facebookexperimental/recoil vs sindresorhus/escape-string-regexp
facebookexperimental/recoil shows stronger signals overall
As of June 2026, recoil shows healthier maintenance signals than escape-string-regexp. recoil rates Healthy overall while escape-string-regexp rates Mixed. recoil last saw a commit 1 year ago with 34+ active contributors, while escape-string-regexp last saw a commit 1 year ago with 8+ active contributors. Both use the MIT license. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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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
- ✓34+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 11% of recent commits)
- ✓MIT licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
sindresorhus/escape-string-regexp →
Stale — last commit 1y ago
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.
last commit was 1y ago; Scorecard "Branch-Protection" is 0/10…
- ⚠Stale — last commit 1y ago
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 55% of recent commits
- ⚠Scorecard: marked unmaintained (0/10)
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓8 active contributors
- ✓MIT licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- →Deploy as-is Mixed → Healthy if: 1 commit in the last 180 days; 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 OpenSSF Scorecard
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| recoil | escape-string-regexp | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 19,487 | 598 |
| Last commit | 1y ago | 1y ago |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| Open issues | 322 | 0 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 42% | 33% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Mixed signals |
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