Best-practices projects on GitHub

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   #1 · nilbuild/developer-roadmap

   developer-roadmap

   Community-driven roadmaps, guides and resources that show developers what to learn next and in what order — from frontend and backend to AI, DevOps and dozens of other paths.

   369.8K
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   #2 · mattpocock/skills

   skills

   Agent skills - slash commands for AI coding agents - that Matt Pocock uses daily for real engineering, not vibe coding: small, composable, and built to work with any model.

   296.6K
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   #3 · multica-ai/andrej-karpathy-skills

   andrej-karpathy-skills

   A single CLAUDE.md file (also distributable as a Claude Code plugin) that encodes four guidelines derived from Andrej Karpathy's observations on common LLM coding pitfalls, meant to make Claude Code behave more carefully and avoid overengineering.

   221K

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   gitignore

   176Kgithub/gitignore

   GitHub's official collection of .gitignore templates: ready-made ignore rules for popular languages, tools and operating systems, and the list behind the .gitignore choosers on GitHub.com.

   • rules
   • patterns
   • templates
   • dotfiles
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   javascript

   148.1Kairbnb/javascript · JavaScript

   A JavaScript style guide from Airbnb covering conventions for types, variables, functions, classes, modules, naming, whitespace, and more, described as 'a mostly reasonable approach to JavaScript'.

   • naming-conventions
   • linting
   • es2015
   • styleguide
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   agent-skills

   108.2Kaddyosmani/agent-skills · JavaScript

   A collection of 25 production-grade engineering skills that encode senior-engineer workflows, quality gates, and best practices so AI coding agents follow them consistently across the whole development lifecycle.

   • antigravity
   • code-review
   • cursor
   • skills
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   nodebestpractices

   105.7Kgoldbergyoni/nodebestpractices · Dockerfile

   A curated, community-maintained list that summarizes the top Node.js best practices, style guides, and architectural tips, organized into chapters covering architecture, error handling, code style, testing, production readiness, security, performance, and Docker.

   • types
   • mocha
   • styleguide
   • node-js
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   every-programmer-should-know

   100.5Kmtdvio/every-programmer-should-know

   A curated, highly opinionated collection of technical resources — articles, books, videos and papers — covering things every software developer should know, from algorithms and data structures to security, architecture and career advice.

   • educational
   • software-engineering
   • english
   • collection
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   java-design-patterns

   94.8Kiluwatar/java-design-patterns · Java

   A collection of Java implementations for classic software design patterns (Creational, Structural, Behavioral and more), each shown as a well-commented, runnable code example.

   • principles
   • snippets
   • software-architecture
   • design-patterns
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    clean-code-javascript

    94.7Kryanmcdermott/clean-code-javascript · JavaScript

    This is a guide that adapts the software engineering principles from Robert C. Martin's book 'Clean Code' specifically for JavaScript, with practical bad/good code examples.

    • principles
    • solid
    • clean-code
    • clean-architecture
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    claude-code-best-practice

    67.7Kshanraisshan/claude-code-best-practice · HTML

    A curated reference and knowledge base documenting Claude Code's features and best practices, covering agents, commands, skills, workflows, hooks, MCP servers, and more, organized as linked tables rather than a single tutorial.

    • agentic-engineering
    • claude-ai
    • claude-code-skills
    • agentic-workflow
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    redux

    61.5Kreduxjs/redux · TypeScript

    Redux is a JavaScript library for predictable and maintainable global state management — it helps apps behave consistently and makes them easy to test.

    • developer-experience
    • expo
    • tutorials
    • redux
13. 13

    Front-end-Developer-Interview-Questions

    60.9Kh5bp/Front-end-Developer-Interview-Questions · Nunjucks

    A curated list of front-end interview questions covering HTML, CSS, JavaScript, accessibility, testing, performance, networking, and coding exercises that hiring managers can pick from when vetting front-end developer candidates.

    • hiring
    • coding-interview
    • front-end
    • coding
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    html5-boilerplate

    57.7Kh5bp/html5-boilerplate · JavaScript

    HTML5 Boilerplate is a professional front-end template for building fast, robust, and adaptable web apps or sites, refined over more than 10 years by 200+ contributors.

