Source: https://seerepo.com/compare/eggjs/egg/vs/TryGhost/Ghost
Markdown source: https://seerepo.com/compare/eggjs/egg/vs/TryGhost/Ghost.md
Description: egg and Ghost share 6 technologies: Express, js-yaml, Zod, Ajv, ajv-formats, and Cheerio. Both are written in TypeScript.

# egg vs Ghost

egg and Ghost share 6 technologies: Express, js-yaml, Zod, Ajv, ajv-formats, and Cheerio. Both are written in TypeScript.

- [eggjs/egg](https://seerepo.com/r/eggjs/egg): 🥚🥚🥚🥚 Born to build better enterprise frameworks and apps with Node.js & Koa. https://codewiki.google/github.com/eggjs/egg
- [TryGhost/Ghost](https://seerepo.com/r/TryGhost/Ghost): Independent technology for modern publishing, memberships, subscriptions and newsletters.

## What they share and what sets them apart

- In common: Express, js-yaml, Zod, Ajv, ajv-formats, Cheerio
- Only in egg: koa-bodyparser, koa-compose, Redis, koa-range, MCP, sqlstring, escape-html, mustache, ajv-keywords, typebox, Nunjucks, LangChain
- Only in Ghost: Vite, React, React Router, Preact, bson-objectid, Sentry, @isaacs/ttlcache, bullmq, cache-manager, lru-cache, Stripe, Mailgun, Hono, Tailwind CSS, sonner, Radix UI, React Hook Form, html2canvas-pro, dompurify, @hookform/resolvers, @codemirror/theme-one-dark, CodeMirror, xyflow, @uiw/react-codemirror, dnd-kit, @floating-ui/react-dom, @tanstack/react-virtual, D3, Lucide, papaparse, validator, Headless UI, tiptap, react-day-picker, class-variance-authority, tailwind-merge, recharts, cmdk, @number-flow/react, react-dropzone, country-flag-icons, knex, jsonwebtoken, express-session, otplib, cookie-session, jose, handlebars, sanitize-html, sharp, entities, file-type, image-size, html-to-text, node-html-markdown, probe-image-size, rss, cron-validate, lexical, markdown-it, markdown-it-footnote, markdown-it-mark, markdown-it-sub, markdown-it-sup, emoji-mart, @lezer/highlight, react-colorful, react-error-boundary, @lexical/markdown, prop-types, nodemailer

## Side by side

| | egg | Ghost |
|---|---|---|
| Size | 199,875 lines written, 1,062 code files | 1,229,446 lines written, 4,191 code files |
| Who writes it | 8.8% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, CodeRabbit, and Cursor | 1.5% of its commits signed by AI. With Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, CodeRabbit, and GitHub Copilot |
| Activity | Last push October 23, 2026, 1,734 commits, 18,988 stars | Last push November 5, 2026, 51,839 commits, 55,684 stars |
| Tests | 2,957 test files. 16.9% of its code files have a test that imports them | 2,676 test files. 39.8% of its code files have a test that imports them |

- Size: Lines written by people and agents, without generated ones; code files, without tests.
- Who writes it: A commit counts as AI's when it carries its signature: a Co-Authored-By line, its author name or the merge of its branch.
- Activity: From GitHub and its history, on the day SeeRepo read it.
- Tests: The files that test the code, and the share of code files a test imports.

## Frequently asked questions

### Which is bigger, egg or Ghost?

Ghost, with 1,229,446 lines written; egg has 199,875.

The proof: [TryGhost/Ghost's code at commit 7336dc2](https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/tree/7336dc28b3ac6e4351c24b0b93ce03700d32a8e8)

### Which has more GitHub stars, egg or Ghost?

Ghost, with 55,684 stars; egg has 18,988.

The proof: [TryGhost/Ghost on GitHub](https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost)

### Which has more tests, egg or Ghost?

egg, with 2,957 test files; Ghost has 2,676.

The proof: [eggjs/egg's code at commit 2d168f8](https://github.com/eggjs/egg/tree/2d168f8cc5f759fc57e267065c43fe0e4ebce004)

### Which was updated more recently, egg or Ghost?

Ghost: its last push was on November 5, 2026, and egg's on October 23, 2026.

The proof: [TryGhost/Ghost's commits on GitHub](https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/commits)

### Which has more commits signed by AI, egg or Ghost?

egg: an AI signed 8.8% of its commits, with Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, CodeRabbit, and Cursor; in Ghost, 1.5%.

The proof: [the commits each tool signed in eggjs/egg](https://seerepo.com/r/eggjs/egg/ai)

## Sources

- eggjs/egg: Read on November 6, 2026, at commit 2d168f8 (https://github.com/eggjs/egg/tree/2d168f8cc5f759fc57e267065c43fe0e4ebce004)
- TryGhost/Ghost: Read on November 5, 2026, at commit 7336dc2 (https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/tree/7336dc28b3ac6e4351c24b0b93ce03700d32a8e8)

## What is your repo built with?

Any public repo, with no account: https://seerepo.com/r/owner/repo/built, with the owner and name it has on GitHub.