preactjs/preact

Maintenance

Active

Human commits, 30 days

72

Human commits, 90 days

276

Human commits, 365 days

370

Bot share of commits, 365 days

0%

Last commit

Oct 13, 2026 (1 day ago)

Last human commit

Oct 13, 2026 (1 day ago)

Authors, 90 days

12

Last release

Oct 8, 2026 (6 days ago)

Median PR merge time

5 hours

Responsiveness: of 9 recent issues, 78% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: under an hour.

Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues

People

Owner

Organization

Commits sampled

370 since Oct 14, 2025

Authors for half of commits

1

Authors for 80% of commits

1

Contributors

352

Top committers

• JoviDeCroock: 85% of commits
• ssssota: 3% of commits
• rschristian: 2% of commits
• ali-garajian: 2% of commits
• natemoo-re: 1% of commits

Sources: Commits, Contributors

Stars

Organic, confidence high

Bursts

• Nov 28, 2015 to Dec 3, 2015: about 67 more stars than usual, peak 20 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Dec 8, 2015 to Dec 9, 2015: about 19 more stars than usual, peak 13 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
• Jan 26, 2016 to Feb 7, 2016: about 1.5k more stars than usual, peak 405 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• Feb 11, 2016 to Feb 19, 2016: about 81 more stars than usual, peak 14 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• May 17, 2016 to May 19, 2016: about 110 more stars than usual, peak 61 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jun 6, 2016 to Jun 7, 2016: about 51 more stars than usual, peak 44 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Aug 30, 2016 to Sep 1, 2016: about 114 more stars than usual, peak 56 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• May 20, 2017 to May 26, 2017: about 262 more stars than usual, peak 63 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• Aug 19, 2017 to Aug 31, 2017: about 1.3k more stars than usual, peak 317 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.
• Sep 15, 2017 to Sep 21, 2017: about 944 more stars than usual, peak 315 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Mar 5, 2019 to Mar 6, 2019: about 63 more stars than usual, peak 51 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Oct 2, 2019 to Oct 4, 2019: about 127 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.
• Feb 10, 2022 to Feb 10, 2022: about 53 more stars than usual, peak 62 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
• Jun 29, 2022 to Jul 2, 2022: about 103 more stars than usual, peak 46 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Oct 31, 2023 to Nov 2, 2023: about 53 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.
• May 31, 2025 to Jun 5, 2025: about 81 more stars than usual, peak 27 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.

• 6 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

Flags

No risk flags.

License

Now

MIT (OSI-approved)

A year ago

MIT (OSI-approved)

Packages

• preact (NPM): latest 11.0.1, published Oct 8, 2026
  Advisories for the latest version: none listed

Package and advisory data: deps.dev and OSV.

OpenSSF Scorecard: 5.7 out of 10 (via deps.dev).

Sources: GitHub: preactjs/preact, deps.dev: npm preact