GitHub network
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 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?
The GitHub network was run through an experimental reputation algorithm and produced the top 100 most valuable 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 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 software 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, the reputation algorithm and analysis was done by U°OS network.
As 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
1. Google Kubernetes
Description: Container scheduling and management
Repository: https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes
Website: https://kubernetes.io/
2. Apache Spark
Description: A unified analytics engine for large-scale data processing
Repository link: https://github.com/apache/spark
Website: http://spark.apache.org/
3. Microsoft Visual Studio Code
Description: A source-code editor
Repository: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode
Website: https://code.visualstudio.com/
4. NixOS Package Collection
Description: A collection of packages for the Nix package manager
Repository: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs
Website: https://nixos.org
5. Rust
Description: Programming language
Repository: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust
Website: https://www.rust-lang.org/
6. Firehol IP Lists
Description: Blacklists for Firehol, a firewall builder
Repository: https://github.com/firehol/blocklist-ipsets
Website: https://iplists.firehol.org/
7. OKD OpenShift
Description: A community distribution of Kubernetes optimized for continuous application development and multi-tenant deployment
Repository: https://github.com/openshift/origin
Website: https://www.okd.io/
8. Ansible
Description: A deployment automation platform
Repository: https://github.com/ansible/ansible
Website: https://www.ansible.com/
9. Automattic WordPress Calypso
Description: A JavaScript and API powered front-end for WordPress.com
Repository: https://github.com/Automattic/wp-calypso
Website: https://developer.wordpress.com/calypso/
10. Microsoft .NET CoreFX
Description: Foundational class libraries for .NET Core
Repository: https://github.com/dotnet/corefx
Website: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/
11. Microsoft .NET Roslyn
Description: .NET compiler
Repository: https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn
Website: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/roslyn-sdk/
12. Node.js
Description: A JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine
Repository: https://github.com/nodejs/node
Website: https://nodejs.org/en/
13. TensorFlow
Description: Google’s machine learning framework
Repository: https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow
Website: https://www.tensorflow.org/
14. freeCodeCamp
Description: Code learning platform
Repository: https://github.com/freeCodeCamp/freeCodeCamp
Website: https://www.freecodecamp.org/
15. Space Station 13
Description: A round-based roleplaying game
Repository: https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation
Website: https://www.tgstation13.org/
16. Apple Swift
Description: Apple’s programming language
Repository: https://github.com/apple/swift
Website: https://swift.org/
17. Elasticsearch
Description: A search engine
Repository: https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch
Website: https://www.elastic.co/products/elasticsearch
18. Moby
Description: An open framework to assemble specialized container systems
Repository: https://github.com/moby/moby
Website: https://mobyproject.org/
19. CockroachDB
Description: A cloud-native SQL database
Repository: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach
Website: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/
20. Cydia Compatibility Checker
Description: A compatibility checker for Cydia — a package manager for iOS jailbroken devices
Repository: https://github.com/jlippold/tweakCompatible
Website: https://jlippold.github.io/tweakCompatible/
21. Servo
Description: A web browser engine
Repository: https://github.com/servo/servo
Website: https://servo.org/
22. Google Flutter
Description: Google's mobile app SDK to create interfaces for iOS and Android
Repository: https://github.com/flutter/flutter
Website: https://flutter.dev/
23. macOS Homebrew Package Manager
Description: Default formulae for the missing package manager for macOS
Repository: https://github.com/homebrew/homebrew-core
Website: https://brew.sh/
24. Home Assistant
Description: Home automation software
Repository: https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant
Website: https://www.home-assistant.io/
25. Microsoft .NET CoreCLR
Description: Runtime for .NET Core
Repository: https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr
Website: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/
26. CocoaPods Specifications
Description: Specifications for CocoaPods, a Cocoa dependency manager
Repository: https://github.com/CocoaPods/Specs
Website: https://cocoapods.org/
27. Elastic Kibana
Description: An analytics and search dashboard for Elasticsearch
Repository: https://github.com/elastic/kibana
Website: https://www.elastic.co/products/kibana
28. Julia Language
Description: A technical computing language
Repository: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia
Website: https://julialang.org/
29. Microsoft TypeScript
Description: A superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript
Repository: https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript
