# webpack/webpack — health index 83/100 (Good)

> Inspection of the public repository webpack/webpack by inspect.software. It holds a health index of 83 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/webpack/webpack
- Report page: https://inspect.software/software/webpack/webpack
- Full JSON report: https://inspect.software/api/repositories/webpack/webpack/report
- Badge: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/inspect-software/badges/main/v1/w/webpack/webpack.svg
- Inspected: 2026-07-13
- Methodology: metrics 1.13.0, report schema 0.9.0 (https://inspect.software/methodology.md)

## Category summary

| Category | Weight | Index | Band |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vitality | 22% | 99/100 | Excellent |
| Community & Adoption | 18% | 97/100 | Excellent |
| Sustainability & Governance | 24% | 72/100 | Good |
| Engineering Quality | 20% | 80/100 | Good |
| Security | 16% | 66/100 | Moderate |
| AI Readiness | not counted | 72/100 | Good |

## Repository facts

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | A bundler for javascript and friends. Packs many modules into a few bundled assets. Code Splitting allows for loading parts of the application on demand. Through "loaders", modules can be CommonJs, AMD, ES6 modules, CSS, Images, JSON, Coffeescript, LESS, ... and your custom stuff. |
| Homepage | https://webpack.js.org |
| Primary language | JavaScript |
| License | MIT |
| Stars | 65,947 |
| Forks | 9,509 |
| Created | 2012-03-10 |
| Last push | 2026-07-12 |
| Latest release | v5.108.4 |
| Commits (last year) | 1,103 |
| Bus factor | 1 |
| Topics | amd, build-tool, commonjs, compiler, es2015, es6, esm, javascript, javascript-compiler, javascript-modules, loaders, module-bundler, plugins, web, web-performance, webpack |

## Published packages

| Registry | Package | Latest | Monthly downloads |
|---|---|---|---|
| npm | webpack | 5.108.4 | 200,966,832 |

## Vitality — 99/100 (Excellent)

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

### Development activity — 99/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Push recency | met | 36 / 36 | last push 0 days ago |
| Commit cadence | partial | 34.6 / 36 | 50/52 weeks with commits |
| Commit volume | met | 18 / 18 | 1103 commits in the last year |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Maintained | met | 10 / 10 | 30 commit(s) and 16 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10 |

### Release discipline — 100/100 (Excellent)

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

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ships releases | met | 27 / 27 | 100 releases published |
| Release recency | met | 36 / 36 | latest release 8 days ago |
| Release cadence | met | 27 / 27 | a release every ~9.5 days |
| 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 — 97/100 (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 | 65,947 stars |
| Forks | met | 25 / 25 | 9,509 forks |
| Watchers | met | 15 / 15 | 1,512 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 | — |

### Ecosystem adoption (downloads) — 100/100 (Excellent)

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

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly downloads | met | 80 / 80 | 200,966,832 downloads/month across npm |
| Registry dependents | excluded | 0 / 20 | not reported by this ecosystem |

## Sustainability & Governance — 72/100 (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) — 42/100 (At risk)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bus factor | partial | 9 / 54 | 1 contributor(s) cover half of all commits |
| Commit distribution | partial | 10 / 22.5 | top contributor authored 56% of commits |
| Contributor breadth | met | 13.5 / 13.5 | 100 contributors |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Contributors | met | 10 / 10 | project has 87 contributing companies or organizations |

### Issue & PR responsiveness — 79/100 (Good)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Issue resolution | partial | 46.4 / 46.8 | 99% of issues closed |
| PR acceptance | partial | 26.2 / 38.2 | 6037/8814 decided PRs merged |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Code-Review | partial | 6 / 15 | Found 11/26 approved changesets -- score normalized to 4 |

### Ownership & stewardship — 78/100 (Good)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ownership backing | met | 30 / 30 | organization-owned |
| Verified domain | not met | 0 / 20 | — |
| Owner reach | partial | 22.5 / 25 | 1,340 followers of webpack |
| Track record | met | 25 / 25 | 86 public repos, account ~13 yr old |

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

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Published & resolvable | met | 25 / 25 | 1 package(s) on npm |
| Publish recency | met | 35 / 35 | latest publish 8 days ago |
| Version history | met | 20 / 20 | 880 published versions |
| Not deprecated | met | 20 / 20 | active, not deprecated or yanked |

## Engineering Quality — 80/100 (Good)

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 | 9 workflow(s) |
| Tests present | met | 24 / 24 | — |
| Linter config | met | 16 / 16 | eslint.config.mjs |
| Pre-commit hooks | not met | 0 / 9.6 | — |
| .editorconfig | met | 6.4 / 6.4 | — |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: CI-Tests | met | 20 / 20 | 30 out of 30 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 10 |

