Minimalist

Top 23 Minimalist Open-Source Projects

  • firecracker

    Secure and fast microVMs for serverless computing.

    Project mention: Fly.it Has GPUs Now | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-13

    As far as I know, Fly uses Firecracker for their VMs. I've been following Firecracker for a while now (even using it in a project), and they don't support GPUs out of the box (and have no plan to support it [1]).

    I'm curious to know how Fly figured their own GPU support with Firecracker. In the past they had some very detailed technical posts on how they achieved certain things, so I'm hoping we'll see one on their GPU support in the future!

    [1]: https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker/issues/11...

  • pico

    Minimal CSS Framework for semantic HTML

    Project mention: Concrete.css | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-08

    Modern CSS stylesheets include configurability via CSS variables on the root element so maybe that's where the "framework" comes from.

    Also note: This project looks like an even more minimized version of PicoCSS [1]

    [1] https://picocss.com/

  • SurveyJS

    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.

  • Milligram

    A minimalist CSS framework.

    Project mention: Concrete.css | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-08

    I had been using similar projects such as skeleton[0] and milligram[1] for small experiments such as repfl[2], and wanted to create something similar that I would find aesthetically pleasing and that would fit in as little space as possible. The current version of concrete.css is less than 1kb minzipped!

    [0] http://getskeleton.com/

    [1] https://milligram.io/

    [2] https://repfl.ch/

  • melody

    :notes: Minimalist websocket framework for Go (by olahol)

    Project mention: Release v1.2.0 · gobwas/ws - WebSocket library for Go. | /r/golang | 2023-04-10

    I just recently started using melody (https://github.com/olahol/melody), which claims to be like gorilla websockets. I found it pretty quick to understand, but I haven't used it for anything that complicated. Has anyone used both melody and gobwas/ws? I'm mostly interested in ergonomics, not performance.

  • van

    🍦 VanJS: World's smallest reactive UI framework. Incredibly Powerful, Insanely Small - Everyone can build a useful UI app in an hour.

    Project mention: Pocketbase: Open-source back end in 1 file | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-06

    Depends on what you consider minimal, but I enjoy working with PocketBase and VanJS[1]. However there is no component library built in (if this is what you were asking for).

    [1]: https://vanjs.org/

  • nanobar

    Very lightweight progress bars. No jQuery

  • hugo-coder

    A minimalist blog theme for hugo.

  • InfluxDB

    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.

  • SimpleFox

    🦊 A Userstyle theme for Firefox minimalist and Keyboard centered.

    Project mention: YouTube has started blocking ad blockers | /r/technology | 2023-05-10

    Lepton, Firefox-GX, SimpleFox, Cascade

  • dropin-minimal-css

    Drop-in switcher for previewing minimal CSS frameworks

    Project mention: I hate CSS: how can I build UIs? | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-11-05

    Agreed, find a class-less framework to start, so that you focus on just the HTML, semantic structure first. Here's a couple of lists of such frameworks:

    https://github.com/troxler/awesome-css-frameworks#class-less

    https://github.com/dohliam/dropin-minimal-css

    Personally, I like simple.css (https://github.com/kevquirk/simple.css)

  • mintotp

    Minimal TOTP generator in 20 lines of Python

    Project mention: PyPI announces mandatory use of 2FA for all software publishers | /r/programming | 2023-05-30

    Huh? Who is saying you need a smartphone? PyPi accepts TOTP as 2FA. TOTP is an open standard that has been around for at least a decade already and is very easy to implement, literally 20 lines of python. There are a ton of TOTP applications available, from CLI, to GUI on desktop systems, to Android apps, iOS, etc. If you have any device, be it a computer, phone, tablet, etc., which you do since you need one to publish the code from, you can easily generate TOTP codes. Heck, you could even do it by a hand on a paper.

  • OPS

    ops - build and run nanos unikernels

    Project mention: Nanos – A Unikernel | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-13

    I am a bit confused, there are three sites:

    * https://nanos.org/

    * https://nanovms.com/

    * https://ops.city/

    And I am not sure what "thing" I am using. Is there some disambiguation? I know is OPS is the orchestration CLI, but I am confused at the difference between Nanos and NanoVMs. What should I call the section of my README that deals with this tech? Currently gone with Nanos/OPS but I am confused.

  • horse

    Fast, opinionated, minimalist web framework for Delphi

  • uncap

    Map Caps Lock to Escape or any key to any key

    Project mention: Learn AutoHotKey by stealing my scripts | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-08-21
  • concise.css

    A CSS framework that's lightweight and easy-to-use. Give up the bloat. Stop tripping over your classes. Be Concise.

  • emfy

    A dark and sleek Emacs setup for general purpose editing and programming

    Project mention: Emacs for You (Emfy): Tiny init.el for beginners to quickly set up vanilla Emacs | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-08-04
  • spcss

    A simple, minimal, classless stylesheet for simple HTML pages

    Project mention: Show HN: Neat, the Minimalist CSS Framework | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-04-25
  • Cowyo

    A feature-rich wiki webserver for minimalists :cow: :speech_balloon:

  • xv

    🙅‍♀️ ✌️ fastest test runner

  • circle-flags

    A collection of 400+ minimal circular SVG country, state and language flags

    Project mention: [OC] First 6 Months of orbital launch attempts in 2023. From launch site to orbit. | /r/dataisbeautiful | 2023-07-11

    Just make the dots into rounded flags.

  • pycopy

    Pycopy - a minimalist and memory-efficient Python dialect. Good for desktop, cloud, constrained systems, microcontrollers, and just everything.

  • picotui

    Lightweight, pure-Python Text User Interface (TUI) widget toolkit with minimal dependencies. Dedicated to the Pycopy project.

  • hugo-xmin

    eXtremely Minimal Hugo theme: about 140 lines of code in total, including HTML and CSS (with no dependencies)

  • AppGrid

    macOS window manager with Vim–like hotkeys

  • WorkOS

    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.

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). The latest post mention was on 2024-03-13.

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Project Stars
1 firecracker 23,796
2 pico 11,969
3 Milligram 10,146
4 melody 3,490
5 van 3,386
6 nanobar 2,853
7 hugo-coder 2,573
8 SimpleFox 1,653
9 dropin-minimal-css 1,599
10 mintotp 1,255
11 OPS 1,188
12 horse 1,073
13 uncap 1,024
14 concise.css 941
15 emfy 927
16 spcss 924
17 Cowyo 918
18 xv 830
19 circle-flags 826
20 pycopy 785
21 picotui 782
22 hugo-xmin 683
23 AppGrid 638
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