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Nginx projects on GitHub

High-performance web server and reverse proxy commonly used in production.

As of , the most-starred Nginx projects on GitHub are architect-awesome (60.8K stars), acme.sh (47.8K stars) and awesome-cheatsheets (46.6K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 39 Nginx repositories with 662K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was nginx-proxy-manager, with +14 stars in a day.

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662KStars in total
+130Stars in a day
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Hot right now

Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

+14

nginx-proxy-manager

NginxProxyManager/nginx-proxy-manager · ★ 34.4K

Nginx Proxy Manager is a pre-built Docker container that gives you a web admin interface to manage Nginx reverse proxy hosts, including free SSL certificates, without needing to know Nginx configuration.

+13

acme.sh

acmesh-official/acme.sh · ★ 47.8K

acme.sh is a pure Unix shell script client for the ACME protocol that automatically issues, renews, and installs free SSL/TLS certificates from CAs like Let's Encrypt or ZeroSSL.

+11

v2ray-agent

mack-a/v2ray-agent · ★ 22.1K

An all-in-one one-click script that installs and manages proxy services on your own server, built around the Xray-core and sing-box cores and driven from a terminal menu.

+10

openGym

arvids-unavailable/openGym · ★ 7.3K

A self-hosted gym and body-weight tracker you actually own: weekly plans, guided workouts, full set and weight logging, and cross-device sync behind your own passkey login — no third-party account, no subscription, no ads.

The all-time top

39 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · xingshaocheng/architect-awesome

    architect-awesome

    A curated technical roadmap in Chinese for backend engineers aiming to become architects, mapping out data structures, algorithms, concurrency, databases, middleware, and system design.

    60.8K
  2. #2 · acmesh-official/acme.sh

    acme.sh

    acme.sh is a pure Unix shell script client for the ACME protocol that automatically issues, renews, and installs free SSL/TLS certificates from CAs like Let's Encrypt or ZeroSSL.

    47.8K
  3. #3 · LeCoupa/awesome-cheatsheets

    awesome-cheatsheets

    A curated collection of cheatsheets covering popular programming languages, frameworks, databases, and development tools, each condensed into a single reference file.

    46.6K
  1. 4

    interview_internal_reference

    37.3K0voice/interview_internal_reference · Python

    A curated collection of real technical interview questions and answers from major Chinese tech companies — Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu, Meituan, ByteDance and more — with analysis from expert interviewers.

  2. 5

    nginx-proxy-manager

    34.4KNginxProxyManager/nginx-proxy-manager · TypeScript

    Nginx Proxy Manager is a pre-built Docker container that gives you a web admin interface to manage Nginx reverse proxy hosts, including free SSL certificates, without needing to know Nginx configuration.

  3. 6

    nginx

    31.9Knginx/nginx · C

    NGINX ('engine x') is a free, open source web server, load balancer, reverse proxy, API gateway and content cache — described as the world's most popular web server.

  4. 7

    nginxconfig.io

    28.3Kdigitalocean/nginxconfig.io · JavaScript

    A free web-based NGINX configuration generator by DigitalOcean: you pick what your server needs and it produces a tuned config for your use case.

  5. 8

    v2ray-agent

    22.1Kmack-a/v2ray-agent · Shell

    An all-in-one one-click script that installs and manages proxy services on your own server, built around the Xray-core and sing-box cores and driven from a terminal menu.

  6. 9

    goaccess

    21.1Kallinurl/goaccess · C

    GoAccess is an open source real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer. It parses your web server access logs and shows HTTP statistics live, either in a terminal UI or as an HTML dashboard in your browser.

  7. 10

    nginx-proxy

    19.9Knginx-proxy/nginx-proxy · Python

    A Docker image that runs nginx plus docker-gen: when containers start or stop, docker-gen regenerates the reverse proxy config and reloads nginx, so routing updates itself.

  8. 11

    community-skeleton

    19.6Kuvdesk/community-skeleton · CSS

    UVdesk Community is a free, open-source helpdesk platform: a ticketing system for customer support built on the Symfony framework and backbone.js, covering tickets, mailboxes, a knowledge base and an extensible bundle system.

