# componentjs/component

frontend package manager and build tool for modular web applications

Repository: https://github.com/componentjs/component
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/component
Homepage: https://github.com/componentjs/guide
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Archived: true
Last push: 2017-12-16T14:10:16+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": 5137, "days_push": 3182, "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 4519, forks 301 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:52.720099+00:00)

## What it is
Component is a vertically integrated frontend package manager and build tool for modular web applications, handling HTML, JS, CSS, images, and fonts in one workflow. It is officially deprecated and no longer maintained.

## Use cases
- manage frontend packages from git repositories
- build modular web applications with bundled js css and assets
- replace npm plus browserify plus grunt with one tool
- publish and consume reusable browser components
- search a registry of frontend components

## When to choose
- maintaining a legacy codebase already using component.
- studying historical frontend tooling design

## When to avoid
- starting any new frontend project
- you need maintained tooling - use webpack, browserify, or modern bundlers
- you rely on npm ecosystem packages

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: abandoned
- function: package-manager, build-tool, cli
- domain: frontend, web-development, developer-tools
- platform: cli, cross-platform
- tags: deprecated, frontend-package-manager, modular-web-applications, javascript, nodejs

## Member repositories
- componentjs/component (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:52.720099+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 2026-08-29T18:20:18.090155+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/componentjs/component (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:52.720099+00:00, sha 946b44fdfb4b)
  - homepage: https://github.com/componentjs/guide (fetched 2026-08-29T09:06:23.416635+00:00, sha fe212e838df9)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/component (fetched 2026-08-29T09:06:23.425629+00:00, sha 5d7444fbdd5d)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.