🧟 Projects we host

We curate influential but abandoned frameworks, tools, and libraries across ecosystems. Some first residents:

🪦 Mission

notdead.dev exists to:

• Preserve: Keep historic open-source projects accessible in a curated home.
• Maintain: Use AI (Codex, Copilot, etc.) to handle basic upkeep: dependency updates, build fixes, linting, and minimal modernization.
• Support: Provide compatibility patches for teams still relying on these frameworks.
• Educate: Let developers explore and learn from the software that built the web we know today.

⛏️ How it works

Each project lives in its own repository under this organization.

An AI maintenance bot runs scheduled tasks to:

• Update dependencies
• Fix builds/tests
• Apply lint and minor modernization

Pull Requests are created automatically, with humans only stepping in for reviews and big-picture decisions.

The goal is compatibility, not innovation: projects remain faithful to their original spirit.

⚰️ Projects Under consideration

• Backbone.js
• Knockout.js
• Ember.js (mostly frozen)
• Grunt
• Bower
• Gulp
• Yeoman
• Protractor
• Karma
• Jasmine (light maintenance)
• Docpad
• Wintersmith
• Hexo
• Meteor
• Rhino / Nashorn (JS on the JVM)
• Apache Struts 1.x
• YUI
• Blueprint CSS

🙏 Contributing

We welcome help!

• Suggest projects for adoption by opening an issue.
• Improve docs, fix AI mistakes, or provide historical context.

If you used one of these frameworks in production, share your story in the repo’s Discussions tab — part of our mission is honoring their history.

☠️ Disclaimer

Projects here are maintained for educational and compatibility purposes only. They are not intended as modern production-ready solutions. Use with care and love ❤️.