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JavaScript runtime built on V8 for building servers, CLIs, and full-stack apps.
As of , the most-starred Node.js projects on GitHub are freeCodeCamp (457.2K stars), openclaw (392.2K stars) and developer-roadmap (369.6K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 1,506 Node.js repositories with 25.7M stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was rea, with +17.7K stars in a day.
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rea
morluto/rea · ★ 290.9KREA lets AI coding agents reverse engineer apps, binaries, websites, and other software through a single MCP server and CLI, returning findings with the evidence behind them so an agent can explain a feature or rebuild it.
dsh-our-free-model
Ebony-Vinyl/dsh-our-free-model · ★ 19.6KA plugin for the 'dsh' coding-agent harness that gives instant, free access to frontier LLMs like DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and Kimi K3 — no login, sign-up, or API key required.
+1.2KECC
affaan-m/ECC · ★ 281.5KECC is a performance-optimization system (a harness) for coding agents: it plans before building, verifies changes with tests, reviews its own work from a fresh context, remembers what matters, and turns repeated wins into reusable skills. It works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode and other agent harnesses.
+1Kanatomy
wheresryan22/anatomy · ★ 13.9KAnatomy is a Claude Code skill that turns a technical idea into a detailed, interactive isometric figure of a real machine (SVG, optional WebGL shaders, and beta 3D) for docs, articles, and landing pages.
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#1 · freeCodeCamp/freeCodeCampfreeCodeCamp
freeCodeCamp.org's open-source codebase and curriculum: a friendly, donor-supported community where you learn math, programming, and computer science for free through thousands of interactive coding challenges. The full-stack web development and machine learning curriculum is completely free and self-paced, and the community says it has helped over 100,000 people get their first developer job.
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#2 · openclaw/openclawopenclaw
An open-source AI assistant that runs on your own computer and meets you in the chat apps you already use — WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, iMessage, Slack and 20+ more.
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#3 · nilbuild/developer-roadmapdeveloper-roadmap
Community-driven roadmaps, guides and resources that show developers what to learn next and in what order — from frontend and backend to AI, DevOps and dozens of other paths.
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rea
290.9Kmorluto/rea · TypeScriptREA lets AI coding agents reverse engineer apps, binaries, websites, and other software through a single MCP server and CLI, returning findings with the evidence behind them so an agent can explain a feature or rebuild it.
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project-based-learning
287Kpractical-tutorials/project-based-learning · PythonA curated list of programming tutorials where you learn by building a real application from scratch.
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ECC
281.5Kaffaan-m/ECC · JavaScriptECC is a performance-optimization system (a harness) for coding agents: it plans before building, verifies changes with tests, reviews its own work from a fresh context, remembers what matters, and turns repeated wins into reusable skills. It works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode and other agent harnesses.
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react
251.2Kreact/react · JavaScriptReact is a JavaScript library for building user interfaces: you describe views for each state of your app, and React efficiently updates just the right components when data changes.
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deepseek-harness
251.2Kdeepseek-ai/deepseek-harness · TypeScriptDeepSeek Harness (dsh) is an open-source agent harness from DeepSeek AI, built entirely on an everything-is-a-plugin architecture and powered by the Cordis composability engine.
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n8n
207.7Kn8n-io/n8n · TypeScriptn8n is a fair-code workflow automation platform for building and deploying AI agents and automations. It combines a visual canvas with custom code and connects to 1500+ integrations.
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javascript-algorithms
196.7Ktrekhleb/javascript-algorithms · JavaScriptA large collection of JavaScript implementations of classic algorithms and data structures, where each one has its own folder with code, tests, and a README explaining the theory and further reading links.
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30-seconds-of-code
129.2KChalarangelo/30-seconds-of-code · JavaScript30 seconds of code is a collection of short coding articles, each with code snippets, an explanation and examples, published on the project's own website.
