RapidForge
Lightweight platform for building webhooks, scheduled tasks and pages. Implement your logic with Bash or Lua.
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Still maintained? Yes: 5 commits in the last 90 days, latest release v0.15.0 (Jul 2026).
At a glance
RapidForge quick facts
- Health score
- 47/100 SLOWING
- Stars
- 44
- Last commit
- 7 days ago (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- v0.15.0, Jul 2026
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "A lightweight, self hosted platform for building and deploying webhooks, APIs and scheduled tasks using simple scripts."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
RapidForge scores 47/100, #11 of 14 in Software Development - IDE & Tools: 5 commits in the last 90 days earn 5.8 of 35 points, the latest release (v0.15.0, 4 months ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 44 stars add 6.6 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and no advertised Docker image leaves the final 10 unclaimed. That places it in the slowing band (40 to 69). The biggest shortfall is commit activity, worth 29.2 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity biggest shortfall 5.8 / 35
5 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
v0.15.0 released 4 months ago
- Stars 6.6 / 20
44 stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 0.0 / 10
No Docker support advertised
Commit activity
- 5
- Last 90 days
- 92
- Last 12 months
- 7 days ago
- Last push
Ranked #11 of 14 tools in Software Development - IDE & Tools by health , between Judge0 CE (#10) and Azimutt (#12) .
Details
| Licence | Apache-2.0 |
| Platforms | Go, Nodejs |
| Latest release | v0.15.0 · 4 months ago |
| Stars | 44 |
| Open issues | 13 |
| Docker | Not advertised |
| Repository | rapidforge-io/rapidforge ↗ |
RapidForge vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with RapidForge (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 |
| RapidForge (this tool) | 47 | 44 | Apache-2.0 | 7 days ago |
RapidForge: common questions
Is RapidForge still maintained?
RapidForge had 5 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 7 days ago; the latest tagged release, v0.15.0, is from 4 months ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.