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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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  1. #1 · freeCodeCamp/freeCodeCamp

    freeCodeCamp

    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.

    457.2K
  2. #2 · openclaw/openclaw

    openclaw

    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.

    392.2K
  3. #3 · nilbuild/developer-roadmap

    developer-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.

    369.6K
  1. 4

    rea

    290.9Kmorluto/rea · TypeScript

    REA 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.

  2. 5

    project-based-learning

    287Kpractical-tutorials/project-based-learning · Python

    A curated list of programming tutorials where you learn by building a real application from scratch.

  3. 6

    ECC

    281.5Kaffaan-m/ECC · JavaScript

    ECC 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.

  4. 7

    react

    251.2Kreact/react · JavaScript

    React 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.

  5. 8

    deepseek-harness

    251.2Kdeepseek-ai/deepseek-harness · TypeScript

    DeepSeek 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.

  6. 9

    n8n

    207.7Kn8n-io/n8n · TypeScript

    n8n 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.

  7. 10

    javascript-algorithms

    196.7Ktrekhleb/javascript-algorithms · JavaScript

    A 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.

  8. 11

    30-seconds-of-code

    129.2KChalarangelo/30-seconds-of-code · JavaScript

    30 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.

  9. 12

    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.

  10. 13

    node

    122.4Knodejs/node · JavaScript

    Node.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.

  11. 14

    immich

    116.4Kimmich-app/immich · TypeScript

    Immich is a self-hosted platform for backing up, organizing and browsing your photos and videos, built as an open-source alternative to Google Photos.

  12. 15

    pi

    115.7Kearendil-works/pi · TypeScript

    Pi 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.

  13. 16

    caveman

    113.1KJuliusBrussee/caveman · Go

    Caveman 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.

  14. 17

    TypeScript

    111.5Kmicrosoft/TypeScript · Go

    TypeScript is a language for application-scale JavaScript: JavaScript extended with a type system, developed by Microsoft for building large applications.

  15. 18

    axios

    109.3Kaxios/axios · JavaScript

    axios 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.

  16. 19

    deno

    108.7Kdenoland/deno · Rust

    Deno 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.

  17. 20

    nodebestpractices

    105.7Kgoldbergyoni/nodebestpractices · Dockerfile

    A 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.

  18. 21

    paperclip

    103.3Kpaperclipai/paperclip · TypeScript

    Paperclip 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.

  19. 22

    create-react-app

    103.2Kreact/create-react-app · JavaScript

    Create 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.

  20. 23

    claude-mem

    101.3Kthedotmack/claude-mem · TypeScript

    Claude-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.

  21. 24

    angular

    101.1Kangular/angular · TypeScript

    Angular is a development platform for building mobile and desktop web applications using TypeScript/JavaScript.

  22. 25

    tailwindcss

    97.9Ktailwindlabs/tailwindcss · TypeScript

    Tailwind CSS is a utility-first CSS framework for rapidly building custom user interfaces by composing small, single-purpose classes directly in your markup.

  23. 26

    playwright

    97.9Kmicrosoft/playwright · TypeScript

    Playwright 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.

  24. 27

    bun

    96.3Koven-sh/bun · Rust

    Bun 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.

  25. 28

    puppeteer

    95.7Kpuppeteer/puppeteer · TypeScript

    Puppeteer 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.

  26. 29

    nvm

    95.6Knvm-sh/nvm · Shell

    nvm (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.

  27. 30

    servers

    91.3Kmodelcontextprotocol/servers · JavaScript

    This 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.

  28. 31

    NextChat

    88.8KChatGPTNextWeb/NextChat · TypeScript

    NextChat 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.

  29. 32

    worldmonitor

    88.6Kkoala73/worldmonitor · TypeScript

    World Monitor is a real-time global intelligence dashboard that aggregates and AI-synthesizes news, geopolitical signals, and infrastructure data into one situational-awareness interface.

  30. 33

    Understand-Anything

    86.7KEgonex-AI/Understand-Anything · TypeScript

    Understand 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.

  31. 34

    archify

    84.6Ktt-a1i/archify · JavaScript

    Archify 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.

  32. 35

    realworld

    84.3Krealworld-apps/realworld · TypeScript

    RealWorld 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.

  33. 36

    deer-flow

    84Kbytedance/deer-flow · Python

    DeerFlow 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.

  34. 37

    vite

    83.4Kvitejs/vite · TypeScript

    Vite 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.

