Beginner-Friendly Projects
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.NET
A framework for speeding up the development of automated UI tests for Windows, Android, iOS, and Web with Appium/Selenium on .NET.
TypeScript
Oppia is an open-source project whose aim is to empower learners across the globe by providing access to high-quality, engaging education. We envision a society in which access to high-quality education is a human right rather than a privilege.
Blazing fast, instant realtime GraphQL APIs on Postgres with fine grained access control, also trigger webhooks on database events.
OpenMetadata is an all-in-one platform for data discovery, data quality, observability, governance, data lineage, and team collaboration.
Fast, reliable, and secure dependency management.
Storybook is a frontend workshop for building UI components and pages in isolation.
Next generation frontend tooling. It's fast! Alternative to Create React App
activist.org is a network for political action that allows people to coordinate and collaborate on the issues that matter most to them.
Deploy any software to any cloud: automated DevOps workflows to save software teams time and money.
Open-source RAG assistant that helps users get reliable answers from knowledge sources while avoiding hallucinations.
Realtime Web Apps and Dashboards framework for Python and R. Suited (not only) for AI audience.
A modern, feature-rich ebook reader designed for avid readers offering seamless cross-platform access, powerful tools, and an intuitive interface.
Amplication is an open-source development tool. It helps you develop quality Node.js applications without spending time on repetitive coding tasks.
A truly serverless framework, write your code and deploy it in seconds without any server configuration files.
100% open source data import experience with readymade CSV & Excel import widget
Extended itertools port for TypeScript and JavaScript. Provides a huge set of functions for working with iterable collections (including async ones).
LinksHub aims to provide developers with access to a wide range of free resources and tools that they can use in their work.
Manifest is an open-source Backend-as-a-Service allowing developers to create a backend easily and quickly.
Reatom is declarative and reactive state manager, designed for both simple and complex applications.
The open source Firebase alternative. Supabase gives you a dedicated Postgres database to build your web, mobile, and AI applications.
A superset of JavaScript that compiles to clean JavaScript output.
Monorepo for all the tooling which enables ESLint to support TypeScript.
A code editor redefined and optimized for building and debugging modern web and cloud applications.
An Open Source observability platform that monitors your applications and services. It comes with out-of-box charts for key application metrics like p99 latency, error rate, Apdex, and operations per second. You can also monitor the database and external calls made from your application.
Julia
C#
Cake (C# Make) is a free and open source cross-platform build automation system with a C# DSL for tasks such as compiling code, copying files and folders, running unit tests, compressing files and building NuGet packages.
JavaScript
A powerful but lightweight extension, to enrich your video experience & enable your content selection.
Open source Slack-alternative in Golang and React<br>Look for issues labelled 'Up For Grabs'
Turn based strategy game where you 3d print a squad of creatures with unique abilities in order to defeat your enemies.
Check It Out is an ncurses-like CLI to let the user interactively navigate and select a git branch to check out.
A fully pluggable tool for identifying and reporting on patterns in JavaScript.
Open source codebase and curriculum. Learn to code and help nonprofits.
a react-based framework that provides accessibility, modularity, responsiveness, and theming in a tidy package
Habitica is a gamified task manager, webapp and android/ios app, really wonderful atmosphere. Guidance for contributing here (mongo, express, vue, node stack for webapp)
An open source react native app iOS and android for color palette management
An offline-first JavaScript client leveraging the Kinto API for remote data synchronization.
React components for faster and easier web development. Build your own design system, or start with Material Design.
Meteor is an ultra-simple environment for building modern web applications.
A lightweight JavaScript date library for parsing, validating, manipulating, and formatting dates.
NativeScript is an open source framework for building truly native mobile apps with JavaScript. Use web skills, like Angular and Vue.js, FlexBox and CSS, and get native UI and performance on iOS and Android.
A minimalistic framework for universal server-rendered React applications
p5.js is a client-side JS platform that empowers artists, designers, students, and anyone to learn to code and express themselves creatively on the web.
Ramda Adjunct is the most popular and most comprehensive set of functional utilities for use with Ramda, providing a variety of useful, well tested functions with excellent documentation.
A declarative, efficient, and flexible JavaScript library for building user interfaces.
React framework with server render for blazing fast page load and seamless transitions between pages in the browser.
A UI components library for Elasticsearch: Available for React, Vue and React Native.
A completely Open Source crypto trading bot rewarding good contributions with the SA(Superalgos)-Token.