    • progressive-web-app
    • web-application
    • starter-kit
    • cross-browser
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    project-layout

    56.7Kgolang-standards/project-layout · Makefile

    It is a reference collection of common Go project directory patterns (like /cmd, /pkg, /internal, /api) for structuring real-world Go applications. It is explicitly not an official standard from the core Go team, just a documented set of community conventions.

    • standards
    • makefile
    • software-architecture
    • coding
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    professional-programming

    51.6Kcharlax/professional-programming · Python

    It's a curated collection of learning resources (articles, books, talks, papers) meant to make software engineers more well-rounded professionals, covering everything from algorithms to career growth to system architecture.

    • programmer
    • software-engineering
    • scalability
    • system-design
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    design-patterns-for-humans

    48.9Knilbuild/design-patterns-for-humans

    It is a plain-English, real-world-analogy explanation of classic software design patterns (Creational, Structural, Behavioral), each paired with a short PHP code example.

    • software-design
    • object-oriented-programming
    • oop
    • principles
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    react

    47.1Ktypescript-cheatsheets/react · TypeScript

    A maintained cheatsheet for experienced React developers adopting TypeScript, packed with opinionated best practices and copy-pastable examples you can drop straight into your code.

    • types
    • react-hooks
    • snippets
    • react-components
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    architecture-samples

    45.9Kandroid/architecture-samples · Kotlin

    It's a collection of sample implementations of the same to-do app, each built on a different branch with a different Android architecture approach, meant to showcase and compare architectural patterns like MVVM with Compose, Hilt and Room.

    • coroutines
    • sample-app
    • samples
    • compose
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    CppCoreGuidelines

    45.4Kisocpp/CppCoreGuidelines · CSS

    The C++ Core Guidelines are a collaborative set of best-practice rules for writing modern C++ (C++11 and later), covering interfaces, resource management, memory management, and concurrency, with the goal of making code type-safe, leak-free, and fast.

    • cplusplus
    • guidelines
    • style-guide
    • memory-management
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    python-patterns

    43.1Kfaif/python-patterns · Python

    A collection of design patterns and idioms implemented in Python, covering Creational, Structural, Behavioral, and other categories (like Borg, Observer, Factory, Visitor), plus a section on anti-patterns to avoid in Python.

    • state
    • patterns
    • study
    • graph
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    git-flight-rules

    42.6Kk88hudson/git-flight-rules

    Git Flight Rules is a crowdsourced troubleshooting guide: for almost any git 'uh-oh' moment, it tells you exactly what happened and the commands to fix it, modeled on NASA's astronaut flight rules.

    • version-control
    • cheatsheet
    • git
    • reference
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    dubbo

    41.6Kapache/dubbo · Java

    Apache Dubbo is an RPC and microservices framework — this repository is its Java implementation. It covers communication, service discovery, traffic management, observability, security, and tooling for building enterprise-grade microservices.

    • restful
    • service-mesh
    • dubbo
    • apache
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    styleguide

    39.7Kgoogle/styleguide · HTML

    This is a collection of style guides Google uses for its own and Google-originated open-source code, covering languages like C++, Java, Python, Go, JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML/CSS, Shell, Swift, and more.

    • angularjs
    • styleguide
    • standards
    • vim script
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    og-aws

    36.5Kopen-guides/og-aws · Shell

    A free, community-maintained practical guide to Amazon Web Services — a living reference that consolidates links, tips, gotchas, and best practices, written by engineers who use AWS.

    • cloud-computing
    • community-driven
    • infrastructure
    • aws
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    bulletproof-react

    36Kalan2207/bulletproof-react · TypeScript

    A reference architecture and best-practices guide for building production-ready React applications, demonstrated through a sample app that shows how to structure, test, secure, and scale a real-world codebase.

    • software-architecture
    • design-patterns
    • state-management
    • deployment
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    How-To-Ask-Questions-The-Smart-Way

    35.9Kryanhanwu/How-To-Ask-Questions-The-Smart-Way · JavaScript

    A Traditional Chinese (繁體中文) translation of Eric S. Raymond and Rick Moen's classic essay 'How To Ask Questions The Smart Way', which teaches programmers how to phrase technical questions so experienced hackers will actually want to answer them.

    • chinese-traditional
    • communication
    • software-engineering
    • translation
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    CheatSheetSeries

    33.7KOWASP/CheatSheetSeries · JavaScript

    A collection of concise, high-value cheat sheets covering specific application security topics, maintained by OWASP.

