code-server vs Lowdefy

Both are self-hosted software development - ide & tools projects. This page compares how well each one is actually maintained — the part you cannot see from a feature list.

code-server and Lowdefy are closely matched on maintenance health (77 vs 77). Neither is the safer bet on activity alone, so choose on features, licence and the stack you already run.
code-serverLowdefy
Health score 77/100 77/100
Commits (11 mo) 264 2450
Commits (last 3 mo) 98 583
Stars 79k 3k
Latest release 26 Sept 2026 9 Sept 2026
Licence MIT Apache-2.0
Built with Nodejs, Docker Nodejs, Docker
Typical RAM 2 GB 1 GB

code-server

VS Code in the browser, hosted on a remote server.

77/100
Healthy

Actively maintained with regular releases.

Maintenance 20/40
Releases 25/25
Community 20/20
Momentum 12/15

Commit activity more than 50% of tracked projects; popularity in the top 1%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 13 commits 2025-11: 6 commits 2025-12: 10 commits 2026-01: 19 commits 2026-02: 4 commits 2026-03: 39 commits 2026-04: 30 commits 2026-05: 45 commits 2026-06: 40 commits 2026-07: 26 commits 2026-08: 32 commits

Lowdefy

Build internal tools, BI dashboards, admin panels, CRUD apps and workflows in minutes using YAML / JSON.

77/100
Healthy

Actively maintained with regular releases.

Maintenance 37/40
Releases 25/25
Community 11/20
Momentum 4/15

Commit activity more than 92% of tracked projects; popularity more than 57%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 22 commits 2025-11: 8 commits 2025-12: 1 commits 2026-01: 188 commits 2026-02: 325 commits 2026-03: 785 commits 2026-04: 363 commits 2026-05: 175 commits 2026-06: 44 commits 2026-07: 332 commits 2026-08: 207 commits

How to read this

Everything above is measured, not opinion: commit counts and release dates come from the public repositories, and the health score ranks each project against all 1352 projects we track. Read the full method.

What this comparison deliberately does not do is tell you which has the better feature set. Maintenance health tells you which project will still be receiving security fixes in two years. Decide that first, then compare features on the projects that survive the filter.

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