  35. 38

    github-readme-stats

    79.8Kanuraghazra/github-readme-stats · JavaScript

    A service that generates dynamic SVG stat cards (commits, stars, PRs, rank) and a top-languages card you can embed in your GitHub profile README.

  36. 39

    MiroFish

    79.8K666ghj/MiroFish · Python

    MiroFish 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.

  37. 40

    OmniRoute

    77.4Kdiegosouzapw/OmniRoute · TypeScript

    OmniRoute 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.

  38. 41

    nest

    76.9Knestjs/nest · TypeScript

    Nest is a progressive Node.js framework for building efficient, scalable, enterprise-grade server-side applications using TypeScript (while staying compatible with plain JavaScript).

  39. 42

    ruflo

    75.8Kruvnet/ruflo · TypeScript

    Ruflo 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.

  40. 43

    json-server

    75.7Ktypicode/json-server · JavaScript

    json-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.

  41. 44

    strapi

    73.3Kstrapi/strapi · TypeScript

    Strapi 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.

  42. 45

    OpenSpec

    72.2KFission-AI/OpenSpec · TypeScript

    OpenSpec 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.

  43. 46

    cline

    70.4Kcline/cline · TypeScript

    Cline 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.

  44. 47

    express

    69.6Kexpressjs/express · JavaScript

    Express is a fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework for Node.js, used for building HTTP servers, APIs, and web apps.

  45. 48

    Chart.js

    67.7Kchartjs/Chart.js · JavaScript

    Chart.js is a JavaScript library for drawing simple, flexible charts using the HTML5 canvas element.

  46. 49

    echarts

    67.5Kapache/echarts · TypeScript

    Apache 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.

  47. 50

    awesome-nodejs

    67.1Ksindresorhus/awesome-nodejs

    A 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.

  48. 51

    MediaCrawler

    67KNanmiCoder/MediaCrawler · Python

    A 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.

  49. 52

    33-js-concepts

    66.5Kleonardomso/33-js-concepts · JavaScript

    A 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.

  50. 53

    docusaurus

    66.5Kfacebook/docusaurus · TypeScript

    Docusaurus 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.

  51. 54

    hyperframes

    65.4Kheygen-com/hyperframes · TypeScript

    HyperFrames 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.

  52. 55

    nocodb

    65.3Knocodb/nocodb · TypeScript

    NocoDB is a free, self-hostable Airtable alternative: an online database builder that gives your data a rich, no-code spreadsheet interface.

  53. 56

    remotion

    64.7Kremotion-dev/remotion · TypeScript

    Remotion lets you create videos programmatically using React and TypeScript, where your React code is the actual source of truth for the video content.

  54. 57

    get-shit-done

    64.3Kgsd-build/get-shit-done · JavaScript

    GSD (Get Shit Done) is a meta-prompting, context engineering and spec-driven development system built on top of Claude Code, created by TÂCHES.

  55. 58

    socket.io

    63.2Ksocketio/socket.io · TypeScript

    Socket.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.

  56. 59

    context7

    63.2Kupstash/context7 · TypeScript

    Context7 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.

  57. 60

    coolify

    63.1Kcoollabsio/coolify · PHP

    Coolify 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.

  58. 61

    Pake

    62.1Ktw93/Pake · Rust

    Pake turns any webpage into a small, fast desktop app with a single command — ChatGPT, YouTube, Notion, whatever you use daily.

  59. 62

    lodash

    61.3Klodash/lodash · JavaScript

    Lodash is a modern JavaScript utility library - small helper functions that take the hassle out of working with arrays, numbers, objects, and strings.

  60. 63

    atom

    60.7Katom/atom · JavaScript

    Atom is a hackable text editor for the 21st century, built on Electron.

  61. 64

    jquery

    59.9Kjquery/jquery · JavaScript

    jQuery 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.

  62. 65

    twenty

    58.4Ktwentyhq/twenty · TypeScript

    Twenty 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.

  63. 66

    gods-eye-view

    57.2Kbilawalsidhu/gods-eye-view · JavaScript

    God'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.

  64. 67

    Motrix

    56.9Kagalwood/Motrix · TypeScript

    Motrix 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.

  65. 68

    joplin

    56.8Klaurent22/joplin · TypeScript

    Joplin is an open source note taking and to-do application, built to handle a large number of notes organised into notebooks.

