mdn/fred
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MDN's frontend since late 2025, built with Web Components, Lit, and SSR for a fast, clean documentation experience. Fred = /fr(ont)e(n)d/.
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Activity25
Community25
Maintenance3
Popularity25
Should you contribute to mdn/fred?
mdn/fred has a FoundDev health score of 78/100, which puts it in the active-and-maintained tier. The maintainer team is shipping recently, issues are being closed, and a PR you open this week has a realistic chance of being reviewed.
Last push was 0 days ago — that signals an actively maintained project. New issues are likely to get a maintainer response within days. The project is written primarily in JavaScript, so prior JavaScript experience will shorten ramp-up.
Licensed under MPL-2.0, a standard OSI-approved license — safe to contribute to under normal employer IP policies.
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