Website: https://www.typescriptlang.org/
30. Joomla
Description: A content management system
Repository: https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms
Website: https://www.joomla.org/
31. DefinitelyTyped
Description: A repository for TypeScript type definitions
Repository: https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
Website: http://definitelytyped.org/
32. Homebrew Cask
Description: A CLI workflow for the administration of macOS applications distributed as binaries
Repository: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask
Website: https://brew.sh/
33. Ceph
Description: A distributed object, block, and file storage platform
Repository: https://github.com/ceph/ceph
Website: https://ceph.com/
34. Golang
Description: Programming language
Repository: https://github.com/golang/go
Website: https://golang.org/
35. AMP HTML Builder
Description: A way to build pages for Google AMP
Repository: https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml
Website: https://amp.dev/
36. Open edX
Description: An online education platform
Repository: https://github.com/edx/edx-platform
Website: https://open.edx.org/
37. Pandas
Description: A data analysis and manipulation library for Python
Repository: https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas
Website: https://pandas.pydata.org/
38. Istio
Description: A platform to manage microservices
Repository: https://github.com/istio/istio
Website: https://istio.io/
39. ManageIQ
Description: A containers, virtual machines, networks, and storage management platform
Repository: https://github.com/ManageIQ/manageiq
Website: http://manageiq.org/
40. Godot Engine
Description: A multi-platform 2D and 3D game engine
Repository: https://github.com/godotengine/godot
Website: https://godotengine.org/
41. Gentoo Repository Mirror
Description: A Gentoo ebuild repository mirror
Repository: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo
Website: https://www.gentoo.org/
42. Odoo
Description: A suite of web based open source business apps
Repository: https://github.com/odoo/odoo
Website: https://www.odoo.com/
43. Azure Documentation
Description: Documentation of Microsoft Azure
Repository: https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/azure-docs
Website: https://docs.microsoft.com/azure
44. Magento
Description: An eCommerce platform
Repository: https://github.com/magento/magento2
Website: https://magento.com/
45. Saltstack
Description: 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/
46. AdGuard Filters
Description: Ad blocking filters for AdGuard
Repository: https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdguardFilters
Website: https://adguard.com/en/welcome.html
47. Symfony
Description: A PHP framework
Repository: https://github.com/symfony/symfony
Website: https://symfony.com/
48. CMS Software for the Large Hadron Collider
Description: Particle detector software components for CERN's Large Hadron Collider
Repository: https://github.com/cms-sw/cmssw
Website: http://cms-sw.github.io/
49. OKD OpenShift
Description: OKD OpenShift installation and configuration management
Repository: https://github.com/openshift/openshift-ansible
Website: https://www.okd.io/
50. ownCloud
Description: Personal cloud software
Repository: https://github.com/owncloud/core
Website: https://owncloud.org/
51. gRPC
Description: A remote procedure call (RPC) framework
Repository: https://github.com/grpc/grpc
Website: https://grpc.io/
52. Liferay
Description: An enterprise web platform
Repository: https://github.com/brianchandotcom/liferay-portal
Website: https://www.liferay.com/
53. CommCare HQ
Description: A mobile data collection platform
Repository: https://github.com/dimagi/commcare-hq
Website: https://www.commcarehq.org/
54. WordPress Gutenberg
Description: An editor plugin for WordPress
Repository: https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg
Website: https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/
55. PyTorch
Description: A Python package for Tensor computation and deep neural networks
Repository: https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch
Website: https://pytorch.org/
56. Kubernetes Test Infrastructure
Description: A test-infra repository for Kubernetes
Repository: https://github.com/kubernetes/test-infra
Website: https://kubernetes.io/
57. Keybase
Description: Keybase client repository
Repository: https://github.com/keybase/client
Website: https://keybase.io/
58. Facebook React
Description: A JavaScript library for building user interfaces
Repository: https://github.com/facebook/react
Website: https://reactjs.org/
59. Code.org
Description: Code learning resource
Repository: https://github.com/code-dot-org/code-dot-org
Website: https://code.org/
60. Bitcoin Core
Description: Bitcoin client software
Repository: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin
Website: https://bitcoincore.org/
61. Arm Mbed OS
Description: A platform operating system for the Internet of Things
Repository: https://github.com/ARMmbed/mbed-os
Website: https://www.mbed.com
62. scikit-learn
Description: A Python module for machine learning
Repository: https://github.com/scikit-learn/scikit-learn
Website: https://scikit-learn.org
63. Nextcloud
Description: A self-hosted productivity platform
Repository: https://github.com/nextcloud/server
Website: https://nextcloud.com/
64. Helm Charts
Description: A curated list of applications for Kubernetes
Repository: https://github.com/helm/charts
Website: https://kubernetes.io/
65. Terraform
Description: An infrastructure management tool
