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Official technical documentation, guides, and tutorials for software platforms and services. This collection includes open source repositories that host and man age documentation resources for developer platforms.

300 projects

1,101,131 contributors

$21B

Kubernetes

Kubernetes (K8s) is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.

Contributors

116,328

Organizations

22,057

Software value

$5.7B

Flutter

Flutter makes it easy and fast to build beautiful apps for mobile and beyond

Contributors

74,337

Organizations

7,369

Software value

$101M

Home Assistant

Home Assistant is an open-source home automation platform that enables users to control and automate their smart home devices. It provides a centralized system for managing lights, thermostats, cameras, sensors, and other IoT devices through a unified interface, with support for thousands of integrations and custom automations.

Contributors

73,271

Organizations

5,754

Software value

$126M

React Native

React Native is a framework developed by Facebook that enables building native mobile applications using React and JavaScript. It allows developers to create mobile apps for iOS and Android platforms using a single codebase, providing native performance while leveraging web development skills.

Contributors

54,274

Organizations

7,885

Software value

$26M

Node.js

Node.js® is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine.

Contributors

51,118

Organizations

9,722

Software value

$3.8B

TensorFlow

TensorFlow is an open-source machine learning framework developed by Google that enables numerical computation and large-scale machine learning. It provides a flexible system for defining and executing computations involving tensors, which are multi-dimensional arrays. The framework supports deep learning and neural networks across multiple platforms and devices.

Contributors

47,259

Organizations

6,155

Software value

$199M

Ansible

Ansible is an open-source automation platform that enables infrastructure as code, configuration management, application deployment, and IT orchestration. It uses simple YAML syntax for playbooks and requires no agents on remote systems, relying instead on SSH for secure connections.

Contributors

32,495

Organizations

7,019

Software value

$11M

Python

The Python programming language

Contributors

28,166

Organizations

4,589

Software value

$92M

Helm

Helm helps you manage Kubernetes applications — Helm Charts help you define, install, and upgrade even the most complex Kubernetes application.

Contributors

27,191

Organizations

5,391

Software value

$21M

Rust

Rust is a systems programming language focused on safety, concurrency, and performance. It provides memory safety without garbage collection, thread safety without data races, and abstractions with zero cost.

Contributors

25,877

Organizations

6,346

Software value

$143M

OpenTelemetry

OpenTelemetry makes robust, portable telemetry a built-in feature of cloud-native software. OpenTelemetry provides a single set of APIs, libraries, agents, and collector services to capture distributed traces and metrics from your application. You can analyze them using Prometheus, Jaeger, and other observability tools.

Contributors

25,339

Organizations

5,305

Software value

$296M

ASP.NET Core

ASP.NET Core is a cross-platform, high-performance, open-source framework for building modern, cloud-enabled, Internet-connected applications. It enables developers to create web apps, APIs, microservices, and real-time web applications that can run on Windows, macOS, and Linux.

Contributors

21,305

Organizations

3,010

Software value

$79M

Prometheus

Prometheus is an open-source systems monitoring and alerting toolkit originally built at SoundCloud. Since its inception in 2012, many companies and organizations have adopted Prometheus, and the project has a very active developer and user community. It is now a standalone open source project and maintained independently of any company.

Contributors

20,739

Organizations

5,292

Software value

$37M

Cypress

Cypress is a modern, open-source testing framework for web applications that enables fast, reliable, and easy-to-debug end-to-end testing. It runs directly in the browser, allowing developers to write tests that simulate real user interactions and verify application behavior in real-time.

Contributors

20,715

Organizations

3,502

Software value

$24M

Ionic Framework

Ionic Framework is an open source UI toolkit and development platform for building high-quality cross-platform mobile and desktop applications using web technologies like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. It enables developers to build apps that can run anywhere with a single codebase.

Contributors

20,663

Organizations

3,174

Software value

$6.9M

Golang

Go is an open-source programming language designed by Google that is known for its simplicity, performance, and efficient concurrency support.