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electron
123.4Kelectron/electron · C++Electron is a framework for building cross-platform desktop applications with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. It is based on Node.js and Chromium and is used by apps like Visual Studio Code.
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node
122.4Knodejs/node · JavaScriptNode.js is an open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that lets you run JavaScript code outside a browser, typically for servers and command-line tools.
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immich
116.4Kimmich-app/immich · TypeScriptImmich is a self-hosted platform for backing up, organizing and browsing your photos and videos, built as an open-source alternative to Google Photos.
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pi
115.7Kearendil-works/pi · TypeScriptPi is an agent harness: a toolkit of packages for building and running AI agents, including a self-extensible interactive coding agent CLI, a unified multi-provider LLM API, an agent runtime, and a terminal UI library.
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caveman
113.1KJuliusBrussee/caveman · GoCaveman is a skill plus an optional local proxy for AI coding agents that makes them answer in short, caveman-style prose instead of padded explanations, cutting roughly 65% of output tokens and up to 33% of input tokens in the project's own benchmarks without changing the technical content of the answer.
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TypeScript
111.5Kmicrosoft/TypeScript · GoTypeScript is a language for application-scale JavaScript: JavaScript extended with a type system, developed by Microsoft for building large applications.
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axios
109.3Kaxios/axios · JavaScriptaxios is a promise-based HTTP client for JavaScript: you use it to send requests to APIs and servers and then work with the responses as promises.
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deno
108.7Kdenoland/deno · RustDeno is a runtime for JavaScript, TypeScript, and WebAssembly that focuses on secure defaults and good developer experience. It's built on V8, Rust, and Tokio.
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nodebestpractices
105.7Kgoldbergyoni/nodebestpractices · DockerfileA curated, community-maintained list that summarizes the top Node.js best practices, style guides, and architectural tips, organized into chapters covering architecture, error handling, code style, testing, production readiness, security, performance, and Docker.
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paperclip
103.3Kpaperclipai/paperclip · TypeScriptPaperclip is an open-source Node.js server and React UI for orchestrating a whole team of AI agents to run a business — assigning goals, tracking work, and managing costs from one dashboard instead of babysitting individual agent sessions.
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create-react-app
103.2Kreact/create-react-app · JavaScriptCreate React App is a command-line tool that sets up a new React single-page app with zero build configuration, preconfiguring webpack, Babel, ESLint, and a test runner for you.
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claude-mem
101.3Kthedotmack/claude-mem · TypeScriptClaude-Mem gives coding agents persistent memory across sessions: it captures everything your agent does, compresses it with AI, and injects the relevant context back into future sessions.
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angular
101.1Kangular/angular · TypeScriptAngular is a development platform for building mobile and desktop web applications using TypeScript/JavaScript.
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tailwindcss
97.9Ktailwindlabs/tailwindcss · TypeScriptTailwind CSS is a utility-first CSS framework for rapidly building custom user interfaces by composing small, single-purpose classes directly in your markup.
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playwright
97.9Kmicrosoft/playwright · TypeScriptPlaywright is a framework for web testing and automation that drives Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit through a single API, usable in test suites, automation scripts, and as a tool for AI agents.
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bun
96.3Koven-sh/bun · RustBun is an all-in-one JavaScript and TypeScript toolkit that bundles a runtime, bundler, test runner, and package manager into a single executable called bun.
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puppeteer
95.7Kpuppeteer/puppeteer · TypeScriptPuppeteer is a JavaScript library that gives you a high-level API to control Chrome or Firefox programmatically, either over the DevTools Protocol or WebDriver BiDi.
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nvm
95.6Knvm-sh/nvm · Shellnvm (Node Version Manager) is a POSIX-compliant bash script that lets you install, switch between, and manage multiple versions of Node.js on the same machine.
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servers
91.3Kmodelcontextprotocol/servers · JavaScriptThis is a collection of reference server implementations for the Model Context Protocol (MCP), showing how to give LLMs secure, controlled access to tools and data sources.
