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