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Build-system projects on GitHub

Build systems and monorepo task runners for large codebases.

As of , the most-starred Build-system projects on GitHub are meteor (44.8K stars), turborepo (31.2K stars) and nx (29.4K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 13 Build-system repositories with 274.6K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was Iosevka, with +22 stars in a day.

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274.6KStars in total
+63Stars in a day
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Hot right now

Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

+22

Iosevka

be5invis/Iosevka · ★ 23.1K

Iosevka is an open-source typeface family designed for writing code, using in terminals and preparing technical documents. It comes in sans-serif and slab-serif forms, both monospace and quasi-proportional.

+10

termux-packages

termux/termux-packages · ★ 17.2K

It's the package build system for Termux: scripts and patches used to build the packages that ship for the Termux Android application.

+6

turborepo

vercel/turborepo · ★ 31.2K

Turborepo is a high-performance build system for JavaScript and TypeScript codebases (especially monorepos), written in Rust — its README now introduces it as 'the build system for coding agents'.

+6

mold

rui314/mold · ★ 17.7K

mold is a high-performance drop-in replacement for the standard Unix linker, built for one thing: making the link step of large C, C++ and Rust builds several times faster.

The all-time top

13 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · meteor/meteor

    meteor

    Meteor is a full-stack JavaScript platform for building modern web, mobile, and desktop applications with a single codebase.

    44.8K
  2. #2 · vercel/turborepo

    turborepo

    Turborepo is a high-performance build system for JavaScript and TypeScript codebases (especially monorepos), written in Rust — its README now introduces it as 'the build system for coding agents'.

    31.2K
  3. #3 · nrwl/nx

    nx

    Nx is a monorepo platform for TypeScript and polyglot codebases. It caches what didn't change, runs only the tasks affected by your edits, and comes with an integrated CI solution; the core is built with Rust for performance.

    29.4K
  1. 4

    bazel

    26Kbazelbuild/bazel · Java

    Bazel is a fast, scalable, multi-language and extensible build system - one tool that builds and tests software of any size, quickly and reliably.

  2. 5

    Iosevka

    23.1Kbe5invis/Iosevka · JavaScript

    Iosevka is an open-source typeface family designed for writing code, using in terminals and preparing technical documents. It comes in sans-serif and slab-serif forms, both monospace and quasi-proportional.

  3. 6

    intellij-community

    20.6KJetBrains/intellij-community · Java

    This is the open-source part of the JetBrains IDEs codebase and the basis for IntelliJ Platform development — the source you build IntelliJ IDEA or PyCharm from, not a ready-to-download IDE.

  4. 7

    gradle

    18.9Kgradle/gradle · Groovy

    Gradle is a highly scalable build automation tool that handles everything from large multi-project enterprise builds to quick development tasks, across many languages.

  5. 8

    mold

    17.7Krui314/mold · Rust

    mold is a high-performance drop-in replacement for the standard Unix linker, built for one thing: making the link step of large C, C++ and Rust builds several times faster.

  6. 9

    termux-packages

    17.2Ktermux/termux-packages · Shell

    It's the package build system for Termux: scripts and patches used to build the packages that ship for the Termux Android application.

  7. 10

    devbox

    12.4Kjetify-com/devbox · Go

    Devbox is a command-line tool that creates isolated, reproducible development shells by declaring packages in a devbox.json file, using Nix under the hood instead of Docker or a VM.

  8. 11

    earthly

    12.1Kearthly/earthly · Go

    Earthly is a build automation framework that runs every build step inside containers, giving reproducible builds with a syntax that blends Dockerfile and Makefile conventions.

  9. 12

    node-gyp

    10.7Knodejs/node-gyp · Python

    node-gyp is a cross-platform command-line tool that compiles native addon modules for Node.js, wrapping a vendored copy of the gyp-next build system (originally from Chromium) adapted for Node.js native addons.

  10. 13

    WSL2-Linux-Kernel

    10.6Kmicrosoft/WSL2-Linux-Kernel · C

    This is the official source repository for the Linux kernel that powers WSL2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux 2), including the kernel source code and configuration files used by Microsoft.

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