Contributors

19,726

Organizations

5,315

Software value

$117M

OpenStack

OpenStack is a cloud operating system that controls large pools of compute, storage, and networking resources throughout a datacenter, all managed and provisioned through APIs with common authentication mechanisms.

Contributors

19,432

Organizations

2,364

Software value

$506M

Prisma

Prisma is a next-generation ORM (Object-Relational Mapping) that helps developers build faster and make fewer errors with an intuitive data model, automated migrations, type-safety and auto-completion. It provides a clean and type-safe database access layer that supports multiple databases including PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, and MongoDB.

Contributors

19,335

Organizations

4,681

Software value

$6.9M

OpenBMC

OpenBMC is an open-source implementation of the Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) firmware stack that provides remote monitoring and control capabilities for servers and data center equipment. It enables system administrators to manage server hardware, monitor sensors, control power states, and access system logs remotely.

Contributors

18,437

Organizations

2,655

Software value

$1.6B

.NET runtime

.NET runtime is the execution engine that runs .NET applications, handling memory management, JIT compilation, and other core services needed to run managed code.

Contributors

18,299

Organizations

2,651

Software value

$672M

Nextcloud server

Nextcloud is a self-hosted productivity platform and file sync & share solution that enables users to store, share and collaborate on files, calendars, contacts and more. It provides secure access to data through a web interface or mobile and desktop clients while maintaining control over data privacy and security.

Contributors

18,145

Organizations

2,883

Software value

$46M

The Symfony PHP Framework

Symfony is a PHP web application framework designed for building robust, scalable, and maintainable web applications using reusable components and a structured MVC architecture. It’s widely used for enterprise-level projects and forms the foundation of many other PHP platforms, including Laravel and Drupal.

Contributors

16,949

Organizations

3,342

Software value

$66M

Odoo

Odoo. Open Source Apps To Grow Your Business.

Contributors

16,492

Organizations

1,182

Software value

$115M

OpenSearch

The purpose of the OpenSearch Software Foundation is to raise, budget and spend funds in support of various open source, open data and/or open standards projects relating to open source search and analysis solutions.

Contributors

14,705

Organizations

1,900

Software value

$575M

Strapi

Strapi is an open-source headless CMS (Content Management System) that enables developers to build, manage and distribute content across multiple platforms and devices. It provides a customizable admin panel, RESTful API, and GraphQL support for creating and managing structured content.

Contributors

13,986

Organizations

2,399

Software value

$16M

Istio

Istio extends Kubernetes to establish a programmable, application-aware network using the powerful Envoy service proxy. Working with both Kubernetes and traditional workloads, Istio brings standard, universal traffic management, telemetry, and security to complex deployments.

Contributors

13,463

Organizations

2,892

Software value

$428M

Express

Express is a minimal and flexible Node.js web application framework that provides a robust set of features for web and mobile applications.

Contributors

12,261

Organizations

2,894

Software value

$4M

AWS Amplify

AWS Amplify is a JavaScript library and development framework that enables developers to build cloud-powered web and mobile applications. It provides a declarative interface and tools for integrating AWS cloud services, handling authentication, managing data, and implementing offline functionality.

Contributors

11,441

Organizations

1,924

Software value

$14M

Kubeflow

Kubeflow is an open source machine learning platform built on Kubernetes that makes deploying and managing ML workflows on Kubernetes simple, portable and scalable. It provides end-to-end orchestration of machine learning pipelines, model training, serving, and experiment tracking.

Contributors

10,523

Organizations

2,310

Software value

$432M

SciPy

SciPy is a Python library that builds on NumPy to provide advanced algorithms for scientific computing, including optimization, integration, signal processing, and linear algebra.

Contributors

10,029

Organizations

2,058

Software value

$30M

Sentry

Developer-first error tracking and performance monitoring

Contributors

9,954

Organizations

2,804

Software value

$98M

PX4

PX4 is used in a wide range of use-cases, from consumer drones to industrial applications. It is also the leading research platform for drones and has been successfully applied to under water vehicles and boats.

