GitHub's Top 100 Most Valuable Repositories Out of 96 Million
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Originally published by Ake Gaviar on May 20th, 2019
Ake Gaviar - https://ake.wtf
What’s shaping our technology world
GitHub is not just a code hosting service with version control — it’s also an enormous developer network.
The sheer size of GitHub at over 30 million accounts, more than 2 million organizations, and over 96 million GitHub repositories translates into one of the world’s most valuable development networks.
How do you quantify the value of this network? And is there a way to get the top repositories?
Here at U°OS, we ran the GitHub network through a simplified version1) of our reputation algorithm and produced the top 100 most valuable GitHub repositories.
The result is as fascinating as it is eclectic in the way that it does feel like a good reflection of our society’s interest in the technology and where it moves.
There are the big proprietary players with open source projects — Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, and even Baidu. And at the same time, there’s a Chinese anti-censorship tool.
There’s Bitcoin for cryptocurrency.
There’s a particle detector for CERN’s Large Hadron Collider.
There are gaming projects like Space Station 13 and Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead and a gaming engine Godot.
There are education projects like freeCodeCamp, Open edX, Oppia, and Code.org.
There are web and mobile app building projects like WordPress, Joomla, and Flutter to publish your content on.
There are databases to store your content for the web like Ceph and CockroachDB.
And there’s a search engine to navigate through the content — Elasticsearch.
There are also, perhaps unsurprisingly, jailbreak projects like Cydia compatibility manager for iOS and Nintendo 3DS custom firmware.
And there’s a smart home system — Home Assistant.
All in all, it’s really a great outlook for the technology world: we learn, build stuff to broadcast our unique voices, we use crypto, break free from proprietary software on our hardware, and in the spare time we game in our automated homes. And the big companies open-source their projects.
Before I proceed with the list, a result of running the Octoverse through the reputation algorithm also produced a value score for every individual GitHub contributor. So, if you have a GitHub account and curious, you can get your score at https://u.community/github and convert it to a Universal Portable Reputation.
Top 100 projects & repositories
Out of over 96 million repositories
- Google's Kubernetes - Container scheduling and management
- Website: https://kubernetes.io
- Apache Spark - A unified analytics engine for large-scale data processing
Repository: https://github.com/apache/spark Website: http://spark.apache.org/
- Microsoft Visual Studio Code - A source-code editor
Repository: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode Website: https://code.visualstudio.com/
- NixOS Package Collection - A collection of packages for the Nix package manager
Repository: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs Website: https://nixos.org
- Rust - Programming language
Repository: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust Website: https://www.rust-lang.org/
- Firehol IP Lists - Blacklists for Firehol, a firewall builder
Repository: https://github.com/firehol/blocklist-ipsets Website: https://iplists.firehol.org/
- Red Hat OpenShift - A community distribution of Kubernetes optimized for continuous application development and multi-tenant deployment
Repository: https://github.com/openshift/origin Website: https://www.openshift.com/
- Ansible - A deployment automation platform
Repository: https://github.com/ansible/ansible Website: https://www.ansible.com/
- Automattic WordPress Calypso - A JavaScript and API powered front-end for WordPress.com
Repository: https://github.com/Automattic/wp-calypso Website: https://developer.wordpress.com/calypso/
- Microsoft .NET CoreFX - Foundational class libraries for .NET Core
Repository: https://github.com/dotnet/corefx Website: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/
- Microsoft .NET Roslyn - .NET compiler
Repository: https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn Website: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/roslyn-sdk/
- Node.js - A JavaScript runtime built on Chrome’s V8 JavaScript engine
Repository: https://github.com/nodejs/node Website: https://nodejs.org/en/
- TensorFlow - Google’s machine learning framework
Repository: https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow Website: https://www.tensorflow.org/
- freeCodeCamp - Code learning platform
Repository: https://github.com/freeCodeCamp/freeCodeCamp Website: https://www.freecodecamp.org/
- Space Station 13 - A round-based roleplaying game
Repository: https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation Website: https://www.tgstation13.org/
- Apple Swift - Apple’s programming language
Repository: https://github.com/apple/swift Website: https://swift.org/
- Elasticsearch - A search engine
Repository: https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch Website: https://www.elastic.co/products/elasticsearch
- Moby - An open framework to assemble specialized container systems
Repository: https://github.com/moby/moby Website: https://mobyproject.org/
- CockroachDB - A cloud-native SQL database
Repository: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach Website: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/
- Cydia Compatibility Checker - A compatibility checker for Cydia — a package manager for iOS jailbroken devices
Repository: https://github.com/jlippold/tweakCompatible Website: https://jlippold.github.io/tweakCompatible/
