# loopbackio/loopback-next — health index 77/100 (Good)

> Inspection of the public repository loopbackio/loopback-next by inspect.software. It holds a health index of 77 out of 100, placing it in the Good band. The index is a signal derived from publicly visible practice, not a warranty, a security audit, or an endorsement, and it is independent of payment.

- Repository: https://github.com/loopbackio/loopback-next
- Report page: https://inspect.software/software/loopbackio/loopback-next
- Full JSON report: https://inspect.software/api/repositories/loopbackio/loopback-next/report
- Badge: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/inspect-software/badges/main/v1/l/loopbackio/loopback-next.svg
- Inspected: 2026-07-21
- Methodology: metrics 1.13.0, report schema 0.18.0 (https://inspect.software/methodology.md)

## Category summary

| Category | Weight | Index | Band |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vitality | 22% | 59/100 | Moderate |
| Community & Adoption | 18% | 90/100 | Excellent |
| Sustainability & Governance | 24% | 78/100 | Good |
| Engineering Quality | 20% | 90/100 | Excellent |
| Security | 16% | 67/100 | Moderate |
| AI Readiness | not counted | 72/100 | Good |

## Repository facts

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | LoopBack makes it easy to build modern API applications that require complex integrations. |
| Homepage | https://loopback.io |
| Primary language | TypeScript |
| Stars | 5,104 |
| Forks | 1,064 |
| Created | 2017-01-09 |
| Last push | 2026-07-21 |
| Commits (last year) | 534 |
| Bus factor | 2 |
| Topics | api, nodejs, framework, rest, openapi, swagger, strongloop, loopback, typescript, ioc, dependency-injection, repository, service-proxy, hacktoberfest |

## Published packages

| Registry | Package | Latest | Monthly downloads |
|---|---|---|---|
| npm | @loopback/cron | 0.13.14 | 11,709 |
| npm | @loopback/health | 0.15.15 | 53,021 |
| npm | @loopback/graphql | 0.14.1 | 550 |
| npm | @loopback/logging | 0.13.15 | 12,678 |
| npm | @loopback/metrics | 0.15.15 | 12,719 |
| npm | @loopback/pooling | 0.12.14 | 243 |
| npm | @loopback/typeorm | 0.11.15 | 489 |
| npm | @loopback/socketio | 0.9.15 | 7,117 |

## Vitality — 59/100 (Moderate)

Is the project alive — is code being written and are releases shipping? Weight: 22% of the overall index.

### Development activity — 98/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Push recency | met | 36 / 36 | last push 0 days ago |
| Commit cadence | partial | 33.9 / 36 | 49/52 weeks with commits |
| Commit volume | met | 18 / 18 | 534 commits in the last year |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Maintained | met | 10 / 10 | 30 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10 |

### Release discipline — 1/100 (Critical)

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases. Remaining weights renormalized.

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ships releases | not met | 0 / 27 | no releases published |
| Release recency | not met | 0 / 36 | no releases |
| Release cadence | not met | 0 / 27 | no releases |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases | excluded | 0 / 10 | no releases found |

### Abandonment — 100/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Project is still maintained | met | 100 / 100 | maintenance record not established from the collected data |

## Community & Adoption — 90/100 (Excellent)

Does the project have users, downloads, attention, and a welcoming setup for contributors? Weight: 18% of the overall index.

### Popularity & adoption — 97/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stars | met | 60 / 60 | 5,104 stars |
| Forks | met | 25 / 25 | 1,064 forks |
| Watchers | partial | 11.7 / 15 | 129 watchers |

### Community health — 86/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| README | met | 22.5 / 22.5 | — |
| License | partial | 16.9 / 22.5 | license file present, not a recognized license |
| CONTRIBUTING guide | met | 18 / 18 | — |
| Code of conduct | met | 13.5 / 13.5 | — |
| Issue template | not met | 0 / 7.2 | — |
| PR template | met | 6.3 / 6.3 | — |

### Ecosystem adoption (downloads) — 83/100 (Good)

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Registry dependents. Remaining weights renormalized.

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly downloads | partial | 66.6 / 80 | 98,526 downloads/month across npm |
| Registry dependents | excluded | 0 / 20 | not reported by this ecosystem |

## Sustainability & Governance — 78/100 (Good)

Will the project survive its people — bus factor, responsiveness, who backs it, and package upkeep? Weight: 24% of the overall index.

