koajs/koa vs vercel/next.js
Both showing Healthy signals — pick on fit, not health
As of September 2026, koa and next.js both show healthy maintenance signals. koa last saw a commit 1 month ago with 25+ active contributors, while next.js was committed to today 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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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
vercel/next.js
Strong maintenance signals
dependency CVE scan unavailable
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
Scorecard "Token-Permissions" is 0/10; 8 cyclic import chains — pervasive coupling…
- ✓In RepoPilot's curated trusted-corpus (29 projects)
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓25+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 16% of recent commits)
- ✓MIT licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- •Deploy as-is Mixed to Healthy if: bring "Token-Permissions" 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
| koa | next.js | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 35,687 | 142,360 |
| Last commit | 1mo ago | today |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| Open issues | 43 | 3,396 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 100% | 100% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | C |
| Cycles | — | 8 |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Healthy signals |
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