# geelen/react-snapshot

A zero-configuration static pre-renderer for React apps

Repository: https://github.com/geelen/react-snapshot
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/react-snapshot
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2021-05-12T15:32:07+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3649, "days_push": 1939, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1655, forks 102 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:17.848352+00:00)

## What it is
A zero-configuration static pre-renderer for React apps, primarily targeting Create React App projects. It crawls an app's publicly-accessible pages and snapshots them to static HTML while keeping the normal JS bundle for client-side hydration.

## Use cases
- prerender a create-react-app single page app to static html
- improve seo for a react spa without server-side rendering
- serve real html instantly instead of a blank js shell
- make opengraph tags readable by slack and facebook crawlers
- add progressive enhancement to an existing react app with no config

## When to choose
- you have a create-react-app project and want static snapshots with minimal setup
- you want seo and fast first paint for public pages of a spa without running a server

## When to avoid
- starting a new project - the readme deprecates this in favor of react-snap
- you need full server-side rendering with dynamic data
- your pages require authentication or heavily dynamic content
- you need an actively maintained tool with recent updates

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: abandoned
- function: static-site-generator, ssr, build-tool
- domain: web-development, frontend, developer-tools
- platform: cli
- tags: react, create-react-app, prerendering, seo, deprecated, zero-configuration, nodejs

## Member repositories
- geelen/react-snapshot (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:17.848352+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 2026-08-30T03:44:52.435527+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/geelen/react-snapshot (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:17.848352+00:00, sha 95d72c6e6f95)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/react-snapshot (fetched 2026-08-29T11:17:56.066634+00:00, sha 1fc22af11c31)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.