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NextChat
88.8KChatGPTNextWeb/NextChat · TypeScriptNextChat is a fast, lightweight AI chat assistant that lets you talk to GPT-4o, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek and 100+ other models through one unified interface, deployable with a single click or self-hosted.
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worldmonitor
88.6Kkoala73/worldmonitor · TypeScriptWorld Monitor is a real-time global intelligence dashboard that aggregates and AI-synthesizes news, geopolitical signals, and infrastructure data into one situational-awareness interface.
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Understand-Anything
86.7KEgonex-AI/Understand-Anything · TypeScriptUnderstand Anything analyzes your codebase (or a knowledge-base/wiki) with a multi-agent pipeline and turns it into an interactive knowledge graph of every file, function, class and dependency, which you can explore in a visual dashboard.
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archify
84.6Ktt-a1i/archify · JavaScriptArchify is an agent skill that turns a codebase, system description, or plan into a polished, interactive diagram (architecture, workflow, sequence, data flow, or lifecycle) directly inside a coding agent's chat.
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realworld
84.3Krealworld-apps/realworld · TypeScriptRealWorld is a project that builds the exact same Medium.com-style blogging app over and over using different frontend and backend frameworks (React, Angular, Node, Django and 100+ more), so developers can compare how real frameworks handle a realistic app instead of a trivial todo demo.
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deer-flow
84Kbytedance/deer-flow · PythonDeerFlow is an open-source long-horizon super-agent harness from ByteDance that researches, codes, and creates by orchestrating sub-agents, memory, sandboxes and extensible skills, handling tasks that can take minutes to hours.
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vite
83.4Kvitejs/vite · TypeScriptVite is a frontend build tool that gives you an instant dev server with fast Hot Module Replacement during development, and bundles your code for production using Rolldown.
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github-readme-stats
79.8Kanuraghazra/github-readme-stats · JavaScriptA service that generates dynamic SVG stat cards (commits, stars, PRs, rank) and a top-languages card you can embed in your GitHub profile README.
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MiroFish
79.8K666ghj/MiroFish · PythonMiroFish is an AI-powered multi-agent simulation engine that builds a high-fidelity digital parallel world from real-world seed data (breaking news, policy drafts, financial signals) and lets thousands of independent agents interact to forecast future outcomes.
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OmniRoute
77.4Kdiegosouzapw/OmniRoute · TypeScriptOmniRoute is a free, open-source AI gateway that puts 359 providers and 1200+ models (Kimi, Claude, GPT, Gemini, GLM, DeepSeek, MiniMax, etc.) behind one API endpoint, with quota-aware automatic fallback when a provider runs out.
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nest
76.9Knestjs/nest · TypeScriptNest is a progressive Node.js framework for building efficient, scalable, enterprise-grade server-side applications using TypeScript (while staying compatible with plain JavaScript).
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ruflo
75.8Kruvnet/ruflo · TypeScriptRuflo is an agent meta-harness for Claude Code and Codex: it adds 100+ specialized agents, coordinated swarms, self-learning memory, and cross-machine federation on top of those coding agents so they can collaborate instead of running solo.
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json-server
75.7Ktypicode/json-server · JavaScriptjson-server lets you spin up a fully working fake REST API in under 30 seconds, with no backend code to write — just a single JSON file defining your data.
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strapi
73.3Kstrapi/strapi · TypeScriptStrapi is the leading open-source headless CMS: 100% JavaScript/TypeScript, it lets developers build content APIs fast while giving content creators a friendly editing interface.
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OpenSpec
72.2KFission-AI/OpenSpec · TypeScriptOpenSpec is a spec-driven development tool that adds a lightweight spec layer so you and your AI coding assistant agree on requirements before any code is written.
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cline
70.4Kcline/cline · TypeScriptCline is an open source coding agent that runs in your IDE, terminal, or desktop: it reads your project, edits code across files, and executes shell commands to build, test, and deploy.
