# wpengine/faustjs

Faust.js™ - The Headless WordPress Toolkit

Repository: https://github.com/wpengine/faustjs
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/faustjs
Homepage: https://faustjs.org
Language: TypeScript
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: wordpress, headless, headless-wordpress, headless-cms, nextjs, react, javascript, hacktoberfest, composable-architecture
Last push: 2026-08-17T20:11:47+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 96/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 98, release rhythm 92, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2116, "days_push": 16, "days_rel": 58, "gap_med": 0, "n_releases_24m": 56}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1598, forks 155 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:09.404585+00:00)

## What it is
Faust.js is a TypeScript toolkit of npm packages for building Next.js applications on top of headless WordPress. It provides data fetching, authentication, post previews, a WordPress-style template hierarchy, and block editor component mapping for decoupled frontends.

## Use cases
- build a headless WordPress site with Next.js
- authenticate WordPress users in a decoupled React app
- preview WordPress posts before publishing in a Next.js frontend
- render WordPress Gutenberg blocks as React components
- resolve WordPress content to Next.js templates automatically
- fetch WordPress data via WPGraphQL in a React app

## When to choose
- you want a decoupled WordPress frontend built on Next.js and React
- you need WordPress authentication, previews, and template hierarchy out of the box
- your team wants block editor content rendered in a React app

## When to avoid
- your site is a traditional PHP WordPress theme
- you use a different frontend stack than Next.js/React
- you need a headless CMS other than WordPress

## Facets
- artifact type: framework
- maturity: active
- function: web-framework, auth, templating, ssr, graphql, frontend-framework
- domain: web-development, frontend, cms, apis
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: headless-wordpress, nextjs, react, headless-cms, typescript, decoupled-architecture, wpgraphql, nodejs, web-server

## Member repositories
- wpengine/faustjs (main) score 96

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:09.404585+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 2026-08-30T03:53:17.948701+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/wpengine/faustjs (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:09.404585+00:00, sha 707adbed2fee)
  - homepage: https://faustjs.org (fetched 2026-08-29T11:24:59.032213+00:00, sha b5dea7f2696a)
  - site_page: https://faustjs.org/docs (fetched 2026-08-29T11:24:59.041167+00:00, sha d0cef46acc17)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.