Repository: https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform
Website: https://www.terraform.io/
66. Ant Design
Description: A UI design language
Repository: https://github.com/ant-design/ant-design
Website: https://ant.design/
67. Phalcon Framework Documentation
Description: Documentation for Phalcon, a PHP framework
Repository: https://github.com/phalcon/docs
Website: https://docs.phalconphp.com
68. Documentation for CMS Software for the Large Hadron Collider
Description: 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/
69. Apache Kafka Mirror
Description: A mirror for Apache Kafka, a distributed streaming platform
Repository: https://github.com/apache/kafka
Website: https://kafka.apache.org/
70. Electron
Description: A framework to write cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS
Repository: https://github.com/electron/electron
Website: https://electronjs.org/
71. Zephyr Project
Description: A real-time operating system
Repository: https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr
Website: https://www.zephyrproject.org/
72. The web-platform-tests Project
Description: A cross-browser testsuite for the Web-platform stack
Repository: https://github.com/web-platform-tests/wpt
Website: https://www.w3.org/
73. Marlin Firmware
Description: Optimized firmware for RepRap 3D printers based on the Arduino platform
Repository: https://github.com/MarlinFirmware/Marlin
Website: http://marlinfw.org/
74. Apache MXNet
Description: A library for deep learning
Repository: https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet
Website: https://mxnet.apache.org/
75. Apache Beam
Description: A unified programming model
Repository: https://github.com/apache/beam
Website: https://beam.apache.org/
76. Fastlane
Description: A build and release automaton for iOS and Android apps
Repository: https://github.com/fastlane/fastlane
Website: https://fastlane.tools/
77. Kubernetes Website and Documentation
Description: A repository for the Kubernetes website and documentation
Repository: https://github.com/kubernetes/website
Website: https://kubernetes.io
78. Ruby on Rails
Description: A web-application framework
Repository: https://github.com/rails/rails
Website: https://rubyonrails.org/
79. Zulip
Description: Team chat software
Repository: https://github.com/zulip/zulip
Website: https://zulipchat.com/
80. Laravel
Description: A web application framework
Repository: https://github.com/laravel/framework
Website: https://laravel.com/
81. Baidu PaddlePaddle
Description: Baidu’s deep learning framework
Repository: https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/Paddle
Website: http://www.paddlepaddle.org/
82. Gatsby
Description: A web application framework
Repository: https://github.com/gatsbyjs/gatsby
Website: https://www.gatsbyjs.org/
83. Rust Crate Registry
Description: Rust’s community package registry
Repository: https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index
Website: https://crates.io/
84. Nintendo 3DS Custom Firmware
Description: A complete guide to 3DS custom firmware
Repository: https://github.com/hacks-guide/Guide_3DS
Website: https://3ds.hacks.guide/
85. TiDB
Description: A NewSQL database
Repository: https://github.com/pingcap/tidb
Website: https://pingcap.com
86. Angular CLI
Description: CLI tool for Angular, a Google web application framework
Repository: https://github.com/angular/angular-cli
Website: https://cli.angular.io/
87. MAPS.ME
Description: Offline OpenStreetMap maps for iOS and Android
Repository: https://github.com/mapsme/omim
Website: https://maps.me/
88. Eclipse Che
Description: A cloud IDE for Eclipse
Repository: https://github.com/eclipse/che
Website: http://www.eclipse.org/che/
89. Brave Browser
Description: A browser with native BAT cryptocurrency
Repository: https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop
Website: https://www.brave.com/
90. Patchwork
Description: A repository to learn Git
Repository: https://github.com/jlord/patchwork
Website: http://jlord.us/patchwork/
91. Angular Material
Description: Component infrastructure and Material Design components for Angular, a Google web application framework
Repository: https://github.com/angular/components
Website: https://material.angular.io/
92. Python
Description: Programming language
Repository: https://github.com/python/cpython
Website: https://www.python.org/
93. Space Station 13
Description: A round-based roleplaying game
Repository: https://github.com/vgstation-coders/vgstation13
Website: http://ss13.moe/
94. Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead
Description: A turn-based survival game
Repository: https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA
Website: http://cataclysmdda.org/
95. Material-UI
Description: React components that implement Google's Material Design
Repository: https://github.com/mui-org/material-ui
Website: https://material-ui.com/
96. Ionic
Description: A Progressive Web Apps development framework
Repository: https://github.com/ionic-team/ionic
Website: https://ionicframework.com/
97. Oppia
Description: A tool for collaboratively building interactive lessons
Repository: https://github.com/oppia/oppia
Website: https://www.oppia.org
98. Alluxio
Description: A virtual distributed storage system
Repository: https://github.com/Alluxio/alluxio
Website: https://www.alluxio.io/
99. XX Net
Description: A Chinese web proxy and anti-censorship tool
Repository: https://github.com/XX-net/XX-Net
Website: None
100. Microsoft .NET CLI
Description: 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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