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Lists projects on GitHub

Curated awesome lists collecting tools by topic

As of , the most-starred Lists projects on GitHub are awesome (520.7K stars), public-apis (490.2K stars) and the-book-of-secret-knowledge (251.3K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 13 Lists repositories with 1.7M stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 18 was awesome, with +507 stars in a day.

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Most stars gained in a day · Oct 18

+507

awesome

sindresorhus/awesome · ★ 520.7K

It is 'awesome', the original curated directory of awesome lists maintained by Sindre Sorhus: a hand-picked index of lists about all kinds of interesting topics, from programming languages and platforms to gaming, security, and business.

+375

public-apis

public-apis/public-apis · ★ 490.2K

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.

+299

the-book-of-secret-knowledge

trimstray/the-book-of-secret-knowledge · ★ 251.3K

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.

+26

awesome-scalability

binhnguyennus/awesome-scalability · ★ 74.8K

A curated, continuously updated reading list of articles, case studies, and talks from engineers at companies like Netflix, Uber, Facebook, and Amazon, showing concrete patterns for building scalable, reliable, and performant large-scale systems.

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13 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · sindresorhus/awesome

    awesome

    It is 'awesome', the original curated directory of awesome lists maintained by Sindre Sorhus: a hand-picked index of lists about all kinds of interesting topics, from programming languages and platforms to gaming, security, and business.

    520.7K
  2. #2 · 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.

    490.2K
  3. #3 · 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.

    251.3K
  1. 4

    awesome-scalability

    74.8Kbinhnguyennus/awesome-scalability

    A curated, continuously updated reading list of articles, case studies, and talks from engineers at companies like Netflix, Uber, Facebook, and Amazon, showing concrete patterns for building scalable, reliable, and performant large-scale systems.

  2. 5

    Front-End-Checklist

    74.5Kthedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist · MDX

    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.

  3. 6

    awesome-cpp

    73.9Kfffaraz/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.

  4. 7

    trackerslist

    55.4Kngosang/trackerslist

    A collection of lists of public BitTorrent trackers that is checked and updated automatically every day, intended to be added to torrents or magnet links to improve peer discovery.

  5. 8

    awesome-design-patterns

    49.4KDovAmir/awesome-design-patterns

    A curated list of links to resources about software and architecture design patterns, covering everything from language-specific patterns to cloud, serverless, microservices, IoT, big data, ML, databases, DevOps, mobile, front-end and security.

  6. 9

    engineering-blogs

    38.8Kkilimchoi/engineering-blogs · Ruby

    A curated list of engineering blogs written by tech companies and individual software engineers, organized alphabetically.

  7. 10

    modern-unix

    33Kibraheemdev/modern-unix

    A curated collection of modern, faster and saner alternatives to common Unix commands - an index of CLI tools like bat, ripgrep, fd, fzf and zoxide.

  8. 11

    awesome-swift

    26.3Kmatteocrippa/awesome-swift · Ruby

    A collaborative, community-maintained catalog of Swift libraries and resources — guides, tools and over 1,100 categorized entries, published as a browsable GitHub README.

  9. 12

    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.

  10. 13

    lists

    11.6Kjnv/lists

    It is a meta-directory that collects links to hundreds of other curated lists found on GitHub and elsewhere, split into a 'Non-technical' section (hobbies, food, books, etc.) and a 'Technical' section (dev resources, APIs, frameworks).

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