# nprapps/app-template

The NPR visuals team's opinionated project template for client-side apps.

Repository: https://github.com/nprapps/app-template
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/app-template
Homepage: http://blog.apps.npr.org/2014/07/29/everything-our-app-template-does.html
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Archived: true
Last push: 2019-06-11T19:54:34+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5040, "days_push": 2640, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1590, forks 186 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:08.500406+00:00)

## What it is
NPR's visuals team opinionated project template for building client-side news apps served as flat files. It bundles a Flask-based local renderer, LESS compilation, Google Spreadsheet copy-editing, and Fabric-based deployment to S3.

## Use cases
- bootstrap a static news app project
- render html from data into flat files
- compile less to css for a client-side app
- deploy a static site to s3
- copy-edit content via google spreadsheets
- set up a newsroom project template

## When to choose
- building editorial or news graphics as static sites
- you want an opinionated, battle-tested newsroom project skeleton
- deploying flat files to S3 with cron and fabric automation

## When to avoid
- you need a generic, NPR-agnostic starter (NPR-specific code is intentionally kept)
- you use modern JS tooling rather than Python 2.7 / Fabric / LESS
- you need a dynamic server-side application

## Facets
- artifact type: learning-resource
- maturity: maintenance
- function: static-site-generator, templating, deployment, cli
- domain: web-development, frontend, developer-tools, cms
- platform: python, cli
- tags: news-apps, project-template, flask, fabric, less, s3-deployment, static-files, npr, editorial-graphics, boilerplate, nodejs, macos

## Member repositories
- nprapps/app-template (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:08.500406+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T08:32:43.042831+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/nprapps/app-template (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:08.500406+00:00, sha 7c48721184b1)
  - homepage: http://blog.apps.npr.org/2014/07/29/everything-our-app-template-does.html (fetched 2026-08-29T11:25:49.032837+00:00, sha f189accf25f3)
  - site_page: https://www.npr.org/about-npr/179876898/terms-of-use (fetched 2026-08-29T11:25:49.035774+00:00, sha c183732dd828)
  - site_page: https://www.npr.org/about-npr/179878450/privacy-policy (fetched 2026-08-29T11:25:49.038953+00:00, sha 0d30f5531da1)
  - site_page: https://www.npr.org/about-npr/179881519/rights-and-permissions-information (fetched 2026-08-29T11:25:49.041946+00:00, sha c47883dbe91d)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.