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vercel/next.js

Star momentum, maintenance concentration, contributor health, and codebase change — one report built from public repository data.

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Current stars
142,321
Activity since
2016
Latest activity
Sep 2026

Public star activity

Last 30 days
+99
Last 90 days
+133
Actions / day
42
Public star actions
stars from October 25, 2016 to September 16, 2026, peaking at 151,739.152k STARS9 YR 11 MO152kSEP 2026OCT 2016

151,739 stars on September 16, 2026.

stars by date
Datestars
October 25, 20161,234
November 11, 20165,644
November 20, 20166,244
December 8, 20167,134
December 25, 20167,723
January 3, 20177,989
January 21, 20178,544
February 8, 20179,057
February 16, 20179,279
March 6, 20179,603
March 24, 201710,266
April 2, 201711,891
April 19, 201712,659
May 7, 201713,434
May 16, 201713,827
June 3, 201714,466
June 20, 201714,894
June 29, 201715,163
July 17, 201715,917
August 4, 201716,611
August 12, 201716,872
August 30, 201717,401
September 17, 201717,865
September 26, 201718,088
October 13, 201718,756
October 31, 201719,465
November 9, 201719,788
November 27, 201720,332
December 14, 201720,910
December 23, 201721,226
January 10, 201822,103
January 27, 201822,855
February 5, 201823,273
February 23, 201823,875
March 13, 201824,505
March 21, 201824,814
April 9, 201825,312
April 27, 201825,851
May 6, 201826,137
May 23, 201826,708
June 10, 201827,308
June 19, 201827,609
July 7, 201828,147
July 24, 201828,657
August 2, 201828,907
August 20, 201829,398
September 7, 201829,990
September 15, 201830,209
October 3, 201831,061
October 21, 201831,785
October 30, 201832,082
November 16, 201832,651
December 4, 201833,255
December 13, 201833,549
December 31, 201834,062
January 17, 201934,705
January 26, 201935,025
February 13, 201935,716
March 2, 201936,422
March 11, 201936,752
March 29, 201937,331
April 16, 201937,906
May 3, 201938,391
May 12, 201938,686
May 30, 201939,262
June 17, 201939,705
June 25, 201939,940
July 13, 201940,602
July 31, 201941,306
August 9, 201941,594
August 26, 201942,161
September 13, 201942,625
September 22, 201942,859
October 10, 201943,395
October 27, 201943,936
November 5, 201944,165
November 23, 201944,711
December 10, 201945,235
December 19, 201945,490
January 6, 202045,981
January 24, 202046,631
February 2, 202046,922
February 19, 202047,505
March 8, 202048,105
March 17, 202048,486
April 3, 202049,090
April 21, 202049,864
April 30, 202050,334
May 18, 202051,313
June 4, 202052,226
June 13, 202052,623
July 1, 202053,326
July 19, 202054,108
July 27, 202054,512
August 14, 202055,344
September 2, 202056,090
September 11, 202056,513
September 28, 202057,261
October 16, 202058,059
October 25, 202058,445
November 12, 202060,802
November 29, 202061,918
December 8, 202062,366
December 26, 202063,286
January 12, 202164,448
January 21, 202165,043
February 8, 202167,149
February 26, 202168,114
March 7, 202169,158
March 24, 202169,977
April 11, 202170,894
April 20, 202171,316
May 7, 202172,075
May 28, 202173,524
June 6, 202173,907
June 24, 202176,144
July 11, 202176,997
July 20, 202177,474
August 7, 202178,323
August 28, 202179,591
September 5, 202179,963
September 23, 202180,729
October 11, 202181,394
October 20, 202181,516
November 9, 202182,453
November 27, 202183,676
December 6, 202184,183
December 24, 202185,217
January 10, 202286,171
January 19, 202286,762
February 6, 202287,980
February 23, 202289,039
March 4, 202289,751
March 22, 202290,764
April 9, 202292,434
April 18, 202293,001
May 5, 202293,932
May 23, 202294,823
June 1, 202295,279
June 18, 202296,093
July 6, 202297,071
July 15, 202297,533
August 2, 202298,536
August 19, 202299,457
August 28, 2022100,030
September 15, 2022101,035
October 3, 2022101,905
October 11, 2022102,275
October 29, 2022103,827
November 16, 2022105,216
November 25, 2022105,681
December 12, 2022106,441
December 30, 2022107,230
January 8, 2023107,752
January 26, 2023108,788
February 12, 2023109,983
February 21, 2023110,563
March 11, 2023111,603
March 28, 2023112,676
April 6, 2023113,336
April 24, 2023114,497
May 12, 2023115,676
May 21, 2023116,207
June 7, 2023117,189
June 25, 2023118,123
July 4, 2023118,576
July 21, 2023119,398
August 8, 2023120,211
August 17, 2023120,674
September 4, 2023121,506
September 21, 2023122,472
September 30, 2023123,095
October 18, 2023124,023
November 5, 2023125,153
November 13, 2023125,509
December 1, 2023126,315
December 19, 2023126,933
December 28, 2023127,279
January 14, 2024128,059
February 1, 2024129,099
February 19, 2024129,914
February 28, 2024130,310
March 16, 2024131,052
April 3, 2024131,873
April 12, 2024132,252
April 29, 2024132,936
May 17, 2024133,603
May 26, 2024133,945
June 13, 2024134,644
June 30, 2024135,200
July 9, 2024135,685
July 27, 2024136,305
August 14, 2024136,922
August 22, 2024137,205
September 9, 2024137,895
September 27, 2024138,634
October 6, 2024138,890
October 23, 2024139,935
November 10, 2024140,915
November 19, 2024141,194
December 7, 2024141,783
December 24, 2024142,317
January 2, 2025142,594
January 20, 2025143,190
February 7, 2025143,739
February 15, 2025144,062
March 5, 2025144,697
March 23, 2025145,371
April 1, 2025145,665
April 18, 2025146,202
May 6, 2025146,731
May 15, 2025146,994
June 1, 2025147,382
June 19, 2025147,668
June 28, 2025147,954
July 16, 2025148,298
August 2, 2025148,631
August 11, 2025148,765
August 29, 2025149,078
September 16, 2025149,364
September 24, 2025149,480
October 17, 2025149,736
November 4, 2025149,923
November 13, 2025150,027
November 30, 2025150,193
December 18, 2025150,495
December 27, 2025150,594
January 14, 2026150,775
January 31, 2026150,923
February 9, 2026150,991
February 27, 2026151,156
March 17, 2026151,283
March 25, 2026151,321
April 12, 2026151,451
May 1, 2026151,523
May 11, 2026151,549
May 31, 2026151,589
July 2, 2026151,630
August 14, 2026151,640
September 16, 2026151,739

