# react/create-react-app — health index 35/100 (At risk)

> Inspection of the public repository react/create-react-app by inspect.software. It holds a health index of 35 out of 100, placing it in the At risk 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/react/create-react-app
- Report page: https://inspect.software/software/react/create-react-app
- Full JSON report: https://inspect.software/api/repositories/react/create-react-app/report
- Badge: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/inspect-software/badges/main/v1/r/react/create-react-app.svg
- Inspected: 2026-07-21
- Methodology: metrics 1.13.0, report schema 0.25.0 (https://inspect.software/methodology.md)

## Category summary

| Category | Weight | Index | Band |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vitality | 22% | 21/100 | Critical |
| Community & Adoption | 18% | 96/100 | Excellent |
| Sustainability & Governance | 24% | 66/100 | Moderate |
| Engineering Quality | 20% | 64/100 | Moderate |
| Security | 16% | 53/100 | Moderate |
| AI Readiness | not counted | 58/100 | Moderate |

Abandonment Policy applies a 60% multiplier to weighted overall health and gives it a ceiling of 49.

## Repository facts

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Set up a modern web app by running one command. |
| Homepage | https://create-react-app.dev/ |
| Primary language | JavaScript |
| License | MIT |
| Stars | 103,307 |
| Forks | 26,940 |
| Created | 2016-07-17 |
| Last push | 2025-02-15 |
| Latest release | v5.0.1 |
| Commits (last year) | 0 |
| Bus factor | 2 |
| Topics | react, zero-configuration, build-tools |

## Published packages

| Registry | Package | Latest | Monthly downloads |
|---|---|---|---|
| npm | cra-template | 1.3.0 | 1,212,393 |
| npm | react-scripts | 5.0.1 | 11,813,411 |
| npm | react-dev-utils | 12.0.1 | 18,275,262 |
| npm | create-react-app | 5.1.0 | 218,354 |
| npm | react-app-polyfill | 3.0.0 | 13,013,410 |
| npm | react-error-overlay | 6.1.0 | 22,716,758 |
| npm | babel-preset-react-app | 10.1.0 | 16,650,753 |
| npm | cra-template-typescript | 1.3.0 | 42,943 |

## Vitality — 21/100 (Critical)

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

### Development activity — 1/100 (Critical)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Push recency | not met | 0 / 36 | last push 521 days ago |
| Commit cadence | not met | 0 / 36 | 0/52 weeks with commits |
| Commit volume | not met | 0 / 18 | 0 commits in the last year |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Maintained | not met | 0 / 10 | 0 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 0 |

### Release discipline — 52/100 (Moderate)

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

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ships releases | met | 27 / 27 | 83 releases published |
| Release recency | not met | 0 / 36 | latest release 1561 days ago |
| Release cadence | partial | 19.8 / 27 | a release every ~83.6 days |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases | excluded | 0 / 10 | no releases found |

### Abandonment — 60/100 (Moderate)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Project is still maintained | partial | 60 / 100 | no human commit for 521 days; 4 unmet obligation(s): pull requests unanswered, issues unanswered, releases stalled, Scorecard reports it unmaintained |

## Community & Adoption — 96/100 (Excellent)

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

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

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stars | met | 60 / 60 | 103,307 stars |
| Forks | met | 25 / 25 | 26,940 forks |
| Watchers | met | 15 / 15 | 1,867 watchers |

### Community health — 92/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| README | met | 22.5 / 22.5 | — |
| License | met | 22.5 / 22.5 | recognized license (MIT) |
| 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 | — |

## Sustainability & Governance — 66/100 (Moderate)

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) — 63/100 (Moderate)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bus factor | partial | 25.2 / 54 | 2 contributor(s) cover half of all commits |
| Commit distribution | partial | 14.4 / 22.5 | top contributor authored 36% of commits |
| Contributor breadth | met | 13.5 / 13.5 | 99 contributors |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Contributors | met | 10 / 10 | project has 90 contributing companies or organizations |

### Issue & PR responsiveness — 66/100 (Moderate)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Issue resolution | partial | 36.5 / 46.8 | 78% of issues closed |
| PR acceptance | partial | 19.2 / 38.2 | 1949/3876 decided PRs merged |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Code-Review | partial | 10.5 / 15 | Found 11/15 approved changesets -- score normalized to 7 |

### Ownership & stewardship — 70/100 (Good)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ownership backing | met | 30 / 30 | organization-owned |
| Verified domain | not met | 0 / 20 | — |
| Owner reach | partial | 20.6 / 25 | 732 followers of react |
| Track record | partial | 19.6 / 25 | 10 public repos, account ~17 yr old |

