realworld-apps/realworld
"The mother of all demo apps" — Exemplary fullstack Medium.com clone powered by React, Angular, Node, Django, and many more
84.3k stars · 7.7k forks · TypeScript
Caution
Caution: one person wrote most of the recent commits.
Why
- One person wrote 99% 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
- 3
- Human commits, 365 days
- 118
- Bot share of commits, 365 days
- 3%
- Last commit
- Aug 26, 2026 (1 month ago)
- Last human commit
- Aug 13, 2026 (2 months ago)
- Authors, 90 days
- 1
- Last release
- none found
- Median PR merge time
- 2 hours
Responsiveness: of 1 recent issues, n/a got a maintainer reply. Median first response: n/a.
- Only 1 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
- 118 since Oct 14, 2025
- Authors for half of commits
- 1
- Authors for 80% of commits
- 1
- Contributors
- 85
Top committers
- c4ffein: 99% of commits
- akydd: 1% of commits
Sources: Commits, Contributors
Stars
CompleteMostly organic, confidence high
Bursts
- Apr 21, 2017 to May 23, 2017: about 6k more stars than usual, peak 850 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Aug 7, 2017 to Aug 9, 2017: about 153 more stars than usual, peak 77 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Apr 5, 2018 to Apr 13, 2018: about 1.2k more stars than usual, peak 287 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jul 9, 2018 to Jul 10, 2018: about 83 more stars than usual, peak 68 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Jul 15, 2018 to Jul 20, 2018: about 532 more stars than usual, peak 156 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Feb 1, 2019 to Feb 8, 2019: about 627 more stars than usual, peak 307 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Jun 10, 2019 to Jun 20, 2019: about 1.1k more stars than usual, peak 277 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jul 14, 2019 to Jul 19, 2019: about 423 more stars than usual, peak 143 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Sep 3, 2019 to Sep 12, 2019: about 851 more stars than usual, peak 239 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jan 20, 2020 to Jan 22, 2020: about 412 more stars than usual, peak 234 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
- Feb 9, 2020 to Feb 13, 2020: about 244 more stars than usual, peak 130 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
- May 24, 2020 to Jun 8, 2020: about 1.2k more stars than usual, peak 228 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jul 10, 2020 to Jul 14, 2020: about 511 more stars than usual, peak 143 in one day, a flat block of stars. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jul 30, 2020 to Aug 4, 2020: about 354 more stars than usual, peak 129 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Sep 30, 2020 to Sep 30, 2020: about 121 more stars than usual, peak 162 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
- Oct 20, 2020 to Oct 22, 2020: about 378 more stars than usual, peak 198 in one day, a flat block of stars. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Dec 2, 2020 to Dec 17, 2020: about 1.5k more stars than usual, peak 305 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Mar 29, 2021 to Mar 31, 2021: about 245 more stars than usual, peak 186 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Apr 5, 2021 to Apr 7, 2021: about 130 more stars than usual, peak 119 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Nov 26, 2021 to Dec 3, 2021: about 774 more stars than usual, peak 179 in one day, a shape we can't classify. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
- Jan 17, 2022 to Jan 17, 2022: about 110 more stars than usual, peak 125 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Mar 2, 2022 to Mar 4, 2022: about 171 more stars than usual, peak 107 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Mar 17, 2022 to Mar 19, 2022: about 193 more stars than usual, peak 94 in one day, a flat block of stars. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jun 7, 2022 to Jun 10, 2022: about 121 more stars than usual, peak 59 in one day, a shape we can't classify. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
- Jun 13, 2022 to Jun 16, 2022: about 120 more stars than usual, peak 56 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
- Jul 7, 2022 to Jul 8, 2022: about 129 more stars than usual, peak 113 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
- Jul 20, 2022 to Jul 23, 2022: about 270 more stars than usual, peak 104 in one day, a flat block of stars. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Aug 17, 2022 to Aug 18, 2022: about 138 more stars than usual, peak 120 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
- Aug 21, 2022 to Aug 25, 2022: about 202 more stars than usual, peak 93 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
- Sep 12, 2022 to Sep 14, 2022: about 273 more stars than usual, peak 164 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
- Nov 10, 2022 to Nov 12, 2022: about 104 more stars than usual, peak 67 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
- Nov 15, 2022 to Nov 20, 2022: about 161 more stars than usual, peak 65 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Dec 20, 2022 to Dec 22, 2022: about 139 more stars than usual, peak 86 in one day, a flat block of stars. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jan 6, 2023 to Jan 8, 2023: about 170 more stars than usual, peak 139 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Feb 20, 2023 to Feb 22, 2023: about 243 more stars than usual, peak 128 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Apr 3, 2023 to Apr 5, 2023: about 195 more stars than usual, peak 129 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Aug 5, 2023 to Aug 9, 2023: about 287 more stars than usual, peak 99 in one day, a shape we can't classify. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
- May 20, 2024 to May 30, 2024: about 783 more stars than usual, peak 184 in one day, a shape we can't classify. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
- Jul 23, 2024 to Jul 24, 2024: about 71 more stars than usual, peak 49 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
- Jul 7, 2025 to Jul 8, 2025: about 54 more stars than usual, peak 37 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
- Apr 16, 2026 to Apr 19, 2026: about 70 more stars than usual, peak 32 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
- Jun 15, 2026 to Jun 16, 2026: about 73 more stars than usual, peak 56 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
- Jul 8, 2026 to Jul 10, 2026: about 96 more stars than usual, peak 51 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
- 6 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.
- Some star bursts have no matching forks, issues, releases, or launch coverage.
- Anyone can buy stars for any repo, so this describes the star history only.
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.
Sources: GitHub: realworld-apps/realworld
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- Oct 14, 2026: Caution
- Oct 13, 2026: Caution
- Oct 13, 2026: Caution
Computed 19 hours ago · method 2026.10.2