expressjs/express vs hapijs/hapi
expressjs/express shows stronger signals overall
As of September 2026, express shows healthier maintenance signals than hapi. express rates Healthy overall while hapi rates Mixed. express was committed to 3 days ago with 36+ active contributors, while hapi last saw a commit 1 month ago with 21+ active contributors. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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expressjs/express
Healthy across all four use cases
No blocking maintenance, license, or known-CVE signals were found; still verify the package version and fit.
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
No blocking repository-level signals were found; deployment review is still required.
- ✓In RepoPilot's curated trusted-corpus (29 projects)
- ✓Last commit 2d ago
- ✓36+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 43% of recent commits)
- ✓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
hapijs/hapi
Evidence incomplete — review before adopting
license evidence incomplete
license evidence incomplete
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
Scorecard "Branch-Protection" is 0/10; Scorecard "Token-Permissions" is 0/10…
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ⚠Could not verify license from the available repository evidence
- ✓Last commit 4w ago
- ✓21+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 35% of recent commits)
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- •Deploy as-is Mixed to Healthy if: bring "Branch-Protection" to ≥3/10 (see scorecard report)
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
| express | hapi | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 69,445 | 14,792 |
| Last commit | 3d ago | 1mo ago |
| License | MIT | Unknown |
| Open issues | 229 | 56 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 100% | 71% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | A | — |
| Cycles | 0 | — |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Mixed signals |
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