    • cheatsheets
    • code
    • appsec
    • owasp
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    agent-skills

    32.6Kvercel-labs/agent-skills · JavaScript

    This is Vercel's official collection of reusable 'skills' - packaged instructions and scripts - that give AI coding agents expertise on specific tasks like Vercel cost/performance audits, React and Next.js best practices, UI design review, writing style review, and claimable Vercel deployments.

    • vercel
    • caching
    • code-review
    • deployment
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    lighthouse

    30.9KGoogleChrome/lighthouse · JavaScript

    Lighthouse is an open-source web auditing tool from Google: it runs a page through automated checks, collects modern performance metrics and best-practice insights, and turns them into a scored report.

    • chrome-devtools
    • performance-analysis
    • web-performance
    • audit
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    p3c

    30.9Kalibaba/p3c · Kotlin

    Alibaba Java Coding Guidelines (P3C): Java coding rules distilled from the accumulated best practices of Alibaba Group's technical teams, shipped as PMD static-analysis rules and IDE plugins.

    • intellij-plugin
    • jetbrains
    • linter
    • ide
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    tuning_playbook

    30.4Kgoogle-research/tuning_playbook

    A free, in-depth guide from five Google Research Brain Team researchers (plus a Harvard co-author) on systematically maximizing the performance of deep learning models — the 'Deep Learning Tuning Playbook'.

    • hyperparameter-tuning
    • neural-networks
    • optimization
    • training
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    css-protips

    30.3KAllThingsSmitty/css-protips

    A curated collection of CSS tips and tricks to help developers level up their CSS skills, covering things like resets, flexbox, selectors, and accessibility-aware patterns.

    • flexbox
    • css3
    • responsive
    • cheatsheet
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    HEAD

    30.3Kjoshbuchea/HEAD

    A concise reference guide to the HTML element — which meta, link, title and other tags a web page should have, with recommendations for icons, SEO and social previews.

    • seo
    • html5
    • cheatsheet
    • reference
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    python-guide

    29.9Krealpython/python-guide · Batchfile

    The Hitchhiker's Guide to Python — a free, opinionated best-practices guidebook about installing, configuring and using Python day to day.

    • batchfile
    • handbook
    • packaging
    • pip
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    project-guidelines

    29.4Kelsewhencode/project-guidelines · JavaScript

    A public set of best practices for JavaScript projects, written and gathered by the elsewhen team - numbered rules for Git, documentation, environments, dependencies, testing, code style, APIs and more.

    • how-to
    • naming-conventions
    • guidelines
    • style-guide
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    go-patterns

    28.3Ktmrts/go-patterns · Go

    This is a curated collection of idiomatic design and application patterns for the Go (Golang) language, covering classic creational/structural/behavioral patterns plus Go-specific categories like synchronization, concurrency, messaging, stability and anti-patterns.

    • patterns
    • software-architecture
    • design-patterns
    • cheatsheet
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    awesome-falsehood

    27.8Kkdeldycke/awesome-falsehood

    A curated list of falsehoods programmers believe in: articles collecting assumptions that sound obviously true but break on real-world edge cases, like believing a valid email address has exactly one @ character.

    • time
    • phone-number
    • date
    • identity
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    12-factor-agents

    26.8Khumanlayer/12-factor-agents · TypeScript

    A written guide of 12 (plus a bonus 13th) engineering principles for building LLM-powered agent software reliable enough for production customers, distilled from the author's experience at HumanLayer and conversations with many SaaS founders.

    • context-window
    • software-architecture
    • system-design
    • llms
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    docker_practice

    26.3Kyeasy/docker_practice · Go

    An open-source Chinese book that takes you from zero to real DevOps practice with Docker: core concepts, internals and hands-on skills for developers, ops engineers and architects.

    • dockerfiles
    • swarm
    • cloud-computing
    • container
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    agentskills

    26.3Kagentskills/agentskills · Python

    An open format for giving AI agents new capabilities and expertise: a skill is a folder with a SKILL.md file of instructions, plus optional scripts, templates and reference materials.

