How SolidStart is used
SolidStart joined the catalog on its public numbers (84,297 downloads a week on npm and 5,924 GitHub stars), not on our project count: it is a dependency in 5 public GitHub projects of our scan, 2 of them set up for AI coding agents. Projects that use it most often also use Solid Router (100.0%), Solid.js (100.0%), Vinxi (100.0%).
SolidStart popularity over time
Gid Score 38: downloads 41, use in agent projects 7, GitHub stars 41, downloads trend 74 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with SolidStart
| Solid Router | 100.0% of SolidStart projects · 3104.0× more than average |
|---|---|
| Solid.js | 100.0% of SolidStart projects · 886.9× more than average |
| Vinxi | 100.0% of SolidStart projects · 2069.3× more than average |
| clsx | 60.0% of SolidStart projects · 3.1× more than average |
| Valibot | 40.0% of SolidStart projects · 75.2× more than average |
| jsdom | 40.0% of SolidStart projects · 4.1× more than average |
| TypeScript | 80.0% of SolidStart projects · 1.5× more than average |
| Tailwind Merge | 40.0% of SolidStart projects · 2.1× more than average |
How SolidStart is funded
Open Collective: SolidJS
| Received, last 12 months | $16,173 Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 |
|---|---|
| Estimated annual budget | $22,374 Open Collective's estimate |
| Balance | $18,894 |
| Raised since the start | $157,652 · $138,753 paid out |
| Typical month median, last 12 months | $1,214 · $1,201 over 24 months |
| Last 12 months vs the 12 before | -24% |
| Contributors, last 12 months | 34 |
Top company backers all time, 34 companies in total
| JetBrains | $14,500 since Jul 2022 |
|---|---|
| Builder.io | $9,200 since Oct 2020 |
| csel.co.nz | $6,040 since Jul 2021 |
| Bumi | $5,300 since May 2022 |
| Stytch | $5,000 since Apr 2022 |
Oct 2021Sep 2026
Money by month, last five years. First money received in Oct 2020. The typical month is the median: one big one-off donation does not move it.
The same collective is named by 3 more tools in our catalog: Solid.js, vite-plugin-solid, Solid Router.
Open Collective lists this collective for the solidjs organization on GitHub, so the money is for all of its projects, not SolidStart alone.
USD after payment processor fees, as Open Collective reports it; fiscal host Open Source Collective. Source
Install
| Package | npm install @solidjs/start |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | TypeScript / JavaScript (5) |
| Example projects | autoshow/autoshow, ajcwebdev/ryan-gpt |
Alternatives to SolidStart
In our scan, none of the most used tools in Web frameworks does the same job as SolidStart: they are add-ons, companions or tools for a different task.
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