NGINX
The official NGINX Open Source repository. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
99/100
- Activity 99
- Release rhythm 98
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 20
- age_days: 4089
- days_rel: 14
- days_push: 7
- n_releases_24m: 28
Adoption not part of the score
31504 stars · 8279 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
NGINX is a high-performance HTTP web server, reverse proxy, content cache, load balancer, API gateway, and TCP/UDP/mail proxy server written in C. It uses an event-driven architecture for low resource usage and is extensible via dynamic modules, including the njs JavaScript scripting module.
Use cases
- serve static content for a website
- set up a reverse proxy in front of backend apps
- load balance traffic across multiple upstream servers
- terminate TLS/HTTPS with SSL certificates
- cache content to speed up a site
- rate limit incoming requests
- proxy TCP and UDP traffic
- add custom request logic with JavaScript scripting
When to choose
- you need a battle-tested, high-performance web server or reverse proxy with low memory footprint
- you need load balancing, caching, TLS termination, and rate limiting in one tool
- you want the industry-standard ingress/proxy for production web traffic or Kubernetes
When to avoid
- you need a full application server with built-in business logic execution rather than a proxy/static server
- you prefer config-as-code in a general-purpose language over nginx.conf directives
- you need advanced L7 features available only in the commercial NGINX Plus distribution
Facets
application · maturity stable
http-server proxy load-testing caching api-gateway rate-limiting middleware web-development backend networking self-hosted apis windows bsd cross-platform self-hosted reverse-proxy http2 http3 quic tls content-cache tcp-proxy udp-proxy mail-proxy njs javascript-scripting web-server devops linux macos docker
10 sources
- readme: https://github.com/nginx/nginx · fetched 2026-08-28 · 82dde2e11199
- homepage: https://nginx.org/ · fetched 2026-08-29 · 45ab104a8d63
- site_page: https://nginx.org/en/docs · fetched 2026-08-29 · a4be984384df
- site_page: https://nginx.org/en/docs/faq.html · fetched 2026-08-29 · 586ae45d947a
- site_page: https://nginx.org/en/docs/njs · fetched 2026-08-29 · fa89713aa955
- site_page: https://nginx.org/en/docs/index.html · fetched 2026-08-29 · 778ed29d4cca
- site_page: https://nginx.org/en/docs/install.html · fetched 2026-08-29 · fe4df2805f38
- site_page: https://nginx.org/en/docs/beginners_guide.html · fetched 2026-08-29 · 1998214b68d2
- site_page: https://nginx.org/en/docs/njs/index.html · fetched 2026-08-29 · 4c23f08722b6
- site_page: https://nginx.org/en · fetched 2026-08-29 · 12172bdabcd9
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| nginx/nginx | main | 99 |
| nginx/njs | plugin | 91 |
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