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Static-site projects on GitHub

Generators and hosting tools for building fast websites from static files.

As of , the most-starred Static-site projects on GitHub are hugo (90.1K stars), HowToLiveBetter (64.5K stars) and astro (63.3K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 37 Static-site repositories with 672.5K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was HowToLiveBetter, with +555 stars in a day.

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Hot right now

Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

+555

HowToLiveBetter

eternity4719/HowToLiveBetter · ★ 64.5K

An evidence-based life guide for mainland China: 677 tips across 34 sections covering health, money, law, work and family, ranked by cost-effectiveness, each citing only journal papers or official documents.

+158

how-to-live-better

cdyforever/how-to-live-better · ★ 12.3K

A single, self-contained HTML page that renders the open-source book '高性价比人生指南' (How to Live Better) — all 32 sections and 528 life-advice tips — into a searchable, mobile-friendly reading page.

+44

coolify

coollabsio/coolify · ★ 63.1K

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.

+24

astro

withastro/astro · ★ 63.3K

Astro is a free, open source web framework for building content-driven websites — blogs and other content-heavy sites — with a powerful developer experience and a lightweight output.

The all-time top

37 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · gohugoio/hugo

    hugo

    Hugo is a static site generator written in Go that builds websites from content files and templates, marketed as the world's fastest framework for building websites.

    90.1K
  2. #2 · eternity4719/HowToLiveBetter

    HowToLiveBetter

    An evidence-based life guide for mainland China: 677 tips across 34 sections covering health, money, law, work and family, ranked by cost-effectiveness, each citing only journal papers or official documents.

    64.5K
  3. #3 · withastro/astro

    astro

    Astro is a free, open source web framework for building content-driven websites — blogs and other content-heavy sites — with a powerful developer experience and a lightweight output.

    63.3K
  1. 4

    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.

  2. 5

    html5-boilerplate

    57.7Kh5bp/html5-boilerplate · JavaScript

    HTML5 Boilerplate is a professional front-end template for building fast, robust, and adaptable web apps or sites, refined over more than 10 years by 200+ contributors.

  3. 6

    bulma

    50Kjgthms/bulma · CSS

    Bulma is a modern CSS framework based on Flexbox that gives you ready-made classes for building responsive layouts and UI components.

  4. 7

    50projects50days

    40.6Kbradtraversy/50projects50days · CSS

    A collection of 51 small web projects built with HTML, CSS and vanilla JavaScript, each demonstrating a specific UI widget or effect like sliders, counters, and navigation animations.

  5. 8

    buildawesome

    20K11ty/buildawesome · JavaScript

    Buildawesome (Eleventy) is a static site generator that transforms a directory of templates into HTML, positioned as a simpler alternative to Jekyll.

  6. 9

    decap-cms

    19.4Kdecaporg/decap-cms · JavaScript

    A Git-based CMS for static site generators: a single-page app you pull into the /admin part of your site, giving editors a clean UI for content stored in your Git repository.

  7. 10

    Skeleton

    19.3Kdhg/Skeleton · CSS

    Skeleton is a dead-simple, responsive CSS boilerplate for quickly starting a mobile-friendly web project.

  8. 11

    opensource.guide

    15.7Kgithub/opensource.guide · HTML

    A collection of free guides that teach individuals, communities, and companies how to run and contribute to open-source projects, published as a website and curated by GitHub.

  9. 12

    Flat-UI

    15.3Kdesignmodo/Flat-UI · JavaScript

    Flat UI Free is a flat-design theme for Bootstrap, built with HTML, CSS3 (LESS), and JS, giving you redesigned flat-style versions of common UI components.

  10. 13

    GTFOBins.github.io

    13.8KGTFOBins/GTFOBins.github.io · YAML

    GTFOBins is a curated list of Unix-like executables that can be abused to bypass local security restrictions in misconfigured systems — for example, binaries a restricted user can turn into a root shell.

  11. 14

    minimal-mistakes

    13.6Kmmistakes/minimal-mistakes · HTML

    A flexible two-column theme for Jekyll, the Ruby static site generator. It is made for personal sites, blogs, project documentation, and portfolios, with deliberately minimal styling you are meant to customize.

  12. 15

    solved-by-flexbox

    12.9Kphilipwalton/solved-by-flexbox · CSS

    A showcase site demonstrating CSS layout problems that used to be hard or impossible with plain CSS, and showing how Flexbox solves them trivially.

  13. 16

    how-to-live-better

    12.3Kcdyforever/how-to-live-better · HTML

    A single, self-contained HTML page that renders the open-source book '高性价比人生指南' (How to Live Better) — all 32 sections and 528 life-advice tips — into a searchable, mobile-friendly reading page.

  14. 17

    tachyons

    11.7Ktachyons-css/tachyons · CSS

    Tachyons is a functional CSS framework for quickly building fast, responsive UIs without writing custom CSS. You compose interfaces using small, single-purpose utility classes.

  15. 18

    homer

    11.7Kbastienwirtz/homer · Vue

    Homer is a dead simple static dashboard for your server that lists all your services on one homepage, configured through a single YAML file.