Component framework that runs at build time, converting your components into highly efficient imperative code that surgically updates the DOM.
C++
2D and 3D cross-platform game engine. Also has C# and Python code.
MiniOB is a compact database that assists developers in understanding the fundamental workings of a database(main language is Chinese).
Easy-to-use open source robotics manipulation platform for developing commercial applications, prototyping designs, and benchmarking algorithms.
Dart
A website covering Dart language and common libraries, for developers of Dart libraries, web apps, server-side code, and mobile (Flutter) apps.
Elixir
Go
Industry-standard container runtime with an emphasis on simplicity, robustness and portability.
Provide efficient, stable and secure file distribution and image acceleration based on p2p technology
A Go library for doing the kind of tasks that shell scripts are good at: reading files, executing subprocesses, counting lines, matching strings, and so on. Beginners are very welcome and will get detailed code review and help through the PR process.
A tool for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure safely and efficiently.
Java
Cross-platform mobile app development framework for Java developers
Desktop application for managing literature references using modern Java features including JavaFX. Dedicated to code quality and constructive feedback: Each Pull Request is reviewed by two developers to provide high-quality feedback and to ensure high quality of new contributions.
TEAMMATES is a free online tool for managing peer evaluations and other feedback paths of your students.
A distributed SQL query engine for big data. Ask for guidance on project's Slack.
Markdown
Kotlin
Python
SuperDuperDB: Bring AI to your favourite database! Integrate, train and manage any AI models and APIs directly with your database and your data
Deduplicating backup program with compression and authenticated encryption.
An open-source deep learning system for large-scale model training and inference with high efficiency and low cost.
A command-line utility that creates projects from cookiecutters (project templates). E.g. Python package projects, jQuery plugin projects.
Embedchain is a framework to easily create LLM powered bots over any dataset.
A modern, fast (high-performance) web framework for building APIs with Python 3.6+ based on standard Python type hints.
Natural language processing tool for psychologists to analyse and compare datasets with AI and LLMs.<br>Up for a challenge? Try this LLM training competition for a chance to win up to £500!
A personal assistant for Linux, MacOs and Windows based on Command line Interface.
A lightweight JSON storage service with synchronisation and sharing abilities.
Matplotlib is a comprehensive library for creating static, animated, and interactive visualizations in Python.
An interactive TLS-capable intercepting HTTP proxy for penetration testers and software developers
The webservice for gpodder.net, a libre web service that allows users to manage their podcast subscriptions and discover new content.
OMRChecker helps to grade exams fast and accurately using a scanner or your phone . Learn image processing with Python and OpenCV while contributing to one of the most popular repositories related to OMR topic on github.
Flexible and powerful data analysis / manipulation library for Python, providing labeled data structures similar to R data.frame objects, statistical functions, and much more
A Python library for Bayesian statistical modeling and probabilistic machine learning. Beginner-friendly with 'good first issue' labels.
The pytest framework makes it easy to write small tests, yet scales to support complex functional testing.
PyTorch is an open source machine learning library based on the Torch library, used for applications such as computer vision and natural language processing.
Software to automate the management and configuration of any infrastructure or application at scale.
The strictest and most opinionated python linter ever!
Turn Python projects into distributable native applications across desktop and mobile platforms.
PHP
A lightweight, fast PHP framework, it is easy to install and perfect for learning MVC architecture.
A deployment tool written in PHP with support for popular frameworks out of the box.
FreshRSS is a self-hosted RSS and Atom feed aggregator. It is lightweight, easy to work with, powerful, and customizable. Since 2012.
A package that provides an easy way to integrate MailChimp with Laravel 5.
Open source self-hosted continuous integration server for PHP projects.
Ruby
Build business apps 10x faster using Ruby on Rails.
Opensource customer support platform which can be an alternative to Intercom, Zendesk, Drift, Crisp etc.
A systems integration framework, built to bring the benefits of configuration management to your entire infrastructure
Upload your own aerial images, position (rubbersheet) them in a web interface over existing map data, and share via web or composite and export for print.
The open-source reverse ETL, data activation platform for modern data teams.
A generic system to build and distribute packages from sources in an automatic, consistent and reproducible way.
Open Source Event Manager. An event management tool tailored to Free and Open Source Software conferences
Rust
Transportation planning and traffic simulation software for creating cities friendlier to walking, biking, and public transit.
End-to-end encryption and mutual authentication for distributed applications.