  66. 69

    react-router

    56.6Kremix-run/react-router · TypeScript

    React Router is a multi-strategy router for React: it lets you define routes and handle navigation in React apps.

  67. 70

    gatsby

    55.9Kgatsbyjs/gatsby · JavaScript

    Gatsby 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.

  68. 71

    Ghost

    55.6KTryGhost/Ghost · TypeScript

    Ghost is an open-source publishing platform for running blogs, newsletters, memberships and paid subscriptions.

  69. 72

    Flowise

    55.5KFlowiseAI/Flowise · TypeScript

    Flowise 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.

  70. 73

    marketingskills

    55.1Kcoreyhaines31/marketingskills · JavaScript

    A 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.

  71. 74

    lx-music-desktop

    54.5Klyswhut/lx-music-desktop · TypeScript

    LX 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.

  72. 75

    pdf.js

    54Kmozilla/pdf.js · JavaScript

    PDF.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.

  73. 76

    chrome-devtools-mcp

    53.7KChromeDevTools/chrome-devtools-mcp · TypeScript

    chrome-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.

  74. 77

    expo

    52.8Kexpo/expo · TypeScript

    Expo 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.

  75. 78

    prettier

    52.4Kprettier/prettier · JavaScript

    Prettier is an opinionated code formatter: point it at a project and it keeps the whole codebase in one consistent code style.

  76. 79

    DefinitelyTyped

    51.4KDefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped · TypeScript

    DefinitelyTyped 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.

  77. 80

    wechat-miniapp-radar

    51.2Kjustjavac/wechat-miniapp-radar · TypeScript

    Miniapp 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.

  78. 81

    cypress

    51Kcypress-io/cypress · TypeScript

    Cypress 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.

  79. 82

    Semantic-UI

    51KSemantic-Org/Semantic-UI · JavaScript

    Semantic UI is a UI component framework that provides 50+ themeable UI elements (buttons, dropdowns, popups, etc.) using human-friendly, descriptive HTML class names.

  80. 83

    upscayl

    50.7Kupscayl/upscayl · TypeScript

    Upscayl 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.

  81. 84

    query

    50.4KTanStack/query · TypeScript

    TanStack Query is an async state management library that simplifies fetching, caching, synchronizing, and updating server state in web apps.

  82. 85

    slidev

    49.1Kslidevjs/slidev · TypeScript

    Slidev is a framework for creating presentation slides using Markdown, built specifically for developers.

  83. 86

    shannon

    49KKeygraphHQ/shannon · TypeScript

    Shannon 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'.

  84. 87

    algorithm-visualizer

    48.9Kalgorithm-visualizer/algorithm-visualizer · JavaScript

    An 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.

  85. 88

    dayjs

    48.7Kiamkun/dayjs · JavaScript

    Day.js is a minimalist JavaScript library for parsing, validating, manipulating, and displaying dates and times, built as a lightweight alternative to Moment.js.

  86. 89

    nvm

    48Knvm-windows/nvm · Inno Setup

    NVM 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.

  87. 90

    GitNexus

    47.9Kabhigyanpatwari/GitNexus · TypeScript

    It 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.

  88. 91

    moment

    47.9Kmoment/moment · JavaScript

    Moment.js is a JavaScript library for parsing, validating, manipulating, and formatting dates and times.

  89. 92

    agentic-awesome-skills

    47.8Ksickn33/agentic-awesome-skills · Python

    AAS 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.

  90. 93

    orm

    47.7Kprisma/orm · TypeScript

    Prisma 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.

  91. 94

    quill

    47.4Kslab/quill · TypeScript

    Quill is a modern WYSIWYG (what-you-see-is-what-you-get) rich text editor for the web, built for compatibility and extensibility.

  92. 95

    30-Days-Of-JavaScript

    46.9KAsabeneh/30-Days-Of-JavaScript · JavaScript

    A 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.

  93. 96

    serverless

    46.9Kserverless/serverless · JavaScript

    The 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.

  94. 97

    awesome-cheatsheets

    46.6KLeCoupa/awesome-cheatsheets · JavaScript

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

  95. 98

    RSSHub

    46.5KDIYgod/RSSHub · TypeScript

    RSSHub 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.

  96. 99

    LibreChat

    45.8KLibreChat-AI/LibreChat · TypeScript

    LibreChat 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.

  97. 100

    zx

    45.8Kgoogle/zx · JavaScript

    zx 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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