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ra5k/handlebars
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A Handlebars implementation written in PHP

v0.2(7y ago)017BSD-3-ClausePHPPHP >=7.0

Since Jan 13Pushed 7y ago1 watchersCompare

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A Handlebars implementation that does not need to generate PHP code
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###  Health Score

22

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LowBetter than 22% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity6

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity47

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~14 days

Total

2

Last Release

2664d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/731e6ea9287b0644f7f42c6e46051452219acc3689a550ba709f84fb53b94e3f?d=identicon)[ra5k](/maintainers/ra5k)

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Top Contributors

[![ra5k](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/9102325?v=4)](https://github.com/ra5k "ra5k (8 commits)")

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Tags

handlebarsmustacheoop-principlestemplate-enginephplibrarytemplatingmustacheOOPhandlears

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

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