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temporalvsvanilla-cookbook

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

temporalvanilla-cookbook
Score82/10046/100
Rank in category#1 of 1 in Workflow#13 of 18 in Recipe Management
GitHub stars24 063158
Stars, last 30 days+785+0
Stable releases, 12 months1113
Latest releasev1.30.8 · 12 Oct 2026v1.6.1 · 28 Oct 2026
SetupAdvancedEasy
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseMITGPL-3.0
Main languageGoJavaScript

Which one should you pick?

temporal scores 82/100 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 11 for temporal.

If you want the quickest setup, vanilla-cookbook is easier to run; temporal needs more configuration.

temporal is growing faster right now (+785 stars in 30 days).

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