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devtoys-app/devtoys vs laochiangx/common.utility

devtoys-app/devtoys shows stronger signals overall

As of June 2026, devtoys shows healthier maintenance signals than common.utility. devtoys rates Healthy overall while common.utility rates Concerns. devtoys last saw a commit 4 months ago with 13+ active contributors, while common.utility last saw a commit 3 years ago with 7+ active contributors. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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devtoys-app/devtoys

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.

  • Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 87% of recent commits
  • Last commit 2mo ago
  • 13 active contributors
  • MIT licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests

laochiangx/common.utility

Concerns

Stale and unlicensed — last commit 3y ago

ConcernsDependency

no license — legally unclear; last commit was 3y ago

ConcernsFork & modify

no license — can't legally use code; last commit was 3y ago

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

ConcernsDeploy as-is

no license — can't legally use code; last commit was 3y ago

  • Stale — last commit 3y ago
  • Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 64% of recent commits
  • No license — legally unclear to depend on
  • 7 active contributors
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

What would improve this?

  • Use as dependency ConcernsMixed if: publish a permissive license (MIT, Apache-2.0, etc.)
  • Fork & modify ConcernsMixed if: add a LICENSE file
  • Deploy as-is ConcernsMixed if: add a LICENSE file

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests

Signal-by-signal breakdown

devtoyscommon.utility
Stars31,4435,311
Last commit4mo ago3y ago
LicenseMIT
Open issues33013
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage1%1%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineHealthy signalsConcerns signals

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