Presenting a C++ project on Github elegantly

• json

  93 40,332 7.7 C++

  JSON for Modern C++

The popular JSON For Modern C++ is probably a best-in-class example for how to present a large project on Github. It has just about everything I'd want as a developer out of a library's Github:

• spdlog

  44 22,302 8.9 C++

  Fast C++ logging library.

• 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.

  

• FastLED

  344 6,232 7.4 C++

  The FastLED library for colored LED animation on Arduino. Please direct questions/requests for help to the FastLED Reddit community: http://fastled.io/r We'd like to use github "issues" just for tracking library bugs / enhancements.

  

• Catch

  55 18,020 9.2 C++

  A modern, C++-native, test framework for unit-tests, TDD and BDD - using C++14, C++17 and later (C++11 support is in v2.x branch, and C++03 on the Catch1.x branch)

  

• imgui

  351 55,870 9.7 C++

  Dear ImGui: Bloat-free Graphical User interface for C++ with minimal dependencies

• gui_starter_template

  19 2,391 3.4 CMake

  Discontinued A template CMake project to get you started with C++ and tooling

  

Clearly structure the top-level of your repo. Look at this repo for a good idea about structure. Have some simple top-level folders that clearly say what this is. Include a test folder, and put some unittests in it. Include configuration files like .clang-tidy at the top level of your project.

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