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Guidelines projects on GitHub

Best-practice guidelines and checklists for building software.

As of , the most-starred Guidelines projects on GitHub are the-book-of-secret-knowledge (251K stars), Front-End-Checklist (74.5K stars) and CppCoreGuidelines (45.4K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 13 Guidelines repositories with 557.1K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 17 was the-book-of-secret-knowledge, with +291 stars in a day.

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557.1KStars in total
+319Stars in a day
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Most stars gained in a day · Oct 17

+291

the-book-of-secret-knowledge

trimstray/the-book-of-secret-knowledge · ★ 251K

A massive curated collection of lists, manuals, cheatsheets, blogs, hacks, one-liners and CLI/GUI/web tools that the author gathers from everyday sysadmin, DevOps and security work.

+14

Front-End-Checklist

thedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist · ★ 74.5K

Front-End Checklist is an open-source front-end quality system that turns front-end best practices into a practical review workflow, usable by humans and AI agents via web, MCP server, or this README.

+5

awesome-design-systems

alexpate/awesome-design-systems · ★ 26.1K

A curated list of design systems — the documented principles, best practices and UI/pattern libraries that help a team build digital products consistently.

+4

CppCoreGuidelines

isocpp/CppCoreGuidelines · ★ 45.4K

The C++ Core Guidelines are a collaborative set of best-practice rules for writing modern C++ (C++11 and later), covering interfaces, resource management, memory management, and concurrency, with the goal of making code type-safe, leak-free, and fast.

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13 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · trimstray/the-book-of-secret-knowledge

    the-book-of-secret-knowledge

    A massive curated collection of lists, manuals, cheatsheets, blogs, hacks, one-liners and CLI/GUI/web tools that the author gathers from everyday sysadmin, DevOps and security work.

    251K
  2. #2 · thedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist

    Front-End-Checklist

    Front-End Checklist is an open-source front-end quality system that turns front-end best practices into a practical review workflow, usable by humans and AI agents via web, MCP server, or this README.

    74.5K
  3. #3 · isocpp/CppCoreGuidelines

    CppCoreGuidelines

    The C++ Core Guidelines are a collaborative set of best-practice rules for writing modern C++ (C++11 and later), covering interfaces, resource management, memory management, and concurrency, with the goal of making code type-safe, leak-free, and fast.

    45.4K
  1. 4

    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.

  2. 5

    awesome-design-systems

    26.1Kalexpate/awesome-design-systems

    A curated list of design systems — the documented principles, best practices and UI/pattern libraries that help a team build digital products consistently.

  3. 6

    api-guidelines

    23.3Kmicrosoft/api-guidelines

    A collection of guidelines published by Microsoft for designing consistent, well-behaved RESTful web APIs, shared publicly to foster dialogue in the broader API community.

  4. 7

    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.

  5. 8

    Front-End-Performance-Checklist

    17.4Kthedaviddias/Front-End-Performance-Checklist

    It's an exhaustive performance checklist for front-end developers: things you should check, or at least be aware of, when building a website — for personal and professional projects alike.

  6. 9

    Virgilio

    15Kvirgili0/Virgilio · Jupyter Notebook

    A free, open-source initiative that mentors anyone into Data Science: instead of drowning in a chaotic jungle of tutorials, you follow structured learning paths it has put together.

  7. 10

    naming-cheatsheet

    14.2Kkettanaito/naming-cheatsheet

    A language-agnostic cheatsheet with guidelines for naming variables and functions in code, centered on the A/HC/LC (Action/High Context/Low Context) naming pattern.

  8. 11

    react-redux-typescript-guide

    13.3Kpiotrwitek/react-redux-typescript-guide · TypeScript

    A living guide collecting the most important patterns and recipes for using React and Redux in a fully type-safe way with TypeScript, favoring type inference over manual type annotations.

  9. 12

    community

    13Kkubernetes/community · Jupyter Notebook

    The official Kubernetes community documentation — the starting point for joining and contributing to the Kubernetes project, whether by improving docs, improving code, or giving talks.

  10. 13

    awesome-guidelines

    11.2KKristories/awesome-guidelines · JavaScript

    A curated list of programming style guides, best practices, and coding conventions — one page collecting links to official and community guidelines for dozens of languages, platforms, and tools.

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