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Software health reportschema 0.34.0 · metrics 2.10.0 · 2026-09-29 19:48 UTC

grpc / grpc-web

gRPC for Web Clients

JavaScript · TypeScript · C++Apache-2.0★ 9,255 stars⑂ 799 forkssince Jun 2016View on GitHub ↗
KindLibraryNetwork servicehow this is determined

grpc/grpc-web holds a health index of 89 out of 100, placing it in the Excellent band. It scores highest on Community & Adoption (93/100) and lowest on AI Readiness (64/100). It was last updated 25 days ago. A single contributor accounts for most of its recent work.

89
overall / 100
Excellent

Software health index

Metrics are grouped into weighted categories on one standardized 1–100 scale. Overall starts as their weighted mean, calibrated against the distribution of the public record so bands carry percentile meaning; when public evidence triggers the High-Risk Jurisdiction Policy, the rating is adjusted and receives an At Risk ceiling of 34.

89
Exceptional93-100The record's top tier (≈ top 5%); essentially all checked criteria met
Excellent80-92Strong across the board; minor gaps
Good65-79Healthy; gaps are limited and manageable
Moderate50-64Acceptable with notable gaps; review recommended
Weak35-49Material weaknesses across several areas
At Risk20-34Significant weaknesses; adoption warrants caution
Critical1-19Severe problems (abandoned, single-maintainer, no hygiene)
VitalityCommunity &AdoptionSustainability &GovernanceEngineeringQualitySecurityAI Readiness

Score profile

Each axis is a category. The shape matters more than the average — a healthy subject fills the whole shape, while a spike-and-crater profile means strength in one dimension is masking risk in another.

The weighted overall 75 is calibrated to 89 on the published index scale (record calibration 2026-08-02).

Ownership

grpcOrganization · verified domain
2,777 followers33 public repossince Jun 2014

This repository is backed by an organization — shared, accountable stewardship that can outlive any single maintainer.

Package ecosystems

RegistryPackageVersionDownloads / moVersionsLast publish
npmgrpc-web2.1.1713,9982733 days ago

Metrics by category

Vitality

Is the project alive — is code being written and are releases shipping?

64Moderate · 21% of overall
How it's scored
28.8/36Push recency — last push 25 days ago
6.2/36Commit cadence — 9/52 weeks with commits
11.3/18Commit volume — 17 commits in the last year
10/10OpenSSF Scorecard: Maintained — 13 commit(s) and 10 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10
Inputs used
commits_last_year17
human_commit_share0.98
days_since_last_push25
active_weeks_last_year9
How it's scored
27/27Ships releases — 25 releases published
36/36Release recency — latest release 33 days ago
12.6/27Release cadence — a release every ~185.7 days
0/10OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases — Project has not signed or included provenance with any releases.
Inputs used
releases_count25
latest_release_tag2.1.1
releases_from_tagsno
days_since_latest_release33
mean_days_between_releases185.7

Community & Adoption

Does the project have users, downloads, attention, and a welcoming setup for contributors?

93Exceptional · 17% of overall
How it's scored
60/60Stars — 9,255 stars
24.2/25Forks — 799 forks
12.7/15Watchers — 193 watchers
Inputs used
forks799
stars9,255
watchers193
growth_stateunverified
growth_factor_pct100
growth_unverified_reasonno_history

Community health

85Excellent
How it's scored
22.5/22.5README
22.5/22.5License — recognized license (Apache-2.0)
18/18CONTRIBUTING guide
13.5/13.5Code of conduct
0/7.2Issue template
0/6.3PR template
Inputs used
has_readmeyes
has_licenseyes
readme_badges1
has_contributingyes
has_issue_templateno
has_code_of_conductyes
readme_badge_servicesshields.io
has_pull_request_templateno
How it's scored
78/80Monthly downloads — 713,998 downloads/month across npm
0/20Registry dependents — not reported by this ecosystem
Inputs used
packagesgrpc-web
dependents—
ecosystemsnpm
total_downloads—
monthly_downloads713,998
unverified_packages_excluded—
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Registry dependents. Remaining weights renormalized.