  9. 12

    ingress-nginx

    19.5Kkubernetes/ingress-nginx · Go

    ingress-nginx was an Ingress controller for Kubernetes that used NGINX as a reverse proxy and load balancer to route traffic into clusters. The project is now retired.

  10. 13

    lila

    18.8Klichess-org/lila · Scala

    Lichess (lila) is the free, adless and open source online chess server behind lichess.org, focused on realtime play and ease of use.

  11. 14

    apisix

    17.2Kapache/apisix · Lua

    Apache APISIX is an open-source, dynamic, real-time, high-performance API Gateway that also serves as an AI Gateway. It provides traffic management — load balancing, canary release, circuit breaking, authentication, observability — for both north-south and east-west traffic.

  12. 15

    speedtest

    15.2Klibrespeed/speedtest · JavaScript

    LibreSpeed is a self-hosted internet speed test you host on your own server, built in plain JavaScript with XMLHttpRequest and Web Workers instead of Flash or Java.

  13. 16

    caprover

    15.2Kcaprover/caprover · TypeScript

    CapRover is a self-hosted platform-as-a-service (PaaS) that lets you deploy and manage web apps, APIs, and databases on your own server without manually configuring Docker or nginx.

  14. 17

    nginx-admins-handbook

    14.3Ktrimstray/nginx-admins-handbook · Shell

    A free, community-maintained handbook of personal notes, tips, and gotchas for administering, securing, and tuning NGINX (and OpenResty/Tengine) in production.

  15. 18

    openresty

    14.1Kopenresty/openresty · C

    OpenResty is a full-fledged web application server: it bundles the standard nginx core, lots of 3rd-party nginx modules, and most of their external dependencies into one package.

  16. 19

    nginx-rtmp-module

    14Karut/nginx-rtmp-module · C

    nginx-rtmp-module turns NGINX into a media streaming server, adding RTMP, HLS and MPEG-DASH live streaming plus RTMP video-on-demand playback of FLV/MP4 files.

  17. 20

    mall-learning

    13.4Kmacrozheng/mall-learning · Java

    This is a learning tutorial that breaks down the architecture, business logic, and technical details of the 'mall' e-commerce project (a 60k+ star Java e-commerce system), covering SpringBoot, MyBatis, Elasticsearch, RabbitMQ, Redis, MongoDB, MySQL and Docker-based deployment.

  18. 21

    tengine

    13.4Kalibaba/tengine · C

    Tengine is a high-performance web server and reverse proxy originated by Taobao, built as a fork of nginx that stays 100% compatible with it while adding extra enterprise features.

  19. 22

    htaccess

    13.2Kphanan/htaccess

    A curated collection of useful .htaccess snippets for Apache, covering rewrites/redirects, security, performance, and miscellaneous tricks.

  20. 23

    mall-swarm

    13.2Kmacrozheng/mall-swarm · Java

    mall-swarm is a microservices-based e-commerce platform built with Spring Cloud and Spring Cloud Alibaba, bundling a storefront, mobile app backend, and an admin panel with full infrastructure like a registry, config center, monitoring, and gateway.

  21. 24

    claude-relay-service

    12.7KWei-Shaw/claude-relay-service · JavaScript

    Claude Relay Service (CRS) is a self-hosted relay/proxy you run yourself to access Claude (plus OpenAI/Codex, Gemini CLI, and Droid) through your own server, letting you manage multiple accounts and share subscription costs with friends.

  22. 25

    laradock

    12.7Klaradock/laradock · Dockerfile

    Laradock is a full PHP development environment for Docker: clone it into any PHP project, run one command, and you get a complete local stack with 100+ pre-configured services like Nginx, PHP-FPM, MySQL, Redis and Elasticsearch.

  23. 26

    lua-nginx-module

    11.8Kopenresty/lua-nginx-module · C

    It embeds the Lua scripting language directly into NGINX, letting you handle HTTP requests with Lua code using directives like 'content_by_lua_block' instead of relying only on plain config or custom C modules.

