Runtime-library choices span data fetching, editing, application runtimes, UI, forms, state management, and other reusable software foundations. This August 2026 ranking uses current ToolVitals health, shipping, openness, licensing, and GitHub popularity data to compare 50 source-visible tools.
The ranking includes only open/source-visible tools and orders them by ToolVitals score, with GitHub stars used as a secondary popularity signal when scores are tied. The supplied scores and ordering are retained as authoritative.
Rankings
| Rank | Tool | Openness | License | Health | Shipping | GitHub Stars | Score | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | TanStack Query | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 100 | 100 | 50050 | 100 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 2 | Tiptap | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 100 | 100 | 37886 | 100 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 3 | Deno | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 98 | 95 | 107978 | 98 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 4 | React Email | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 95 | 100 | 19544 | 98 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 5 | Effect | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 95 | 100 | 15144 | 98 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 6 | DivKit | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 93 | 100 | 2653 | 97 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 7 | DaisyUI | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 94 | 95 | 41945 | 96 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 8 | SnapDOM | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 90 | 98 | 7976 | 95 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 9 | React Hook Form | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 95 | 89 | 44810 | 94 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 10 | Material UI | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 91 | 92 | 98670 | 93 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 11 | Compose Multiplatform | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 95 | 84 | 19268 | 93 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 12 | Supervision | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 92 | 86 | 48568 | 92 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 13 | Chakra UI | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 93 | 84 | 40555 | 92 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 14 | React Jsonschema Form | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 98 | 84 | 15849 | 92 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 15 | Tamagui | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 85 | 95 | 14115 | 92 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 16 | v10 | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 88 | 92 | 887 | 92 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 17 | Lyne Components | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 85 | 98 | 66 | 92 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 18 | Ebean ORM | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 87 | 95 | 1530 | 91 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 19 | XState | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 94 | 76 | 29957 | 90 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 20 | Prisma | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 91 | 78 | 47521 | 89 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 21 | xyflow | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 87 | 82 | 37898 | 89 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 22 | NG-ZORRO | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 93 | 76 | 9164 | 89 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 23 | Aksel | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 79 | 95 | 184 | 89 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 24 | Skeleton | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 87 | 78 | 6031 | 88 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 25 | Loro | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 87 | 81 | 5998 | 88 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 26 | ZenStack | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 88 | 78 | 2924 | 88 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 27 | Yjs | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 84 | 80 | 22280 | 87 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 28 | Base UI | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 84 | 80 | 10537 | 87 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 29 | Ark UI | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 86 | 78 | 5315 | 87 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 30 | remote-store | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 78 | 88 | 6 | 87 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 31 | TypeORM | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 87 | 72 | 36612 | 86 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 32 | Regle | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 84 | 78 | 487 | 86 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 33 | Reka UI | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 88 | 69 | 6692 | 85 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 34 | iLamy Calendar | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 77 | 84 | 318 | 84 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 35 | Runmat | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 79 | 76 | 245 | 84 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 36 | Slate | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 85 | 57 | 31735 | 80 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 37 | MJML | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 81 | 59 | 18179 | 79 | 🟢 Good |
| 38 | Material Web | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 79 | 63 | 11143 | 78 | 🟢 Good |
| 39 | excelize | OSI-approved OSS | BSD-3-Clause | 84 | 48 | 20828 | 77 | 🟢 Good |
| 40 | Docx Editor | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 78 | 53 | 115 | 76 | 🟢 Good |
| 41 | Grommet | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 78 | 48 | 8356 | 74 | 🟢 Good |
| 42 | Textual | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 69 | 55 | 36831 | 73 | 🟢 Good |
| 43 | AppBase | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 74 | 52 | 4923 | 73 | 🟢 Good |
| 44 | JSON Forms | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 76 | 45 | 2724 | 72 | 🟢 Good |
| 45 | Raaghu React | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 73 | 45 | 188 | 71 | 🟢 Good |
| 46 | Naive UI | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 67 | 54 | 18479 | 69 | 🟢 Good |
| 47 | Semi Design | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 73 | 52 | 10234 | 69 | 🟢 Good |
| 48 | sveltekit-superforms | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 66 | 48 | 2767 | 69 | 🟢 Good |
| 49 | Drizzle ORM | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 71 | 36 | 35347 | 67 | 🟢 Good |
| 50 | Zod | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 73 | 30 | 43393 | 66 | 🟢 Good |
Top 3 Highlights
TanStack Query ranks first with a ToolVitals score of 100, health and shipping scores of 100, and 50,050 GitHub stars. Its first-party project description identifies it as an asynchronous state-management, server-state, and data-fetching library for TypeScript and JavaScript, with integrations for React, Solid, Svelte, and Vue. It is labeled OSI-approved OSS under the MIT license.
Tiptap ranks second with a ToolVitals score of 100, health and shipping scores of 100, and 37,886 GitHub stars. Its official site describes a headless rich-text editor framework, making it the highest-ranked editing-focused tool in this list. It is labeled OSI-approved OSS under the MIT license.
Deno ranks third with a ToolVitals score of 98, a health score of 98, a shipping score of 95, and 107,978 GitHub stars. Its first-party project description identifies it as a modern runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript. It is labeled OSI-approved OSS under the MIT license.
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