12 ways to get more GitHub stars for your open-source project

• ToolJet

  174 26,513 9.9 JavaScript

  Low-code platform for building business applications. Connect to databases, cloud storages, GraphQL, API endpoints, Airtable, Google sheets, OpenAI, etc and build apps using drag and drop application builder. Built using JavaScript/TypeScript. 🚀

  

We launched ToolJet (https://github.com/ToolJet/ToolJet) in June 2021, since then we've got more than 4500 stars for our repository. Here is a list of things that worked for us. This is not an article about how to just get more stars for your repository. The article instead explains how to present your project well so that it is helpful for the open-source community. Some of these points have helped us get contributions from more developers, we have contributions from more than 100 developers now.

• Nest

  312 64,099 9.9 TypeScript

  A progressive Node.js framework for building efficient, scalable, and enterprise-grade server-side applications with TypeScript/JavaScript 🚀

  

Examples of projects with great Readme: a) https://github.com/nestjs/nest b) https://github.com/typesense/typesense c) https://github.com/airbytehq/airbyte d) https://github.com/strapi/strapi

• SurveyJS

  surveyjs.io sponsored

  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.

  

• shields

  131 22,432 9.7 JavaScript

  Concise, consistent, and legible badges in SVG and raster format

  

Readme is the first thing that a visitor to your repository sees. The readme should be able to convey what your project does, how to install the project, how to deploy the project ( if applicable ), how to contribute and how it works. Also, use badges that are helpful for the developers. We used https://shields.io/ for adding badges to our Readme.

• Typesense

  129 17,796 9.8 C++

  Open Source alternative to Algolia + Pinecone and an Easier-to-Use alternative to ElasticSearch ⚡ 🔍 ✨ Fast, typo tolerant, in-memory fuzzy Search Engine for building delightful search experiences

  

Examples of projects with great Readme: a) https://github.com/nestjs/nest b) https://github.com/typesense/typesense c) https://github.com/airbytehq/airbyte d) https://github.com/strapi/strapi

• plotly

  65 15,201 9.4 Python

  The interactive graphing library for Python :sparkles: This project now includes Plotly Express!

  

Here are some projects with great documentation: a) https://docs.nestjs.com/ b) https://docs.n8n.io/ c) https://guides.rubyonrails.org/ d) https://plotly.com/python/ e) https://docs.mapbox.com/

• airbyte

  139 13,821 10.0 Python

  The leading data integration platform for ETL / ELT data pipelines from APIs, databases & files to data warehouses, data lakes & data lakehouses. Both self-hosted and Cloud-hosted.

  

Examples of projects with great Readme: a) https://github.com/nestjs/nest b) https://github.com/typesense/typesense c) https://github.com/airbytehq/airbyte d) https://github.com/strapi/strapi

• good-first-issue

  81 2,127 8.0 Vue

  Make your first open-source contribution.

  

Adding labels such as "good first issue" and "up for grabs" can attract more contributors to your repository. There are many platforms such as https://goodfirstissue.dev/ that scans for issues tagged with relevant labels to help contributors discover new repositories and issues to contribute to. Make sure you respond to contributors quickly. Contributors can be experienced developers as well as developers in the early stages of their careers or students. Try to help the first time contributors to help them onboard easily.

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• Strapi

  457 59,840 10.0 TypeScript

  🚀 Strapi is the leading open-source headless CMS. It’s 100% JavaScript/TypeScript, fully customizable and developer-first.

  

Examples of projects with great Readme: a) https://github.com/nestjs/nest b) https://github.com/typesense/typesense c) https://github.com/airbytehq/airbyte d) https://github.com/strapi/strapi

• n8n-docs

  6 125 9.9 HTML

  Documentation for n8n, a fair-code licensed automation tool with a free community edition and powerful enterprise options. Build AI functionality into your workflows.

  

Here are some projects with great documentation: a) https://docs.nestjs.com/ b) https://docs.n8n.io/ c) https://guides.rubyonrails.org/ d) https://plotly.com/python/ e) https://docs.mapbox.com/

• Docusaurus

  282 52,686 9.5 TypeScript

  Easy to maintain open source documentation websites.

  

We get more traffic to our documentation portal (https://docs.tooljet.com/) than our main website. A well-documented project is always loved by the community. Open-source projects like Docusaurus makes it super easy to build documentation portals that look great just out of the box. Adding links to the repository from the documentation can drive more visitors to your repository.

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