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.
An extension framework to Legerity for speeding up the development of automated UI tests for Uno Platform applications with Appium/Selenium on .NET.
The .NET MVVM framework for cross-platform solutions, including Xamarin.iOS, Xamarin.Android, Windows and Mac.
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.
Open source business intelligence and analytics platform
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.
A CLI and runtime framework to generate a GraphQL API in seconds.
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.
Litmus is a toolset to do cloud-native chaos engineering.
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 0-legacy, tiny & fast web framework as a replacement of Express.
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.
A blazing fast unit test framework powered by Vite.
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.
Music game. Rhythm is just a click away!
A .NET library that makes it easier to create beautiful console applications.
OSS project for creating pixel-perfect, single-source C# and XAML apps which run natively on iOS, Android, macOS, Linux and Web via WebAssembly.
JavaScript
Build cross platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
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'
A beautiful feature-rich GraphQL Client for all platforms.
Turn based strategy game where you 3d print a squad of creatures with unique abilities in order to defeat your enemies.
Futuristic test runner.
A compiler for writing next generation JavaScript.
The only sane way to build great bots.
Desktop browser for macOS, Windows, and Linux.
Check It Out is an ncurses-like CLI to let the user interactively navigate and select a git branch to check out.
Create React apps with no build configuration.
Fast, easy and reliable testing for anything that runs in a browser.
A JavaScript framework for creating ambitious web applications.
A data persistence library for Ember.js.
A fully pluggable tool for identifying and reporting on patterns in JavaScript.
Awesome ESLint rules.
Fast and low overhead web framework, for Node.js.
Open source codebase and curriculum. Learn to code and help nonprofits.
Build blazing fast, modern apps and websites with React.
Just a blogging platform
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)
Server-oriented customizable templating for JavaScript.
A free, fast and beautiful API request builder.
An open source react native app iOS and android for color palette management
The easy-to-use OpenStreetMap editor in JavaScript.
Simple JavaScript testing framework for browsers and node.js.
A complete and easy to set up JavaScript testing solution.
An offline-first JavaScript client leveraging the Kinto API for remote data synchronization.
JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps.
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.
Javascript test framework for Node.js and the browser.
A lightweight JavaScript date library for parsing, validating, manipulating, and formatting dates.
Canonical common brand names for OpenStreetMap
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.
Open source content management for your git workflow.
A minimalistic framework for universal server-rendered React applications
JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine
Multiplatform music player that streams from free sources.
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.
A 2D JavaScript Renderer
PouchDB is a pocket-sized database.
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.
A framework for building native apps with React.
React framework with server render for blazing fast page load and seamless transitions between pages in the browser.
Tool to create your own react-content-loader easily.
A UI components library for Elasticsearch: Available for React, Vue and React Native.
The documentation website for reactjs
The Serverless Framework
The JavaScript mutation testing framework
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.
Swag opportunities for developers.
Working hours time tracker app based on Electron and Javascript.
Validations framework inspired by unit testing frameworks.
Angular & Electron app for browsing and searching videos on your PC.
The player framework
The official router for Vue.js.
The Progressive JavaScript Framework.
Minimalistic Vue-powered static site generator
Next-gen browser and mobile automation test framework for Node.js
C++
Fast and minimalist 3D viewer.
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.
A music visualizer library using OpenGL and GLSL. Has applications using Qt5, SDL, emscripten, iTunes, Kodi.
A toolkit for real-time audio streaming over the network.
Computation using data flow graphs for scalable machine learning
Distributed SQL database.
Dart
A website covering Dart language and common libraries, for developers of Dart libraries, web apps, server-side code, and mobile (Flutter) apps.
Flutter is Google's UI toolkit for building beautiful, natively compiled applications for mobile, web, desktop, and embedded devices from a single codebase.
Collaborative, free and open database of food products from around the world. Scan barcode to get info or add a product
Elixir
Go
A music programming language for musicians.
Industry-standard container runtime with an emphasis on simplicity, robustness and portability.