Sustainability & Governance

Will the project survive its people — bus factor, responsiveness, who backs it, and package upkeep?

77Good · 23% of overall
How it's scored
9/54Bus factor — 1 contributor(s) cover half of all commits
10.7/22.5Commit distribution — top contributor authored 53% of commits
13.5/13.5Contributor breadth — 99 contributors
10/10OpenSSF Scorecard: Contributors — project has 8 contributing companies or organizations
Inputs used
bus_factor1
contributors_sampled99
top_contributor_share0.526
How it's scored
33.4/42Issue resolution — 80% of issues closed
26.3/30PR acceptance — 628/715 decided PRs merged
0/13Newcomer PR acceptance — no first-time contributor's PR decided in 30d
9/15OpenSSF Scorecard: Code-Review — Found 18/29 approved changesets -- score normalized to 6
Inputs used
merged_prs628
open_issues159
closed_issues617
prs_merged_7d0
prs_decided_7d0
prs_merged_30d0
prs_decided_30d1
issue_closed_ratio0.795
closed_unmerged_prs87
first_time_authors_30d0
first_time_prs_merged_30d0
first_time_prs_decided_30d0
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Newcomer PR acceptance. Remaining weights renormalized.
How it's scored
30/30Ownership backing — organization-owned
20/20Verified domain
24.8/25Owner reach — 2,777 followers of grpc
23.2/25Track record — 33 public repos, account ~12 yr old
Inputs used
followers2,777
owner_typeOrganization
is_verifiedyes
owner_logingrpc
public_repos33
account_age_days4,499

Package maintenance

100Exceptional
How it's scored
25/25Published & resolvable — 1 package(s) on npm
35/35Publish recency — latest publish 33 days ago
20/20Version history — 27 published versions
20/20Not deprecated — active, not deprecated or yanked
Inputs used
packagesgrpc-web
ecosystemsnpm
any_deprecatedno
min_days_since_publish33

Engineering Quality

Are baseline engineering and documentation practices in place?

80Excellent · 19% of overall
How it's scored
24/24CI workflows — 4 workflow(s)
24/24Tests present
0/16Linter config
0/9.6Pre-commit hooks
0/6.4.editorconfig
18/20OpenSSF Scorecard: CI-Tests — 28 out of 30 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 9
Inputs used
has_ciyes
has_testsyes
has_editorconfigno
has_linter_configno
has_precommit_configno

Documentation

100Exceptional
How it's scored
30/30README
25/25Documentation directory
15/15Documentation / homepage site — https://grpc.io
10/10Repository description
10/10Topics — 3 topics
10/10Wiki
Inputs used
topicsweb, javascript, grpc
has_wikiyes
homepagehttps://grpc.io
docs_sitehttps://grpc.io
has_readmeyes
has_docs_diryes
has_descriptionyes

Security

Are visible security and supply-chain practices strong, without unresolved high-risk jurisdiction exposure?

66Good · 16% of overall
How it's scored
7.5/7.5Binary-Artifacts — no binaries found in the repo
0/7.5Branch-Protection — no data
2.2/2.5CI-Tests — 28 out of 30 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 9
0/2.5CII-Best-Practices — no effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected
4.5/7.5Code-Review — Found 18/29 approved changesets -- score normalized to 6
2.5/2.5Contributors — project has 8 contributing companies or organizations
10/10Dangerous-Workflow — no dangerous workflow patterns detected
7.5/7.5Dependency-Update-Tool — update tool detected
0/5Fuzzing — project is not fuzzed
2.5/2.5License — license file detected
7.5/7.5Maintained — 13 commit(s) and 10 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10
0/5Packaging — no data
0/5Pinned-Dependencies — dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 0
0/5SAST — SAST tool is not run on all commits -- score normalized to 0
4.5/5Security-Policy — security policy file detected
0/7.5Signed-Releases — Project has not signed or included provenance with any releases.
0/7.5Token-Permissions — detected GitHub workflow tokens with excessive permissions
5.2/7.5Vulnerabilities — 3 existing vulnerabilities detected
Inputs used
sourceopenssf_scorecard
checks_evaluated16
scorecard_versionv5.5.0
checks_inconclusive2
scorecard_aggregate5.8
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Branch-Protection, Packaging. Remaining weights renormalized.

