# joshwcomeau/guppy

🐠A friendly application manager and task runner for React.js

Repository: https://github.com/joshwcomeau/guppy
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/guppy
Language: JavaScript
License: ISC
License Family: permissive
Topics: react, reactjs, gui
Archived: true
Last push: 2021-05-27T08:48:57+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3027, "days_push": 1924, "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 3240, forks 151 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:50.472093+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: application
- maturity: abandoned
- function: gui, developer-tools, cli, package-manager, build-tool
- domain: web-development, frontend, developer-tools
- platform: windows
- tags: react, task-runner, beginner-friendly, electron-app, project-management, dependency-management, dev-server, no-code-terminal, javascript, desktop, macos, linux, nodejs

## Member repositories
- joshwcomeau/guppy (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:50.472093+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 2026-08-30T07:24:31.884321+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/joshwcomeau/guppy (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:50.472093+00:00, sha 0a0108440361)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.