LiveCodes
Feature-rich client-side code playground for React, Vue, Svelte, Solid, Typescript, Python, Go, Ruby, PHP and 90+ other languages.
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Still maintained? Yes: 269 commits in the last 90 days, latest release v49 (May 2026).
At a glance
LiveCodes quick facts
- Health score
- 83/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 1,523
- Last commit
- 6 days ago (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- v49, May 2026
- Licence
- MIT
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Why it ranks here
Health score explained
LiveCodes scores 83/100, #8 of 14 in Software Development - IDE & Tools: 269 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (v49, 6 months ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 1,523 stars add 12.7 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and no advertised Docker image leaves the final 10 unclaimed. That places it in the good band (70 and above). The biggest shortfall is Docker support, worth 10.0 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
269 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
v49 released 6 months ago
- Stars 12.7 / 20
1.5k stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support biggest shortfall 0.0 / 10
No Docker support advertised
Commit activity
- 269
- Last 90 days
- 797
- Last 12 months
- 6 days ago
- Last push
Ranked #8 of 14 tools in Software Development - IDE & Tools by health , between Hopp (#7) and RStudio Server (#9) .
Details
| Licence | MIT |
| Platforms | Nodejs |
| Latest release | v49 · 6 months ago |
| Stars | 1,523 |
| Open issues | 21 |
| Docker | Not advertised |
| Repository | live-codes/livecodes ↗ |
LiveCodes vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with LiveCodes (Software Development - IDE & Tools), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| code-server | 100 | 80k | MIT | yesterday |
| Langfuse | 98 | 37k | MIT | today |
| Coder | 97 | 17k | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| JupyterLab | 97 | 15k | BSD-3-Clause | today |
| Lowdefy | 94 | 3k | Apache-2.0 | yesterday |
| LiveCodes (this tool) | 83 | 1.5k | MIT | 6 days ago |
LiveCodes: common questions
Is LiveCodes still maintained?
LiveCodes had 269 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 6 days ago; the latest tagged release, v49, is from 6 months ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.