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Libraries projects on GitHub

Curated collections of useful libraries and resources for various programming languages.

As of , the most-starred Libraries projects on GitHub are awesome-python (328.1K stars), awesome-cpp (73.8K stars) and vcpkg (27.5K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 12 Libraries repositories with 575.9K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was awesome-python, with +303 stars in a day.

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Hot right now

Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

+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?'

+23

awesome-cpp

fffaraz/awesome-cpp · ★ 73.8K

A curated list (awesome-list) of C and C++ frameworks, libraries, tools, and resources, organized by category like AI, audio, networking, GUI, databases, and more.

+2

ta-lib-python

TA-Lib/ta-lib-python · ★ 12.3K

A Python wrapper around the TA-Lib C library for technical analysis of financial market data: 150+ indicators such as RSI, MACD and Bollinger Bands, plus candlestick pattern recognition.

+1

vcpkg

microsoft/vcpkg · ★ 27.5K

vcpkg is a free, open-source C/C++ package manager maintained by Microsoft and the C++ community, letting you fetch, build, and manage third-party libraries for your C++ projects.

The all-time top

12 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · vinta/awesome-python

    awesome-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?'

    328.1K
  2. #2 · fffaraz/awesome-cpp

    awesome-cpp

    A curated list (awesome-list) of C and C++ frameworks, libraries, tools, and resources, organized by category like AI, audio, networking, GUI, databases, and more.

    73.8K
  3. #3 · microsoft/vcpkg

    vcpkg

    vcpkg is a free, open-source C/C++ package manager maintained by Microsoft and the C++ community, letting you fetch, build, and manage third-party libraries for your C++ projects.

    27.5K
  1. 4

    nsq

    25.8Knsqio/nsq · Go

    NSQ is a realtime distributed messaging platform — a message queue built to operate at scale, handling billions of messages per day.

  2. 5

    RxJS

    19.3KReactive-Extensions/RxJS · JavaScript

    RxJS (Reactive Extensions for JavaScript) is a set of libraries for composing asynchronous and event-based programs using observable sequences and fluent, Array#extras-style query operators.

  3. 6

    CodeIgniter

    18.1Kbcit-ci/CodeIgniter · PHP

    CodeIgniter is an open-source PHP framework (a toolkit) for building web applications faster by providing ready-made libraries for common tasks instead of writing everything from scratch.

  4. 7

    spellbook-of-modern-webdev

    17.9Kdexteryy/spellbook-of-modern-webdev

    A curated, deeply organized reference document covering the entire landscape of modern JavaScript web development: platforms, APIs, libraries, tools, services, and best practices.

  5. 8

    Android-Universal-Image-Loader

    16.8Knostra13/Android-Universal-Image-Loader · Java

    Universal Image Loader (UIL) is a Java library for Android that loads, caches and displays images. It offers lots of configuration options and fine control over the loading and caching process.

  6. 9

    httpbin

    13.6Kpostmanlabs/httpbin · Python

    An HTTP request and response service: a web API you can send requests to and inspect the responses, handy for testing HTTP clients. It is written in Python and Flask.

  7. 10

    CocoaAsyncSocket

    12.4Krobbiehanson/CocoaAsyncSocket · Objective-C

    CocoaAsyncSocket is an asynchronous socket networking library for macOS, iOS, and tvOS, providing TCP and UDP classes built on Grand Central Dispatch.

  8. 11

    ta-lib-python

    12.3KTA-Lib/ta-lib-python · Cython

    A Python wrapper around the TA-Lib C library for technical analysis of financial market data: 150+ indicators such as RSI, MACD and Bollinger Bands, plus candlestick pattern recognition.

  9. 12

    yeoman

    10.1Kyeoman/yeoman

    Yeoman is a robust and opinionated set of tools, libraries, and a workflow that helps developers quickly build beautiful, compelling web apps by automating the routine parts of the development workflow.

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