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Clean-code projects on GitHub

Principles and refactored examples of clean, maintainable code.

As of October 18, 2026, the most-starred Clean-code projects on GitHub are clean-code-javascript (94.7K stars), guide (17.7K stars) and Android-CleanArchitecture (15.5K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 10 Clean-code repositories with 218.6K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 17 was rust-clippy, with +5 stars in a day.

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218.6KStars in total

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Most stars gained in a day · Oct 17

rust-clippy

rust-lang/rust-clippy · ★ 13.6K

Clippy is a collection of over 800 lints that catches common mistakes in Rust code and nudges it toward idiomatic style. It runs alongside the compiler as a cargo subcommand.

guide

uber-go/guide · ★ 17.7K

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

modular-monolith-with-ddd

kgrzybek/modular-monolith-with-ddd · ★ 14.1K

A full, production-style .NET sample application that shows how to build a Modular Monolith using Domain-Driven Design (DDD), CQRS and Event Sourcing, implementing a Meetup-like 'Meeting Groups' domain.

clean-code-javascript

ryanmcdermott/clean-code-javascript · ★ 94.7K

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.

The all-time top

10 projects · by stars

#1 · ryanmcdermott/clean-code-javascript
clean-code-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.
94.7K
#2 · uber-go/guide
guide
It's the Uber Go Style Guide — an open document describing the patterns and conventions Uber uses when writing Go code.
17.7K
#3 · android10/Android-CleanArchitecture
Android-CleanArchitecture
A sample Android app that shows how to architect an application using Uncle Bob's clean architecture approach — it accompanies Fernando Cejas's series of blog posts on the topic.
15.5K

4
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.
5
modular-monolith-with-ddd
14.1Kkgrzybek/modular-monolith-with-ddd · C#
A full, production-style .NET sample application that shows how to build a Modular Monolith using Domain-Driven Design (DDD), CQRS and Event Sourcing, implementing a Meetup-like 'Meeting Groups' domain.
6
rust-clippy
13.6Krust-lang/rust-clippy · Rust
Clippy is a collection of over 800 lints that catches common mistakes in Rust code and nudges it toward idiomatic style. It runs alongside the compiler as a cargo subcommand.
7
cognitive-load
12.5Kzakirullin/cognitive-load
A living document that defines 'cognitive load' - how much a developer has to think to understand code - and gives concrete, non-aesthetic practices for reducing the unnecessary (extraneous) kind of it, which matters even more now that we review a lot of LLM-generated code.
8
clean-code-php
12.5Kpiotrplenik/clean-code-php · PHP
A guide that adapts the Clean Code principles from Robert C. Martin's book into PHP-specific examples, covering naming, functions, classes, SOLID, and DRY.
9
laravel-best-practices
12.3Kalexeymezenin/laravel-best-practices
A widely used community guide (12k+ stars) that collects best practices for writing Laravel applications. Each practice comes with a Bad and a Good code example, and the guide has been translated into 25 languages.
10
eShopOnWeb
10.7Kdotnet-architecture/eShopOnWeb · C#
Microsoft's sample ASP.NET Core 8.0 reference application: an online-store web app demonstrating a single-process (monolithic) architecture and deployment model, built to accompany a free architecture ebook.