Contributors

9,905

Organizations

995

Software value

$622M

Mattermost Desktop

Mattermost Desktop is a cross-platform desktop application that provides native desktop integration for the Mattermost team collaboration platform, offering features like system notifications, app badges, and keyboard shortcuts for an enhanced messaging and collaboration experience.

Contributors

9,528

Organizations

2,052

Software value

$85M

PaddlePaddle

PaddlePaddle is an open-source deep learning platform developed by Baidu that provides a comprehensive suite of tools for AI model development, training, and deployment. It features an easy-to-use API, high performance distributed training capabilities, and extensive support for various deep learning applications including computer vision, natural language processing, and speech recognition.

Contributors

9,297

Organizations

482

Software value

$108M

Redis

Redis is an open-source, in-memory data structure store that can be used as a database, cache, message broker, and queue. It supports multiple data structures like strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets with range queries, bitmaps, hyperloglogs, geospatial indexes, and streams.

Contributors

8,667

Organizations

2,027

Software value

$13M

Backstage

Backstage is an open platform for building developer portals that helps organizations streamline software development by centralizing technical documentation, APIs, services, and tools into a unified interface. It provides a microservices architecture, plugin system, and tools for service catalogs, documentation, and infrastructure management.

Contributors

7,911

Organizations

2,255

Software value

$124M

Etcd

A distributed, reliable key-value store for the most critical data of a distributed system.

Contributors

7,579

Organizations

1,818

Software value

$69M

Vue.js core

Vue.js is a progressive JavaScript framework for building user interfaces. It features a component-based architecture, reactive data binding, and an incrementally adoptable ecosystem that scales between a library and a full-featured framework.

Contributors

7,474

Organizations

1,419

Software value

$4.7M

Hugo

Hugo is a fast and flexible static site generator written in Go that transforms markdown and other content into HTML websites. It features quick build times, versatile templating, integrated Sass processing, and multilingual support.

Contributors

6,939

Organizations

2,350

Software value

$8.2M

Quarkus: Supersonic Subatomic Java Project

Quarkus: Supersonic Subatomic Java.

Contributors

6,910

Organizations

1,177

Software value

$65M

Astro

Astro is a modern web framework for building fast, content-focused websites with less client-side JavaScript. It allows developers to author content in multiple formats and frameworks while delivering optimized static sites that prioritize performance and developer experience.

Contributors

6,730

Organizations

1,870

Software value

$7.6M

Bevy

Bevy is a data-driven game engine built in Rust, focusing on providing a modern, performant, and modular framework for game development. It features an Entity Component System (ECS) architecture, cross-platform support, and a suite of built-in development tools.

Contributors

6,557

Organizations

1,217

Software value

$15M

PHP Interpreter

The PHP Interpreter is the official implementation of the PHP programming language, a widely-used server-side scripting language for web development. It processes PHP code and executes it to generate dynamic web content.

Contributors

6,347

Organizations

1,636

Software value

$83M

ArduPilot

ArduPilot is an open source autopilot software suite that enables autonomous control of unmanned vehicles including drones, planes, helicopters, boats, submarines and ground rovers. It provides a complete flight control system with features for navigation, mission planning, telemetry and vehicle stabilization.

Contributors

5,685

Organizations

649

Software value

$43M

RubyGems

RubyGems is the package manager and distribution platform for Ruby libraries and applications. It provides a standard format for distributing Ruby programs and libraries, a tool for managing gem installations, and a server for distributing them.

Contributors

5,430

Organizations

1,542

Software value

$5.7M

JHipster

JHipster is a development platform to quickly generate, develop and deploy modern web applications and microservice architectures. It combines popular frameworks and tools like Spring Boot, Angular/React/Vue, and Docker to create full-stack applications with best practices built-in.

Contributors

5,406

Organizations

758

Software value

$4.4M

Vitest

Vitest is a next-generation testing framework for JavaScript and TypeScript applications, designed to be fast and compatible with Vite. It provides a modern testing experience with features like native ESM support, smart file watching, and instant hot module replacement.

