preactjs/preact vs sveltejs/svelte
Both showing Healthy signals — pick on fit, not health
As of September 2026, preact and svelte both show healthy maintenance signals. preact was committed to 6 days ago with 5+ active contributors, while svelte was committed to 2 weeks ago with 53+ 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 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.
- ⚠Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 95% of recent commits
- ✓Used by 2 trusted projects: remix-run/remix, withastro/astro
- ✓Last commit 1d ago
- ✓5 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
sveltejs/svelte
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
- ✓53+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 16% 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
| preact | svelte | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 38,859 | 88,003 |
| Last commit | 6d ago | 20d ago |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| Open issues | 37 | 1,048 |
| 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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