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Top 23 HacktoberFest Open-Source Projects
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Project mention: Top 10 GitHub Repositories every Web Developer should know in 2025 | dev.to | 2025-01-17
The freeCodeCamp repository is a really good resource for learning web development. It has the backend code for the freeCodeCamp website, which offers free coding lessons, challenges, and certifications. This is a really good resource to learn how a production website that has millions of users is built and maintained. It has 409k stars 🌟. Check it out here.
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Stars ⭐ : 344K Repo Link
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Stars ⭐ : 196K Repo Link
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ohmyzsh
🙃 A delightful community-driven (with 2,400+ contributors) framework for managing your zsh configuration. Includes 300+ optional plugins (rails, git, macOS, hub, docker, homebrew, node, php, python, etc), 140+ themes to spice up your morning, and an auto-update tool that makes it easy to keep up with the latest updates from the community.
Project mention: Supercharge Your Mac Terminal: A Step-by-Step Guide to iTerm2, Oh My Zsh & Powerlevel10k | dev.to | 2025-02-08Step 2: Setting Up Oh My ZSH
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pip install git+https://github.com/huggingface/transformers
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Awesome Go projects and frmaeworks
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In Node.js applications, you can construct and make calls directly to the API with fetch, the http module, or using your favourite HTTP client like axios or got. To make it easier, you can now use this JavaScript Langflow client. Let's take a look at how it works.
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Yep, and even without dynamic memory management, Ada is not type-safe: https://www.enyo.de/fw/notes/ada-type-safety.html
Rust also has problems: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/25860
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Windows Terminal
The new Windows Terminal and the original Windows console host, all in the same place!
Microsoft Terminal
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Material UI
Ready-to-use foundational React components, free forever. It includes Material UI, which implements Google's Material Design.
Project mention: Kickstart Hacktoberfest with These Exciting Open Source Projects to Contribute To! 🚀 | dev.to | 2024-10-09🎨 Project: Material UI 💡 Why Contribute: If design systems and UI frameworks are your thing, Material UI is a must-contribute project. Help maintain or enhance one of the most popular React component libraries used by thousands of developers globally.
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Just like starting out any other project, of course I took to the whiteboard (Excalidraw). Laying out the blueprints for the game is an important first step when building. When outlining the project, I came up with a couple of different pages to tie the whole game together.
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Project mention: 🌟 Unlock Your Developer Potential: Top 5 Must-Explore GitHub Repositories 🚀 | dev.to | 2025-01-14
design-patterns
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Project mention: 18 Must-Bookmark GitHub Repositories Every Developer Should Know | dev.to | 2024-02-12
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rustdesk
An open-source remote desktop application designed for self-hosting, as an alternative to TeamViewer.
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Home Assistant
:house_with_garden: Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first.
https://github.com/home-assistant/core/blob/dev/requirements... lists all the direct dependencies installed in the container.
It's enough for just a single direct or indirect dependency to be compromised to have a botnet or turn it into something used for surveillance against the users.
Preventing it from exfiltrating data by isolating it from the network with Internet access is the only option if you want to run it. This requires local only devices.
Accessing it through the web UI or through the mobile app will still load icons from https://brands.home-assistant.io. The details are in this ticket https://github.com/home-assistant/frontend/issues/18549
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Project mention: GitHub Makeover: Create a Profile README That Stands Out and Connects! 👨💻 | dev.to | 2025-01-11
📊 GitHub Readme Stats: Showcase your GitHub activity in style.
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Nest
A progressive Node.js framework for building efficient, scalable, and enterprise-grade server-side applications with TypeScript/JavaScript 🚀
Project mention: The Good, the Bad, and the OpenAPI: Why Developers Love and Hate It | dev.to | 2025-02-09In Action: A NestJS Example
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Since Hoppscotch is open-source, you can contribute via GitHub.
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Grafana
The open and composable observability and data visualization platform. Visualize metrics, logs, and traces from multiple sources like Prometheus, Loki, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, Postgres and many more.
Project mention: Grafana: Why observability needs FinOps, and vice versa | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-02-09 -
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Strapi
🚀 Strapi is the leading open-source headless CMS. It’s 100% JavaScript/TypeScript, fully customizable, and developer-first.
Project mention: Build a Custom Strapi Plugin with Medium and Dev.to APIs - Part 2 | dev.to | 2025-01-30In the previous part of this tutorial, we learned about how to develop Strapi plugins. We also delved into initializing and customizing a Strapi plugin. Furthermore, we looked at how to create content types for a Strapi plugin and pass data in a Strapi plugin. Finally, we consumed the Dev.to API using our Strapi plugin to publish posts to Dev.
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15 . 33 JS Concepts This repository is a collection of articles and books on the 33 JavaScript Concepts which every JavaScript Developer should know in order to have an in-depth knowledge of the language and its working.
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Project mention: OCR Solutions Uncovered: How to Choose the Best for Different Use Cases | dev.to | 2024-08-01
Custom Integration: Developers and businesses needing flexibility for custom integration into applications and projects should consider open-source solutions like Tesseract OCR or API-based services like API4AI OCR. These options provide APIs for seamless integration into existing software systems.
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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 HacktoberFest projects? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | freeCodeCamp | 409,660 |
| 2 | free-programming-books | 349,974 |
| 3 | TheAlgorithms | 197,021 |
| 4 | ohmyzsh | 175,831 |
| 5 | transformers | 138,723 |
| 6 | go-formatter | 137,565 |
| 7 | axios | 106,272 |
| 8 | rust | 100,984 |
| 9 | Windows Terminal | 96,663 |
| 10 | Material UI | 94,634 |
| 11 | excalidraw | 91,984 |
| 12 | Design Patterns | 90,652 |
| 13 | app-ideas | 81,993 |
| 14 | rustdesk | 81,036 |
| 15 | Home Assistant | 76,355 |
| 16 | github-readme-stats | 71,240 |
| 17 | Nest | 69,335 |
| 18 | Hoppscotch | 67,176 |
| 19 | Grafana | 66,367 |
| 20 | Best-websites-a-programmer-should-visit | 65,824 |
| 21 | Strapi | 64,901 |
| 22 | 33-js-concepts | 64,536 |
| 23 | tesseract-ocr | 64,324 |
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