- Servo - A web browser engine
Repository: https://github.com/servo/servo Website: https://servo.org/
- Google Flutter - Google’s mobile app SDK to create interfaces for iOS and Android
Repository: https://github.com/flutter/flutter Website: https://flutter.dev/
- macOS Homebrew Package Manager - Default formulae for the missing package manager for macOS
Repository: https://github.com/homebrew/homebrew-core Website: https://brew.sh/
- Home Assistant - Home automation software
Repository: https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant Website: https://www.home-assistant.io/
- Microsoft .NET CoreCLR - Runtime for .NET Core
Repository: https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr Website: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/
- CocoaPods Specifications - Specifications for CocoaPods, a Cocoa dependency manager
Repository: https://github.com/CocoaPods/Specs Website: https://cocoapods.org/
- Elastic Kibana - An analytics and search dashboard for Elasticsearch
Repository: https://github.com/elastic/kibana Website: https://www.elastic.co/products/kibana
- Julia Language - A technical computing language
Repository: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia Website: https://julialang.org/
- Microsoft TypeScript - A superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript
Repository: https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript Website: https://www.typescriptlang.org/
Repository: https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms Website: https://www.joomla.org/
- DefinitelyTyped - A repository for TypeScript type definitions
Repository: https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped Website: http://definitelytyped.org/
- Homebrew Cask - A CLI workflow for the administration of macOS applications distributed as binaries
Repository: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask Website: https://brew.sh/
- Ceph - A distributed object, block, and file storage platform
Repository: https://github.com/ceph/ceph Website: https://ceph.com/
Repository: https://github.com/golang/go Website: https://golang.org/
- AMP HTML Builder - A way to build pages for Google AMP
Repository: https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml Website: https://amp.dev/
- Open edX - An online education platform
Repository: https://github.com/edx/edx-platform Website: https://open.edx.org/
- Pandas - A data analysis and manipulation library for Python
Repository: https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas Website: https://pandas.pydata.org/
- Istio - A platform to manage microservices
Repository: https://github.com/istio/istio Website: https://istio.io/
- ManageIQ - A containers, virtual machines, networks, and storage management platform
Repository: https://github.com/ManageIQ/manageiq Website: http://manageiq.org/
- Godot Engine - A multi-platform 2D and 3D game engine
Repository: https://github.com/godotengine/godot Website: https://godotengine.org/
- Gentoo Repository Mirror - A Gentoo ebuild repository mirror
Repository: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo Website: https://www.gentoo.org/
- Odoo - A suite of web based open source business apps
Repository: https://github.com/odoo/odoo Website: https://www.odoo.com/
- Azure Documentation - Documentation of Microsoft Azure
Repository: https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/azure-docs Website: https://docs.microsoft.com/azure
- Magento - An eCommerce platform
Repository: https://github.com/magento/magento2 Website: https://magento.com/
- Saltstack - Software to automate the management and configuration of any infrastructure or application at scale
Repository: https://github.com/saltstack/salt Website: https://www.saltstack.com/
- AdGuard Filters - Ad blocking filters for AdGuard
Repository: https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdguardFilters Website: https://adguard.com/en/welcome.html
- Symfony - A PHP framework
Repository: https://github.com/symfony/symfony Website: https://symfony.com/
- CMS Software for the Large Hadron Collider - Particle detector software components for CERN’s Large Hadron Collider
Repository: https://github.com/cms-sw/cmssw Website: http://cms-sw.github.io/
- Red Hat OpenShift - OpenShift installation and configuration management
Repository: https://github.com/openshift/openshift-ansible Website: https://www.openshift.com/
- ownCloud - Personal cloud software
Repository: https://github.com/owncloud/core Website: https://owncloud.org/
- gRPC - A remote procedure call (RPC) framework
Repository: https://github.com/grpc/grpc Website: https://grpc.io/
- Liferay - An enterprise web platform
Repository: https://github.com/brianchandotcom/liferay-portal Website: https://www.liferay.com/
- CommCare HQ - A mobile data collection platform
Repository: https://github.com/dimagi/commcare-hq Website: https://www.commcarehq.org/
- WordPress Gutenberg - An editor plugin for WordPress
Repository: https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg Website: https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/
- PyTorch - A Python package for Tensor computation and deep neural networks
Repository: https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch Website: https://pytorch.org/
- Kubernetes Test Infrastructure - A test-infra repository for Kubernetes
Repository: https://github.com/kubernetes/test-infra Website: https://kubernetes.io/
- Keybase - Keybase client repository
Repository: https://github.com/keybase/client Website: https://keybase.io/
- Facebook React - A JavaScript library for building user interfaces
Repository: https://github.com/facebook/react Website: https://reactjs.org/
- Code.org - Code learning resource
Repository: https://github.com/code-dot-org/code-dot-org Website: https://code.org/
