DanFessler/trellis

Fractal layouts for web apps: nest panels to any depth, zoom to the part you need, and keep every view alive.

Web & frontendTypeScript

4.3 Early signal Magnitude out of 10 — how fast interest is growing, not a quality score. Star growth looks organic. Data as of September 27, 2026, 15:40 UTC.

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About the project

A layout engine for web apps: panels nest to any depth, the view zooms to the part you need, and every view stays mounted. Ships as a framework-agnostic core, a React adapter and a web component.

Useful for

Build an IDE-like interface with explorer, terminal and live-preview iframe
Create a paint program with documents on the stage and floating tool palettes
Assemble a desktop-like environment with a dock, minimap and free zoom

README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.

Why it’s trending

79 stars so far today, about 109 expected by the end of the day.
The spike has held for 2 days in a row — not a one-off blip.
The repository is 1 day old and already has 97 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet.
Top new repositories this week: #152.

Stars per day

Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.

Numbers

Total stars: 97
Today: 79 · ≈ 109 by evening
Forks: 2
Issues and pull requests: 0
Watchers: 0
Language: TypeScript
Created: September 26, 2026
Last push: September 26, 2026

Star trust

Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.

These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.

Spotted in

September 27, 2026Top new repositories this week: #152

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