  16. 19

    cp-algorithms

    11.3Kcp-algorithms/cp-algorithms · C++

    It is the source repository behind cp-algorithms.com, a free, ad-free, volunteer-run collection of articles explaining algorithms and data structures commonly used in competitive programming, translated and expanded from the Russian e-maxx.ru resource.

  17. 20

    LearnCS8-Resume

    11.2KJordanSchuetz/LearnCS8-Resume · HTML

    This is a Bootstrap-based resume template website created for the LearnCS8 course's Lab 3 assignment.

  18. 21

    tailwind-nextjs-starter-blog

    10.6Ktimlrx/tailwind-nextjs-starter-blog · TypeScript

    A Next.js and Tailwind CSS blogging starter template, preconfigured for technical writing and positioned as a replacement for existing Jekyll or Hugo personal blogs.

  19. 22

    react-static

    10.3Kreact-static/react-static · JavaScript

    React Static is a progressive static site generator for React: it exports your site as fast static HTML pages that each boot into a full React single-page app.

  20. 23

    gridea

    10.2Kgetgridea/gridea · TypeScript

    Gridea is a static blog writing client: a desktop app where you write posts in Markdown and publish them as a static blog — pitched for recording your life, mood, knowledge, notes and ideas.

  21. 24

    html-ppt-skill

    8.7Klewislulu/html-ppt-skill · HTML

    html-ppt (HTML PPT Studio) is an AgentSkill that lets AI coding agents generate professional HTML presentations — complete with 36 themes, 31 page layouts, 15 full-deck templates and 47 animations, plus a presenter mode — all as pure static HTML/CSS/JS with no build step.

  22. 25

    beautiful-jekyll

    5.8Kdaattali/beautiful-jekyll · HTML

    Beautiful Jekyll is a ready-to-use Jekyll template that lets you build a nice-looking personal site, blog, or project page in a couple of minutes.

  23. 26

    human-atlas

    4.3Kashemag/human-atlas · TypeScript

    An interactive 3D anatomy explorer that runs in your browser: the BodyParts3D adult male reference taken apart into 2,234 individually selectable meshes, 15 anatomical systems, and 3,432 searchable named concepts.

  24. 27

    awesome-jev

    975heyjunpenn/awesome-jev · Astro

    A verified, community-maintained catalog of open-source projects built with Jev — TypeSafe AI's System One model for typed decisions inside software. The README snapshot covers 832 unique public GitHub repositories.

  25. 28

    awesome-hosting

    943dalisoft/awesome-hosting

    A curated directory of hosting providers — from VPS and static hosts to databases, GPU clouds and AI inference — comparing each one by the price of its cheapest plan.

  26. 29

    run-abroad

    507RadishXN/run-abroad · JavaScript

    Run Abroad (润学导航) is a web tool that takes 10 basic facts about you — age, education, language score, work experience, savings, etc. — and checks them against 71 visa and immigration pathways across 32 countries, showing which ones you qualify for and exactly what you're missing.

  27. 30

    dsh-top100

    493evaldock-account/dsh-top100 · TypeScript

    dsh-top100 is a discovery, validation and trend index for the public plugin ecosystem of DeepSeek Harness (DSH): it ranks plugin repositories and catalogs Agent Skills by public GitHub signals.

  28. 31

    wanwan

    459wanonewan/wanwan · JavaScript

    Wanwan (弯弯机) is a static web app for chatting and roleplaying with AI characters that runs entirely in the browser, with no server, dependencies, or build step required.

  29. 32

    deepseek-whale-girl

    409TreapGoGo/deepseek-whale-girl · HTML

    A community-maintained, unofficial resource hub for the 'whale girl' — the fan-created mascot character around DeepSeek. It collects reference art, generation prompts and community works in one place.

  30. 33

    awesome-grokbot

    360kydlikebtc/awesome-grokbot · Python

    A curated catalog of 725 live x.ai/bot share links for Grok Bot, with every link status-checked, every entry attributed to its source, bilingual EN/Chinese summaries, a JSON schema, CI, and a searchable website.

  31. 34

    sylva

    348MengTo/sylva · HTML

    Sylva is an interactive Three.js landscape study: a procedural, moss-covered root grows through an editorial conservation scene and reacts to the pointer as if it were alive.

  32. 35

    AnvilWiki

    200PNGTRID/AnvilWiki · TypeScript

    AnvilWiki is an open-source template for building a game wiki or SEO content site around a specific game (Roblox, Steam titles, etc.), built with Astro and deployed to Cloudflare Pages. It drives traffic through SEO and monetizes with ads, and 100% of the ad revenue goes to you.

  33. 36

    nuvex-docs

    191NuvexNetwork/nuvex-docs · MDX

    This is the documentation site for Nuvex. The protocol itself, the website, and the off-chain services are each kept in their own separate repositories — this repo only contains the docs.

  34. 37

    hanji

    141sxzz/hanji · TypeScript

    Hanji is a web tool that lines up and overlays the same Han character's printed glyph form across Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, and Korea so you can see the subtle real differences between regional character shapes.

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