Top 8 web-platform Open-Source Projects

thorium

103 4,007 9.8 C++

Chromium fork named after radioactive element No. 90. Windows and MacOS/Raspi/Android/Special builds are in different repositories, links are towards the top of the README.md.

Project mention: Supermium – Chromium fork for Win 2003 and newer | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-03

Thorium-Win

15 1,156 4.5 Batchfile

Chromium fork for Windows named after radioactive element No. 90; Windows builds of https://github.com/Alex313031/Thorium

Project mention: What browser do you use recommend? | /r/Windows11 | 2023-11-14

Firefox and then Brave if I need a Chromium based browser, although I think I am going to ditch Brave for Thorium. Maybe even Edge, it's a lot better now.

InfluxDB

www.influxdata.com sponsored

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.
Mercury

11 932 9.0 JavaScript

Firefox fork with compiler optimizations and patches from Librewolf, Waterfox, and GNU IceCat. (by Alex313031)

Project mention: Mercury – Compiler optimized, private Firefox fork | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-04

breaking-changes-web

4 355 0.0

💢 A list of breaking changes to the web platform
Thorium-Win-AVX2

5 350 5.4 Batchfile

Repo to serve AVX2 Windows builds of Thorium. https://github.com/Alex313031/Thorium/

Project mention: Thorium – Radioactive Chromium Fork | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-03

FYI a number of streaming sites won't work - while this has Widevine, it does not have Verified Media Path (VMP) which verifies that you're running a signed binary. https://github.com/Alex313031/Thorium-Win-AVX2/issues/84#iss...
https://github.com/castlabs/electron-releases is an interesting Electron fork with full Widevine+VMP support - but it's very much closed-source.

ThoriumOS

18 307 9.1 Shell

ChromiumOS fork with Thorium Browser, x264/x265 codecs, Widevine, Kernel 5.15, Linux firmware/modules support, Nouveau, Intel microcode, and extra packages.
webref

1 265 9.2 JavaScript

Machine-readable references of terms defined in web browser specifications

Project mention: WebRef: Machine-readable references of terms defined in browser specs | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-12-25

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.
MapML

1 53 4.9 HTML

Map Markup Language is hypertext for Web maps, like HTML is hypertext for Web pages https://maps4html.org/MapML/spec/

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).