stargazers VS github-buttons

Compare stargazers vs github-buttons and see what are their differences.

github-buttons

Showcase the success of any GitHub repo or user with these simple, static buttons with dynamic counts. (by mdo)
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stargazers github-buttons
4 5
479 2,837
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0.0 5.8
almost 3 years ago 29 days ago
Go JavaScript
Apache License 2.0 Apache License 2.0
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

stargazers

Posts with mentions or reviews of stargazers. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-14.
  • The (Detailed & Creative) Playbook for More GitHub Stars
    5 projects | dev.to | 14 Aug 2023
    I used tools (such at this one and this one) to see what other repos our stargazers were starring most frequently. The stargazers of these "other" commonly starred repos became an expanded pool of potential stargazers for Preevy
  • Analysing Github Stars - Extracting and analyzing data from Github using Apache NiFi®, Apache Kafka® and Apache Druid®
    8 projects | dev.to | 11 Jan 2023
    Spencer Kimball (now CEO at CockroachDB) wrote an interesting article on this topic in 2021 where they created spencerkimball/stargazers based on a Python script. So I started thinking: could I create a data pipeline using Nifi and Kafka (two OSS tools often used with Druid) to get the API data into Druid - and then use SQL to do the analytics? The answer was yes! And I have documented the outcome below. Here’s my analytical pipeline for Github stars data using Nifi, Kafka and Druid.
  • Ask HN: Why so many projects set their GitHub links to /stargazers?
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Aug 2022
    It's analytics. Google search brings up

    https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/what-can-we-learn-from-ou...

    "Years ago I dedicated a Flex Friday (our version of 20% time) to stargazers, a tool to query the CockroachDB repository for information about its GitHub stars and analyze the results. At the time of writing, we had 6,000+ stars (which felt like a lot), and the data in this blog will be based on that original set of 6,000 stargazers."

    Which links to

    https://github.com/spencerkimball/stargazers

    "GitHub allows visitors to star a repo to bookmark it for later perusal. Stars represent a casual interest in a repo, and when enough of them accumulate, it's natural to wonder what's driving interest. Stargazers attempts to get a handle on who these users are by finding out what else they've starred, which other repositories they've contributed to, and who's following them on GitHub."

  • 4500 people starred Appsmith on Github. What do we know about them?
    2 projects | dev.to | 1 Jun 2021
    Go ahead and use the Stargazers repo yourself to analyze yours (or anyone else’s) repo’s trends. Depending upon the number of Stargazers you have, it can take some time. It took us about 7-8 hours (with a 5K/Hr rate limit).

github-buttons

Posts with mentions or reviews of github-buttons. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-08.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing stargazers and github-buttons you can also consider the following projects:

awesome-opensource - Best open-source GitHub libraries voted by members 🎤

material-design-lite - Material Design Components in HTML/CSS/JS

auto-animate - A zero-config, drop-in animation utility that adds smooth transitions to your web app. You can use it with React, Vue, or any other JavaScript application.

payload - The best way to build a modern backend + admin UI. No black magic, all TypeScript, and fully open-source, Payload is both an app framework and a headless CMS.

PageLoadingEffects - Modern ways of revealing new content using SVG animations.

appsmith - Platform to build admin panels, internal tools, and dashboards. Integrates with 25+ databases and any API.

colors - Smarter defaults for colors on the web.

preevy - Quickly deploy preview environments to the cloud!

d3 - Bring data to life with SVG, Canvas and HTML. :bar_chart::chart_with_upwards_trend::tada:

cockroach - CockroachDB - the open source, cloud-native distributed SQL database.

Less - Leaner CSS, in your browser or Ruby (via less.js).