Dependency advisories

100Exceptional
How it's scored
35/35Direct dependencies free of known advisories — no direct dependency carries a known advisory
0/25Indirect dependencies free of known advisories — transitive set not separable from development and test dependencies in this scope
0/40No advisories left outstanding — no advisory carries a publication date
Inputs used
sourceosv
advisories6
affected_packages4
assessed_packages57
unassessed_packages33
affected_by_severitycritical 1, high 2, low 1
direct_affected_packages0
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Indirect dependencies free of known advisories, No advisories left outstanding. Remaining weights renormalized. Matched 57 resolved dependencies against OSV. 33 could not be assessed — no resolved version, an unsupported ecosystem, or beyond the reported package list. This repository publishes no package the index resolves, so the repository dependency graph was assessed instead. That graph mixes development and test pins with shipped dependencies, so only the declared runtime dependencies are scored; transitive findings are reported as context and excluded from the score. Reachability is not analyzed.

AI Readiness

How well is the repo equipped to be developed and maintained with AI coding agents? Carries a deliberately small weight (4%): agent tooling is a real maintenance signal, but a repository with none can still reach 100/100.

64Moderate · 4% of overall
How it's scored
0/45Agent instructions — no CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md / editor rules
0/15Machine-readable docs (llms.txt)
40/40Legible commit history — 91 of 98 human commits state their intent (structured subject or explanatory body)
Inputs used
has_llms_txtno
llms_txt_url—
legible_history_share0.929
agent_instruction_files—
agent_instruction_max_bytes—
How it's scored
18/18One-command bootstrap — Makefile, javascript/net/grpc/web/generator/Makefile, net/grpc/gateway/examples/echo/Makefile
22/22Automated tests
0/11Lint / format config
11/11Static type checking — net/grpc/gateway/examples/echo/ts-example/tsconfig.json, packages/closure-wrapper/tsconfig.json, src/typescript/tsconfig.json
10/10Reproducible environment — Dockerfile, lockfile
0/10Demonstrated agent practice — no agent-authored commits among the last 100
8/8Automated maintenance — 2 of the last 100 commits are automated dependency updates
0/10OpenSSF Scorecard: Pinned-Dependencies — dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 0
Inputs used
has_nixno
has_testsyes
lockfilesyarn.lock
has_dockerfileyes
typed_languageno
bootstrap_filesMakefile, javascript/net/grpc/web/generator/Makefile, net/grpc/gateway/examples/echo/Makefile
has_devcontainerno
has_linter_configno
typecheck_configsnet/grpc/gateway/examples/echo/ts-example/tsconfig.json, packages/closure-wrapper/tsconfig.json, src/typescript/tsconfig.json
agent_commit_share0
toolchain_manifests—
dependency_bot_commit_share0.02
How it's scored
27/45Type-checkable code — JavaScript with type-check config (net/grpc/gateway/examples/echo/ts-example/tsconfig.json, packages/closure-wrapper/tsconfig.json, src/typescript/tsconfig.json)
54.4/55Manageable file sizes — 1/94 source files over 60KB
Inputs used
primary_languageJavaScript
largest_source_bytes64,444
source_files_sampled94
oversized_source_files1
How it's scored
40/40API schema (OpenAPI/GraphQL/proto) — net/grpc/gateway/examples/echo/echo.proto, net/grpc/gateway/examples/helloworld/helloworld.proto, packages/grpc-web/test/protos/echo.proto, packages/grpc-web/test/protos/foo.proto, packages/grpc-web/test/protos/models.proto, packages/grpc-web/test/protos/myapi/v1/myapi-two.proto, packages/grpc-web/test/protos/myapi/v1/myapi.proto, packages/grpc-web/test/protos/nopackage.proto, packages/grpc-web/test/protos/otherapi/v1/otherapi.proto, packages/grpc-web/test/protos/test01.proto, packages/grpc-web/test/protos/test02.proto, packages/grpc-web/test/protos/test03.proto, src/proto/grpc/testing/empty.proto, src/proto/grpc/testing/messages.proto, src/proto/grpc/testing/test.proto, src/typescript/proto/status.proto
0/20MCP server
40/40Runnable examples — examples
Inputs used
example_dirsexamples
has_mcp_signalno
api_schema_filesnet/grpc/gateway/examples/echo/echo.proto, net/grpc/gateway/examples/helloworld/helloworld.proto, packages/grpc-web/test/protos/echo.proto, packages/grpc-web/test/protos/foo.proto, packages/grpc-web/test/protos/models.proto, packages/grpc-web/test/protos/myapi/v1/myapi-two.proto, packages/grpc-web/test/protos/myapi/v1/myapi.proto, packages/grpc-web/test/protos/nopackage.proto, packages/grpc-web/test/protos/otherapi/v1/otherapi.proto, packages/grpc-web/test/protos/test01.proto, packages/grpc-web/test/protos/test02.proto, packages/grpc-web/test/protos/test03.proto, src/proto/grpc/testing/empty.proto, src/proto/grpc/testing/messages.proto, src/proto/grpc/testing/test.proto, src/typescript/proto/status.proto
interfaces_expected_ofnetwork-service

