Topics / #developers

Developers projects on GitHub

As of , the most-starred Developers projects on GitHub are awesome (520.2K stars), public-apis (489.6K stars) and coding-interview-university (362.6K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 435 Developers repositories with 9.9M stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was awesome, with +543 stars in a day.

435Projects
9.9MStars in total
+3.6KStars in a day
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Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

+543

awesome

sindresorhus/awesome · ★ 520.2K

It is 'awesome', the original curated directory of awesome lists maintained by Sindre Sorhus: a hand-picked index of lists about all kinds of interesting topics, from programming languages and platforms to gaming, security, and business.

+373

public-apis

public-apis/public-apis · ★ 489.6K

A collective list of free APIs: a huge, manually curated catalog of public APIs for developers, maintained by the community for years. You do not call it — you browse the catalog and pick third-party APIs to use in your own product.

+303

awesome-python

vinta/awesome-python · ★ 328.1K

Awesome Python is a curated, opinionated guide to the best Python frameworks, libraries, and tools, organized by category — the classic answer to 'I want to do X in Python, which tool should I use?'

+199

HelloGitHub

521xueweihan/HelloGitHub · ★ 182.5K

HelloGitHub is a monthly magazine that rounds up interesting, entry-level open source projects from GitHub, publishing a fresh issue on the 28th of each month.

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Top 100 of 435 · by stars

  1. #1 · sindresorhus/awesome

    awesome

    It is 'awesome', the original curated directory of awesome lists maintained by Sindre Sorhus: a hand-picked index of lists about all kinds of interesting topics, from programming languages and platforms to gaming, security, and business.

    520.2K
  2. #2 · public-apis/public-apis

    public-apis

    A collective list of free APIs: a huge, manually curated catalog of public APIs for developers, maintained by the community for years. You do not call it — you browse the catalog and pick third-party APIs to use in your own product.

    489.6K
  3. #3 · jwasham/coding-interview-university

    coding-interview-university

    It is a multi-month self-study plan covering the computer science topics you need to pass a software engineering interview at a large company.

    362.6K
  1. 4

    awesome-python

    328.1Kvinta/awesome-python · Python

    Awesome Python is a curated, opinionated guide to the best Python frameworks, libraries, and tools, organized by category — the classic answer to 'I want to do X in Python, which tool should I use?'

  2. 5

    996.ICU

    277.1K996icu/996.ICU

    A protest initiative by Chinese IT practitioners against the '996' overtime culture, started in March 2019 — it has since drawn about 277k GitHub stars.

  3. 6

    HelloGitHub

    182.5K521xueweihan/HelloGitHub · Python

    HelloGitHub is a monthly magazine that rounds up interesting, entry-level open source projects from GitHub, publishing a fresh issue on the 28th of each month.

  4. 7

    flutter

    180.2Kflutter/flutter · Dart

    Flutter is Google's SDK for building beautiful, fast apps for mobile, web, and desktop from a single codebase.

  5. 8

    system-prompts-and-models-of-ai-tools

    144.1Kx1xhlol/system-prompts-and-models-of-ai-tools

    A public collection of the actual system prompts used by popular AI products - coding agents, browsers and assistants - plus their internal tools and AI models.

  6. 9

    30-seconds-of-code

    129.2KChalarangelo/30-seconds-of-code · JavaScript

    30 seconds of code is a collection of short coding articles, each with code snippets, an explanation and examples, published on the project's own website.

  7. 10

    Apollo-11

    75.3Kchrislgarry/Apollo-11 · Assembly

    The original Apollo 11 Guidance Computer (AGC) source code: the 1969 flight software for the Command Module (Comanche055) and the Lunar Module (Luminary099).

  8. 11

    moby

    72.2Kmoby/moby · Go

    Moby is Docker's open-source upstream project: a 'Lego set' of toolkit components (build tools, registry, orchestration, runtime) plus a framework for assembling them into custom container-based systems.

  9. 12

    ladybird

    66.5KLadybirdBrowser/ladybird · C++

    Ladybird is a truly independent web browser built on its own novel engine designed around web standards.

  10. 13

    docusaurus

    66.5Kfacebook/docusaurus · TypeScript

    Docusaurus is a tool for building, deploying, and maintaining open source project websites easily, handling the website build process so you can focus on your project.

  11. 14

    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.

  12. 15

    awesome-rust

    59.9Krust-unofficial/awesome-rust · Rust

    It is the Rust community's awesome-list: a curated catalog of Rust code and resources, where every entry is a link to a project with a one-line description.

