redwoodjs/redwood vs sveltejs/kit
sveltejs/kit shows stronger signals overall
As of September 2026, kit shows healthier maintenance signals than redwood. kit rates Healthy overall while redwood rates Mixed. redwood last saw a commit 1 month ago with 16+ active contributors, while kit was committed to 6 days ago with 14+ active contributors. Both use the MIT license. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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redwoodjs/redwood
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.
dependency CVE scan unavailable
- ⚠Scorecard: known vulnerabilities detected (scored 0/10 by OpenSSF)
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 50% of recent commits
- ✓Last commit 2d ago
- ✓16 active contributors
- ✓MIT licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard
sveltejs/kit
Strong maintenance signals
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.
Scorecard "Branch-Protection" is 0/10; 8 cyclic import chains — pervasive coupling
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓14 active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 44% 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 dependency CVEs from deps.dev and OpenSSF Scorecard
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| redwood | kit | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 17,611 | 20,796 |
| Last commit | 1mo ago | 6d ago |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| Open issues | 279 | 798 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 45% | 100% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | C |
| Cycles | — | 8 |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Healthy signals |
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