How to Get Started with Open Source

• linux

  983 170,949 10.0 C

  Linux kernel source tree

Linux

• React

  1,700 222,406 9.9 JavaScript

  The library for web and native user interfaces.

  

React

• SurveyJS

  surveyjs.io featured

  Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

  

• CPython

  1,319 59,856 10.0 Python

  The Python programming language

  

Python

• node

  935 104,159 9.9 JavaScript

  Node.js JavaScript runtime ✨🐢🚀✨

  

Node.js

• kubernetes

  663 107,048 10.0 Go

  Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management

  

Kubernetes

• go

  2,079 119,900 10.0 Go

  The Go programming language

  

Golang

• git

  616 8,091 0.0 C

  A fork of Git containing Windows-specific patches. (by git-for-windows)

  

Git – A tool to manage source code

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com featured

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• ruby

  182 21,579 10.0 Ruby

  The Ruby Programming Language

  

Ruby

• rust

  2,686 93,266 10.0 Rust

  Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

  

Rust

• Puts Debuggerer

  3,162 91 3.5 Ruby

  Ruby library for improved puts debugging, automatically displaying bonus useful information such as source line number and source code.

GitHub – A development platform (arguably the most popular one) that contains open source code repositories

• conductor

  39 12,999 8.4 Java

  Discontinued Conductor is a microservices orchestration engine.

  

And if none of those ring a bell, surely you’ve scrolled mindlessly through the content catalog on Netflix, which uses the Netflix Conductor workflow engine and is, you guessed it, open source software.

• Visual Studio Code

  2,852 158,564 10.0 TypeScript

  Visual Studio Code

  

A quick suggestion – the easiest way to view large source code projects is to use what’s called an Integrated Development Environment, or IDE, on your local machine. An IDE uses indexing to quickly search the directory structures and find variables, functions, etc. You can even potentially build from an IDE. A free IDE that many developers use is VSCode. Give it a try!

• apiclarity

  9 476 3.4 Go

  An API security tool to capture and analyze API traffic, test API endpoints, reconstruct Open API specification, and identify API security risks. 

  

If you go to APIClarity, the first thing you’ll see is the source code (Figure 1), followed by some documentation at the bottom.

• github-docs

  44 15,549 10.0 JavaScript

  The open-source repo for docs.github.com

  

A project repository typically has a license file at the top-level indicating which license the code falls under. See here for an example license file.

• SaaSHub

  www.saashub.com featured

  SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

  

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