lizardbyte/sunshine vs std-microblock/chromatic
lizardbyte/sunshine shows stronger signals overall
As of June 2026, sunshine shows healthier maintenance signals than chromatic. sunshine rates Healthy overall while chromatic rates Mixed. sunshine last saw a commit 1 month ago with 18+ active contributors, while chromatic last saw a commit 2 months ago with 1+ active contributor. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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lizardbyte/sunshine →
Healthy across the board
copyleft license (GPL-3.0) — review compatibility
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.
- ⚠GPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓18 active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 27% of recent commits)
- ✓GPL-3.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Concerns → Mixed if: relicense under MIT/Apache-2.0 (rare for established libs)
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard
std-microblock/chromatic →
Missing license — unclear to depend on
no license — legally unclear; single-maintainer (no co-maintainers visible)
no license — can't legally use code
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
no license — can't legally use code
- ⚠Solo or near-solo (1 contributor active in recent commits)
- ⚠No license — legally unclear to depend on
- ✓Last commit 6w ago
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Concerns → Mixed if: publish a permissive license (MIT, Apache-2.0, etc.)
- →Fork & modify Concerns → Mixed if: add a LICENSE file
- →Deploy as-is Concerns → Mixed if: add a LICENSE file
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| sunshine | chromatic | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 36,974 | 8,285 |
| Last commit | 1mo ago | 2mo ago |
| License | GPL-3.0 | — |
| Open issues | 106 | 0 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 47% | 83% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Mixed signals |
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