brunch/brunch
🍴 Web applications made easy. Since 2011. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
58/100
- Activity 78
- Release rhythm 8
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 5704
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 136
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
6758 stars · 424 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
Brunch is a fast front-end web application build tool with simple declarative configuration and incremental compilation, active since 2011. The npm package is now deprecated and ownership has been transferred to a new, unaffiliated owner, so users should pin to the last safe version (4.0.2) or migrate away.
Use cases
- build a front-end web app with minimal config
- live-recompile assets during development
- replace gulp/webpack with a simpler build pipeline
- bundle javascript and css with source maps
- scaffold a new web project from a skeleton
When to choose
- maintaining an existing legacy brunch project pinned to version 4.0.2
- you want an extremely simple, opinionated build config for a small front-end app
When to avoid
- starting any new project - the package is deprecated and no longer maintained by the original author
- upgrading blindly, since future npm versions come from an unrelated third party
- you need modern build features like tree-shaking or a large plugin ecosystem
Facets
cli-tool · maturity abandoned
build-tool cli developer-tools web-development frontend developer-tools cli cross-platform build-automation frontend-build incremental-compilation deprecated npm-package javascript nodejs
2 sources
- readme: https://github.com/brunch/brunch · fetched 2026-08-28 · a49ba74d964d
- homepage: https://brunch.github.io · fetched 2026-08-29 · 7066bf5b8cfe
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| brunch/brunch | main | 58 |
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