nodejs/node vs oven-sh/bun
oven-sh/bun shows stronger signals overall
As of September 2026, bun shows healthier maintenance signals than node. bun rates Healthy overall while node rates Mixed. node was committed to 4 weeks ago with 49+ active contributors, while bun was committed to 4 weeks ago with 7+ active contributors. Both use the MIT license. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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nodejs/node
Open vulnerabilities flagged by OpenSSF Scorecard
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 "Branch-Protection" is 1/10; Scorecard "Token-Permissions" is 0/10…
- ⚠Scorecard: known vulnerabilities detected (scored 0/10 by OpenSSF)
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (1/10)
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓49+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 11% 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 OpenSSF Scorecard
oven-sh/bun
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.
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 67% of recent commits
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓7 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
| node | bun | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 119,053 | 95,520 |
| Last commit | 29d ago | 29d ago |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| Open issues | 1,434 | 8,258 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 100% | 100% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Healthy signals |
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