### Maintainer resilience (bus factor) — 65/100 (Moderate)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bus factor | partial | 25.2 / 54 | 2 contributor(s) cover half of all commits |
| Commit distribution | partial | 16.2 / 22.5 | top contributor authored 28% of commits |
| Contributor breadth | met | 13.5 / 13.5 | 100 contributors |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Contributors | met | 10 / 10 | project has 29 contributing companies or organizations |

### Issue & PR responsiveness — 86/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Issue resolution | partial | 42.8 / 46.8 | 92% of issues closed |
| PR acceptance | partial | 34.6 / 38.2 | 7562/8366 decided PRs merged |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Code-Review | partial | 9 / 15 | Found 2/3 approved changesets -- score normalized to 6 |

### Ownership & stewardship — 69/100 (Moderate)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ownership backing | met | 30 / 30 | organization-owned |
| Verified domain | not met | 0 / 20 | — |
| Owner reach | partial | 15.1 / 25 | 124 followers of loopbackio |
| Track record | partial | 23.6 / 25 | 38 public repos, account ~9 yr old |

### Package maintenance — 100/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Published & resolvable | met | 25 / 25 | 8 package(s) on npm |
| Publish recency | met | 35 / 35 | latest publish 4 days ago |
| Version history | met | 20 / 20 | 85 published versions |
| Not deprecated | met | 20 / 20 | active, not deprecated or yanked |

## Engineering Quality — 90/100 (Excellent)

Are baseline engineering and documentation practices in place? Weight: 20% of the overall index.

### Engineering practices — 90/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| CI workflows | met | 24 / 24 | 3 workflow(s) |
| Tests present | met | 24 / 24 | — |
| Linter config | met | 16 / 16 | .eslintrc.js |
| Pre-commit hooks | not met | 0 / 9.6 | — |
| .editorconfig | met | 6.4 / 6.4 | — |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: CI-Tests | met | 20 / 20 | 29 out of 29 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 10 |

### Documentation — 90/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| README | met | 30 / 30 | — |
| Documentation directory | met | 25 / 25 | — |
| Documentation / homepage site | met | 15 / 15 | https://loopback.io |
| Repository description | met | 10 / 10 | — |
| Topics | met | 10 / 10 | 14 topics |
| Wiki | not met | 0 / 10 | — |

## Security — 67/100 (Moderate)

Are visible security and supply-chain practices strong, with no malicious dependency and no unresolved high-risk jurisdiction exposure? Weight: 16% of the overall index.

### Security posture — 75/100 (Good)

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Packaging, Signed-Releases. Remaining weights renormalized.

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Binary-Artifacts | met | 7.5 / 7.5 | no binaries found in the repo |
| Branch-Protection | partial | 6 / 7.5 | branch protection is not maximal on development and all release branches |
| CI-Tests | met | 2.5 / 2.5 | 29 out of 29 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 10 |
| CII-Best-Practices | partial | 0.5 / 2.5 | badge detected: InProgress |
| Code-Review | partial | 4.5 / 7.5 | Found 2/3 approved changesets -- score normalized to 6 |
| Contributors | met | 2.5 / 2.5 | project has 29 contributing companies or organizations |
| Dangerous-Workflow | met | 10 / 10 | no dangerous workflow patterns detected |
| Dependency-Update-Tool | met | 7.5 / 7.5 | update tool detected |
| Fuzzing | not met | 0 / 5 | project is not fuzzed |
| License | partial | 2.2 / 2.5 | license file detected |
| Maintained | met | 7.5 / 7.5 | 30 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10 |
| Packaging | excluded | 0 / 5 | packaging workflow not detected |
| Pinned-Dependencies | partial | 1.5 / 5 | dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 3 |
| SAST | met | 5 / 5 | SAST tool is run on all commits |
| Security-Policy | met | 5 / 5 | security policy file detected |
| Signed-Releases | excluded | 0 / 7.5 | no releases found |
| Token-Permissions | met | 7.5 / 7.5 | GitHub workflow tokens follow principle of least privilege |
| Vulnerabilities | not met | 0 / 7.5 | 128 existing vulnerabilities detected |

### Dependency advisories — 35/100 (At risk)

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Indirect dependencies free of known advisories. Remaining weights renormalized. Matched 1802 resolved dependencies against OSV; 843 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.

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Direct dependencies free of known advisories | partial | 5.3 / 35 | 9 affected: axios 1.16.0 (high 8.2), form-data 2.3.3 (high 7.5), form-data 2.5.1 (high 7.5), +6 more |
| Indirect dependencies free of known advisories | excluded | 0 / 25 | transitive set not separable from development and test dependencies in this scope |
| No advisories left outstanding | partial | 21.2 / 40 | 5 advisory-carrying package(s) unaddressed past 90 days; oldest published 1480 days ago |

### Malicious dependencies — 100/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| No dependency reported as a malicious package | met | 100 / 100 | no dependency is reported as a malicious package |

### High-Risk Jurisdiction Exposure — 100/100 (Excellent)

Only high-confidence self-published location evidence affects this multiplier. Ambiguous matches are review-only; country evidence is not proof of nationality, citizenship, legal registration, malicious intent, or sanctions status.

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Policy exposure multiplier | met | 100 / 100 | no confirmed policy-scope location match |

## AI Readiness — 72/100 (Good)

How well is the repo equipped to be developed and maintained with AI coding agents? An independent, experimental badge — weight 0.0, so it is surfaced on its own and does not affect the overall health score.

