JavaScript and TypeScript projects that answer outside pull requests

In the Porchlamp snapshot of 17 October 2026.

Porchlamp ranks 1,325 JavaScript and TypeScript projects by what happens to a stranger's pull request. Among the 1,078 judged npm projects, 20.8% left most outside pull requests unanswered for two weeks, against 19.9% across all six ecosystems.

The top 50

The table lists the top 50 by the balanced ranking. Each name opens that project's page.

Top 50 JavaScript and TypeScript projects by the balanced ranking
Rank	Project	Score	Tier
1	WordPress/gutenberg	81.66	B (capped)
2	meshery/meshery	79.10	B (capped)
3	webdriverio/webdriverio	78.66	A (capped)
4	freeCodeCamp/freeCodeCamp	77.64	B (capped)
5	ant-design/ant-design	76.86	B (capped)
6	vercel/next.js	76.14	B (capped)
7	redis/node-redis	74.39	A
8	carbon-design-system/carbon	73.53	A (capped)
9	babel/babel	73.48	A
10	ueberdosis/tiptap	73.25	A (capped)
11	markedjs/marked	72.83	A
12	nuxt/nuxt	72.45	A (capped)
13	faker-js/faker	72.35	A
14	supabase/supabase	72.18	A (capped)
15	career-ops-hq/career-ops	72.08	A (capped)
16	apache/maka	72.02	A (capped)
17	microsoft/vscode	71.89	B (capped)
18	rjsf-team/react-jsonschema-form	71.75	A
19	storybookjs/storybook	71.30	A (capped)
20	chimurai/http-proxy-middleware	71.25	B (capped)
21	RaspberryPiFoundation/blockly	71.17	A (capped)
22	sidorares/node-mysql2	71.02	A
23	grafana/grafana	70.93	B (capped)
24	flybywiresim/aircraft	70.57	A (capped)
25	nexu-io/open-design	70.29	A (capped)
26	maplibre/maplibre-gl-js	70.27	A (capped)
27	jupyterlab/jupyterlab	70.17	A (capped)
28	openai/openai-node	69.73	B
29	eslint/eslint	69.70	B
30	withastro/starlight	69.21	B
31	cloudflare/workers-sdk	69.21	B
32	redis/ioredis	69.19	B
33	isomorphic-git/isomorphic-git	69.17	B
34	highlightjs/highlight.js	68.93	B
35	pmndrs/zustand	68.83	B
36	directus/directus	68.64	B
37	elastic/eui	68.47	B
38	prettier/prettier	68.37	B
39	conventional-changelog/commitlint	68.31	B
40	algolia/docsearch	68.29	B
41	is-a-dev/register	68.24	B (capped)
42	chaijs/chai	68.19	B
43	stylelint/stylelint	68.09	B
44	stdlib-js/stdlib	68.04	B
45	recharts/recharts	67.94	B
46	angular/angular	67.86	B
47	nodejs/node	67.85	B
48	react-hook-form/react-hook-form	67.83	B
49	TheOdinProject/curriculum	67.82	B
50	orval-labs/orval	67.68	B

Method and data

How every number is measured: Porchlamp methodology.
Why stars do not decide it: the black-hole report.
All 4,322 ranked projects as a table: porchlamp-2026-10-17-ranked.csv. Released under CC BY 4.0.