joshwcomeau/guppy
🐠A friendly application manager and task runner for React.js observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
10/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 8
- Longevity 100
Flags: archived
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 3027
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 1924
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
3240 stars · 151 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
Guppy is a free desktop GUI application that acts as a friendly application manager and task runner for React.js projects. It wraps common terminal tasks—creating projects, running dev servers, building, testing, and managing dependencies—behind a beginner-friendly graphical interface.
Use cases
- create react apps without using the terminal
- run a react development server from a gui
- build react projects for production without command line
- manage npm dependencies visually
- run tests on a react project without the shell
- beginner-friendly alternative to terminal for react development
When to choose
- you are a complete beginner to web development and find the terminal intimidating
- you want a visual interface for common react project tasks like dev servers, builds, and dependency management
- you are teaching react to newcomers who haven't learned shell commands yet
When to avoid
- you are an experienced developer comfortable with the terminal and npm scripts
- you need actively maintained software - the project is an early alpha with its last release in 2021
- you work with frameworks other than react
- you need production-grade stability - the readme warns of frustrating bugs in this pre-release alpha
Facets
application · maturity abandoned
gui developer-tools cli package-manager build-tool web-development frontend developer-tools windows react task-runner beginner-friendly electron-app project-management dependency-management dev-server no-code-terminal javascript desktop macos linux nodejs
1 source
- readme: https://github.com/joshwcomeau/guppy · fetched 2026-08-28 · 0a0108440361
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| joshwcomeau/guppy | main | 10 |
For agents
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