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Software health reportschema 0.34.0 · metrics 2.10.0 · 2026-10-21 07:46 UTC

i18next / i18next-http-backend

i18next-http-backend is a backend layer for i18next using in Node.js, in the browser and for Deno.

JavaScript · HTMLMIT★ 526 stars⑂ 70 forkssince Apr 2020View on GitHub ↗

i18next/i18next-http-backend holds a health index of 83 out of 100, placing it in the Excellent band. It scores highest on Community & Adoption (80/100) and lowest on AI Readiness (52/100). It was last updated 3 days ago. A single contributor accounts for most of its recent work.

83
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.

83
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 70 is calibrated to 83 on the published index scale (record calibration 2026-08-02).

Ownership

i18nextOrganization
264 followers58 public repossince Aug 2014

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

Package ecosystems

RegistryPackageVersionDownloads / moVersionsLast publishTags
npmi18next-http-backend4.0.411,239,906813 days agoi18nexti18next-backendi18next-http-backend

Metrics by category

Vitality

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

76Good · 21% of overall
How it's scored
36/36Push recency — last push 3 days ago
11.8/36Commit cadence — 17/52 weeks with commits
15.3/18Commit volume — 50 commits in the last year
10/10OpenSSF Scorecard: Maintained — 20 commit(s) and 2 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10
Inputs used
commits_last_year50
human_commit_share0.74
days_since_last_push3
active_weeks_last_year17
How it's scored
16.2/27Ships releases — 79 version tags (no GitHub releases)
36/36Release recency — latest release 3 days ago
19.8/27Release cadence — a release every ~77.3 days
0/10OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases — no data
Inputs used
releases_count79
latest_release_tagv4.0.4
releases_from_tagsyes
days_since_latest_release3
mean_days_between_releases77.3
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases. Remaining weights renormalized.

Community & Adoption

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

80Excellent · 17% of overall
How it's scored
44.1/60Stars — 526 stars
15.3/25Forks — 70 forks
3.9/15Watchers — 6 watchers
Inputs used
forks70
stars526
watchers6
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 (MIT)
18/18CONTRIBUTING guide
0/13.5Code of conduct
7.2/7.2Issue template
6.3/6.3PR template
Inputs used
has_readmeyes
has_licenseyes
readme_badges3
has_contributingyes
has_issue_templateyes
has_code_of_conductno
readme_badge_servicesgithub.com, shields.io
has_pull_request_templateyes
How it's scored
80/80Monthly downloads — 11,239,906 downloads/month across npm
0/20Registry dependents — not reported by this ecosystem
Inputs used
packagesi18next-http-backend
dependents—
ecosystemsnpm
total_downloads—
monthly_downloads11,239,906
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?

68Good · 23% of overall
How it's scored
9/54Bus factor — 1 contributor(s) cover half of all commits
2.4/22.5Commit distribution — top contributor authored 90% of commits
13.5/13.5Contributor breadth — 27 contributors
10/10OpenSSF Scorecard: Contributors — project has 5 contributing companies or organizations
Inputs used
bus_factor1
contributors_sampled27
top_contributor_share0.895
How it's scored
42/42Issue resolution — 100% of issues closed
25.9/30PR acceptance — 57/66 decided PRs merged
0/13Newcomer PR acceptance — no first-time contributor's PR decided in 30d
0/15OpenSSF Scorecard: Code-Review — Found 0/19 approved changesets -- score normalized to 0
Inputs used
merged_prs57
open_issues0
closed_issues131
prs_merged_7d0
prs_decided_7d0
prs_merged_30d0
prs_decided_30d0
issue_closed_ratio1
closed_unmerged_prs9
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
0/20Verified domain
17.4/25Owner reach — 264 followers of i18next
24.9/25Track record — 58 public repos, account ~12 yr old
Inputs used
followers264
owner_typeOrganization
is_verifiedno
owner_logini18next
public_repos58
account_age_days4,439

Package maintenance

100Exceptional
How it's scored
25/25Published & resolvable — 1 package(s) on npm
35/35Publish recency — latest publish 3 days ago
20/20Version history — 81 published versions
20/20Not deprecated — active, not deprecated or yanked
Inputs used
packagesi18next-http-backend
ecosystemsnpm
any_deprecatedno
min_days_since_publish3

Engineering Quality

Are baseline engineering and documentation practices in place?

