# brunch/brunch

🍴 Web applications made easy. Since 2011.

Repository: https://github.com/brunch/brunch
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/brunch
Homepage: https://brunch.github.io
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: javascript, workflow, build-automation, pipeline, brunch
Last push: 2026-04-19T14:13:39+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 58/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 78, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5704, "days_push": 136, "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 6758, forks 424 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:48.340131+00:00)

## What it is
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- starting any new project - the package is deprecated and no longer maintained by the original author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
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: abandoned
- function: build-tool, cli, developer-tools
- domain: web-development, frontend, developer-tools
- platform: cli, cross-platform
- tags: build-automation, frontend-build, incremental-compilation, deprecated, npm-package, javascript, nodejs

## Member repositories
- brunch/brunch (main) score 58

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:48.340131+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 2026-08-29T17:42:34.449211+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/brunch/brunch (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:48.340131+00:00, sha a49ba74d964d)
  - homepage: https://brunch.github.io (fetched 2026-08-29T08:38:57.592339+00:00, sha 7066bf5b8cfe)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.