poloclub/transformer-explainer
Transformer Explained Visually: Learn How LLM Transformer Models Work with Interactive Visualization
9k stars · 1k forks · JavaScript
Healthy
Healthy: no known risks in the checks that ran.
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
CompleteSteady
- Human commits, 30 days
- 0
- Human commits, 90 days
- 0
- Human commits, 365 days
- 8
- Bot share of commits, 365 days
- 53%
- Last commit
- Jun 6, 2026 (4 months ago)
- Last human commit
- Jun 6, 2026 (4 months ago)
- Authors, 90 days
- 0
- Last release
- Jun 11, 2024 (2 years ago)
- Median PR merge time
- 2 days
Responsiveness: of 0 recent issues, n/a got a maintainer reply. Median first response: n/a.
- Most commits in the last year come from bots.
- Only 0 recent issues can be checked for a response, too few to measure response time.
Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues
People
Complete- Owner
- Organization
- Commits sampled
- 8 since Oct 14, 2025
- Authors for half of commits
- 2
- Authors for 80% of commits
- 5
- Contributors
- 12
Top committers
- aereeeee: 38% of commits
- Anonymous: 13% of commits
- damoebe: 13% of commits
- psteinb: 13% of commits
- qiuzuhui: 13% of commits
Sources: Commits, Contributors
Stars
CompleteOrganic, confidence high
Bursts
- Jul 13, 2024 to Jul 18, 2024: about 62 more stars than usual, peak 16 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Aug 7, 2024 to Sep 4, 2024: about 2.1k more stars than usual, peak 182 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks.
- Oct 29, 2024 to Nov 1, 2024: about 172 more stars than usual, peak 74 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Nov 7, 2024 to Nov 10, 2024: about 117 more stars than usual, peak 66 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Feb 7, 2026 to Feb 10, 2026: about 189 more stars than usual, peak 95 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- May 15, 2026 to May 18, 2026: about 128 more stars than usual, peak 69 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Jun 29, 2026 to Jul 1, 2026: about 129 more stars than usual, peak 75 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Sep 22, 2026 to Sep 23, 2026: about 76 more stars than usual, peak 69 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks.
- 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.
- The star history looks organic.
Sources: How star history is analyzed
Risk
CompleteFlags
No risk flags.
License
- Now
- MIT (OSI-approved)
- A year ago
- MIT (OSI-approved)
Packages
No published packages found.
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[](https://reporadar.ai/poloclub/transformer-explainer)Earlier verdicts
- Oct 14, 2026: Healthy
- Oct 14, 2026: Healthy
Computed 7 hours ago · method 2026.10.2