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preactjs/preact vs sindresorhus/p-limit

preactjs/preact shows stronger signals overall

As of June 2026, preact shows healthier maintenance signals than p-limit. preact rates Healthy overall while p-limit rates Mixed. preact was committed to 1 day ago with 19+ active contributors, while p-limit last saw a commit 1 month ago with 18+ active contributors. Both use the MIT license. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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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

sindresorhus/p-limit

Mixed

OpenSSF Scorecard says this is unmaintained

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

Scorecard "Branch-Protection" is 0/10; Scorecard "Token-Permissions" is 0/10

  • Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 75% of recent commits
  • Scorecard: marked unmaintained (2/10)
  • Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
  • Last commit 2d ago
  • 18 active contributors
  • MIT licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

What would improve this?

  • Deploy as-is MixedHealthy 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

Signal-by-signal breakdown

preactp-limit
Stars38,7232,864
Last commit1d ago1mo ago
LicenseMITMIT
Open issues1490
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage100%20%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineHealthy signalsMixed signals

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