  13. 16

    gatsby

    55.9Kgatsbyjs/gatsby · JavaScript

    Gatsby is a free, open-source framework based on React for building fast websites and web apps, mixing the control of dynamically rendered sites with the speed of static-site generation.

  14. 17

    requests

    54.5Kpsf/requests · Python

    It is a simple, yet elegant, HTTP library for Python that lets you send HTTP/1.1 requests extremely easily.

  15. 18

    bevy

    49.1Kbevyengine/bevy · Rust

    Bevy is a free, open-source, data-driven game engine built in Rust that uses an Entity Component System (ECS) architecture to support both 2D and 3D game development.

  16. 19

    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.

  17. 20

    zod

    44.1Kcolinhacks/zod · TypeScript

    Zod is a schema validation library: you describe what your data should look like, and it checks real values against that description at runtime.

  18. 21

    gradio

    43.8Kgradio-app/gradio · Python

    Gradio is an open-source Python package that turns machine learning models, APIs, or any arbitrary Python function into a shareable demo or web app in just a few lines of Python.

  19. 22

    zig

    43.3Kziglang/zig · Zig

    This is the GitHub repository of the Zig programming language and its compiler. The project has moved to Codeberg, so this repo is no longer mirrored and now serves mainly as a pointer to the new home.

  20. 23

    manim

    41.6KManimCommunity/manim · Python

    Manim is a community-maintained Python framework for creating precise mathematical animations programmatically — the engine behind 3Blue1Brown-style explanatory math videos.

  21. 24

    yarn

    41.5Kyarnpkg/yarn · JavaScript

    Yarn 1.x is a fast, reliable and secure dependency manager for JavaScript projects — a command-line tool that installs your project's packages as an alternative to npm.

  22. 25

    chakra-ui

    40.7Kchakra-ui/chakra-ui · TypeScript

    Chakra UI is a component system for building SaaS products with speed: a set of accessible React components for creating web apps and design systems.

  23. 26

    tiptap

    38.8Kueberdosis/tiptap · TypeScript

    Tiptap is a headless, framework-agnostic rich text editor framework for web apps, built on top of ProseMirror and extended through extensions.

  24. 27

    dspy

    38.7Kstanfordnlp/dspy · Python

    DSPy is a Python framework for programming — rather than prompting — language models: you build modular AI systems in code, and its algorithms automatically optimize the prompts and weights.

  25. 28

    marked

    37.2Kmarkedjs/marked · JavaScript

    Marked is a markdown parser and compiler built for speed. You feed it markdown text and get HTML back, and it runs in a browser, on a server, or from the command line.

  26. 29

    955.WLB

    36.4Kformulahendry/955.WLB

    A community-maintained whitelist of companies offering around 955 working hours - a stand against China's notorious 996 culture, echoing the 996.ICU project to help people escape overtime.

  27. 30

    ink-kit

    36.3Kinkonchain/ink-kit · TypeScript

    Ink Kit is a React component library for onchain applications. It provided UI components, app layouts and themes, plus a wallet connection component built on wagmi.

  28. 31

    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.

  29. 32

    oh-my-pi

    35.7Kcan1357/oh-my-pi · TypeScript

    omp (oh-my-pi) is a terminal coding agent — a fork of Mario Zetchner's Pi with the IDE wired in, built by Stencil Labs: 60+ model providers, 31 built-in tools, 14 LSP and 28 debugger ops, around 80k lines of Rust core.

  30. 33

    awesome-javascript

    35Ksorrycc/awesome-javascript

    A curated list of browser-side JavaScript libraries, resources and 'shiny things' — one of the classic GitHub awesome-lists, with over 35,000 stars.

  31. 34

    glide

    35Kbumptech/glide · Java

    A fast, efficient open source media management and image loading framework for Android: it wraps media decoding, memory and disk caching, and resource pooling behind a simple interface.

  32. 35

    framework

    35Klaravel/framework · PHP

    Laravel is a PHP web application framework known for expressive, elegant syntax, built to make development enjoyable and to ease the common tasks most web projects share.

  33. 36

    formik

    34.3Kjaredpalmer/formik · TypeScript

    Formik is a small React library for building forms: it handles the three most annoying parts - getting values in and out of form state, validation and error messages, and handling form submission.

  34. 37

    awesome-awesomeness

    33.7Kbayandin/awesome-awesomeness · Ruby

    An index of awesome lists: one page linking to hundreds of topic-specific awesome-* collections — from programming languages to DevOps, security and design — each maintained by its own curator.