## Engineering Quality — 64/100 (Moderate)

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

### Engineering practices — 64/100 (Moderate)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| CI workflows | met | 24 / 24 | 3 workflow(s) |
| Tests present | met | 24 / 24 | — |
| Linter config | met | 16 / 16 | .eslintrc, .eslintrc.json |
| Pre-commit hooks | not met | 0 / 9.6 | — |
| .editorconfig | not met | 0 / 6.4 | — |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: CI-Tests | not met | 0 / 20 | 0 out of 14 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 0 |

### Documentation — 65/100 (Moderate)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| README | met | 30 / 30 | — |
| Documentation directory | not met | 0 / 25 | — |
| Documentation / homepage site | met | 15 / 15 | https://create-react-app.dev/ |
| Repository description | met | 10 / 10 | — |
| Topics | met | 10 / 10 | 3 topics |
| Wiki | not met | 0 / 10 | — |

## Security — 53/100 (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 — 48/100 (At risk)

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Branch-Protection, 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 | excluded | 0 / 7.5 | internal 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 |
| CI-Tests | not met | 0 / 2.5 | 0 out of 14 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 0 |
| CII-Best-Practices | not met | 0 / 2.5 | no effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected |
| Code-Review | partial | 5.2 / 7.5 | Found 11/15 approved changesets -- score normalized to 7 |
| Contributors | met | 2.5 / 2.5 | project has 90 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 | met | 2.5 / 2.5 | license file detected |
| Maintained | not met | 0 / 7.5 | 0 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 0 |
| Packaging | excluded | 0 / 5 | packaging workflow not detected |
| Pinned-Dependencies | partial | 1 / 5 | dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 2 |
| SAST | not met | 0 / 5 | SAST tool is not run on all commits -- score normalized to 0 |
| Security-Policy | met | 5 / 5 | security policy file detected |
| Signed-Releases | excluded | 0 / 7.5 | no releases found |
| Token-Permissions | not met | 0 / 7.5 | detected GitHub workflow tokens with excessive permissions |
| Vulnerabilities | not met | 0 / 7.5 | 194 existing vulnerabilities detected |

### Dependency advisories — 75/100 (Good)

Matched the npm:create-react-app@5.1.0 runtime dependency closure — what installing the published package pulls in — 63 packages. Reachability is not analyzed.

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Direct dependencies free of known advisories | met | 35 / 35 | no direct dependency carries a known advisory |
| Indirect dependencies free of known advisories | partial | 7.4 / 25 | 1 affected: tar 2.2.2 (high 8.8) |
| No advisories left outstanding | partial | 32.8 / 40 | 1 advisory-carrying package(s) unaddressed past 90 days; oldest published 1813 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 — 58/100 (Moderate)

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 — 37/100 (At risk)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agent instructions | not met | 0 / 45 | no CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md / editor rules |
| Machine-readable docs (llms.txt) | not met | 0 / 15 | — |
| Legible commit history | partial | 37.4 / 40 | 68 of 97 human commits state their intent (structured subject or explanatory body) |

### Verify loop (build / test / typecheck) — 64/100 (Moderate)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| One-command bootstrap | not met | 0 / 18 | — |
| Automated tests | met | 22 / 22 | — |
| Lint / format config | met | 11 / 11 | .eslintrc, .eslintrc.json |
| Static type checking | met | 11 / 11 | packages/react-scripts/fixtures/kitchensink/template/jsconfig.json, test/fixtures/jsconfig/jsconfig.json, test/fixtures/typescript/tsconfig.json |
| Reproducible environment | met | 10 / 10 | lockfile |
| Demonstrated agent practice | not met | 0 / 10 | no agent-authored commits among the last 100 |
| Automated maintenance | met | 8 / 8 | 3 of the last 100 commits are automated dependency updates |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Pinned-Dependencies | partial | 2 / 10 | dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 2 |

### Code legibility for models — 82/100 (Good)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type-checkable code | partial | 27 / 45 | JavaScript with type-check config (packages/react-scripts/fixtures/kitchensink/template/jsconfig.json, test/fixtures/jsconfig/jsconfig.json, test/fixtures/typescript/tsconfig.json) |
| Manageable file sizes | partial | 54.6 / 55 | 2/287 source files over 60KB |

## Collection warnings

- npm package 'cra-template' points at a different repository (https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app); excluded from ecosystem scoring
- npm package 'react-scripts' points at a different repository (https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app); excluded from ecosystem scoring
- npm package 'react-dev-utils' points at a different repository (https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app); excluded from ecosystem scoring
- npm package 'create-react-app' points at a different repository (https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app); excluded from ecosystem scoring
- npm package 'react-app-polyfill' points at a different repository (https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app); excluded from ecosystem scoring
- npm package 'react-error-overlay' points at a different repository (https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app); excluded from ecosystem scoring
- npm package 'babel-preset-react-app' points at a different repository (https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app); excluded from ecosystem scoring
- npm package 'cra-template-typescript' points at a different repository (https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app); excluded from ecosystem scoring
- Resolved dependency list truncated to 2000 of 2244 packages (counts remain complete)

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