juliangarnier/anime
JavaScript animation engine
73.6k stars · 5k forks · JavaScript
Caution
Caution: one person wrote most of the recent commits.
Why
- One person wrote 100% 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
CompleteSlowing
- Human commits, 30 days
- 0
- Human commits, 90 days
- 1
- Human commits, 365 days
- 38
- Bot share of commits, 365 days
- 0%
- Last commit
- Aug 9, 2026 (2 months ago)
- Last human commit
- Aug 9, 2026 (2 months ago)
- Authors, 90 days
- 1
- Last release
- Jun 22, 2026 (3 months ago)
- Median PR merge time
- 49 days
Responsiveness: of 6 recent issues, 33% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 15 hours.
Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues
People
Complete- Owner
- Personal account
- Commits sampled
- 38 since Oct 14, 2025
- Authors for half of commits
- 1
- Authors for 80% of commits
- 1
- Contributors
- 54
Top committers
- juliangarnier: 100% of commits
Sources: Commits, Contributors
Stars
CompleteOrganic, confidence high
Bursts
- Jun 27, 2016 to Jul 31, 2016: about 7.1k more stars than usual, peak 1.7k in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Oct 18, 2016 to Oct 20, 2016: about 88 more stars than usual, peak 46 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Oct 24, 2016 to Oct 28, 2016: about 307 more stars than usual, peak 124 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Dec 28, 2016 to Dec 30, 2016: about 84 more stars than usual, peak 54 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Feb 23, 2017 to Feb 25, 2017: about 82 more stars than usual, peak 53 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Apr 11, 2017 to Apr 12, 2017: about 74 more stars than usual, peak 60 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Sep 6, 2017 to Sep 8, 2017: about 103 more stars than usual, peak 64 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Sep 12, 2017 to Sep 14, 2017: about 119 more stars than usual, peak 77 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Sep 18, 2017 to Sep 21, 2017: about 163 more stars than usual, peak 74 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Oct 11, 2017 to Oct 13, 2017: about 139 more stars than usual, peak 89 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Oct 20, 2017 to Oct 24, 2017: about 131 more stars than usual, peak 74 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Dec 13, 2017 to Dec 21, 2017: about 680 more stars than usual, peak 217 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Apr 17, 2018 to Apr 18, 2018: about 77 more stars than usual, peak 72 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jun 18, 2018 to Jun 20, 2018: about 242 more stars than usual, peak 135 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Aug 1, 2018 to Aug 3, 2018: about 130 more stars than usual, peak 71 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jan 9, 2019 to Jan 28, 2019: about 3.2k more stars than usual, peak 507 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Dec 9, 2019 to Dec 10, 2019: about 52 more stars than usual, peak 37 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Apr 6, 2020 to Apr 12, 2020: about 231 more stars than usual, peak 94 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jun 22, 2023 to Jun 27, 2023: about 676 more stars than usual, peak 313 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post.
- Aug 17, 2023 to Aug 21, 2023: about 180 more stars than usual, peak 104 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
- Dec 18, 2023 to Dec 19, 2023: about 84 more stars than usual, peak 54 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
- Nov 6, 2024 to Nov 12, 2024: about 340 more stars than usual, peak 130 in one day, a shape we can't classify. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
- Apr 3, 2025 to May 14, 2025: about 8.9k more stars than usual, peak 894 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- May 18, 2025 to May 18, 2025: about 100 more stars than usual, peak 143 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Aug 4, 2025 to Aug 5, 2025: about 209 more stars than usual, peak 161 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
- Sep 29, 2025 to Oct 8, 2025: about 698 more stars than usual, peak 295 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Dec 9, 2025 to Dec 11, 2025: about 77 more stars than usual, peak 54 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
- Jan 20, 2026 to Jan 23, 2026: about 201 more stars than usual, peak 106 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests, a new release.
- Apr 20, 2026 to May 2, 2026: about 451 more stars than usual, peak 66 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- May 15, 2026 to May 19, 2026: about 365 more stars than usual, peak 180 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
- Jul 13, 2026 to Jul 14, 2026: about 142 more stars than usual, peak 122 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
- 8 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.
Sources: How star history is analyzed
Risk
CompleteFlags
- Info: The OpenSSF Scorecard for this project is 2.6 out of 10 (deps.dev). Details
License
- Now
- MIT (OSI-approved)
- A year ago
- MIT (OSI-approved)
Packages
- animejs (NPM): latest 4.5.0, published Jun 22, 2026
Advisories for the latest version: none listed
Package and advisory data: deps.dev and OSV.
OpenSSF Scorecard: 2.6 out of 10 (via deps.dev).
Badge
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[](https://reporadar.ai/juliangarnier/anime)Earlier verdicts
- Oct 14, 2026: Caution
- Oct 13, 2026: Caution
- Oct 13, 2026: Caution
Computed 18 hours ago · method 2026.10.2