mochajs/mocha vs vitest-dev/vitest
Both showing Healthy signals — pick on fit, not health
As of September 2026, mocha and vitest both show healthy maintenance signals. mocha was committed to 4 weeks ago with 11+ active contributors, while vitest was committed to 4 weeks ago with 27+ active contributors. Both use the MIT license. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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mochajs/mocha
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 today
- ✓11 active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 28% 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
vitest-dev/vitest
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.
- ✓In RepoPilot's curated trusted-corpus (29 projects)
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓27+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 36% 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
| mocha | vitest | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 22,902 | 16,978 |
| Last commit | 28d ago | 28d ago |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| Open issues | 261 | 366 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 100% | 100% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Healthy signals |
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