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Dotnet-core projects on GitHub

Modern cross-platform open-source .NET runtime and ASP.NET Core.

As of , the most-starred Dotnet-core projects on GitHub are jellyfin (58.2K stars), WaveFunctionCollapse (25.4K stars) and core (22K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 23 Dotnet-core repositories with 376.8K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 18 was jellyfin, with +55 stars in a day.

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376.8KStars in total
+105Stars in a day
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Hot right now

Most stars gained in a day · Oct 18

+55

jellyfin

jellyfin/jellyfin · ★ 58.2K

Jellyfin is a free, open-source media server backend that lets you organize and stream your own movies, shows, and music to apps on other devices, similar to Plex or Emby but with no premium tiers.

+10

KillerPDF

SteveTheKiller/KillerPDF · ★ 4.2K

KillerPDF is a free, open-source PDF editor for Windows built around its own PDF 2.0 engine, letting you view, annotate, OCR, merge, split, edit text, sign, fill forms, print and flatten PDFs without any subscription.

+8

imewlconverter

studyzy/imewlconverter · ★ 10.5K

An open-source, free input method dictionary converter (深蓝词库转换). It moves your word dictionaries between 20+ Chinese input method tools — Sogou, QQ, Baidu, Rime, Microsoft Pinyin and more — and runs on Windows, Linux and macOS.

+7

WaveFunctionCollapse

mxgmn/WaveFunctionCollapse · ★ 25.4K

A C# program that generates bitmaps and tilemaps locally similar to a single example image you give it, using ideas borrowed from quantum mechanics.

The all-time top

23 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · jellyfin/jellyfin

    jellyfin

    Jellyfin is a free, open-source media server backend that lets you organize and stream your own movies, shows, and music to apps on other devices, similar to Plex or Emby but with no premium tiers.

    58.2K
  2. #2 · mxgmn/WaveFunctionCollapse

    WaveFunctionCollapse

    A C# program that generates bitmaps and tilemaps locally similar to a single example image you give it, using ideas borrowed from quantum mechanics.

    25.4K
  3. #3 · dotnet/core

    core

    The official home of .NET release notes and news: a table of every version under active support or development, with release dates, support phases, latest patch versions, and links to the full notes.

    22K
  1. 4

    awesome-dotnet

    21.7Kquozd/awesome-dotnet

    A curated, community-driven catalog of well-known .NET libraries, tools, frameworks and software, sorted by task into roughly a hundred categories.

  2. 5

    awesome-dotnet-core

    21.4Kthangchung/awesome-dotnet-core · C#

    A curated collection of awesome .NET Core libraries, tools, frameworks and software, organized by category such as API, Application Frameworks, ORM, Security, Testing, and more.

  3. 6

    server

    20.4Kbitwarden/server · C#

    This is the server side of Bitwarden, the password manager: the APIs, database, and core backend infrastructure that all Bitwarden client apps talk to. Run it on your own hardware to get your own Bitwarden instance.

  4. 7

    AspNetCore-Developer-Roadmap

    19.7KMoienTajik/AspNetCore-Developer-Roadmap

    A roadmap chart showing the skills and libraries you need to learn to become an ASP.NET Core developer, updated for 2026.

  5. 8

    corefx

    17.5Kdotnet/corefx

    This is dotnet/corefx, the GitHub home of the .NET Core base class libraries (CoreFX). The repo is archived and now serves only as the place for servicing pull requests for .NET Core 2.1 and 3.1.

  6. 9

    amplication

    16Kamplication/amplication · TypeScript

    Amplication is a platform that generates production-ready backend microservices — APIs, data models, DTOs and more — embedding your organization's best practices, so engineers can focus on business logic instead of boilerplate.

  7. 10

    dotnet

    15.1Kmicrosoft/dotnet · HTML

    It's the official home of .NET on GitHub - a starting-point repo that gathers links to .NET open-source projects, docs and release notes from Microsoft and the community.

  8. 11

    efcore

    14.8Kdotnet/efcore · C#

    EF Core is a modern object-database mapper for .NET: you query and update data as regular objects, and it handles LINQ queries, change tracking, updates, and schema migrations.

  9. 12

    notesnook

    14.8Kstreetwriters/notesnook · TypeScript

    Notesnook is a free, fully open-source, end-to-end encrypted note-taking app positioned as a privacy-focused alternative to Evernote.

  10. 13

    abp

    14.4Kabpframework/abp · C#

    ABP is an open-source web application framework for ASP.NET Core that gives you an opinionated architecture for building enterprise software, with infrastructure, startup templates, pre-built application modules, UI themes and tooling included.

  11. 14

    QuestPDF

    14.2KQuestPDF/QuestPDF · C#

    QuestPDF is a modern C# library for generating PDF documents — reports, invoices, exports — by writing strongly-typed, fluent C# code instead of fighting with HTML-to-PDF conversion.

  12. 15

    coreclr

    12.8Kdotnet/coreclr

    CoreCLR is the runtime for .NET Core — the component that actually executes .NET Core programs. It ships the garbage collector, the JIT compiler, primitive data types and low-level classes.

  13. 16

    aspnetboilerplate

    12Kaspnetboilerplate/aspnetboilerplate · C#

    ASP.NET Boilerplate (ABP) is a general-purpose application framework for building modern ASP.NET web apps, implementing best practices like layered architecture and Domain Driven Design out of the box so you can focus on business code.

  14. 17

    imewlconverter

    10.5Kstudyzy/imewlconverter · C#

    An open-source, free input method dictionary converter (深蓝词库转换). It moves your word dictionaries between 20+ Chinese input method tools — Sogou, QQ, Baidu, Rime, Microsoft Pinyin and more — and runs on Windows, Linux and macOS.

  15. 18

    practical-aspnetcore

    10.4Kdodyg/practical-aspnetcore · C#

    A very large collection of small, runnable ASP.NET Core sample projects covering versions 2.1 through 11, organized by feature (MVC, Minimal API, Blazor, gRPC, SignalR, etc.) with README explanations for each.

  16. 19

    CefSharp

    10.3Kcefsharp/CefSharp · C#

    CefSharp is a .NET wrapper around the Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF) that lets you embed a full Chromium browser inside WPF or Windows Forms applications.

  17. 20

    nopCommerce

    10.2KnopSolutions/nopCommerce · C#

    nopCommerce is a free, open-source eCommerce platform — a full shopping cart built on ASP.NET Core. Developed by a professional team since 2008, it has been downloaded over 3 million times and powers about 60,000 stores worldwide.

  18. 21

    Hangfire

    10.2KHangfireIO/Hangfire · C#

    Hangfire is a library for .NET and .NET Core that lets you run fire-and-forget, delayed, and recurring background jobs inside your application, without needing a Windows Service or a separate worker process.

  19. 22

    KillerPDF

    4.2KSteveTheKiller/KillerPDF · C#

    KillerPDF is a free, open-source PDF editor for Windows built around its own PDF 2.0 engine, letting you view, annotate, OCR, merge, split, edit text, sign, fill forms, print and flatten PDFs without any subscription.

  20. 23

    dotnet-framework-docker

    764microsoft/dotnet-framework-docker · C#

    This is the official repo providing Dockerfiles for building .NET Framework container images on Windows Server Core, covering the SDK, runtime, ASP.NET, and WCF.

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