  35. 38

    github-mcp-server

    33.7Kgithub/github-mcp-server · Go

    GitHub's official MCP Server. It connects AI tools straight to GitHub, so agents, assistants and chatbots can read repos and code files, manage issues and PRs, analyze code and automate workflows through natural language.

  36. 39

    tokio

    33.4Ktokio-rs/tokio · Rust

    Tokio is a runtime for writing reliable, asynchronous applications with Rust: it supplies the scheduling, non-blocking I/O, networking and timers that async Rust programs need.

  37. 40

    comprehensive-rust

    33.4Kgoogle/comprehensive-rust · Rust

    Comprehensive Rust is a multi-day Rust course developed by the Android team at Google, covering Rust from basic syntax to generics and error handling.

  38. 41

    rxjs

    31.7KReactiveX/rxjs · TypeScript

    RxJS is a JavaScript library for composing asynchronous and event-based programs with Observable values. This repo is the platform-based next generation of RxJS, planned for release as RxJS 9.

  39. 42

    Avalonia

    31.7KAvaloniaUI/Avalonia · C#

    Avalonia is a cross-platform UI framework for .NET: you write apps in C# and XAML, and they run on Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android and WebAssembly.

  40. 43

    awesome-github-profile-readme

    31.4Kabhisheknaiidu/awesome-github-profile-readme

    A curated catalog of impressive GitHub profile READMEs - the personal landing pages developers add to their profiles - with new entries added continuously.

  41. 44

    OpenAPI-Specification

    31.3KOAI/OpenAPI-Specification · Markdown

    The OpenAPI Specification (OAS) is a community-driven open standard from the OpenAPI Initiative, a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project: a standard, programming language-agnostic way to describe HTTP APIs.

  42. 45

    symfony

    31.2Ksymfony/symfony · PHP

    Symfony is a PHP framework for building web and console applications, plus a set of reusable PHP components. It is used by thousands of web applications and most of the popular PHP projects.

  43. 46

    rust-course

    31Ksunface/rust-course · Rust

    This is '《Rust语言圣经》' (The Rust Language Bible), a free, open Chinese-language Rust programming tutorial/book with over 170 chapters and 1.1 million+ words covering everything from beginner basics to advanced topics.

  44. 47

    awesome-macos-command-line

    31Kherrbischoff/awesome-macos-command-line

    A curated awesome list of commands and tricks for doing useful things from the macOS terminal shell. It is a reference you read, not a piece of software you run.

  45. 48

    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'.

  46. 49

    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.

  47. 50

    EasyOCR

    30.1KJaidedAI/EasyOCR · Python

    A ready-to-use, open-source OCR library for Python: it detects and reads text in images across 80+ languages and popular writing scripts — Latin, Chinese, Arabic, Devanagari, Cyrillic and more.

  48. 51

    gitleaks

    30Kgitleaks/gitleaks · Go

    Gitleaks is a tool for detecting secrets like passwords, API keys, and tokens in git repos, files, or anything you pipe in via stdin.

  49. 52

    500lines

    29.6Kaosabook/500lines · JavaScript

    This is the source for '500 Lines or Less', the fourth book in the Architecture of Open Source Applications series: each chapter walks through a working program written in at most 500 lines of code.

  50. 53

    notepad-plus-plus

    29.6Knotepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus · C++

    Notepad++ is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement for Windows that supports several programming languages and natural languages.

  51. 54

    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.

  52. 55

    GSAP

    29.3Kgreensock/GSAP · JavaScript

    GSAP (GreenSock Animation Platform) is a framework-agnostic JavaScript library for building high-performance animations that work in every major browser.

  53. 56

    maple-font

    29.3Ksubframe7536/maple-font · Python

    Maple Mono is an open-source monospace font with round corners, smart ligatures, and built-in Nerd-Font icons, made to smooth your coding flow in IDEs and terminals.

  54. 57

    wezterm

    29.3Kwezterm/wezterm · Rust

    WezTerm is a GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer, written in Rust by @wez.

  55. 58

    pydantic

    29.1Kpydantic/pydantic · Python

    Pydantic is a Python library for data validation: you describe the data you expect with plain Python type hints, and it validates and parses real data against that description.

  56. 59

    swagger-ui

    29Kswagger-api/swagger-ui · JavaScript

    Swagger UI turns an OpenAPI (formerly Swagger) spec into interactive, visual API documentation: your team or end consumers can see and try the API's resources without any implementation logic in place.