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express
69.6Kexpressjs/express · JavaScriptExpress is a fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework for Node.js, used for building HTTP servers, APIs, and web apps.
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Chart.js
67.7Kchartjs/Chart.js · JavaScriptChart.js is a JavaScript library for drawing simple, flexible charts using the HTML5 canvas element.
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echarts
67.5Kapache/echarts · TypeScriptApache ECharts is a free, powerful charting and data visualization library for browsers, written in pure JavaScript, used to add interactive and highly customizable charts to products.
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awesome-nodejs
67.1Ksindresorhus/awesome-nodejsA curated 'awesome list' of delightful Node.js packages and resources, covering everything from CLI tools and HTTP clients to build tools, databases, and learning materials.
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MediaCrawler
67KNanmiCoder/MediaCrawler · PythonA multi-platform crawler for Chinese social media: it collects keyword search results, specific posts, and their comments from Xiaohongshu, Douyin, Kuaishou, Bilibili, Weibo, Tieba, and Zhihu.
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33-js-concepts
66.5Kleonardomso/33-js-concepts · JavaScriptA curated collection of 33 (plus bonus) core JavaScript concepts every developer should know, each with explanations, code examples, and curated resources to help you learn the language in depth.
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docusaurus
66.5Kfacebook/docusaurus · TypeScriptDocusaurus is a tool for building, deploying, and maintaining open source project websites easily, handling the website build process so you can focus on your project.
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hyperframes
65.4Kheygen-com/hyperframes · TypeScriptHyperFrames is an open-source framework that turns HTML, CSS, media, and seekable animations into deterministic MP4 videos, designed to be driven by AI coding agents as well as humans.
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nocodb
65.3Knocodb/nocodb · TypeScriptNocoDB is a free, self-hostable Airtable alternative: an online database builder that gives your data a rich, no-code spreadsheet interface.
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remotion
64.7Kremotion-dev/remotion · TypeScriptRemotion lets you create videos programmatically using React and TypeScript, where your React code is the actual source of truth for the video content.
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get-shit-done
64.3Kgsd-build/get-shit-done · JavaScriptGSD (Get Shit Done) is a meta-prompting, context engineering and spec-driven development system built on top of Claude Code, created by TÂCHES.
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socket.io
63.2Ksocketio/socket.io · TypeScriptSocket.IO is a library that enables bidirectional, low-latency, real-time communication between a Node.js server and clients such as browsers or mobile apps.
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context7
63.2Kupstash/context7 · TypeScriptContext7 fetches up-to-date, version-specific documentation and code examples for the libraries you use and injects them directly into your AI coding agent's prompt, instead of relying on the model's stale training data.
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coolify
63.1Kcoollabsio/coolify · PHPCoolify is an open-source, self-hostable alternative to Heroku, Netlify, and Vercel that lets you deploy static sites, databases, full-stack apps, and 280+ one-click services on your own servers.
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Pake
62.1Ktw93/Pake · RustPake turns any webpage into a small, fast desktop app with a single command — ChatGPT, YouTube, Notion, whatever you use daily.
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lodash
61.3Klodash/lodash · JavaScriptLodash is a modern JavaScript utility library - small helper functions that take the hassle out of working with arrays, numbers, objects, and strings.
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atom
60.7Katom/atom · JavaScriptAtom is a hackable text editor for the 21st century, built on Electron.
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jquery
59.9Kjquery/jquery · JavaScriptjQuery is the classic JavaScript library for DOM manipulation, events, AJAX and effects — this repo holds its source, fresh off the jQuery 4.0.0 release.
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twenty
58.4Ktwentyhq/twenty · TypeScriptTwenty is an open-source CRM built as an alternative to Salesforce, aimed at technical teams who want to customize objects, fields, views, workflows and agents instead of being locked into a closed platform.
- 66

gods-eye-view
57.2Kbilawalsidhu/gods-eye-view · JavaScriptGod's Eye View is a browser-based spy-satellite style simulator that overlays real public data — live aircraft, ships, satellites, earthquakes, traffic, and public cameras — onto a photorealistic 3D globe, with hands-free voice control via a realtime AI agent.