  24. 27

    nginx-ui

    11.6K0xJacky/nginx-ui · Go

    Nginx UI is a web-based admin panel for managing an Nginx server: editing site configs, viewing logs, issuing SSL certificates, and monitoring server stats, all through a browser instead of the command line.

  25. 28

    server-configs-nginx

    11.6Kh5bp/server-configs-nginx

    A collection of ready-made Nginx server configuration files (by the H5BP project) that improve a website's performance and security, set correct content-types, and handle cross-domain resource access.

  26. 29

    bunkerweb

    11.1Kbunkerity/bunkerweb · Python

    BunkerWeb is an open-source, next-generation Web Application Firewall (WAF) built as a full-featured web server on top of NGINX. It protects your web applications and APIs 'secure by default' while integrating as a reverse proxy into your existing environment.

  27. 30

    gunicorn

    10.7Kbenoitc/gunicorn · Python

    Gunicorn — 'Green Unicorn' — is a Python WSGI HTTP server for UNIX. It's the process that runs your Python web app and serves it to the world.

  28. 31

    SSPanel-UIM

    10.4KAnankke/SSPanel-UIM · PHP

    SSPanel-UIM is a self-hosted, PHP-based management panel for proxy services, built for Shadowsocks(2022), V2Ray, Trojan, and TUIC. It handles user accounts, nodes, billing, and subscription distribution for people running their own proxy business.

  29. 32

    openGym

    7.3Karvids-unavailable/openGym · JavaScript

    A self-hosted gym and body-weight tracker you actually own: weekly plans, guided workouts, full set and weight logging, and cross-device sync behind your own passkey login — no third-party account, no subscription, no ads.

  30. 33

    sh

    3.4Kkejilion/sh · Shell

    KejiLion.sh is an all-in-one interactive shell script toolbox for managing Linux servers: system monitoring, network testing, Docker, one-click LDNMP website stacks, backups, and security hardening.

  31. 34

    walgit

    2.6Ktobi/walgit · Rust

    walgit is a single-binary git server that stores every repository as a write-ahead log in an S3 or GCS bucket instead of a database. It implements smart HTTP git (v0/v2), bundle-uri clones, Git LFS, a web browsing UI, and a JSON API with an SDK, and it can scale to repositories larger than the machine running it.

  32. 35

    mtproto.zig

    2.1Ksleep3r/mtproto.zig · Zig

    mtproto.zig is a tiny self-hosted MTProto proxy for Telegram that disguises your traffic as ordinary TLS 1.3 HTTPS, so censors and DPI filters can't tell it's Telegram. You run it on your own cheap VPS and share a single tg:// link with people who want their Telegram unblocked.

  33. 36

    map-to-poster

    1.1Kdimartarmizi/map-to-poster · JavaScript

    MapToPoster JS is a client-side web app that turns any location into a customizable, high-resolution map poster you can export as a PNG for printing.

  34. 37

    azerioid-stack-manager

    710azerioid/azerioid-stack-manager · PHP

    AZERIOID Stack Manager is a self-contained stack manager and web control panel for operators who run sites on a single Linux server. It bootstraps Caddy, a dedicated PHP-FPM pool and a SQLite-backed admin UI, then lets you add web servers, databases, cache, mail, Node.js and rootless Docker on demand.

  35. 38

    SuperJinX

    456x4gpanell/SuperJinX · HTML

    Super JinX is a free, open-source reseller panel built on PasarGuard that bundles a panel, Xray core and nginx into a single service, giving you ready-made VLESS/Trojan/VMess configs and a branded subscription page you can sell to customers.

  36. 39

    3x-ui

    400x4gpanell/3x-ui · Dockerfile

    This is a Railway deployment setup for the 3x-ui panel that adds an nginx reverse proxy so both the web panel and a VLESS/WebSocket inbound are reachable through the single port Railway assigns to your deployment.

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