  57. 60

    es6features

    29Klukehoban/es6features

    A one-page overview of ECMAScript 6 (ES2015) — the major update to JavaScript and the first since ES5 was standardized in 2009.

  58. 61

    immer

    29Kimmerjs/immer · JavaScript

    Immer is a small JavaScript library for working with immutable state: you write code that mutates your current state, and it produces the next immutable state tree for you.

  59. 62

    fingerprintjs

    28.6Kfingerprintjs/fingerprintjs · TypeScript

    FingerprintJS is an open-source, client-side browser fingerprinting library: it queries browser attributes and computes a hashed visitor identifier from them.

  60. 63

    yapi

    27.7KYMFE/yapi · JavaScript

    YApi is a visual API management platform for developers, product managers and QA: one place to document, debug, mock and automatically test your APIs.

  61. 64

    axum

    27.5Ktokio-rs/axum · Rust

    axum is an HTTP routing and request-handling library for Rust with a focus on ergonomics and modularity — the kind of crate you build web services and APIs with.

  62. 65

    testify

    26.2Kstretchr/testify · Go

    Testify is a toolkit of Go packages that add assertions, mocking and test suites on top of the standard library, so tests are easier to write and failures are easy to read.

  63. 66

    vapor

    26.2Kvapor/vapor · Swift

    Vapor is an HTTP web framework for Swift — a foundation for building websites, APIs, and cloud projects on the server.

  64. 67

    Rust

    26.1KTheAlgorithms/Rust · Rust

    A free, open-source collection of classic algorithms implemented in Rust — the Rust volume of TheAlgorithms on GitHub. It exists for education: you read the code to learn how each algorithm works.

  65. 68

    difftastic

    26KWilfred/difftastic · Rust

    Difftastic is a structural diff tool that compares files based on their syntax rather than line by line, so it highlights exactly which pieces of syntax have changed.

  66. 69

    modern-js-cheatsheet

    25.6Kmbeaudru/modern-js-cheatsheet

    A cheatsheet covering the modern JavaScript (ES6+) concepts you'll frequently run into in contemporary codebases, like React projects, aimed at developers who already know basic JS but struggle with newer syntax.

  67. 70

    colly

    25.6Kgocolly/colly · Go

    Colly is a scraping and crawling framework for Go: a clean interface for writing any kind of crawler, scraper or spider that extracts structured data from websites, for things like data mining, processing or archiving.

  68. 71

    bitcoinbook

    25.3Kbitcoinbook/bitcoinbook · HTML

    This is the complete text of Mastering Bitcoin, a technical book that explains what Bitcoin is and how it works, shared as open source alongside its O'Reilly print and ebook editions.

  69. 72

    v8

    25.3Kv8/v8 · C++

    V8 is Google's open source JavaScript engine, written in C++. This repository is the official mirror of the V8 Git repository.

  70. 73

    SmartRefreshLayout

    25.1Kscwang90/SmartRefreshLayout · Java

    SmartRefreshLayout is an Android pull-to-refresh framework: wrap any scrollable view with it to get pull-down-to-refresh and pull-up-to-load-more, with dozens of polished animated headers and footers built in.

  71. 74

    huashu-design

    25.1Kalchaincyf/huashu-design · HTML

    Huashu Design is an HTML-native design skill for coding agents: you type one sentence and the agent ships a finished deliverable — a clickable app prototype, an editable slide deck, a product-launch animation, or a print-grade infographic.

  72. 75

    LSPosed

    25.1KLSPosed/LSPosed · Java

    LSPosed is an Android hooking framework shipped as a Riru/Zygisk Magisk module. It gives modules the original Xposed APIs to change the behavior of the system and apps without touching any APKs.

  73. 76

    chromium

    25Kchromium/chromium

    The official GitHub mirror of the Chromium source code — the open-source browser project that aims to make the web safer, faster and more stable for all users.

  74. 77

    llm-cookbook

    24.8Kdatawhalechina/llm-cookbook · Jupyter Notebook

    A developer-oriented LLM starter handbook: a Chinese adaptation of Andrew Ng's LLM course series, translated and re-run for Chinese developers, covering prompt engineering through RAG development and model fine-tuning.

  75. 78

    EventBus

    24.7Kgreenrobot/EventBus · Java

    EventBus is a publish/subscribe event bus for Android and Java. It simplifies communication between components — Activities, Fragments, Threads, Services — and decouples event senders from receivers.

