nodejs/node

Maintenance

Active

Human commits, 30 days

551

Human commits, 90 days

1.5k

Human commits, 365 days

3.5k

Bot share of commits, 365 days

8%

Last commit

Oct 14, 2026 (22 hours ago)

Last human commit

Oct 14, 2026 (22 hours ago)

Authors, 90 days

87

Last release

Oct 7, 2026 (7 days ago)

Median PR merge time

2 days

Responsiveness: of 27 recent issues, 26% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 5 hours.

• Commit counts are estimated: the commit sample stops before the window start, so GitHub's totals were scaled by the sampled bot share.
• Authors in the last 90 days are counted from the sampled commits only.

Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues

People

Owner

Organization

Commits sampled

462 since Oct 14, 2025

Authors for half of commits

6

Authors for 80% of commits

25

Contributors

418

Top committers

• panva: 20% of commits
• jasnell: 13% of commits
• joyeecheung: 7% of commits
• aduh95: 5% of commits
• codebytere: 4% of commits

• Shares come from the newest sampled commits, since the commit sample is capped.

Sources: Commits, Contributors

Stars

Organic, confidence high

Bursts

• Jan 13, 2015 to Jan 22, 2015: about 1.2k more stars than usual, peak 490 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• May 5, 2015 to May 6, 2015: about 79 more stars than usual, peak 69 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Aug 11, 2015 to Aug 14, 2015: about 224 more stars than usual, peak 91 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Sep 3, 2015 to Sep 17, 2015: about 1k more stars than usual, peak 233 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Oct 30, 2015 to Oct 31, 2015: about 96 more stars than usual, peak 102 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Apr 26, 2016 to Apr 28, 2016: about 168 more stars than usual, peak 109 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Oct 25, 2016 to Oct 27, 2016: about 108 more stars than usual, peak 83 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Oct 6, 2017 to Oct 7, 2017: about 244 more stars than usual, peak 209 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• May 30, 2018 to May 31, 2018: about 103 more stars than usual, peak 97 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Oct 9, 2020 to Oct 9, 2020: about 87 more stars than usual, peak 108 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Oct 22, 2020 to Oct 25, 2020: about 324 more stars than usual, peak 108 in one day, a flat block of stars. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jan 27, 2021 to Jan 29, 2021: about 244 more stars than usual, peak 138 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jun 2, 2021 to Jun 3, 2021: about 189 more stars than usual, peak 180 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Aug 27, 2021 to Aug 28, 2021: about 152 more stars than usual, peak 146 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jan 30, 2022 to Feb 3, 2022: about 340 more stars than usual, peak 122 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Sep 5, 2022 to Sep 6, 2022: about 85 more stars than usual, peak 95 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Sep 28, 2023 to Sep 28, 2023: about 177 more stars than usual, peak 206 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Oct 20, 2023 to Oct 20, 2023: about 62 more stars than usual, peak 85 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Nov 8, 2023 to Nov 9, 2023: about 71 more stars than usual, peak 73 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Dec 5, 2023 to Dec 7, 2023: about 652 more stars than usual, peak 473 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
• Feb 8, 2024 to Feb 9, 2024: about 150 more stars than usual, peak 114 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Mar 18, 2024 to Mar 27, 2024: about 358 more stars than usual, peak 80 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Dec 5, 2024 to Dec 5, 2024: about 58 more stars than usual, peak 76 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• May 4, 2025 to May 5, 2025: about 111 more stars than usual, peak 101 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jul 26, 2026 to Jul 27, 2026: about 131 more stars than usual, peak 133 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Aug 17, 2026 to Sep 7, 2026: about 1.9k more stars than usual, peak 430 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Sep 10, 2026 to Sep 13, 2026: about 704 more stars than usual, peak 429 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Oct 3, 2026 to Oct 6, 2026: about 135 more stars than usual, peak 67 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Oct 11, 2026 to Oct 13, 2026: about 174 more stars than usual, peak 145 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.

• 22 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

Flags

No risk flags.

License

Now

Apache-2.0 (OSI-approved)

A year ago

Apache-2.0 (OSI-approved)

Packages

No published packages found.

OpenSSF Scorecard: 6.0 out of 10 (via deps.dev).

Sources: GitHub: nodejs/node