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Minimal projects on GitHub

Projects built with minimalist design or minimal dependencies.

As of October 17, 2026, the most-starred Minimal projects on GitHub are alpine (32K stars), distroless (23.1K stars) and toml (20.6K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 12 Minimal repositories with 192.5K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was alpine, with +6 stars in a day.

12Projects

192.5KStars in total

+22Stars in a day

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Hot right now

Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

alpine

alpinejs/alpine · ★ 32K

Alpine.js is a rugged, minimal framework that lets you add interactive JavaScript behavior directly as attributes in your HTML markup, without a build step or component system.

distroless

GoogleContainerTools/distroless · ★ 23.1K

A set of minimal container base images that contain only your application and its runtime dependencies — no package managers, shells or other programs you would expect in a normal Linux distribution.

pure

sindresorhus/pure · ★ 14.4K

Pure is a pretty, minimal and fast prompt theme for ZSH that shows git branch/status, command execution time, and other context without cluttering the terminal.

pypdf

py-pdf/pypdf · ★ 10.3K

A free and open-source pure-python PDF library: it splits, merges, crops and transforms the pages of PDF files, and can add custom data, viewing options and passwords to them.

The all-time top

12 projects · by stars

#1 · alpinejs/alpine
alpine
Alpine.js is a rugged, minimal framework that lets you add interactive JavaScript behavior directly as attributes in your HTML markup, without a build step or component system.
32K
#2 · GoogleContainerTools/distroless
distroless
A set of minimal container base images that contain only your application and its runtime dependencies — no package managers, shells or other programs you would expect in a normal Linux distribution.
23.1K
#3 · toml-lang/toml
toml
TOML (Tom's Obvious, Minimal Language) is a minimal configuration file format designed to be readable at a glance, with semantics obvious enough to map cleanly onto a hash table. This repository holds the in-development TOML specification itself.
20.6K

4
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.
5
pico
16.8Kpicocss/pico · CSS
Pico is a minimal CSS framework for semantic HTML: one stylesheet that makes plain HTML elements responsive and elegant by default. MIT-licensed and built around writing HTML, not classes.
6
riot
14.9Kriot/riot · JavaScript
Riot is a lightweight component-based UI library that brings custom components (custom tags) to all modern browsers, aiming to give you everything you wished the native Web Components API provided, with a tiny footprint and simple API.
7
hapi
14.8Khapijs/hapi · JavaScript
hapi (@hapi/hapi) is a Node.js web framework for building powerful, scalable applications with minimal overhead and full out-of-the-box functionality — 'your code, your way'.
8
pure
14.4Ksindresorhus/pure · Shell
Pure is a pretty, minimal and fast prompt theme for ZSH that shows git branch/status, command execution time, and other context without cluttering the terminal.
9
chokidar
12.2Kpaulmillr/chokidar · TypeScript
Chokidar is a minimal, efficient cross-platform file watching library for Node.js that normalizes the messy events from the OS's native filesystem APIs into clean add, change, and unlink events.
- watch
- map
- events
- esm
10
flowy
12.1Kalyssaxuu/flowy · JavaScript
Flowy is a minimal JavaScript library for building flowcharts in web apps: users drag blocks onto a canvas, snap them together, and rearrange them.
11
pypdf
10.3Kpy-pdf/pypdf · Python
A free and open-source pure-python PDF library: it splits, merges, crops and transforms the pages of PDF files, and can add custom data, viewing options and passwords to them.
12
tau
3Khuggingface/tau · Python
Tau is Hugging Face's Python port of Pi's minimalist coding agent — a terminal app you ask to explain a repo, add tests or fix a stack trace, and it reads files, edits code, runs commands and streams what it is doing.