    • standard
    • guides
    • specification
    • context-engineering
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    idiomatic.js

    25.7Krwaldron/idiomatic.js

    A style guide document laying out principles for writing consistent, idiomatic JavaScript code, covering whitespace, syntax, naming, type checking, and comments.

    • linting
    • principles
    • style-guide
    • document
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    compound-engineering-plugin

    25.6KEveryInc/compound-engineering-plugin · TypeScript

    Compound Engineering is a plugin of 35 skills for AI coding agents. It structures work as a loop — brainstorm, plan, build, review, then capture what you learned — so each change makes the next one easier, and it runs on 14 agent hosts including Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex.

    • engineering
    • github-copilot
    • code-review
    • ai-coding
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    javascript-testing-best-practices

    24.6Kgoldbergyoni/javascript-testing-best-practices · JavaScript

    A free, in-depth guide with 50+ best practices for testing JavaScript and Node.js applications, compiled and curated from dozens of blog posts, books and tools.

    • test-driven-development
    • mocha
    • integration-testing
    • test
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    angular-styleguide

    23.6Kjohnpapa/angular-styleguide · Vim Snippet

    An opinionated style guide for Angular: documented conventions for syntax, structure, and building Angular applications, written by John Papa for development teams.

    • style-guide
    • angular
    • code-quality
    • architecture
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    api-guidelines

    23.3Kmicrosoft/api-guidelines

    A collection of guidelines published by Microsoft for designing consistent, well-behaved RESTful web APIs, shared publicly to foster dialogue in the broader API community.

    • styleguide
    • guidelines
    • api-documentation
    • standards
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    API-Security-Checklist

    23.3Kshieldfy/API-Security-Checklist

    A community checklist of the most important security countermeasures to apply when designing, testing, and releasing an API — a list of checkboxes you run through before shipping.

    • security-hardening
    • secret-management
    • zero-trust
    • checklist
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    eng-practices

    23.3Kgoogle/eng-practices

    Google's Engineering Practices documentation — a public collection of guides distilling the engineering practices Google applies across all languages and projects, currently focused on its Code Review Guidelines.

    • guides
    • guidelines
    • engineering
    • software-engineering
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    macOS-Security-and-Privacy-Guide

    22.6Kdrduh/macOS-Security-and-Privacy-Guide · Shell

    A community-maintained guide collecting techniques for improving security and privacy on macOS, written for Apple silicon Macs.

    • hardening
    • guides
    • checklist
    • osx
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    docker-cheat-sheet

    22.6Kwsargent/docker-cheat-sheet

    A community-maintained Docker cheat sheet that walks through installation, containers, images, networks, volumes, links, Dockerfile syntax, and best practices in one long reference document.

    • cheatsheet
    • containers
    • reference
    • beginner-friendly
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    blog

    22.6Kfouber/blog

    This is the personal blog repository of Chinese frontend engineer fouber, sharing articles and thoughts on frontend engineering, performance optimization, and career growth.

    • blog
    • architecture
    • career
    • book
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    recommenders

    22Krecommenders-team/recommenders · Python

    An open-source Python library and notebook collection with best practices for building, evaluating and deploying recommendation systems — a Linux Foundation of AI & Data project that started at Microsoft.

    • ranking
    • recommendation-system
    • spark
    • mlops
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    nowinandroid

    21.9Kandroid/nowinandroid · Kotlin

    Now in Android is a fully functional Android app built entirely with Kotlin and Jetpack Compose. It doubles as an official reference for Android design and development best practices and, as a running app, delivers news updates about Android development.

    • compose
    • material3
    • gradle
    • benchmarking
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    awesome-readme

    21.6Kmatiassingers/awesome-readme

    A curated list of GitHub repositories that have exceptionally well-written README files, meant to serve as inspiration and examples for writing your own.

    • readme
    • github
    • awesome
    • guide
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    security-guide-for-developers

    21.1KFallibleInc/security-guide-for-developers

    This is a practical security guide for web developers that explains common security issues (authentication, encryption, sessions, attacks, etc.) and gives a checklist for building more secure systems.

    • checklist
    • owasp
    • web-security
    • books
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    android-best-practices

    20.4Kfuturice/android-best-practices

    A curated guide of do's and don'ts for Android development, written by developers at Futurice, covering build setup, project structure, libraries, architecture, and testing conventions.