The Docker CLI
Provide efficient, stable and secure file distribution and image acceleration based on p2p technology
The Kubernetes Package Manager
A Fast and Flexible Static Site Generator built with love in GoLang
A Data Protection Workflow Management Engine
Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management System
System container and virtual machine manager.
Meshery, the service mesh management plane.
Open-source application container engine
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.
A distributed scalable Hybrid Transactional and Analytical Processing (HTAP) database
Common Utilities library for Go
Load-balancer orchestrator for Kubernetes that uses standard Linux networking and routing protocols.
Java
Catima, a Loyalty Card & Ticket Manager for Android
Cross-platform mobile app development framework for Java developers
DSA questions practising repo for Java developers
Open Source, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine.
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.
Questdb is a fast open source SQL time series database.
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.
Allows users to upload pictures from their Android phone/tablet to Wikimedia Commons.
API Automation without coding, easy JSON response assertions, Testing REST, SOAP, Kafka and Java/DB APIs, CI/Jenkins Friendly.
Markdown
An open-source curriculum for learning full-stack web development. There are a few "Type: Good First Issue" labelled issues, but any content addition/deletion issues seem reasonably beginner friendly.
Collaborative cheatsheets for console commands.
Kotlin
Multiplatform assertion library for Kotlin
A microservices toolkit written in Kotlin
A non-blocking HTTP(S)-Server for SirixDB, a temporal, evolutionary NoSQL document store for XML and JSON.
A simple and beautiful calculator for Android.
Android keyboards for language learners with translation, verb conjugation and more!
Python
SuperDuperDB: Bring AI to your favourite database! Integrate, train and manage any AI models and APIs directly with your database and your data
A simple IT automation platform
Exploratory Analysis of Bayesian Models.
Bokeh is an interactive visualization library for modern web browsers.
Deduplicating backup program with compression and authenticated encryption.
Building a Better Democracy for the Internet Age
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.
A Jupyter notebook Python library for introductory data science.
An implementation of Python for backend web development.
Embedchain is a framework to easily create LLM powered bots over any dataset.
Pythonic remote execution and deployment.
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.
A personal assistant for Linux, MacOs and Windows based on Command line Interface.
Jupyter interactive notebook.
A lightweight JSON storage service with synchronisation and sharing abilities.
Matplotlib is a comprehensive library for creating static, animated, and interactive visualizations in Python.
MindsDB is an open source AI layer for existing databases.
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.
Optional static typing for Python.
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.
An open source chat-ops bot framework.
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.
The Python Internationalization Library.
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.
Scikit-learn is a machine learning library for Python.
A fast high-level web crawling & scraping framework for Python.
A Python library for symbolic mathematics.
The strictest and most opinionated python linter ever!
Powerful open source group chat.
PHP
An End-to-end backend server for frontend and mobile developers.
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.
Simple forum software for building great communities.
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.
Matomo is the leading Free/Libre open analytics platform.
Nextcloud server, a safe home for all your data.
Supercharge your GitHub organizations!
Open source self-hosted continuous integration server for PHP projects.
Admin interface for MySQL written in PHP.
The open source ecommerce solution to start your online business and start selling online.
Symfony is a PHP framework for web applications and a set of reusable PHP components.
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
A modern framework for Ruby.
An implementation of Ruby on the Java Virtual Machine.
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.
Ohai profiles your system and emits JSON
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
Ruby on Rails (Rails) is an open source web application framework written in Ruby.
Classy web-development dressed in a DSL.
Rust
Transportation planning and traffic simulation software for creating cities friendlier to walking, biking, and public transit.
Lightning-fast linter for .env files. Written in Rust
A fast, safe and correct low-level HTTP library for Rust.
A modern shell for the GitHub era written in Rust.
End-to-end encryption and mutual authentication for distributed applications.
A fast Python typechecker and IDE written in Rust.
A bunch of lints to catch common mistakes and improve Rust code
A tool for formatting Rust code according to style guidelines.
A browser engine designed for applications including embedded use.
Application to comfortably monitor network traffic.
TensorZero creates a feedback loop for optimizing LLM applications — turning production data into smarter, faster, and cheaper models.
A distributed transactional key-value database
Teleconference system with a web based user interface written in Rust