# bbc/simorgh

The BBC's Open Source Web Application. Contributions welcome! Used on some of our biggest websites, e.g.

Repository: https://github.com/bbc/simorgh
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/simorgh
Homepage: https://www.bbc.com/pidgin
Language: TypeScript
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: bbc, article, news, react, reactjs, express, nextjs, typescript
Last push: 2026-08-26T18:40:15+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 95/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:39:23.370411+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 87, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3029, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 7, "gap_med": 0.0, "n_releases_24m": 1891}
- 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 1709, forks 280 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:25.551154+00:00)

## What it is
Simorgh is the BBC's open-source React-based web application that renders World Service News websites and AMP article pages in 41 languages. It is a production-grade, actively maintained codebase focused on performance, accessibility, and scale for millions of monthly users.

## Use cases
- build a fast accessible news website
- render AMP article pages for a news site
- serve a multilingual content website
- learn how the BBC builds its news web apps at scale
- set up a React SSR application with Express
- study a large production React/TypeScript codebase

## When to choose
- you need a battle-tested React SSR architecture for high-traffic editorial or news content
- you need AMP page support and multilingual rendering
- you want to study or contribute to a large-scale accessible web application

## When to avoid
- you need a generic CMS or blog starter rather than a news-specific application
- you want a small reusable library or component package instead of a full application
- your project is not tied to BBC-style editorial workflows

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: web-framework, ssr, frontend-framework, ui-components, routing, templating
- domain: web-development, frontend, cms, accessibility
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: react, nextjs, express, typescript, amp, news-website, bbc, multilingual, performance, accessibility, news, nodejs, web-server

## Member repositories
- bbc/simorgh (main) score 95

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:25.551154+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 2026-08-30T03:35:15.205213+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/bbc/simorgh (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:25.551154+00:00, sha fd227504a351)
  - homepage: https://www.bbc.com/pidgin (fetched 2026-08-29T11:11:35.048829+00:00, sha 2d53b31b955b)
  - site_page: https://www.bbc.com/aboutthebbc (fetched 2026-08-29T11:11:35.053935+00:00, sha 9c45d673b069)
  - site_page: https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/articles/czjzy44mkdyo (fetched 2026-08-29T11:11:35.051797+00:00, sha 72dfaa7287bd)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.