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jakesgordon/javascript-state-machine vs preactjs/preact

preactjs/preact shows stronger signals overall

As of June 2026, preact shows healthier maintenance signals than javascript-state-machine. preact rates Healthy overall while javascript-state-machine rates Mixed. javascript-state-machine last saw a commit 1 year ago with 11+ active contributors, while preact was committed to 1 day 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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jakesgordon/javascript-state-machine

Mixed

Slowing — last commit 11mo ago

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.

MixedDeploy as-is

last commit was 11mo ago; Scorecard "Branch-Protection" is 0/10

  • Slowing — last commit 11mo ago
  • Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 85% of recent commits
  • Scorecard: marked unmaintained (0/10)
  • Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
  • Last commit 11mo ago
  • 11 active contributors
  • MIT licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

What would improve this?

  • Deploy as-is MixedHealthy 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 the board

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

javascript-state-machinepreact
Stars8,75138,723
Last commit1y ago1d ago
LicenseMITMIT
Open issues74149
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage88%100%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineMixed signalsHealthy signals

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