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Development-environment projects on GitHub
Cloud and remote development environments with reproducible setups.
As of , the most-starred Development-environment projects on GitHub are code-server (79.6K stars), awesome-compose (46.5K stars) and coder (17.1K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 8 Development-environment repositories with 190.7K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was code-server, with +12 stars in a day.
Hot right now
Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16
+12code-server
coder/code-server · ★ 79.6Kcode-server runs VS Code on a remote machine and lets you access the full editor through a web browser, so you can code from any device.
+12coder
coder/coder · ★ 17.1KCoder is a self-hosted platform for creating cloud development environments and running AI coding agents on your own infrastructure.
webcodex
yyjeqhc/webcodex · ★ 2.3KWebCodex lets cloud AI agents like ChatGPT, Claude, and other MCP clients work on a real development environment that stays on your own machine, instead of copying your repository into a hosted workspace.
+8awesome-compose
docker/awesome-compose · ★ 46.5KAwesome Compose is a curated list of Docker Compose samples: ready-made project setups showing how to integrate different services via a Compose file and manage their deployment with Docker Compose.
The all-time top
8 projects · by stars
- 79.6K
#1 · coder/code-servercode-server
code-server runs VS Code on a remote machine and lets you access the full editor through a web browser, so you can code from any device.
- 46.5K
#2 · docker/awesome-composeawesome-compose
Awesome Compose is a curated list of Docker Compose samples: ready-made project setups showing how to integrate different services via a Compose file and manage their deployment with Docker Compose.
- 17.1K
#3 · coder/codercoder
Coder is a self-hosted platform for creating cloud development environments and running AI coding agents on your own infrastructure.
- 4
devbox
12.4Kjetify-com/devbox · GoDevbox 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.
- 5

gvm
11.7Kmoovweb/gvm · ShellGVM (Go Version Manager) is a shell tool for installing, switching between, and managing multiple Go versions on one machine, together with the GOPATH environments that go with them.
- 6

core
10.9Kstackblitz/coreStackBlitz is an online IDE that runs a full development environment in your browser, powered by Visual Studio Code.
- 7

tilt
10.1Ktilt-dev/tilt · GoTilt is a dev tool for microservice apps on Kubernetes: it automates the whole path from a code change to an updated process in your dev environment, so your services behave during development.
- 8

webcodex
2.3Kyyjeqhc/webcodex · RustWebCodex lets cloud AI agents like ChatGPT, Claude, and other MCP clients work on a real development environment that stays on your own machine, instead of copying your repository into a hosted workspace.
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