- Bitcoin Core - Bitcoin client software
Repository: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin Website: https://bitcoincore.org/
- Arm Mbed OS - A platform operating system for the Internet of Things
Repository: https://github.com/ARMmbed/mbed-os Website: https://www.mbed.com
- scikit-learn - A Python module for machine learning
Repository: https://github.com/scikit-learn/scikit-learn Website: https://scikit-learn.org
- Nextcloud - A self-hosted productivity platform
Repository: https://github.com/nextcloud/server Website: https://nextcloud.com/
- Helm Charts - A curated list of applications for Kubernetes
Repository: https://github.com/helm/charts Website: https://kubernetes.io/
- Terraform - An infrastructure management tool
Repository: https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform Website: https://www.terraform.io/
- Ant Design - A UI design language
Repository: https://github.com/ant-design/ant-design Website: https://ant.design/
- Phalcon Framework Documentation - Documentation for Phalcon, a PHP framework
Repository: https://github.com/phalcon/docs Website: https://docs.phalconphp.com
- Documentation for CMS Software for the Large Hadron Collider - Documentation for CMS Software for CERN’s Large Hadron Collider
Repository: https://github.com/cms-sw/cms-sw.github.io Website: http://cms-sw.github.io
- Apache Kafka Mirror - A mirror for Apache Kafka, a distributed streaming platform
Repository: https://github.com/apache/kafka Website: https://kafka.apache.org
- Electron - A framework to write cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS
Repository: https://github.com/electron/electron Website: https://electronjs.org/
- Zephyr Project - A real-time operating system
Repository: https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr Website: https://www.zephyrproject.org/
- The web-platform-tests Project - A cross-browser testsuite for the Web-platform stack
Repository: https://github.com/web-platform-tests/wpt Website: https://www.w3.org/
- Marlin Firmware - Optimized firmware for RepRap 3D printers based on the Arduino platform
Repository: https://github.com/MarlinFirmware/Marlin Website: http://marlinfw.org/
- Apache MXNet - A library for deep learning
Repository: https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet Website: https://mxnet.apache.org/
- Apache Beam - A unified programming model
Repository: https://github.com/apache/beam Website: https://beam.apache.org/
- Fastlane - A build and release automaton for iOS and Android apps
Repository: https://github.com/fastlane/fastlane Website: https://fastlane.tools/
- Kubernetes Website and Documentation - A repository for the Kubernetes website and documentation
Repository: https://github.com/kubernetes/website Website: https://kubernetes.io
Repository: https://github.com/rails/rails Website: https://rubyonrails.org/
- Zulip - Team chat software
Repository: https://github.com/zulip/zulip Website: https://zulipchat.com/
Repository: https://github.com/laravel/framework Website: https://laravel.com/
Repository: https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/Paddle Website: http://www.paddlepaddle.org/
Repository: https://github.com/gatsbyjs/gatsby Website: https://www.gatsbyjs.org/
- Rust Crate Registry - Rust’s community package registry
Repository: https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index Website: https://crates.io/
- Nintendo 3DS Custom Firmware - A complete guide to 3DS custom firmware
Repository: https://github.com/hacks-guide/Guide_3DS Website: https://3ds.hacks.guide/
Repository: https://github.com/pingcap/tidb Website: https://pingcap.com
Repository: https://github.com/angular/angular-cli Website: https://cli.angular.io/
- MAPS.ME - Offline OpenStreetMap maps for iOS and Android
Repository: https://github.com/mapsme/omim Website: https://maps.me/
- Eclipse Che - A cloud IDE for Eclipse
Repository: https://github.com/eclipse/che Website: http://www.eclipse.org/che/
- Brave Browser - A browser with native BAT cryptocurrency
Repository: https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop Website: https://www.brave.com/
- Patchwork - A repository to learn Git
Repository: https://github.com/jlord/patchwork Website: http://jlord.us/patchwork/
- Angular Material - Component infrastructure and Material Design components for Angular, a Google web application framework
Repository: https://github.com/angular/components Website: https://material.angular.io/
- Python - Programming language
Repository: https://github.com/python/cpython Website: https://www.python.org/
- Space Station 13 - A round-based roleplaying game
Repository: https://github.com/vgstation-coders/vgstation13 Website: http://ss13.moe/
- Cataclysm - Dark Days Ahead - A turn-based survival game
Repository: https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA Website: http://cataclysmdda.org/
Repository: https://github.com/mui-org/material-ui Website: https://material-ui.com/
- Ionic - A Progressive Web Apps (PWA) development framework
Repository: https://github.com/ionic-team/ionic Website: https://ionicframework.com/
- Oppia - A tool for collaboratively building interactive lessons
Repository: https://github.com/oppia/oppia Website: https://www.oppia.org
- Alluxio - A virtual distributed storage system
Repository: https://github.com/Alluxio/alluxio Website: https://www.alluxio.io/
- XX Net - A Chinese Communist web proxy and anti-censorship tool that cannot be trusted since it is from Communist China
Repository: https://github.com/XX-net/XX-Net Website: None
- Microsoft .NET CLI - A CLI tool for .NET
Repository: https://github.com/dotnet/cli Website: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/tools/
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