History

The project's life, one year at a time, told from the commit record: how activity rose and fell against the project's own baseline, who arrived when, and what was released.

Span
2009 – 2026 (18 years)
Peak year
2018
Releases
4
2009BIRTHfirst commits

915 commits (1.9%) · +644202 / −165557 lines · 35 authors

Led by Ryan Dahl (815 commits)

First commits: Ryan Dahl, Felix Geisendörfer, Urban Hafner, Isaac Z. Schlueter, Tim Caswell, Friedemann Altrock (+29 more)

Released: v0.0.4, v0.0.6, v0.1.1, v0.1.6

2010STEADY

1954 commits (4.1%) · +1005062 / −472381 lines · 135 authors

Led by Ryan Dahl (1191 commits)

First commits: Bert Belder, Herbert Vojčík, Peter Griess, Paul Querna, Matt Ranney, Tom Hughes (+112 more)

2011STEADY

2346 commits (4.9%) · +1690196 / −921198 lines · 158 authors

Led by Ryan Dahl (984 commits)

First commits: Koichi Kobayashi, Igor Zinkovsky, Maciej Małecki, Henry Rawas, Peter Bright, Ryan Emery (+120 more)

2012STEADY

2368 commits (4.9%) · +925071 / −490740 lines · 184 authors

Led by Isaac Z. Schlueter (861 commits)

First commits: Timothy J Fontaine, Ryunosuke SATO, Sambasiva Suda, Yang Guo, Jonas Westerlund, Bryan Cantrill (+129 more)

2013STEADY

1961 commits (4.1%) · +898277 / −480844 lines · 168 authors

Led by Isaac Z. Schlueter (569 commits)

First commits: Sam Roberts, Miroslav Bajtoš, Alexis Campailla, Yorkie Liu, Andrei Sedoi, Wyatt Preul (+115 more)

2014STEADY

1076 commits (2.2%) · +1163893 / −508347 lines · 184 authors

Led by Fedor Indutny (220 commits)

First commits: Julien Gilli, Colin Ihrig, Saúl Ibarra Corretgé, Chris Dickinson, Refael Ackermann, Steven R. Loomis (+133 more)

2015STEADY

2314 commits (4.8%) · +2169976 / −1156469 lines · 294 authors

Led by Ben Noordhuis (262 commits)

First commits: Rich Trott, Sakthipriyan Vairamani, Jeremiah Senkpiel, Roman Reiss, Tristian Flanagan, Michaël Zasso (+220 more)

2016STEADY

3159 commits (6.6%) · +2605183 / −1372233 lines · 564 authors

Led by Rich Trott (441 commits)

First commits: Eugene Ostroukhov, Daniel Bevenius, vsemozhetbyt, Adrián Estrada, Josh Gavant, Alexander Makarenko (+452 more)

2017SURGEwell above the usual pace

4600 commits (9.6%) · +1848564 / −1402543 lines · 871 authors

Led by Rich Trott (480 commits)

First commits: Anatoli Papirovski, Tobias Nießen, Jon Moss, David Benjamin, Weijia Wang, Alexey Orlenko (+722 more)

2018PEAKbusiest year

4685 commits (9.7%) · +4984308 / −2326471 lines · 745 authors

Led by Rich Trott (441 commits)

First commits: Ujjwal Sharma, Masashi Hirano, Yongsheng Zhang, Sam Ruby, Ouyang Yadong, Denys Otrishko (+568 more)

2019STEADY

4001 commits (8.3%) · +1530424 / −884176 lines · 452 authors

Led by Rich Trott (440 commits)

First commits: Alex Aubuchon, dnlup, Nick Schonning, Alex Yang, David CARLIER, Sebastien Ahkrin (+308 more)

2020STEADY

3370 commits (7.0%) · +1546739 / −1214138 lines · 354 authors

Led by Rich Trott (452 commits)

First commits: Andrey Pechkurov, Yash Ladha, Pooja D P, Darshan Sen, ZiJian Liu, sapics (+211 more)

2021STEADY

2583 commits (5.4%) · +5772429 / −2749919 lines · 292 authors

Led by Rich Trott (510 commits)

First commits: Mohammed Keyvanzadeh, Akhil Marsonya, Node.js GitHub Bot, Qingyu Deng, npm team, Mestery (+172 more)

2022STEADY

2586 commits (5.4%) · +1387975 / −1760594 lines · 314 authors

Led by Tobias Nießen (206 commits)

First commits: Livia Medeiros, Daeyeon Jeong, theanarkh, Yagiz Nizipli, Moshe Atlow, Kohei (+191 more)

2023STEADY

2697 commits (5.6%) · +2734848 / −1872714 lines · 341 authors

Led by Node.js GitHub Bot (237 commits)

First commits: Chemi Atlow, Jungku Lee, Matthew Aitken, Aras Abbasi, Vinicius Lourenço, CanadaHonk (+202 more)

2024STEADY

2604 commits (5.4%) · +1759685 / −1291533 lines · 335 authors

Led by Node.js GitHub Bot (233 commits)

First commits: Aviv Keller, Hüseyin Açacak, Pietro Marchini, Alfredo González, Edy Silva, Giovanni Bucci (+191 more)

2025STEADY

2551 commits (5.3%) · +4436416 / −1541372 lines · 321 authors

Led by Node.js GitHub Bot (194 commits)

First commits: Dario Piotrowicz, Aditi, Dan McDonald, Miguel Marcondes Filho, Moonki Choi, Bruno Rodrigues (+169 more)

2026STEADY

2369 commits (4.9%) · +3576008 / −2718845 lines · 325 authors

Led by Node.js GitHub Bot (206 commits)

First commits: Mike McCready, Archkon, greenhead, Kirill Saied, Donghoon Kang, Yuya Inoue (+178 more)