive
- Human commits, 30 days
- 140
- Human commits, 90 days
- 148
- Human commits, 365 days
- 198
- Bot share of commits, 365 days
- 22%
- Last commit
- Oct 14, 2026 (12 hours ago)
- Last human commit
- Oct 14, 2026 (12 hours ago)
- Authors, 90 days
- 17
- Last release
- Oct 14, 2026 (12 hours ago)
- Median PR merge time
- under an hour
Responsiveness: of 4 recent issues, n/a got a maintainer reply. Median first response: n/a.
- Only 4 recent issues can be checked for a response, too few to measure response time.
Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues
People
Complete- Owner
- Personal account
- Commits sampled
- 198 since Oct 14, 2025
- Authors for half of commits
- 1
- Authors for 80% of commits
- 3
- Contributors
- 448
Top committers
- dylans: 73% of commits
- 12joan: 5% of commits
- nabbydude: 4% of commits
- juliankrispel: 2% of commits
- ckale-scorpio: 1% of commits
Sources: Commits, Contributors
Stars
CompleteMostly organic, confidence high
Bursts
- Jul 23, 2016 to Jul 29, 2016: about 96 more stars than usual, peak 17 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
- Nov 22, 2016 to Nov 22, 2016: about 33 more stars than usual, peak 34 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Apr 16, 2017 to Apr 25, 2017: about 1.4k more stars than usual, peak 495 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
- Apr 28, 2017 to May 3, 2017: about 79 more stars than usual, peak 24 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- May 25, 2017 to May 27, 2017: about 144 more stars than usual, peak 81 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Oct 18, 2017 to Oct 20, 2017: about 168 more stars than usual, peak 105 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Sep 19, 2018 to Sep 21, 2018: about 71 more stars than usual, peak 44 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Sep 25, 2018 to Oct 2, 2018: about 252 more stars than usual, peak 58 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Nov 15, 2018 to Nov 23, 2018: about 2k more stars than usual, peak 847 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Oct 27, 2019 to Oct 31, 2019: about 61 more stars than usual, peak 25 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Nov 28, 2019 to Nov 29, 2019: about 85 more stars than usual, peak 83 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Feb 3, 2021 to Feb 3, 2021: about 122 more stars than usual, peak 129 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Jul 29, 2021 to Aug 2, 2021: about 348 more stars than usual, peak 230 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks.
- Oct 20, 2021 to Oct 21, 2021: about 106 more stars than usual, peak 94 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jun 14, 2023 to Jun 16, 2023: about 100 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.
- 2 stars GitHub has since removed (tracked since Oct 14, 2026).
Anyone can buy stars for any repo; bursts alone don't prove the owner did.
- Some star bursts have no matching forks, issues, releases, or launch coverage.
- Anyone can buy stars for any repo, so this describes the star history only.
Sources: How star history is analyzed
Risk
CompleteFlags
No risk flags.
License
- Now
- MIT (OSI-approved)
- A year ago
- Not known
Packages
No published packages found.
OpenSSF Scorecard: 6.4 out of 10 (via deps.dev).
Sources: GitHub: ianstormtaylor/slate
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- Oct 14, 2026: Caution
- Oct 14, 2026: Caution
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