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Top 23 JavaScript Backend Projects
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awesome-cheatsheets
👩💻👨💻 Awesome cheatsheets for popular programming languages, frameworks and development tools. They include everything you should know in one single file.
Project mention: 🔥 Hidden Gems on GitHub That Every Developer (IT/Non-IT) Needs to Explore | dev.to | 2025-05-30📦 18. Awesome Cheatsheets 📍 https://github.com/LeCoupa/awesome-cheatsheets 📜 One-liners and syntax reminders for 20+ languages/tools. ✅ Best For: Everyone - literally!
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InfluxDB
InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.
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Project mention: 6 Open-Source Firebase Alternatives for Self-Hosting and Data Control | dev.to | 2025-06-09
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Cockpit
Add content management functionality to any site - plug & play / headless / api-first CMS (by agentejo)
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nodejs-testing-best-practices
Beyond the basics of Node.js testing. Including a super-comprehensive best practices list and an example app (April 2025)
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Project mention: Sharedrop: Easy P2P file transfer powered by WebRTC – inspired by Apple AirDrop | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-07-07
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kuzzle
Open-source Back-end, self-hostable & ready to use - Real-time, storage, advanced search - Web, Apps, Mobile, IoT -
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learn-nodejs-hard-way
Learn NodeJS and master the art of server-side programming by creating a backend framework with 0 dependencies.
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nextacular
An open-source starter kit that will help you build full-stack multi-tenant SaaS platforms efficiently and help you focus on developing your core SaaS features. Built on top of popular and modern technologies such as Next JS, Tailwind, Prisma, and Stripe.
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everything-chatgpt
🔍 Explore what happens under the hood with the ChatGPT web app, its backend API calls and more. And some speculation, of course.
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Stackoverflow-Clone-Frontend
Clone project of a famous Q/A website for developers built using MySQL, Express, React, Node, Sequelize :globe_with_meridians:
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i18next-http-backend
i18next-http-backend is a backend layer for i18next using in Node.js, in the browser and for Deno.
i18n // load translation using http -> see /public/locales // learn more: https://github.com/i18next/i18next-http-backend .use(Backend) // detect user language // learn more: https://github.com/i18next/i18next-browser-languageDetector .use(LanguageDetector) // pass the i18n instance to react-i18next. .use(initReactI18next) // init i18next // for all options read: https://www.i18next.com/overview/configuration-options .init({ ns: [ "translation", "header", "note", "settings", "zod", "custom", "introduce", "message", ], defaultNS: "translation", fallbackLng: "en", debug: false, detection: { caches: ["localStorage"], }, }); export default i18n;
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pocketbase-sveltekit-starter
a starter project to build a SvelteKit frontend with PocketBase backend
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Quantum
🚀 Hackable & Self-hosted Open-Source alternative to Vercel, Heroku, Netlify, etc. All your applications, just in one place. Develop and deploy with your favorite tools, and enjoy continuous deployment with GitHub. (by rodyherrera)
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Hey folks! Just wanted to share that TypeZero now supports all major package managers. If you haven't heard of it, TypeZero is a zero-config TypeScript starter kit for Node.js that eliminates hours of project setup and configuration headaches.
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stack-underflow-mern-gql
Feature-rich ‘stack overflow’ (QnA site) clone. Made using MERN + GraphQL stack.
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Backend projects in JavaScript? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | awesome-cheatsheets | 42,801 |
| 2 | parse-server | 21,148 |
| 3 | web-skills | 7,142 |
| 4 | Cockpit | 5,403 |
| 5 | hoodie | 4,425 |
| 6 | nodejs-testing-best-practices | 4,106 |
| 7 | blaze | 2,371 |
| 8 | kuzzle | 1,598 |
| 9 | learn-nodejs-hard-way | 1,502 |
| 10 | nextacular | 1,216 |
| 11 | axios-module | 1,192 |
| 12 | Nullstack | 781 |
| 13 | everything-chatgpt | 589 |
| 14 | Stackoverflow-Clone-Frontend | 568 |
| 15 | mojo.js | 493 |
| 16 | i18next-http-backend | 485 |
| 17 | inspect | 454 |
| 18 | pocketbase-sveltekit-starter | 435 |
| 19 | Quantum | 348 |
| 20 | fresh | 310 |
| 21 | gindex-v4 | 252 |
| 22 | stack-underflow-mern-gql | 221 |
| 23 | reddish-mern | 186 |
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