66Good · 19% of overall
How it's scored
24/24CI workflows — 2 workflow(s)
24/24Tests present
16/16Linter config — eslint.config.mjs
0/9.6Pre-commit hooks
6.4/6.4.editorconfig
0/20OpenSSF Scorecard: CI-Tests — 0 out of 11 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 0
Inputs used
has_ciyes
has_testsyes
has_editorconfigyes
has_linter_configyes
has_precommit_configno

Documentation

60Moderate
How it's scored
30/30README
0/25Documentation directory
0/15Documentation / homepage site
10/10Repository description
10/10Topics — 8 topics
10/10Wiki
Inputs used
topicsi18next, xhr, fetch, backend, plugin, deno, nodejs, javascript
has_wikiyes
homepage—
docs_site—
has_readmeyes
has_docs_dirno
has_descriptionyes

Security

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

63Moderate · 16% of overall
How it's scored
7.5/7.5Binary-Artifacts — no binaries found in the repo
0/7.5Branch-Protection — branch protection not enabled on development/release branches
0/2.5CI-Tests — 0 out of 11 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 0
0/2.5CII-Best-Practices — no effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected
0/7.5Code-Review — Found 0/19 approved changesets -- score normalized to 0
2.5/2.5Contributors — project has 5 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 — 20 commit(s) and 2 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
5/5Security-Policy — security policy file detected
0/7.5Signed-Releases — no data
0/7.5Token-Permissions — detected GitHub workflow tokens with excessive permissions
7.5/7.5Vulnerabilities — 0 existing vulnerabilities detected
Inputs used
sourceopenssf_scorecard
checks_evaluated16
scorecard_versionv5.5.0
checks_inconclusive2
scorecard_aggregate5.4
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Packaging, Signed-Releases. 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
advisories1
affected_packages1
assessed_packages36
unassessed_packages36
affected_by_severitylow 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 36 resolved dependencies against OSV. 36 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.

52Moderate · 4% of overall
How it's scored
0/45Agent instructions — no CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md / editor rules
0/15Machine-readable docs (llms.txt)
14.4/40Legible commit history — 20 of 74 human commits state their intent (structured subject or explanatory body)
Inputs used
has_llms_txtno
llms_txt_url—
legible_history_share0.27
agent_instruction_files—
agent_instruction_max_bytes—
How it's scored
0/18One-command bootstrap
22/22Automated tests
11/11Lint / format config — eslint.config.mjs
11/11Static type checking — example/angular/tsconfig.json, tsconfig.json
0/10Reproducible environment
0/10Demonstrated agent practice — no agent-authored commits among the last 100
8/8Automated maintenance — 26 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
lockfiles—
has_dockerfileno
typed_languageno
bootstrap_files—
has_devcontainerno
has_linter_configyes
typecheck_configsexample/angular/tsconfig.json, tsconfig.json
agent_commit_share0
toolchain_manifests—
dependency_bot_commit_share0.26
How it's scored
27/45Type-checkable code — JavaScript with type-check config (example/angular/tsconfig.json, tsconfig.json)
55/55Manageable file sizes — 0/57 source files over 60KB
Inputs used
primary_languageJavaScript
largest_source_bytes13,523
source_files_sampled57
oversized_source_files0
How it's scored
0/40API schema (OpenAPI/GraphQL/proto) — not applicable to this kind of software
0/20MCP server — not applicable to this kind of software
40/40Runnable examples — example
Inputs used
example_dirsexample
has_mcp_signalno
api_schema_files—
interfaces_expected_of—
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): API schema (OpenAPI/GraphQL/proto), MCP server. Remaining weights renormalized.

Key facts

526GitHub stars
27contributors
50commits, last 12 months
3days since last push
79releases
1bus factor
0open issues
npmpackage ecosystems

Data collection warnings

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More detail

Star and fork history 0 ★ / 70 ⇿
0Stars
70Forks
69Releases

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.

01325385063757032020-042023-042026-04
Major 2Minor 11Patch 56

Each point covers 6 days.

