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ExcaliDashvsnginx-love

Two self-hosted projects, compared on the numbers selfhost.directory tracks live: score, popularity, release cadence and setup effort.

ExcaliDashnginx-love
Score58/10050/100
Rank in category#3 of 9 in Whiteboarding#3 of 3 in Web Application Firewall
GitHub stars1 703311
Stars, last 30 days+120+-1
Stable releases, 12 months81
Latest releasev0.6.6 · 22 Oct 2026v4.01 · 31 Oct 2025
SetupEasyModerate
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseLGPL-3.0Apache-2.0
Main languageTypescriptTypescript

Which one should you pick?

ExcaliDash scores 58/100 against 50/100 for nginx-love, so it is the safer default.

ExcaliDash ships more often: 8 stable releases in the past year, against 1 for nginx-love.

If you want the quickest setup, ExcaliDash is easier to run; nginx-love needs more configuration.

ExcaliDash is growing faster right now (+120 stars in 30 days).

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