# Stencil

Toolchain that compiles TypeScript components into web components, distributable as custom elements, framework wrappers or prerendered websites.


Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/stencil/
Last reviewed: 2026-10-22
Updated: 2026-10-25
Listed since: 2026-10-22

## Record

### Links

- home: https://stenciljs.com
- repository: https://github.com/stenciljs/core
- docs: https://stenciljs.com/docs/getting-started

### Identity

- status: active
- maintainer: Drifty Co.
- maintainerType: company
- parent: OutSystems
- firstRelease: 2017
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: ui-library
- hosting: not applicable
- language: javascript
- runtime: node
- runtimeMin: node 16
- 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: static
- renderingModes: static
- installMethod: npm init stencil (create-stencil scaffold)

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: MIT

### Releases

- currentMajor: 4
- latestReleaseDate: 2026-10-05

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 13146
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: 849888
- contributors: 254
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: 466
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: 22293
- dependentPackages: 7307

### Sources

- urls: https://api.github.com/repos/stenciljs/core (read 2026-10-22)
- urls: https://api.github.com/repos/stenciljs/core (read 2026-10-22)
- urls: https://stenciljs.com/docs/getting-started (read 2026-10-22)
- maintainer: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/stenciljs/core/main/LICENSE (read 2026-10-22)
- parent: https://stenciljs.com/docs/static-site-generation (read 2026-10-22)
- language: https://api.github.com/repos/stenciljs/core (read 2026-10-22)
- category: https://stenciljs.com/docs/introduction (read 2026-10-22)
- runtime: https://stenciljs.com/docs/getting-started (read 2026-10-22)
- runtimeMin: https://registry.npmjs.org/@stencil/core/latest (read 2026-10-22)
- installMethod: https://stenciljs.com/docs/getting-started (read 2026-10-22)
- renderingModes: https://stenciljs.com/docs/static-site-generation (read 2026-10-22)
- runsAs: https://stenciljs.com/docs/static-site-generation (read 2026-10-22)
- license: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/stenciljs/core/main/LICENSE (read 2026-10-22)
- licenseModel: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/stenciljs/core/main/LICENSE (read 2026-10-22)
- currentMajor: https://api.github.com/repos/stenciljs/core/releases (read 2026-10-22)
- latestReleaseDate: https://api.github.com/repos/stenciljs/core/releases (read 2026-10-22)
- githubStargazers: https://api.github.com/repos/stenciljs/core (read 2026-10-22)
- contributors: https://api.github.com/repos/stenciljs/core/contributors (read 2026-10-22)
- npmWeeklyDownloads: https://api.npmjs.org/downloads/point/last-week/@stencil/core (read 2026-10-22)
- firstRelease: https://registry.npmjs.org/@stencil/core (read 2026-10-22)
- httpArchiveSites: https://cdn.httparchive.org/v1/technologies (read 2026-10-25)
- dependentRepos: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/npmjs.org/packages/%40stencil%2Fcore (read 2026-10-25)
- dependentPackages: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/npmjs.org/packages/%40stencil%2Fcore (read 2026-10-25)

## Notes

Stencil is a compiler that generates web components, more specifically custom elements, from TypeScript, JSX and CSS. The same components can be used with or without a framework, and Stencil can emit framework wrappers for Angular, React and Vue. It also supports prerendering: components and routes are rendered at build time to static HTML, which the client code then hydrates, so the HTTP server only serves static files. A project is scaffolded with the create-stencil command.

## Worth knowing

The Stencil site header reads "An OutSystems Company", while the LICENSE file names Drifty Co. as the copyright holder.

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Credit, in full: FindSoftware, CC BY 4.0