postcss/postcss
Transforming styles with JS plugins
29k stars · 1.7k forks · TypeScript
Caution
Caution: one person wrote most of the recent commits.
Why
- One person wrote 78% 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
- 15
- Human commits, 90 days
- 65
- Human commits, 365 days
- 174
- Bot share of commits, 365 days
- 0%
- Last commit
- Oct 12, 2026 (2 days ago)
- Last human commit
- Oct 12, 2026 (2 days ago)
- Authors, 90 days
- 19
- Last release
- Oct 12, 2026 (2 days ago)
- Median PR merge time
- 4 hours
Responsiveness: of 14 recent issues, 86% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: under an hour.
Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues
People
Complete- Owner
- Organization
- Commits sampled
- 174 since Oct 14, 2025
- Authors for half of commits
- 1
- Authors for 80% of commits
- 2
- Contributors
- 404
Top committers
- ai: 78% of commits
- MahinAnowar: 3% of commits
- sarathfrancis90: 3% of commits
- alanzabihi: 1% of commits
- rootvector2: 1% of commits
Sources: Commits, Contributors
Stars
CompleteOrganic, confidence high
Bursts
- Nov 4, 2013 to Nov 5, 2013: about 23 more stars than usual, peak 15 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
- Dec 28, 2013 to Dec 29, 2013: about 33 more stars than usual, peak 24 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
- Jun 24, 2014 to Jun 24, 2014: about 16 more stars than usual, peak 16 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
- Apr 23, 2015 to May 1, 2015: about 800 more stars than usual, peak 182 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- May 26, 2015 to May 29, 2015: about 183 more stars than usual, peak 86 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jul 16, 2015 to Jul 17, 2015: about 86 more stars than usual, peak 66 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jul 21, 2015 to Jul 24, 2015: about 82 more stars than usual, peak 50 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.
- 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
- postcss (NPM): latest 8.5.30, published Oct 12, 2026
Advisories for the latest version: none listed
Package and advisory data: deps.dev and OSV.
OpenSSF Scorecard: 7.5 out of 10 (via deps.dev).
Sources: GitHub: postcss/postcss, deps.dev: npm postcss
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[](https://reporadar.ai/postcss/postcss)Earlier verdicts
- Oct 14, 2026: Caution
- Oct 14, 2026: Caution
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