# chrisvfritz/prerender-spa-plugin

Prerenders static HTML in a single-page application.

Repository: https://github.com/chrisvfritz/prerender-spa-plugin
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/prerender-spa-plugin
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: prerender, seo, spa, webpack, webpack-plugin, static-site-generator
Archived: true
Last push: 2023-04-09T13:38:15+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": 3813, "days_push": 1242, "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 7271, forks 613 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:57.946917+00:00)

## What it is
A webpack plugin that prerenders static HTML for single-page applications using Puppeteer, making SPAs crawlable and SEO-friendly. It is framework-agnostic and now officially deprecated with maintainers wanted.

## Use cases
- prerender static html for a vue or react spa
- improve seo for a single-page application
- generate static pages from webpack build output
- make spa routes crawlable by search engines
- static site generation without a full ssr framework

## When to choose
- you have an existing webpack-based spa and need static html snapshots for seo
- you want framework-agnostic prerendering without migrating to next.js or nuxt

## When to avoid
- starting a new project - the plugin is deprecated and unmaintained
- you need dynamic server-side rendering at request time
- your build system is not webpack

## Facets
- artifact type: plugin
- maturity: abandoned
- function: static-site-generator, ssr, build-tool
- domain: web-development, frontend
- platform: -
- tags: webpack-plugin, prerendering, spa, puppeteer, deprecated, seo, nodejs, web-server

## Member repositories
- chrisvfritz/prerender-spa-plugin (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:57.946917+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 2026-08-29T17:38:55.236933+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/chrisvfritz/prerender-spa-plugin (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:57.946917+00:00, sha e4d87f743117)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/prerender-spa-plugin (fetched 2026-08-29T08:34:28.820284+00:00, sha 64afe79ad263)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.