    • mvvm
    • gradle
    • android-development
    • architecture
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    learngo

    20.2Kinancgumus/learngo · Go

    A huge collection of 1000+ hand-crafted Go examples, exercises, and quizzes designed to teach Go by having you fix and complete tiny broken programs.

    • project
    • patterns
    • learn-to-code
    • exercises
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    SwiftLint

    19.8Krealm/SwiftLint · Swift

    SwiftLint is an open-source linter that enforces Swift style and conventions — rules generally accepted by the Swift community, loosely based on the now-archived GitHub Swift Style Guide.

    • linting
    • linter
    • xcode
    • code-quality
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    samples

    19.3Kflutter/samples · Dart

    An open source collection of samples illustrating best practices for Flutter — runnable quickstarts and demo apps covering widgets, navigation, shaders, testing, and embedding Flutter into native apps.

    • demo
    • shaders
    • dart
    • material-design
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    You-Dont-Need-Lodash-Underscore

    19.1Kyou-dont-need/You-Dont-Need-Lodash-Underscore · JavaScript

    A curated list of JavaScript methods that are already supported natively in modern browsers, so you can drop Lodash/Underscore — plus an ESLint plugin that flags where the libraries are unnecessary.

    • alternatives
    • lodash
    • es2015
    • dependencies
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    commitlint

    18.8Kconventional-changelog/commitlint · TypeScript

    commitlint checks whether your commit messages meet the conventional commit format, linting them against a configurable rule set.

    • commit
    • lint
    • linter
    • version-control
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    CleanArchitecture

    18.5Kardalis/CleanArchitecture · C#

    A solution template for ASP.NET Core that gives you a proven Clean Architecture starting point — a loosely-coupled, dependency-inverted project layout also known as hexagonal, ports-and-adapters, or onion architecture.

    • domain-driven-design
    • asp-net-core
    • entity-framework
    • aspnet-core
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    golang-developer-roadmap

    18.4Kdarius-khll/golang-developer-roadmap

    A visual roadmap and curated list of libraries, tools and resources to follow when learning to become a Go (Golang) developer, covering things like web frameworks, databases, ORMs, caching, logging, testing and microservices.

    • roadmap
    • software-engineering
    • career
    • programming
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    Go

    18.2KTheAlgorithms/Go · Go

    An open-source collection of classic algorithms and data structures implemented in Go for education, with over 18k stars and an MIT license.

    • sorting
    • algorithms-implemented
    • community-driven
    • coding-interview
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    fastapi-best-practices

    18.2Kzhanymkanov/fastapi-best-practices

    A curated collection of best practices and conventions for building FastAPI applications, based on lessons learned building production systems at a startup.

    • pydantic
    • python3
    • async
    • architecture
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    guide

    17.7Kuber-go/guide · Makefile

    It's the Uber Go Style Guide — an open document describing the patterns and conventions Uber uses when writing Go code.

    • clean-code
    • handbook
    • standards
    • makefile
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    vibe-coding-cn

    17.7Ktradecatlabs/vibe-coding-cn · Makefile

    vibe-coding-cn is a Chinese-language tutorial that takes you from beginner to advanced in 'Vibe Coding' — a structured workflow for pairing with AI (Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI) to turn an idea into a shipped product using Prompts, Skills, Context management and Quality Gates.

    • makefile
    • prompts
    • vibe-coding
    • gemini-cli
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    million

    17.7Kaidenybai/million · TypeScript

    Million.js is an extremely fast and lightweight optimizing compiler for React that makes components up to 70% faster by speeding up reconciliation.

    • optimize
    • renderer
    • preact
    • react-hooks
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    react-bits

    17.4Kvasanthk/react-bits

    A compilation of React patterns, techniques, tips and tricks — a community-maintained reference of short write-ups for everyday React development, with 17k+ GitHub stars.

    • jsx
    • design-patterns
    • reactjs
    • cheatsheet
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    Front-End-Performance-Checklist

    17.4Kthedaviddias/Front-End-Performance-Checklist

    It's an exhaustive performance checklist for front-end developers: things you should check, or at least be aware of, when building a website — for personal and professional projects alike.

    • front-end-development
    • checklist
    • guidelines
    • lists
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    architecture-decision-record

    17.2Karchitecture-decision-record/architecture-decision-record · CSS

    A guide and example collection for architecture decision records (ADRs) — short documents that capture an important architecture decision together with its context and consequences.

