# tmort/Socialite

Repository: https://github.com/tmort/Socialite
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/tmort-socialite
Language: HTML
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Archived: true
Last push: 2015-10-30T11:23:30+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": 5390, "days_push": 3960, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1660, forks 159 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:18.350648+00:00)

## What it is
Socialite is a small vanilla JavaScript library for lazily loading social sharing widgets (Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn, Pinterest, etc.) on demand. It defers loading third-party network scripts until an event like page load or hover, improving page performance.

## Use cases
- add social share buttons to a website without slowing page load
- lazy-load twitter and facebook widgets on hover
- defer third-party social network scripts
- add share buttons to blog articles asynchronously
- embed social widgets with accessible fallback links

## When to choose
- you need lightweight, dependency-free social sharing buttons on a classic website
- you want to avoid the performance cost of loading many social network scripts upfront

## When to avoid
- you need modern social APIs, since many supported networks like Google+ are defunct
- you use a modern framework with existing share-button components
- you need actively maintained software with security updates

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: abandoned
- function: ui-components, web-scraping
- domain: web-development, frontend, social-media
- platform: browser
- tags: social-sharing, lazy-loading, widgets, vanilla-js, javascript

## Member repositories
- tmort/Socialite (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:18.350648+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 2026-08-30T03:44:41.168762+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/tmort/Socialite (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:18.350648+00:00, sha f81126ebc325)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.