# dept/highway

Highway - A Modern Javascript Transitions Manager

Repository: https://github.com/dept/highway
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/dept-highway
Homepage: https://highway.js.org/
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: javascript, animations, transitions, library, js, router
Archived: true
Last push: 2022-04-07T08:14:21+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3094, "days_push": 1609, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1417, forks 88 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:39.993922+00:00)

## What it is
Highway is a lightweight (2.5kb gzipped) JavaScript library for creating AJAX-based page navigations with smooth transitions between pages. It provides extensible ES6 classes (Core, Renderer, Transition) so developers can focus on creative animations while it handles the navigation process.

## Use cases
- add page transition animations to a website
- build ajax navigation without full page reloads
- create smooth transitions between html pages
- implement pjax-style routing with custom animations
- animate page changes in a multi-page site
- manage dom swaps between pages with transition hooks

## When to choose
- you want a tiny, flexible transitions manager for a traditional multi-page website
- you prefer extending simple ES6 classes over a heavy framework
- you need IE11 support via polyfills for ajax navigation

## When to avoid
- you need an actively maintained library - it is officially unmaintained as of v2.2.1
- you are building a single-page application with a framework like React or Vue
- you need long-term support or security updates

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: abandoned
- function: animation, routing, frontend-framework
- domain: web-development, frontend
- platform: browser
- tags: page-transitions, ajax-navigation, es6-classes, unmaintained, lightweight, nodejs

## Member repositories
- dept/highway (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:39.993922+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 2026-08-30T04:38:01.093280+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/dept/highway (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:39.993922+00:00, sha cc96bc984348)
  - homepage: https://highway.js.org/ (fetched 2026-08-29T11:50:49.065037+00:00, sha 7a3edb25ab8f)
  - site_page: https://highway.js.org/installation.html (fetched 2026-08-29T11:50:49.067472+00:00, sha ad6c41a6b417)
  - site_page: https://highway.js.org/examples/cms-integrations.html (fetched 2026-08-29T11:50:49.069221+00:00, sha 728670493389)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.