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Development projects on GitHub

General software development topic.

As of , the most-starred Development projects on GitHub are public-apis (489.6K stars), system-design-primer (374.5K stars) and n8n (207.7K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 20 Development repositories with 1.6M stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was public-apis, with +373 stars in a day.

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1.6MStars in total
+886Stars in a day
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Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

+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.

+184

n8n

n8n-io/n8n · ★ 207.7K

n8n is a fair-code workflow automation platform for building and deploying AI agents and automations. It combines a visual canvas with custom code and connects to 1500+ integrations.

+127

spec-kit

github/spec-kit · ★ 141.6K

Spec Kit is an open source toolkit for Spec-Driven Development (SDD) — you write specs, plans, and tasks that an AI coding agent turns into working code, instead of writing code first and documentation as an afterthought.

+116

system-design-primer

donnemartin/system-design-primer · ★ 374.5K

A curated, organized collection of resources for learning how to design large-scale systems, built specifically to help engineers prepare for system design interviews.

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20 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · 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
  2. #2 · donnemartin/system-design-primer

    system-design-primer

    A curated, organized collection of resources for learning how to design large-scale systems, built specifically to help engineers prepare for system design interviews.

    374.5K
  3. #3 · n8n-io/n8n

    n8n

    n8n is a fair-code workflow automation platform for building and deploying AI agents and automations. It combines a visual canvas with custom code and connects to 1500+ integrations.

    207.7K
  1. 4

    spec-kit

    141.6Kgithub/spec-kit · Python

    Spec Kit is an open source toolkit for Spec-Driven Development (SDD) — you write specs, plans, and tasks that an AI coding agent turns into working code, instead of writing code first and documentation as an afterthought.

  2. 5

    GitHubDaily

    48.2KGitHubDaily/GitHubDaily

    GitHubDaily is a curated Chinese-language collection of interesting and useful open-source projects, developer tools, tutorials and tech news discovered on GitHub, shared daily since October 2015.

  3. 6

    cli

    38.6Khttpie/cli · Python

    HTTPie is a command-line HTTP client built to make interacting with APIs and web servers from the terminal as human-friendly as possible. It ships two commands, http and https, for sending arbitrary HTTP requests with simple syntax and colorized, formatted output.

  4. 7

    interactive-coding-challenges

    31.9Kdonnemartin/interactive-coding-challenges · Python

    A collection of 120+ interactive, test-driven Python coding challenges covering algorithms and data structures commonly asked in coding interviews, each delivered as a Jupyter notebook with unit tests and a paired solution notebook, plus an included Anki flashcard deck.

  5. 8

    standard

    29.4Kstandard/standard · JavaScript

    JavaScript Standard Style — a zero-configuration style guide, linter and automatic code fixer for JavaScript. It enforces one consistent style and catches programmer errors early, with nothing to set up.

  6. 9

    system-design-academy

    29.4Ksystemdesign42/system-design-academy

    A curated collection of system design case studies, fundamentals, interview prep, and AI engineering resources, organized as a big reference list tied to a newsletter.

  7. 10

    android_guides

    28.3Kcodepath/android_guides

    A crowdsourced collection of guides and cliffnotes covering Android development topics, created by CodePath to help developers learn Android beyond scattered blog posts and outdated tutorials.

  8. 11

    Interview_Question_for_Beginner

    21.7Kjbee37142/Interview_Question_for_Beginner

    A curated repository of technical interview guidelines and study notes for beginner developers and job seekers, covering CS fundamentals, languages, and field-specific topics.

  9. 12

    xterm.js

    21.3Kxtermjs/xterm.js · TypeScript

    Xterm.js is a frontend component that lets web applications embed a fully-featured terminal in the browser. It powers the integrated terminal in VS Code, Hyper and Tabby.

  10. 13

    GoBooks

    19.7Kdariubs/GoBooks · Go

    A curated list of the best books on the Go programming language — from beginner tutorials to concurrency, performance, and system design — kept as one place to find the right learning resource.

  11. 14

    devpod

    15.3Kloft-sh/devpod · Go

    DevPod is an open-source, client-only tool that builds reproducible developer environments from a devcontainer.json file and runs them on whatever backend you pick, from local Docker to Kubernetes or a cloud VM.

  12. 15

    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.

  13. 16

    RD-Agent

    15Kmicrosoft/RD-Agent · Python

    R&D-Agent is a Microsoft multi-agent framework that automates data-driven R&D: one agent proposes new research ideas and another implements them, applied to quant trading, data mining, Kaggle competitions, paper reproduction, and LLM fine-tuning.

  14. 17

    E2B

    14.4Ke2b-dev/E2B · Python

    E2B is open-source infrastructure that lets you run AI-generated code in secure, isolated cloud sandboxes, so agents can execute untrusted code safely.

  15. 18

    http-server

    14.2Khttp-party/http-server · JavaScript

    http-server is a simple, zero-configuration command-line static HTTP server: point it at a folder and it serves the files over HTTP. The README says it is powerful enough for production usage, yet simple and hackable enough to be used for testing, local development and learning.

  16. 19

    distrobox

    13.1K89luca89/distrobox · Go

    Distrobox lets you run any Linux distribution inside your terminal using containers, giving you backward and forward software compatibility while keeping the environment tightly integrated with your host system.

  17. 20

    Kooboo

    344Kooboo/Kooboo · JavaScript

    An all-in-one 'AI-native Web OS' for building, running, and owning websites, online stores, and business applications — AI site creation, visual editing, CMS, databases, ecommerce, email, analytics, and hosting in one integrated system.

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