# warp-drive-data/warp-drive

WarpDrive is the lightweight data library for ambitious web apps — universal, typed, reactive, and ready to scale.

Repository: https://github.com/warp-drive-data/warp-drive
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/warp-drive
Homepage: https://canary.warp-drive.io
Language: TypeScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: ember, data-framework, data-loading, data-patterns, fetch, local-first, mpa, reactive-js, signals, spa, typescript, warp-drive, fine-grained-reactivity, query, reactjs, restful, sveltejs, vuejs
Last push: 2026-08-26T22:35:03+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 81/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 48, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5371, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 138, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 1}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3155, forks 1338 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:46.348567+00:00)

## What it is
WarpDrive (formerly EmberData) is a lightweight, typed, reactive data library for web applications that works with any framework including Ember, React, Vue, and Svelte. It provides universal fine-grained reactivity, caching, and data loading that integrates with any API without architectural lock-in.

## Use cases
- manage reactive data fetching in a react app
- replace apollo or react-query with a framework-agnostic data layer
- load and cache REST or JSON:API data with full TypeScript types
- share a single reactive data store across SPA and MPA frameworks
- build SSR-ready apps with a universal data layer
- migrate an ember app from legacy ember-data to a modern data framework

## When to choose
- you want a typed, reactive data layer that works across multiple frontend frameworks
- you need fine-grained reactivity and caching without framework lock-in
- you are building an Ember app and want its canonical data solution
- you need SSR-ready data management with a tiny footprint

## When to avoid
- you only need simple ad-hoc fetching without a normalized store
- your project is a small prototype where a data framework adds overhead
- you rely heavily on GraphQL-specific tooling like Apollo's ecosystem

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: active
- function: state-management, http-client, caching, orm, serialization
- domain: web-development, frontend, apis, developer-tools
- platform: browser, cross-platform
- tags: ember, react, vue, svelte, reactivity, signals, data-loading, local-first, typescript, ssr, json-api, rest, nodejs, web-server

## Member repositories
- warp-drive-data/warp-drive (main) score 81

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:46.348567+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 2026-08-30T07:25:40.104126+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/warp-drive-data/warp-drive (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:46.348567+00:00, sha c488245b8094)
  - homepage: https://canary.warp-drive.io (fetched 2026-08-29T09:40:27.465449+00:00, sha 23ffd9c784e4)
  - site_page: https://canary.warp-drive.io/llm-docs (fetched 2026-08-29T09:40:27.475740+00:00, sha a5164333f676)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/warp-drive (fetched 2026-08-29T09:40:27.477243+00:00, sha 7a9b640001bc)
  - site_page: https://canary.warp-drive.io/api (fetched 2026-08-29T09:40:27.474132+00:00, sha d63dc8863f3c)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.