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Motrix
56.9Kagalwood/Motrix · TypeScriptMotrix is a free, full-featured download manager for HTTP, FTP, BitTorrent, and magnet links, built as a desktop app with an optional headless server mode.
- 68

joplin
56.8Klaurent22/joplin · TypeScriptJoplin is an open source note taking and to-do application, built to handle a large number of notes organised into notebooks.
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react-router
56.6Kremix-run/react-router · TypeScriptReact Router is a multi-strategy router for React: it lets you define routes and handle navigation in React apps.
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gatsby
55.9Kgatsbyjs/gatsby · JavaScriptGatsby is a free, open-source framework based on React for building fast websites and web apps, mixing the control of dynamically rendered sites with the speed of static-site generation.
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Ghost
55.6KTryGhost/Ghost · TypeScriptGhost is an open-source publishing platform for running blogs, newsletters, memberships and paid subscriptions.
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Flowise
55.5KFlowiseAI/Flowise · TypeScriptFlowise is a drag-and-drop visual builder for creating AI agents, chatbots, and LLM workflows (chains, RAG pipelines, multi-agent systems) without hand-coding every integration.
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marketingskills
55.1Kcoreyhaines31/marketingskills · JavaScriptA collection of AI agent skills focused on marketing tasks — CRO, copywriting, SEO, analytics, and growth engineering — built for technical marketers and founders who want AI coding agents to help with those jobs.
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lx-music-desktop
54.5Klyswhut/lx-music-desktop · TypeScriptLX Music Desktop is a free, open-source Electron and Vue 3 desktop music player that streams tracks by pulling data from Chinese music platforms (like Kuwo, Kugou, Migu) via configurable 'source' plugins.
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pdf.js
54Kmozilla/pdf.js · JavaScriptPDF.js is a PDF viewer built with HTML5, community-driven and supported by Mozilla. Its goal is a general-purpose, web standards-based platform for parsing and rendering PDFs.
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chrome-devtools-mcp
53.7KChromeDevTools/chrome-devtools-mcp · TypeScriptchrome-devtools-mcp is an MCP server that lets coding agents like Claude, Cursor, Copilot or Antigravity control and inspect a live Chrome browser using the full power of Chrome DevTools.
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expo
52.8Kexpo/expo · TypeScriptExpo is an open-source framework for building universal native apps with React: you write React and JavaScript, and the resulting apps run on Android, iOS, and the web.
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prettier
52.4Kprettier/prettier · JavaScriptPrettier is an opinionated code formatter: point it at a project and it keeps the whole codebase in one consistent code style.
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DefinitelyTyped
51.4KDefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped · TypeScriptDefinitelyTyped is a massive community repository that hosts TypeScript type definitions (.d.ts files) for JavaScript packages that don't ship their own types, published to npm under the @types scope.
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wechat-miniapp-radar
51.2Kjustjavac/wechat-miniapp-radar · TypeScriptMiniapp Radar is an AI-driven selection and risk-assessment tool for the WeChat mini program ecosystem: it turns development resources into a tech radar you can filter, evaluate and compare.
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cypress
51Kcypress-io/cypress · TypeScriptCypress is a JavaScript/TypeScript testing framework for anything that runs in a browser, built to make end-to-end and component testing fast, easy, and reliable.
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Semantic-UI
51KSemantic-Org/Semantic-UI · JavaScriptSemantic UI is a UI component framework that provides 50+ themeable UI elements (buttons, dropdowns, popups, etc.) using human-friendly, descriptive HTML class names.
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upscayl
50.7Kupscayl/upscayl · TypeScriptUpscayl is a free, open-source desktop app that enlarges and enhances low-resolution images using AI upscaling models like Real-ESRGAN, running locally via Vulkan.
