# Pharos

JSTOR's design system, a web component library with React wrappers for building products in the JSTOR brand.


Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/pharos/
Last reviewed: 2026-10-27
Updated: 2026-10-28
Listed since: 2026-10-27

## Record

### Links

- home: https://pharos.jstor.org
- repository: https://github.com/ithaka/pharos
- docs: https://pharos.jstor.org/getting-started/

### Identity

- status: active
- maintainer: Ithaka Harbors, Inc.
- maintainerType: company
- parent: ITHAKA
- firstRelease: 2021
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: ui-library
- hosting: not applicable
- language: javascript
- runtime: unknown
- runtimeMin: not applicable
- basedOn: unknown

### Content

- contentStore: not applicable
- databases: not applicable
- adminUi: not applicable
- headlessApi: not applicable
- templating: not applicable
- i18n: not applicable

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: not applicable
- renderingModes: not applicable
- installMethod: npm

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: MIT

### Releases

- currentMajor: 14
- latestReleaseDate: 2026-10-23

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 134
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: 49
- contributors: 37
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: 1
- dependentPackages: 3

### Sources

- urls: https://pharos.jstor.org (read 2026-10-27)
- urls: https://api.github.com/repos/ithaka/pharos (read 2026-10-27)
- urls: https://pharos.jstor.org/getting-started/ (read 2026-10-27)
- firstRelease: https://registry.npmjs.org/@ithaka/pharos (read 2026-10-27)
- maintainer: https://github.com/ithaka/pharos/blob/develop/LICENSE (read 2026-10-27)
- language: https://api.github.com/repos/ithaka/pharos (read 2026-10-27)
- category: https://github.com/ithaka/pharos/blob/develop/packages/pharos/README.md (read 2026-10-27)
- license: https://api.github.com/repos/ithaka/pharos (read 2026-10-27)
- licenseModel: https://api.github.com/repos/ithaka/pharos (read 2026-10-27)
- currentMajor: https://registry.npmjs.org/@ithaka/pharos (read 2026-10-27)
- latestReleaseDate: https://api.github.com/repos/ithaka/pharos/releases (read 2026-10-27)
- githubStargazers: https://api.github.com/repos/ithaka/pharos (read 2026-10-27)
- contributors: https://api.github.com/repos/ithaka/pharos/contributors?per_page=1 (read 2026-10-27)
- npmWeeklyDownloads: https://api.npmjs.org/downloads/range/2026-09-28:2026-10-04/@ithaka/pharos (read 2026-10-28)
- dependentPackages: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/npmjs.org/packages/%40ithaka%2Fpharos (read 2026-10-27)
- dependentRepos: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/npmjs.org/packages/%40ithaka%2Fpharos (read 2026-10-27)
- parent: https://pharos.jstor.org/ (read 2026-10-27)
- installMethod: https://github.com/ithaka/pharos/blob/develop/packages/pharos/README.md (read 2026-10-27)
- installMethod: https://pharos.jstor.org/getting-started/ (read 2026-10-27)

## Notes

Pharos is the design system JSTOR uses for its products. The library is a set of web components that the application registers under a scoping prefix, so more than one copy of the library can run on a page. React applications use wrapper components from the same package, and the package also carries design tokens, typography styles and an icon set.

## Worth knowing

The README says the components rely on class names that a bundler's minifier would otherwise rename, and it asks for a bundler setting that keeps them. The scoped custom element registries proposal is not finalized, so the README asks for a polyfill to use the components.

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