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Shieldsvsvanilla-cookbook

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

Shieldsvanilla-cookbook
Score80/10046/100
Rank in category#6 of 166 in Developer Tools#13 of 18 in Recipe Management
GitHub stars27 331158
Stars, last 30 days+125+0
Stable releases, 12 months013
Latest release—v1.6.1 · 28 Oct 2026
SetupEasyEasy
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseApache-2.0GPL-3.0
Main languageJavaScriptJavaScript

Which one should you pick?

Shields scores 80/100 against 46/100 for vanilla-cookbook, so it is the safer default.

vanilla-cookbook ships more often: 13 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for Shields.

Shields is growing faster right now (+125 stars in 30 days).

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