Key facts

9,255GitHub stars
99contributors
17commits, last 12 months
25days since last push
25releases
1bus factor
159open issues
—package ecosystems

Data collection warnings

  • Star history unavailable: GitHub GraphQL error: Resource not accessible by personal access token
  • Could not fetch npm package '@grpc-web/closure-wrapper' from its registry

More detail

Star and fork history 0 ★ / 799 ⇿
0Stars
799Forks
25Releases

When each star and fork was added, collected from GitHub and bucketed by day. Cumulative growth sits directly above the daily additions it is made of, so the two read against each other: steady organic accretion looks nothing like an abrupt, short-lived burst. Where that difference is measurable, it is reported as growth authenticity.

0200400600800790212018-032022-062026-09
Major 2Minor 9Patch 14

Each point covers 8 days.

OpenSSF Scorecard 5.8 / 10
5.8aggregate

Independent, tool-agnostic security assessment from the open-source OpenSSF Scorecard. Each check rewards a security practice, not a specific vendor's tool. Checks Scorecard could not determine are marked n/a and excluded from the security score (never counted as zero).Scorecard v5.5.0 · 2026-09-29 19:47 UTC

10Binary-Artifactsno binaries found in the repo
n/aBranch-Protectioninternal error: error during branchesHandler.setup: internal error: some github tokens can't read classic branch protection rules: https://github.com/ossf/scorecard-action/blob/main/docs/authentication/fine-grained-auth-token.md
9CI-Tests28 out of 30 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 9
0CII-Best-Practicesno effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected
6Code-ReviewFound 18/29 approved changesets -- score normalized to 6
10Contributorsproject has 8 contributing companies or organizations
10Dangerous-Workflowno dangerous workflow patterns detected
10Dependency-Update-Toolupdate tool detected
0Fuzzingproject is not fuzzed
10Licenselicense file detected
10Maintained13 commit(s) and 10 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10
n/aPackagingpackaging workflow not detected
0Pinned-Dependenciesdependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 0
0SASTSAST tool is not run on all commits -- score normalized to 0
9Security-Policysecurity policy file detected
0Signed-ReleasesProject has not signed or included provenance with any releases.
0Token-Permissionsdetected GitHub workflow tokens with excessive permissions
7Vulnerabilities3 existing vulnerabilities detected
Direct dependencies 1
RegistryPackageVersion constraintManifest
npmclosure-netgit+https://github.com/google/closure-net.git#mainpackages/closure-wrapper/package.json
All dependencies 90

