# entropic-dev/entropic

🦝 :package: a package registry for anything, but mostly javascript 🦝 🦝 🦝

Repository: https://github.com/entropic-dev/entropic
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/entropic
Homepage: https://discourse.entropic.dev/
Language: JavaScript
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2023-01-03T23:46:54+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2692, "days_push": 1338, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 5242, forks 147 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:13.596407+00:00)

## What it is
Entropic is a federated package registry server with its own CLI, designed to be self-hosted inside your network and to interoperate with other registries. It uses a file-centric API and content-addressable storage, and can mirror packages from other instances and the legacy npm registry.

## Use cases
- self-host a private npm-like package registry inside my company network
- mirror javascript packages so installs don't depend on external registries
- publish packages with namespaces and multiple maintainers
- run an alternative package registry to npm
- install legacy npm packages through a local registry instance

## When to choose
- you want a self-hosted, federated package registry for JavaScript packages
- you need packages mirrored locally so builds don't depend on external registries
- you want namespaced packages with per-user namespaces and maintainer lists

## When to avoid
- you need a production-grade, stable registry with broad tooling support
- you rely on npm ecosystem tooling and semantics
- you want a low-maintenance solution - the project is experimental and largely inactive

## Facets
- artifact type: service
- maturity: experimental
- function: package-manager, http-server, cli, developer-tools
- domain: developer-tools, self-hosted, web-development
- platform: self-hosted, cli
- tags: package-registry, federated-registry, content-addressable-storage, npm-alternative, javascript-packages, nodejs, web-server

## Member repositories
- entropic-dev/entropic (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:13.596407+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 2026-08-29T17:59:36.646334+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/entropic-dev/entropic (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:13.596407+00:00, sha 2a0eb5a6d1ae)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.