honojs/hono vs koajs/koa
Both showing Healthy signals — pick on fit, not health
As of September 2026, hono and koa both show healthy maintenance signals. hono was committed to 1 week ago with 27+ active contributors, while koa last saw a commit 1 month ago with 25+ active contributors. Both use the MIT license. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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honojs/hono
Strong maintenance signals
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.
Scorecard "Branch-Protection" is 0/10; 8 cyclic import chains — pervasive coupling
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓In RepoPilot's curated trusted-corpus (29 projects)
- ✓Last commit 1d ago
- ✓27+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 36% of recent commits)
- ✓MIT licensed
- ✓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
koajs/koa
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.
- ✓Last commit 1w ago
- ✓25+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 29% 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
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| hono | koa | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 32,112 | 35,687 |
| Last commit | 8d ago | 1mo ago |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| Open issues | 390 | 43 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 61% | 100% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | C | — |
| Cycles | 8 | — |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Healthy signals |
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