    • software-architecture
    • project-management
    • templates
    • software-engineering
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    ruby-style-guide

    16.5Krubocop/ruby-style-guide

    A community-driven Ruby coding style guide: it recommends best practices so real-world Ruby programmers can write code that other people can maintain. It deliberately favors established real-world usage over unproven ideals.

    • standards
    • style-guide
    • educational
    • coding
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    Best-README-Template

    16.4Kothneildrew/Best-README-Template

    This is a README template designed to help you quickly write a polished, well-structured README.md for your own GitHub projects, with ready-made sections for About, Getting Started, Usage, Roadmap, and Contact.

    • readme
    • starter-kit
    • boilerplate
    • template
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    HowToBeAProgrammer

    16.3Kbraydie/HowToBeAProgrammer

    A free, community-maintained essay by Robert L. Read on how to be a good programmer — the personal, team, and judgment skills around writing code, which the author calls the easy part.

    • how-to
    • principles
    • management
    • software-engineering
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    chinese-copywriting-guidelines

    15.8Ksparanoid/chinese-copywriting-guidelines

    A style guide for writing and typesetting Chinese text correctly — covering spacing between Chinese and Latin characters/numbers, punctuation usage, full-width vs half-width characters, and correct casing of proper nouns — meant to reduce miscommunication within teams and make websites look more polished.

    • chinese-simplified
    • copywriting
    • typesetting
    • chinese-traditional
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    opensource.guide

    15.7Kgithub/opensource.guide · HTML

    A collection of free guides that teach individuals, communities, and companies how to run and contribute to open-source projects, published as a website and curated by GitHub.

    • oss
    • beginner
    • static-site
    • website
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    Cookbook

    15.5Kandkret/Cookbook · Python

    A free online book (the Data Engineering Cookbook) that covers everything a data engineer needs to know, from basic engineering skills to advanced platform design, case studies and interview prep.

    • cookbook
    • checklist
    • kafka
    • data-engineering
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    Design-Patterns-In-Swift

    15.2Kochococo/Design-Patterns-In-Swift · Swift

    A cheat-sheet collection of classic Gang of Four design patterns implemented in Swift 5.0, organized by Behavioral, Creational, and Structural categories.

    • playground
    • software-engineering
    • design-patterns
    • cheatsheet
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    front-end-guide

    15.2Kgrab/front-end-guide · JavaScript

    This is Grab's front-end study guide: a curated path through the modern JavaScript stack covering SPAs, React, Redux, testing, linting, build tools, CI, hosting and deployment, originally written to onboard Grab's new engineers.

    • study-plan
    • yarn
    • babel
    • jest
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    react-doctor

    15Kmillionco/react-doctor · TypeScript

    React Doctor is a code-review tool that scans React code for the kind of mistakes AI coding agents tend to introduce, so bad patterns get caught before they ship.

    • linter
    • code-quality
    • code-review
    • static-analysis
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    domain-driven-hexagon

    15KSairyss/domain-driven-hexagon · TypeScript

    A learning resource that documents how to design backend software using Domain-Driven Design, Hexagonal/Clean/Onion Architecture and SOLID principles, with runnable TypeScript/NestJS code examples illustrating every pattern.

    • cqrs
    • domain-driven-design
    • clean-code
    • ddd
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    nginx-admins-handbook

    14.3Ktrimstray/nginx-admins-handbook · Shell

    A free, community-maintained handbook of personal notes, tips, and gotchas for administering, securing, and tuning NGINX (and OpenResty/Tengine) in production.

    • handbook
    • snippets
    • https
    • notes
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    Startup-CTO-Handbook

    14.2KZachGoldberg/Startup-CTO-Handbook

    This repository holds the latest content of the Startup CTO's Handbook, a book covering leadership, management, and technical topics for people leading software engineering teams at startups.

    • management
    • startups
    • business
    • engineering
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    naming-cheatsheet

    14.2Kkettanaito/naming-cheatsheet

    A language-agnostic cheatsheet with guidelines for naming variables and functions in code, centered on the A/HC/LC (Action/High Context/Low Context) naming pattern.

    • naming-conventions
    • guidelines
    • cheatsheet
    • code-quality
85. 85

    context-engineering-intro

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