### 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://webpack.js.org |
| Repository description | met | 10 / 10 | — |
| Topics | met | 10 / 10 | 16 topics |
| Wiki | not met | 0 / 10 | — |

## Security — 66/100 (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 — 66/100 (Moderate)

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

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Binary-Artifacts | not met | 0 / 7.5 | binaries present in source code |
| Branch-Protection | partial | 3.8 / 7.5 | branch protection is not maximal on development and all release branches |
| CI-Tests | met | 2.5 / 2.5 | 30 out of 30 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 | 3 / 7.5 | Found 11/26 approved changesets -- score normalized to 4 |
| Contributors | met | 2.5 / 2.5 | project has 87 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 | met | 7.5 / 7.5 | 30 commit(s) and 16 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10 |
| Packaging | excluded | 0 / 5 | packaging workflow not detected |
| Pinned-Dependencies | met | 5 / 5 | all dependencies are pinned |
| SAST | partial | 4 / 5 | SAST tool is not run on all commits -- score normalized to 8 |
| 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 | met | 7.5 / 7.5 | 0 existing vulnerabilities detected |

### 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 | AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md |
| Machine-readable docs (llms.txt) | not met | 0 / 15 | — |
| Legible commit history | excluded | 0 / 40 | no data |

### Verify loop (build / test / typecheck) — 77/100 (Good)

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Demonstrated agent practice. 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 | eslint.config.mjs |
| Static type checking | met | 11 / 11 | assembly/tsconfig.json, examples/source-mapping-url/node_modules/library/tsconfig.json, examples/typescript-non-erasable/tsconfig.json, examples/typescript/tsconfig.json, examples/virtual-modules/tsconfig.json, test/configCases/library/module-reexport-type/tsconfig.json, test/configCases/require/cjs-and-mjs/tsconfig.json, test/configCases/typescript/basic/tsconfig.json, test/configCases/typescript/conditional-exports/tsconfig.json, test/configCases/typescript/conflict-resolution/tsconfig.json, test/configCases/typescript/data-uri/tsconfig.json, test/configCases/typescript/directory-index-resolution/tsconfig.json, test/configCases/typescript/dynamic-import/tsconfig.json, test/configCases/typescript/experiments-and-ts-loader/tsconfig.json, test/configCases/typescript/imports-field/tsconfig.json, test/configCases/typescript/loader-source-map/tsconfig.json, test/configCases/typescript/mts-cts/tsconfig.json, test/configCases/typescript/provided-exports/tsconfig.json, test/configCases/typescript/query-and-hash/tsconfig.json, test/configCases/typescript/require/tsconfig.json, test/configCases/typescript/side-effects-and-only-types/tsconfig.json, test/configCases/typescript/type-only-imports/tsconfig.json, tsconfig.json |
| Reproducible environment | met | 10 / 10 | lockfile |
| Demonstrated agent practice | excluded | 0 / 10 | no data |
| Automated maintenance | partial | 5 / 8 | dependency automation configured, none observed in the sampled commits |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Pinned-Dependencies | met | 10 / 10 | all dependencies are pinned |

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

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type-checkable code | partial | 27 / 45 | JavaScript with type-check config (assembly/tsconfig.json, examples/source-mapping-url/node_modules/library/tsconfig.json, examples/typescript-non-erasable/tsconfig.json, examples/typescript/tsconfig.json, examples/virtual-modules/tsconfig.json, test/configCases/library/module-reexport-type/tsconfig.json, test/configCases/require/cjs-and-mjs/tsconfig.json, test/configCases/typescript/basic/tsconfig.json, test/configCases/typescript/conditional-exports/tsconfig.json, test/configCases/typescript/conflict-resolution/tsconfig.json, test/configCases/typescript/data-uri/tsconfig.json, test/configCases/typescript/directory-index-resolution/tsconfig.json, test/configCases/typescript/dynamic-import/tsconfig.json, test/configCases/typescript/experiments-and-ts-loader/tsconfig.json, test/configCases/typescript/imports-field/tsconfig.json, test/configCases/typescript/loader-source-map/tsconfig.json, test/configCases/typescript/mts-cts/tsconfig.json, test/configCases/typescript/provided-exports/tsconfig.json, test/configCases/typescript/query-and-hash/tsconfig.json, test/configCases/typescript/require/tsconfig.json, test/configCases/typescript/side-effects-and-only-types/tsconfig.json, test/configCases/typescript/type-only-imports/tsconfig.json, tsconfig.json) |
| Manageable file sizes | partial | 54.8 / 55 | 30/10219 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 |

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