# kriswallsmith/assetic

Asset Management for PHP

Repository: https://github.com/kriswallsmith/assetic
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/assetic
Language: PHP
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2022-02-03T13:00:27+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5714, "days_push": 1672, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3713, forks 543 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:15.255137+00:00)

## What it is
Assetic is a PHP asset management framework for loading, filtering, combining, and dumping web assets like CSS and JavaScript. It provides a filter pipeline supporting tools such as LESS, Sass, CoffeeScript, and various minifiers.

## Use cases
- combine and minify javascript files in a php app
- compile less or sass stylesheets in php
- merge css assets into a single file
- apply asset filters like autoprefixer or yui compressor
- manage frontend asset pipeline in a legacy php project

## When to choose
- you maintain a legacy PHP application already built around Assetic
- you need a PHP-native asset filter pipeline without node tooling

## When to avoid
- starting a new PHP project - use modern bundlers like Vite or webpack
- you need maintained software - development moved to assetic-php/assetic

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: abandoned
- function: build-tool, developer-tools
- domain: web-development, frontend, developer-tools
- platform: php
- tags: asset-management, asset-pipeline, css, javascript, minification, unmaintained

## Member repositories
- kriswallsmith/assetic (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:15.255137+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 2026-08-29T18:30:53.109447+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/kriswallsmith/assetic (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:15.255137+00:00, sha b1096e972e85)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.