Full resolved dependency set from the GitHub dependency graph: 0 direct and 90 indirect (transitive) packages. The transitive closure is complete when the repository commits a lockfile.

RegistryPackageVersionRelation
npm@grpc/grpc-js1.13.4indirect
npm@grpc/proto-loader~0.5.0indirect
npm@grpc/proto-loader~0.5.4indirect
npm@rollup/plugin-commonjs21.1.0indirect
npm@rollup/plugin-node-resolve^13.3.0indirect
npm@rollup/pluginutils3.1.0indirect
npm@rollup/pluginutils4.2.1indirect
npm@types/estree0.0.39indirect
npm@types/estree1.0.9indirect
npm@types/google-protobuf~3.15.12indirect
npm@types/jasmine^6.0.0indirect
npm@types/jest^30.0.0indirect
npm@types/jquery~3.3.6indirect
npm@types/node^20.14.0indirect
npm@types/node^25.6.0indirect
npmassert^2.0.0indirect
npmasync~3.2.3indirect
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npmfsevents2.3.3indirect
npmfunction-bind1.1.2indirect
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npmgoogle-closure-compiler^20250820.0.0indirect
npmgoogle-closure-compiler~20200224.0.0indirect
npmgoogle-closure-deps~20210601.0.0indirect
npmgoogle-closure-library^20230802.0.0indirect
npmgoogle-closure-library~20210808.0.0indirect
npmgoogle-protobuf~3.21.4indirect
npmgraceful-fs4.2.11indirect
npmgrpc-web~2.1.1indirect
npmgulp~4.0.2indirect
npmgulp-connect~5.7.0indirect
npmgulp-eval~1.0.0indirect
npmhasown2.0.4indirect
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npmjasmine^6.2.0indirect
npmjquery~3.5.1indirect
npmjsonfile6.2.1indirect
npmlocate-path5.0.0indirect
npmlodash~4.17.0indirect
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npmminimatch3.1.5indirect
npmminimist~1.2.5indirect
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npmmock-xmlhttprequest~2.0.0indirect
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npmprotractor~7.0.0indirect
npmresolve1.22.12indirect
npmrollup2.79.2indirect
npmrollup-plugin-sourcemaps0.6.3indirect
npmrollup-plugin-typescript20.37.0indirect
npmsemver6.3.1indirect
npmsemver7.8.5indirect
npmsource-map-resolve0.6.0indirect
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npmtslib2.8.1indirect
npmtypescript5.5.4indirect
npmtypescript~5.5.4indirect
npmuniversalify2.0.1indirect
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npmwrappy1.0.2indirect
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Dependency advisories 4

This repository publishes no package the index resolves, so its own dependency graph was assessed — 57 packages, which also include development and test pins that never ship: 4 carry known advisories, of which 0 are direct. 33 could not be assessed — no resolved version, an unsupported ecosystem, or beyond the reported package list.

PackageVersionRelationSeverityAdvisoriesFixed in
rollup2.79.2indirectcritical14.59.0
@grpc/grpc-js1.13.4indirecthigh21.14.4
decode-uri-component0.2.2indirecthigh10.5.0
webpack5.101.3indirectlow25.104.1

An advisory means the version recorded in the dependency graph falls inside an advisory’s affected range. Reachability is not analysed, and the graph includes development and test pins — a finding may concern tooling rather than shipped software.

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