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Next generation frontend tooling. It's fast! — view on GitHub · vite.dev · npm: vite
Language
TypeScript
License
MIT
open source
Created
Apr 2020
Stars
82,926
Forks
8,760
Issues
510 open
Updated 21 Sept 2026, 03:34 UTC
tracker score 86/100 methodology →
Computed from release cadence, responsiveness, backlog trend and contributor depth.
Last release
11 days ago
v8.3.0
Cadence
bursty, <1d median
11d gapPR merge median
1.2d
Issue response median
15.5h
Commits / 7d
17
560 points on Hacker News — “Vite 8.0 Is Out” source →
The signature question of dependency due diligence. Columns: npm downloads per month (attention). Line: merged pull requests per month (delivery). 12 full months.
Reading: npm downloads grew 10.4× over 24 months while delivery held at ~86 merged PRs/mo. No divergence risk — delivery tracks attention.
Star-velocity anomalies cross-referenced with Hacker News, Reddit and release events.
How fast maintainers answer, review and merge — ranked against repos of similar size and age.
Issue first non-author response
median 15.5hcohort: n/aPR first review
median 22.3hcohort: n/aPR merge time
median 1.2dcohort: n/aBots excluded Sample: 323 merged PRs (90d) / 39 recent issues. Percentile position measured from the left — shorter is faster.
25
first-time PRs (12 mo)
60%
got a response
n=438 scanned
0%
were merged
118 newcomer candidates
20%
returned ≤90d
verified via author historyVerdict: tough room for newcomers — only 60% of verified first-time PRs got a maintainer-class response and 0% merged (window 2026-03-25..2026-06-23). The core team ships fast, but drive-by PRs mostly sit open.
top 1 — 60.9% of accepted changes · last commit Sep 13
top 3 — 76.6% of accepted changes
long tail — 31 further authors
Verdict: high key-person risk. 34 human commit authors in 12 months; top author (sapphi-red) holds 60.9%, top 3 hold 76.6%, 9 authors above 1% each.
Open issues and pull requests right now. Trend history builds from daily tracking.
open issues & PRs — right now
510
open issues
283
open pull requests
Tracking daily since 27 Aug 2026 — 20 snapshots so far.
793 open
510 issues + 283 PRs · backlog up 3% over 25d
8,760 forks · 0 with independent momentum
vitejs/rolldown-vite — 1,264★ · last push 201d ago
vitejs/vite is upstream — no successor needed (project active). Top forks by stars are all stale (pushes >1y ago). Successor detection activates if the repo goes dormant.
If this repo goes dormant, this section becomes “Where did development continue?” — with evidence labels per fork.
21 stable releases in 90d (median gap 0.9d)
Issue response sits at a 15.5h median — up from 2.4h 25d ago
License unchanged · not archived · no rename/transfer
Max release gap in 12mo: 33d (cadence 0.9d median)
These answers regenerate on every snapshot — they never rot.
Yes — actively (score 86/100). Last stable release v8.3.0 11 days ago, 17 commits in the last full week, median PR merge 1.2d. Evidence collected Mon Sep 21 2026.
MIT — as reported by GitHub.
v8.3.0, 11 days ago. Median gap between stable releases is 0.9 days; 21 stable releases shipped in the last 90 days — the current 11d gap is well above that median.
On the evidence: yes. 132.0M npm downloads/week, 2,381 dependents on the default version, 34 human authors, 0 advisories on the current default, no fork-succession pressure. Caveat for contributors: the newcomer funnel is weak (0% first-PR merge rate).
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vitejs/vite
ACTIVELY MAINTAINED · 86/100
ships bursty, <1d median · PR merge 1.2d · ★ 82,926 (npm +944%/24mo)
vitejs/vite — maintenance verdict & repo intelligence · tracker.git.tools
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