### Agent context & guidance — 75/100 (Good)

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Legible commit history. Remaining weights renormalized.

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agent instructions | met | 45 / 45 | CLAUDE.md |
| Machine-readable docs (llms.txt) | not met | 0 / 15 | — |
| Legible commit history | excluded | 0 / 40 | no data |

### Verify loop (build / test / typecheck) — 70/100 (Good)

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Demonstrated agent practice, Automated maintenance. Remaining weights renormalized.

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| One-command bootstrap | not met | 0 / 18 | — |
| Automated tests | met | 22 / 22 | — |
| Lint / format config | met | 11 / 11 | .eslintrc.js |
| Static type checking | met | 11 / 11 | acceptance/extension-logging-fluentd/tsconfig.json, acceptance/repository-cloudant/tsconfig.json, acceptance/repository-mongodb/tsconfig.json, acceptance/repository-mysql/tsconfig.json, acceptance/repository-postgresql/tsconfig.json, benchmark/tsconfig.json, bodyparsers/rest-msgpack/tsconfig.json, examples/access-control-migration/tsconfig.json, examples/binding-resolution/tsconfig.json, examples/context/tsconfig.json, examples/express-composition/tsconfig.json, examples/file-transfer/tsconfig.json, examples/graphql/tsconfig.json, examples/greeter-extension/tsconfig.json, examples/greeting-app/tsconfig.json, examples/hello-world/tsconfig.json, examples/lb3-application/tsconfig.json, examples/log-extension/tsconfig.json, examples/metrics-prometheus/tsconfig.json, examples/multi-tenancy/tsconfig.json, examples/passport-login/tsconfig.json, examples/references-many/tsconfig.json, examples/rest-crud/tsconfig.json, examples/rpc-server/tsconfig.json, examples/soap-calculator/tsconfig.json, examples/socketio/tsconfig.json, examples/todo-jwt/tsconfig.json, examples/todo-list/tsconfig.json, examples/todo/tsconfig.json, examples/validation-app/tsconfig.json, examples/webpack/tsconfig.json, extensions/apiconnect/tsconfig.json, extensions/authentication-jwt/tsconfig.json, extensions/authentication-passport/tsconfig.json, extensions/context-explorer/tsconfig.json, extensions/cron/tsconfig.json, extensions/graphql/tsconfig.json, extensions/health/tsconfig.json, extensions/logging/tsconfig.json, extensions/metrics/tsconfig.json, extensions/pooling/tsconfig.json, extensions/sequelize/tsconfig.json, extensions/socketio/tsconfig.json, extensions/typeorm/tsconfig.json, fixtures/mock-oauth2-provider/tsconfig.json, fixtures/tsdocs-monorepo/packages/pkg1/tsconfig.json, fixtures/tsdocs-monorepo/packages/pkg2/tsconfig.json, fixtures/tsdocs-monorepo/tsconfig.json, packages/authentication/tsconfig.json, packages/authorization/tsconfig.json, packages/boot/tsconfig.json, packages/booter-lb3app/tsconfig.json, packages/context/tsconfig.json, packages/core/tsconfig.json, packages/express/tsconfig.json, packages/filter/tsconfig.json, packages/http-caching-proxy/tsconfig.json, packages/http-server/tsconfig.json, packages/metadata/tsconfig.json, packages/model-api-builder/tsconfig.json, packages/openapi-spec-builder/tsconfig.json, packages/openapi-v3/tsconfig.json, packages/repository-json-schema/tsconfig.json, packages/repository-tests/tsconfig.json, packages/repository/tsconfig.json, packages/rest-crud/tsconfig.json, packages/rest-explorer/tsconfig.json, packages/rest/tsconfig.json, packages/security/tsconfig.json, packages/service-proxy/tsconfig.json, packages/testlab/tsconfig.json, packages/tsdocs/tsconfig.json, tsconfig.json |
| Reproducible environment | met | 10 / 10 | Dockerfile, lockfile |
| Demonstrated agent practice | excluded | 0 / 10 | no data |
| Automated maintenance | excluded | 0 / 8 | no data |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Pinned-Dependencies | partial | 3 / 10 | dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 3 |

### Code legibility for models — 100/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type-checkable code | met | 45 / 45 | TypeScript (statically typed) |
| Manageable file sizes | partial | 55 / 55 | 1/1616 source files over 60KB |

### Machine-readable interfaces — 40/100 (At risk)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| API schema (OpenAPI/GraphQL/proto) | not met | 0 / 40 | — |
| MCP server | not met | 0 / 20 | — |
| Runnable examples | met | 40 / 40 | example, examples |

## Collection warnings

- Resolved dependency list truncated to 2000 of 2645 packages (counts remain complete)
- deps.dev does not index npm:@loopback/cron@0.13.14; advisories assessed against the repository dependency graph instead

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