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Task-runner projects on GitHub

Tools for running and hot-reloading development tasks.

As of , the most-starred Task-runner projects on GitHub are just (36.3K stars), mise (35.1K stars) and celery (29K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 7 Task-runner repositories with 168.2K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was mise, with +46 stars in a day.

7Projects
168.2KStars in total
+79Stars in a day
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Hot right now

Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

+46

mise

jdx/mise · ★ 35.1K

mise is a single CLI that manages your development tools, environment variables, and project tasks. Everything is declared in a mise.toml file you commit, so your shell, editor, and CI all share one setup.

+17

just

casey/just · ★ 36.3K

'just' is a command runner that lets you save and run project-specific commands defined in a file called a justfile, with syntax inspired by make.

+4

celery

celery/celery · ★ 29K

Celery is a distributed task queue for Python: clients put units of work (tasks) on a queue and dedicated worker processes monitor the queue and run them — across threads, machines, even datacenters.

+4

CodeEdit

CodeEditApp/CodeEdit · ★ 23.1K

CodeEdit is a free, open-source code editor for macOS, built by the community and written natively in Swift for the Mac.

The all-time top

7 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · casey/just

    just

    'just' is a command runner that lets you save and run project-specific commands defined in a file called a justfile, with syntax inspired by make.

    36.3K
  2. #2 · jdx/mise

    mise

    mise is a single CLI that manages your development tools, environment variables, and project tasks. Everything is declared in a mise.toml file you commit, so your shell, editor, and CI all share one setup.

    35.1K
  3. #3 · celery/celery

    celery

    Celery is a distributed task queue for Python: clients put units of work (tasks) on a queue and dedicated worker processes monitor the queue and run them — across threads, machines, even datacenters.

    29K
  1. 4

    air

    24.1Kair-verse/air · Go

    Air is a live-reloading command line utility for developing Go applications: run air in your project root and it rebuilds and restarts your app whenever code changes.

  2. 5

    CodeEdit

    23.1KCodeEditApp/CodeEdit · Swift

    CodeEdit is a free, open-source code editor for macOS, built by the community and written natively in Swift for the Mac.

  3. 6

    task

    16.3Kgo-task/task · Go

    Task is a fast, cross-platform build tool and task runner written in Go. It is inspired by Make but built for modern workflows, and it has collected over 16,000 GitHub stars.

  4. 7

    nub

    4.4Knubjs/nub · Rust

    Nub is an all-in-one Node.js toolkit written in Rust that runs your files and scripts, installs dependencies, and manages Node.js itself, giving a Bun-like developer experience on top of stock Node.

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