OpenSSF Scorecard 5.4 / 10
5.4aggregate

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 · 2026-10-21 07:45 UTC

10Binary-Artifactsno binaries found in the repo
0Branch-Protectionbranch protection not enabled on development/release branches
0CI-Tests0 out of 11 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 0
0CII-Best-Practicesno effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected
0Code-ReviewFound 0/19 approved changesets -- score normalized to 0
10Contributorsproject has 5 contributing companies or organizations
10Dangerous-Workflowno dangerous workflow patterns detected
10Dependency-Update-Toolupdate tool detected
0Fuzzingproject is not fuzzed
10Licenselicense file detected
10Maintained20 commit(s) and 2 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
10Security-Policysecurity policy file detected
n/aSigned-Releasesno releases found
0Token-Permissionsdetected GitHub workflow tokens with excessive permissions
10Vulnerabilities0 existing vulnerabilities detected
All dependencies 72

Full resolved dependency set from the GitHub dependency graph: 0 direct and 72 indirect (transitive) packages. The transitive closure is complete when the repository commits a lockfile.

RegistryPackageVersionRelation
npm@angular-devkit/build-angular~12.0.3indirect
npm@angular/animations~12.0.3indirect
npm@angular/cli~12.0.3indirect
npm@angular/common~12.0.3indirect
npm@angular/compiler~12.0.3indirect
npm@angular/compiler-cli~12.0.3indirect
npm@angular/core~12.0.3indirect
npm@angular/forms~12.0.3indirect
npm@angular/platform-browser~12.0.3indirect
npm@angular/platform-browser-dynamic~12.0.3indirect
npm@angular/router~12.0.3indirect
npm@types/jasmine~3.6.0indirect
npm@types/node^12.11.1indirect
npm@vue/cli-plugin-babel~4.5.15indirect
npm@vue/cli-plugin-eslint~4.5.15indirect
npm@vue/cli-service~4.5.15indirect
npm@vue/compiler-sfc^3.2.29indirect
npm@vue/compiler-sfc^3.2.33indirect
npmangular-i18next10.2.0indirect
npmbabel-eslint^10.1.0indirect
npmcore-js^3.21.0indirect
npmcore-js^3.22.5indirect
npmeslint9.39.4indirect
npmeslint^6.7.2indirect
npmeslint-plugin-vue^8.4.1indirect
npmeslint-plugin-vue^8.7.1indirect
npmexpect.js0.3.1indirect
npmexpress4.21.1indirect
npmglobals17.6.0indirect
npmi18next20.3.1indirect
npmi18next21.6.10indirect
npmi18next21.8.2indirect
npmi18next24.0.0indirect
npmi18next25.10.3indirect
npmi18next26.0.6indirect
npmi18next-browser-languagedetector6.1.1indirect
npmi18next-browser-languagedetector6.1.3indirect
npmi18next-browser-languagedetector6.1.4indirect
npmi18next-chained-backend4.6.2indirect
npmi18next-chained-backend5.0.2indirect
npmi18next-http-backend3.0.5indirect
npmi18next-http-backend4.0.2indirect
npmi18next-localstorage-backend4.3.1indirect
npmi18next-resources-to-backend1.2.1indirect
npmi18next-vue2.0.0-beta.0indirect
npmjasmine-core~3.7.0indirect
npmjson-server0.17.4indirect
npmjson52.2.3indirect
npmjsonc-parser3.3.1indirect
npmkarma~6.3.0indirect
npmkarma-chrome-launcher~3.1.0indirect
npmkarma-coverage~2.0.3indirect
npmkarma-jasmine~4.0.0indirect
npmkarma-jasmine-html-reporter^1.5.0indirect
npmmocha11.7.5indirect
npmneostandard0.13.0indirect
npmnext16.3.8indirect
npmnext-i18next16.0.0indirect
npmprop-types15.8.1indirect
npmreact19.2.4indirect
npmreact-dom19.2.4indirect
npmreact-i18next16.6.0indirect
npmrxjs~6.6.0indirect
npmtsd0.33.0indirect
npmtsdown0.21.10indirect
npmtslib^2.1.0indirect
npmtypescript6.0.3indirect
npmtypescript~4.2.3indirect
npmvue^3.2.29indirect
npmvue^3.2.33indirect
npmxmlhttprequest1.8.0indirect
npmzone.js~0.11.4indirect
Dependency advisories 1

This repository publishes no package the index resolves, so its own dependency graph was assessed — 36 packages, which also include development and test pins that never ship: 1 carry known advisories, of which 0 are direct. 36 could not be assessed — no resolved version, an unsupported ecosystem, or beyond the reported package list.

PackageVersionRelationSeverityAdvisoriesFixed in
i18next-http-backend3.0.5indirectlow14.0.2

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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Missing data is excluded and weights renormalized, never scored as zero. Methodology is versioned and open: metrics v2.10.0, schema v0.34.0 — full methodology · metrics wiki.

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