Barbajs by barbajs

Create badass, fluid and smooth transitions between your website’s pages

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Verdict 74/100 health $4.13/mo cheapest, hetzner 2/5 setup difficulty Last release 1.7 years ago

Self-host Barbajs on hetzner CAX11 for $4.13/mo.

Health score
74 /100
6-dim composite
Self-hosts from
$4.13 /mo
hetzner · CAX11
Difficulty
2 /5
Docker + read README
GitHub stars
13k
491 forks

About Barbajs

From the project's README at github.com/barbajs/barba. Lightly cleaned for readability; for the full source see the upstream repo.

Create badass, fluid and smooth transitions between your website’s pages.

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Health score breakdown

6-dimension composite. See methodology for formula and weights.

activity
80
maturity
82
community
90
security
70
sustainability
100
adoption
35

Adoption signals

Real-world usage data, pulled from each registry. The bigger the numbers, the more battle-tested the project.

SignalValueSource
GitHub stars 13k github.com/barbajs/barba
GitHub forks 491 github.com/barbajs/barba
NPM downloads (last month) 61 barba

Release & maintenance

Is this project actively maintained, or about to die? Check the recency of last commit and last release.

Project age10.5 yearssince Nov 2015
Last commit1.4 years agoDec 2, 2024
Releases shipped11last: 1.7 years ago
Funding links1declared by maintainers

Self-hosting cost across providers

Detected requirements: 4GB RAM, 40GB disk minimum. Cheapest plan per provider that meets the requirement.

ProviderPlanSpecsMonthly
hetzner CAX11 2c · 4GB · 40GB $4.13 USD Deploy →
vultr VC2 1c · 1GB · 25GB $5 USD Deploy →
linode Nanode 1GB 1c · 1GB · 25GB $5.12 USD Deploy →
digitalocean Basic Regular 1GB 1c · 1GB · 25GB $6 USD Deploy →

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Ready to self-host Barbajs?

Spin up a hetzner CAX11 (4GB RAM, 40GB disk) for $4.13/mo and follow the project's official install docs.

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