100mango/zen vs herotransitions/hero
herotransitions/hero shows stronger signals overall
As of June 2026, hero shows healthier maintenance signals than zen. hero rates Healthy overall while zen rates Concerns. zen last saw a commit 3 years ago with 3+ active contributors, while hero last saw a commit 1 year ago with 26+ active contributors. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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100mango/zen →
Stale and unlicensed — last commit 4y ago
no license — legally unclear; last commit was 4y ago…
no license — can't legally use code; no CI workflows detected…
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
no license — can't legally use code; last commit was 4y ago…
- ⚠Stale — last commit 4y ago
- ⚠Small team — 3 contributors active in recent commits
- ⚠Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 98% of recent commits
- ⚠No license — legally unclear to depend on
- ⚠No CI workflows detected
- ✓3 active contributors
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Concerns → Mixed if: publish a permissive license (MIT, Apache-2.0, etc.)
- →Fork & modify Concerns → Mixed if: add a LICENSE file
- →Deploy as-is Concerns → Mixed if: add a LICENSE file
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
herotransitions/hero →
Healthy across all four use cases
Permissive license, no critical CVEs, actively maintained — safe to depend on.
Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
No critical CVEs, sane security posture — runnable as-is.
- ⚠Stale — last commit 1y ago
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 62% of recent commits
- ✓26+ active contributors
- ✓MIT licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| zen | hero | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 2,934 | 22,452 |
| Last commit | 3y ago | 1y ago |
| License | — | MIT |
| Open issues | 0 | 42 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | — | ✓ |
| Test coverage | — | — |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Concerns signals | Healthy signals |
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