# brianleroux/lawnchair

A lightweight clientside JSON document store,

Repository: https://github.com/brianleroux/lawnchair
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/brianleroux-lawnchair
Homepage: http://brianleroux.github.com/lawnchair
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2020-05-17T19:39:17+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": 6265, "days_push": 2299, "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 2126, forks 240 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:16.936086+00:00)

## What it is
Lawnchair is a lightweight clientside JSON document store for JavaScript, providing simple key/document persistence in the browser. It abstracts over various storage backends with a minimal, pluggable API.

## Use cases
- store  documents in the browser
- persist app data client-side without a server
- simple key-value storage for a web app
- offline storage for mobile web apps
- cache data locally in javascript

## When to choose
- you need a tiny, dependency-free client-side JSON store for a legacy or simple web project
- you want a pluggable abstraction over browser storage backends

## When to avoid
- starting a new modern project - use IndexedDB wrappers like Dexie, localForage, or the native Storage APIs instead
- you need querying, indexing, or relational features
- you need actively maintained software with security updates

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: abandoned
- function: database, serialization
- domain: databases, web-development, frontend, developer-tools
- platform: browser
- tags: client-side-storage, -document-store, nosql, lightweight, legacy, nodejs, javascript

## Member repositories
- brianleroux/lawnchair (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:16.936086+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 2026-08-30T02:52:30.211827+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/brianleroux/lawnchair (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:16.936086+00:00, sha 8d984e67a707)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/lawnchair (fetched 2026-08-29T10:32:49.702553+00:00, sha 3ca5d1658e0d)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.