  76. 79

    dolt

    24.7Kdolthub/dolt · Go

    Dolt is 'Git for Data': a SQL database you can fork, clone, branch, merge, push and pull like a Git repository — it versions tables instead of files, and apps connect to it like any MySQL database.

  77. 80

    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.

  78. 81

    spacemacs

    24.5Ksyl20bnr/spacemacs · Emacs Lisp

    A community-driven Emacs distribution: a polished, batteries-included Emacs setup focused on ergonomics, mnemonics and consistency. It is still in beta and welcomes contributions.

  79. 82

    dash

    24.5Kplotly/dash · Python

    Dash is an open-source Python framework for building ML and data science web apps: interactive dashboards and data apps where dropdowns, sliders and graphs are wired directly into your analytical Python code, with no JavaScript required.

  80. 83

    devise

    24.4Kheartcombo/devise · Ruby

    Devise is a flexible, modular authentication solution for Ruby on Rails, built on top of Warden. It covers sign-up, sign-in, password recovery and more through optional modules you enable per model.

  81. 84

    cli

    24.3Kurfave/cli · Go

    urfave/cli is a Go package for building command line tools. You declare commands, subcommands, and flags in Go, and it handles argument parsing, the help system, and shell completion for you.

  82. 85

    Public-APIs

    24Kn0shake/Public-APIs

    A community-maintained public list of APIs from around the web that expose their resources for consumption, organized by category in a single README.

  83. 86

    FizzBuzzEnterpriseEdition

    23.9KEnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpriseEdition · Java

    FizzBuzz Enterprise Edition is a satirical Java project: the trivial FizzBuzz exercise deliberately rebuilt as if it were serious, architecture-heavy enterprise software.

  84. 87

    ddia

    23.8KVonng/ddia · Python

    A free Chinese translation of Martin Kleppmann's 'Designing Data-Intensive Applications' (DDIA), covering both the 1st and the complete 2nd edition; 210 contributors have polished it since 2018.

  85. 88

    bend

    23.7Kbendlang/bend · TypeScript

    A high-level, massively parallel programming language. It feels like Python or Haskell (closures, unrestricted recursion, continuations) but scales across many cores and GPUs with no thread or lock code to write.

  86. 89

    AeroSpace

    23.5Knikitabobko/AeroSpace · Swift

    AeroSpace is an i3-like tiling window manager for macOS: it arranges your windows into a tree-based tiling layout automatically and adds i3-style workspaces you can switch between instantly from the keyboard.

  87. 90

    saleor

    23.4Ksaleor/saleor · Python

    Saleor Core is the backend of Saleor, an open-source headless e-commerce platform written in Python. It powers catalog, cart, checkout, orders and payments, all exposed through a single GraphQL API.

  88. 91

    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.

  89. 92

    chinese-programmer-wrong-pronunciation

    23.3Kshimohq/chinese-programmer-wrong-pronunciation · JavaScript

    A reference list of English programming and tech terms that Chinese programmers commonly mispronounce, pairing each word with correct British and American audio pronunciations, the typical wrong pronunciation, and a Chinese meaning.

  90. 93

    github1s

    23.3Kconwnet/github1s · TypeScript

    github1s is a free web app that opens any GitHub repository in a full VS Code-style editor right in your browser, so you read code with a file tree and editor instead of clicking through github.com page by page.

  91. 94

    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.

  92. 95

    lens

    23.2Klensapp/lens

    Lens is a desktop IDE for Kubernetes — one context-aware UI for managing and troubleshooting clusters and workloads, and the most popular one out there, with over 1 million users.

  93. 96

    neon

    23.2Kneondatabase/neon · Rust

    Neon is an open source serverless Postgres platform. It splits storage from compute and replaces the PostgreSQL storage layer with a distributed engine that spreads data across a cluster of nodes — which is what enables autoscaling, database branching, and scale to zero.

  94. 97

    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.

  95. 98

    ratatui

    23Kratatui/ratatui · Rust

    Ratatui is a Rust crate for building terminal user interfaces — text-based UIs for command-line applications, dashboards and other interactive console programs.

  96. 99

    SwiftyJSON

    22.9KSwiftyJSON/SwiftyJSON · Swift

    SwiftyJSON is a Swift library for dealing with JSON data: it lets you pull values out of JSON without the verbose optional-wrapping and type-checking that plain Swift requires.

  97. 100

    mocha

    22.9Kmochajs/mocha · JavaScript

    Mocha is a classic, battle-tested test framework for JavaScript — you write test suites that run on Node.js or directly in the browser.

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