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angular/angular.js vs preactjs/preact

preactjs/preact shows stronger signals overall

As of June 2026, preact shows healthier maintenance signals than angular.js. preact rates Healthy overall while angular.js rates Mixed. angular.js last saw a commit 2 years ago with 21+ active contributors, while preact was committed to 2 days ago with 19+ active contributors. Both use the MIT license. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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angular/angular.js

Mixed

Stale — last commit 2y ago

MixedDependency

last commit was 2y ago; no CI workflows detected

HealthyFork & modify

Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

MixedDeploy as-is

last commit was 2y ago; no CI workflows detected

  • Stale — last commit 2y ago
  • No CI workflows detected
  • Scorecard: marked unmaintained (0/10)
  • 21+ active contributors
  • Distributed ownership (top contributor 32% of recent commits)
  • MIT licensed
  • Tests present

What would improve this?

  • Use as dependency Mixed to Healthy if: 1 commit in the last 365 days
  • Deploy as-is Mixed to Healthy if: 1 commit in the last 180 days

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard

preactjs/preact

Healthy

Healthy across all four use cases

HealthyDependency

Permissive license, no critical CVEs, actively maintained — safe to depend on.

HealthyFork & modify

Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

HealthyDeploy as-is

No critical CVEs, sane security posture — runnable as-is.

  • Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 56% of recent commits
  • Used by 2 trusted projects: remix-run/remix, withastro/astro
  • Last commit 1d ago
  • 19 active contributors
  • MIT licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against dependency CVEs from deps.dev and OpenSSF Scorecard

Signal-by-signal breakdown

angular.jspreact
Stars58,59138,723
Last commit2y ago2d ago
LicenseMITMIT
Open issues461149
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage19%100%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineMixed signalsHealthy signals

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