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query
50.4KTanStack/query · TypeScriptTanStack Query is an async state management library that simplifies fetching, caching, synchronizing, and updating server state in web apps.
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slidev
49.1Kslidevjs/slidev · TypeScriptSlidev is a framework for creating presentation slides using Markdown, built specifically for developers.
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shannon
49KKeygraphHQ/shannon · TypeScriptShannon is an autonomous AI pentester that analyzes your web application's source code, maps attack vectors, and then executes real exploits against the running app to prove vulnerabilities before they reach production — 'no exploit, no report'.
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algorithm-visualizer
48.9Kalgorithm-visualizer/algorithm-visualizer · JavaScriptAn interactive online platform that visualizes algorithms by running and animating your code step by step, so you can watch exactly how an algorithm behaves instead of just reading pseudocode.
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dayjs
48.7Kiamkun/dayjs · JavaScriptDay.js is a minimalist JavaScript library for parsing, validating, manipulating, and displaying dates and times, built as a lightweight alternative to Moment.js.
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nvm
48Knvm-windows/nvm · Inno SetupNVM for Windows is a Node.js version manager built specifically for Windows, letting you install and switch between multiple Node.js versions on your machine.
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GitNexus
47.9Kabhigyanpatwari/GitNexus · TypeScriptIt indexes any codebase into a knowledge graph — dependencies, call chains, clusters, execution flows — and serves it to AI coding agents via MCP tools so they stop making blind edits.
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moment
47.9Kmoment/moment · JavaScriptMoment.js is a JavaScript library for parsing, validating, manipulating, and formatting dates and times.
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agentic-awesome-skills
47.8Ksickn33/agentic-awesome-skills · PythonAAS Core is a local, agent-first control plane that lets coding agents like Codex or Claude search a catalog of 2,400+ reusable 'skills', pick the exact ones a project needs, and persist that choice as a reviewable, validated manifest before anything gets installed.
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orm
47.7Kprisma/orm · TypeScriptPrisma ORM is a next-generation ORM for Node.js and TypeScript, supporting PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, SQL Server, SQLite, MongoDB and CockroachDB. This repo currently showcases 'Prisma Next', a TypeScript rewrite designed to be extensible, composable, and AI-agent friendly.
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quill
47.4Kslab/quill · TypeScriptQuill is a modern WYSIWYG (what-you-see-is-what-you-get) rich text editor for the web, built for compatibility and extensibility.
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30-Days-Of-JavaScript
46.9KAsabeneh/30-Days-Of-JavaScript · JavaScriptA free, self-paced 30-day curriculum that takes you from JavaScript basics (data types, loops, functions) through DOM manipulation and ends with several mini projects.
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serverless
46.9Kserverless/serverless · JavaScriptThe Serverless Framework is a tool that lets you build and deploy applications on AWS Lambda and other managed cloud services, so they auto-scale, cost nothing when idle, and need minimal upkeep.
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awesome-cheatsheets
46.6KLeCoupa/awesome-cheatsheets · JavaScriptA curated collection of cheatsheets covering popular programming languages, frameworks, databases, and development tools, each condensed into a single reference file.
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RSSHub
46.5KDIYgod/RSSHub · TypeScriptRSSHub is an open-source RSS feed generator that turns content from thousands of sites and apps (Bilibili, Twitter/X, Instagram, YouTube, Telegram, Spotify, and more) into RSS feeds you can subscribe to in any reader.
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LibreChat
45.8KLibreChat-AI/LibreChat · TypeScriptLibreChat is a self-hosted AI chat platform that unifies all major AI providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, AWS Bedrock, Azure, Mistral, OpenRouter and more) in a single ChatGPT-like interface, with Agents, MCP support, Code Interpreter and Artifacts built in.
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zx
45.8Kgoogle/zx · JavaScriptzx is a tool from Google that lets you write shell scripts in JavaScript instead of Bash, wrapping Node's child_process with argument escaping and sensible defaults.
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