Contributors

4,856

Organizations

1,532

Software value

$5M

Nushell

Nushell is a modern shell and programming language designed to work with structured data. It treats all data as structured tables and provides powerful data manipulation capabilities, allowing users to pipe and filter information using a syntax inspired by traditional shells but with enhanced functionality for working with JSON, CSV, and other formats.

Contributors

4,618

Organizations

1,198

Software value

$11M

Datadog Agent

The Datadog Agent is a software daemon that collects system metrics, application traces, logs, and other monitoring data from hosts and containers. It processes and forwards this telemetry to Datadog's cloud platform for monitoring, visualization, and analysis of infrastructure and application performance.

Contributors

4,609

Organizations

1,191

Software value

$118M

OpenShift Origin

OpenShift Origin is an enterprise Kubernetes distribution focused on developer experience and application security. It provides a complete container application platform that integrates Docker and Kubernetes to enable automated deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.

Contributors

4,481

Organizations

960

Software value

$351M

CockroachDB

CockroachDB is a distributed SQL database system designed to be scalable, consistent, and highly available. It combines the benefits of traditional relational databases with the horizontal scalability and resilience of NoSQL systems, offering features like automatic replication, distributed transactions, and self-healing capabilities.

Contributors

4,392

Organizations

1,115

Software value

$134M

Docker CLI

The Docker CLI is the official command-line interface for Docker, providing tools to interact with Docker containers, images, networks, and other Docker objects. It enables users to build, run, and manage containerized applications through commands that communicate with the Docker daemon.

Contributors

4,356

Organizations

1,330

Software value

$31M

Read the Docs

Read the Docs is a documentation hosting platform that automates building, versioning, and hosting software documentation. It supports multiple documentation formats, integrates with version control systems, and provides features like versioning, search, and custom domains.

Contributors

4,313

Organizations

1,906

Software value

$5.4M

OPNsense Core

OPNsense is an open source firewall and routing platform based on FreeBSD that includes features like intrusion detection, load balancing, VPN capabilities, and traffic shaping. It provides a user-friendly web interface for network security and management while offering enterprise-grade features for both home and business users.

Contributors

4,252

Organizations

596

Software value

$9.6M

Laravel

Laravel is a popular open-source PHP web application framework known for its elegant syntax, robust features, and developer-friendly tools. It provides a comprehensive ecosystem for building modern web applications with features like routing, authentication, caching, and database abstraction.

Contributors

4,224

Organizations

1,184

Software value

$39K

Wazuh

Wazuh is an open source security platform that provides unified XDR and SIEM protection for endpoints and cloud workloads. It performs threat detection, integrity monitoring, incident response and regulatory compliance through integrated capabilities for log analysis, file integrity monitoring, vulnerability detection, and security configuration assessment.

Contributors

4,175

Organizations

366

Software value

$65M

dbt Core

dbt enables data analysts and engineers to transform their data using the same practices that software engineers use to build applications.

Contributors

3,993

Organizations

613

Software value

$8.6M

Pulumi

Pulumi is an open-source infrastructure as code platform that allows developers to create, deploy, and manage cloud infrastructure using familiar programming languages like TypeScript, Python, Go, and C#. It enables teams to define cloud resources and applications using the same tools and practices they use for application development.

Contributors

3,978

Organizations

1,344

Software value

$170M

RISC-V International

RISC-V is a free and open ISA enabling a new era of processor innovation through open standard collaboration. Born in academia and research, RISC-V ISA delivers a new level of free, extensible software and hardware freedom on architecture, paving the way for the next 50 years of computing design and innovation.

Contributors

3,965

Organizations

960

Software value

$31M

Umbraco CMS

Umbraco CMS is an open-source content management system built on the .NET platform that enables developers and content editors to create and manage websites. It features a user-friendly interface, extensible architecture, and comprehensive content management capabilities for building and maintaining web applications.

Contributors

3,935

Organizations

257

Software value

$31M

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