Source: https://seerepo.com/compare/liketrek/TREK/vs/TryGhost/Ghost
Markdown source: https://seerepo.com/compare/liketrek/TREK/vs/TryGhost/Ghost.md
Description: TREK and Ghost share 12 technologies: Vite, React, React Router, Express, Tailwind CSS, react-dropzone, Lucide, sharp, Zod, jsonwebtoken, otplib, and nodemailer. Both are written in TypeScript.

# TREK vs Ghost

TREK and Ghost share 12 technologies: Vite, React, React Router, Express, Tailwind CSS, react-dropzone, Lucide, sharp, Zod, jsonwebtoken, otplib, and nodemailer. Both are written in TypeScript.

- [liketrek/TREK](https://seerepo.com/r/liketrek/TREK): The most complete open-source travel planner: real-time collaboration, bookings, budgets, packing lists, journals, offline PWA, SSO and an AI-ready MCP server, with planet-wide place search and routing built in.
- [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: Vite, React, React Router, Express, Tailwind CSS, react-dropzone, Lucide, sharp, Zod, jsonwebtoken, otplib, nodemailer
- Only in TREK: dexie, @nestjs/core, SQLite, NestJS, fontsource, Leaflet, react-leaflet, Mapbox, MapLibre, plyr, @simplewebauthn/browser, @assistant-ui/react, react-markdown, remark-gfm, remark-breaks, rehype-sanitize, heic-to, modern-screenshot, @clack/prompts, mikro-orm, kysely, bcryptjs, @simplewebauthn/server, helmet, jimp, fast-xml-parser, pdf-parse, exifr, qrcode, nestjs-zod, isomorphic-dompurify
- Only in Ghost: Preact, bson-objectid, Sentry, @isaacs/ttlcache, bullmq, cache-manager, lru-cache, Stripe, Mailgun, Hono, js-yaml, 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, papaparse, validator, Headless UI, tiptap, react-day-picker, class-variance-authority, tailwind-merge, recharts, cmdk, @number-flow/react, country-flag-icons, knex, express-session, cookie-session, jose, Cheerio, handlebars, sanitize-html, 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, Ajv, ajv-formats

## Side by side

| | TREK | Ghost |
|---|---|---|
| Size | 2,173,833 lines written, 7,272 code files | 1,229,446 lines written, 4,191 code files |
| Who writes it | 1.3% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot | 1.5% of its commits signed by AI. With Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, CodeRabbit, and GitHub Copilot |
| Activity | Last push November 8, 2026, 4,393 commits, 15,430 stars | Last push November 5, 2026, 51,839 commits, 55,684 stars |
| Tests | 3,464 test files. 47.8% 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, TREK or Ghost?

TREK, with 2,173,833 lines written; Ghost has 1,229,446.

The proof: [liketrek/TREK's code at commit dc36c21](https://github.com/liketrek/TREK/tree/dc36c21c08f681fd2806764fad8e17b270f6f175)

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

Ghost, with 55,684 stars; TREK has 15,430.

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

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

TREK, with 3,464 test files; Ghost has 2,676.

The proof: [liketrek/TREK's code at commit dc36c21](https://github.com/liketrek/TREK/tree/dc36c21c08f681fd2806764fad8e17b270f6f175)

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

TREK: its last push was on November 8, 2026, and Ghost's on November 5, 2026.

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

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

Ghost: an AI signed 1.5% of its commits, with Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, CodeRabbit, and GitHub Copilot; in TREK, 1.3%.

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

## Sources

- liketrek/TREK: Read on November 8, 2026, at commit dc36c21 (https://github.com/liketrek/TREK/tree/dc36c21c08f681fd2806764fad8e17b270f6f175)
- 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.