The last 90 days run behind its lifetime average, which is ordinary for a mature project.

Observed activity milestones: 100 around Oct 20161k around Oct 201610k around Mar 2017100k around Aug 2022

The commit history reads vercel/next.js a second time

methodology

Fix-labelled changes, file change frequency, ownership concentration and maintenance cadence, each computed from this repository's analyzed commit window. None of them is derived from stars, which is why they are allowed to disagree with the curve above.

Fix-labelled changes
Fix-labelled changes for vercel/next.js
File change frequency
File change frequency for vercel/next.js
Bus factor
Bus factor for vercel/next.js
Maintenance pulse
Maintenance pulse for vercel/next.js
Contributors
Contributors for vercel/next.js
Language activity
Language activity for vercel/next.js
Commit activity
Commit activity for vercel/next.js
Recent TODO/FIXME movement
Recent TODO/FIXME movement for vercel/next.js

Attention is not adoption.

Stars against usage

No published package was detected for this repository, so there is nothing to lay over star growth.

Earned badges

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Maintenance, ownership and star-momentum signals, computed from the same commit and star history and embeddable as static images.

Reading badge evidence for vercel/next.js.

Notes on vercel/next.js

How many stars does vercel/next.js have?
GitHub currently reports 142,321 stars for vercel/next.js. The chart itself is rebuilt from historical star data, which records star actions and not unstars, so it reads as an attention signal rather than a net star count.
What does recent star activity look like for next.js?
gitdebt observed about 133 public star actions for vercel/next.js over the latest 90 days of archive coverage (about 99 in the latest 30). This is an approximate attention signal, not a net-star count, because unstars are not present. That's below its lifetime average activity pace, which is common for mature projects.
Is next.js still active?
Public archive data shows about 99 star actions for vercel/next.js in the latest 30 days of coverage. For repository activity, use the commit heatmap, commit trend, and contributor charts on this page.
When was next.js created?
vercel/next.js was created on October 5, 2016. The first public star activity observed for vercel/next.js is from Oct 2016.

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