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Community-maintained means a group of contributors, usually organized around a GitHub organization, shares the work and the decisions, without a company or foundation behind the project. Funding, where it exists, comes from donations or sponsorship platforms. Direction comes from the active maintainers, and continuity depends on enough of them staying involved. A record holds this value when the project presents itself as run by a team of contributors and no company or foundation is named as owner.

60 projects are maintained by a community, listed alphabetically. Mostly web frameworks, APIs and backends and servers and proxies, of 17 categories in all. 170 records do not record this field, and cannot appear here either way. Counts only projects with momentum; the full list has the rest.

A

  • Actix Web

    Rust web framework for building HTTP servers and web applications, with routing, middleware, WebSocket support and an async runtime.

  • AdminNeo

    Database management tool written in PHP that is distributed as a single file and built on Adminer.

  • Automerge

    Library of data structures for building collaborative applications, with a JavaScript package and a Rust core.

  • Axios

    Promise-based HTTP client for the browser and Node.js.

  • Axum

    Rust HTTP routing and request-handling library focused on ergonomics and modularity.

B

  • Babel

    JavaScript compiler that rewrites next-generation JavaScript into code that runs in the browsers and runtimes a project targets.

  • Biome

    Toolchain for web projects with a formatter and a linter, usable from the command line and through a language server.

  • Bootstrap

    HTML, CSS and JavaScript toolkit for developing responsive, mobile-first projects on the web.

C

  • Casdoor

    Open-source identity and access management and single sign-on platform with a web admin console.

  • cert-manager

    Kubernetes controller that issues and renews X.509 TLS certificates for workloads in a Kubernetes or OpenShift cluster.

  • Chart.js

    JavaScript charting library that draws charts on an HTML5 canvas.

  • Connect for ECMAScript

    TypeScript implementation of Connect, a family of libraries for building type-safe APIs from Protocol Buffers schemas.

D

  • Diesel

    Safe, extensible ORM and query builder for Rust.

  • Dompdf

    PHP library that converts HTML and CSS to PDF documents.

  • Drizzle ORM

    TypeScript ORM that maps SQL databases to typed schemas and queries, with a companion migration tool, Drizzle Kit.

E

  • Emotion

    CSS-in-JS library for writing styles with JavaScript, with packages for React and for other frameworks.

  • Envoy

    Open source edge and service proxy for cloud-native applications.

F

  • Fabric.js

    JavaScript HTML5 canvas library for interactive objects, with SVG and JSON import and export.

  • Faker

    JavaScript library that generates fake but realistic data for testing and development, in the browser and in Node.js.

  • Fiber

    Express-inspired web framework for Go, built on Fasthttp.

  • Filament

    UI framework for Laravel for building admin panels and apps from Livewire-based tables, forms and other components.

  • Floating UI

    JavaScript library that positions floating elements such as tooltips, popovers and dropdowns next to their anchors, with React and Vue bindings.

  • frp

    Reverse proxy that exposes services behind a NAT or firewall to the internet through a server with a public IP address, written in Go.

G

  • GraphQL.js

    JavaScript implementation of the GraphQL specification, providing the parser, validator, executor and type system used to build GraphQL servers, clients and tools.

  • gulp

    JavaScript toolkit that automates build and workflow tasks by composing single-purpose tasks and plugins into streaming pipelines defined in a gulpfile.

H

  • HestiaCP

    Web control panel for Debian and Ubuntu servers that manages web domains, mail, DNS zones and databases from one dashboard.

  • Hugo

    Static site generator written in Go that builds websites from Markdown content and Go templates.

J

  • Jaeger

    Open-source distributed tracing platform that collects, stores and shows traces from requests that cross services.

  • Jekyll

    Ruby static site generator that turns plain text, Markdown and Liquid templates into websites and blogs.

L

  • Less

    Backwards-compatible language extension for CSS that compiles Less stylesheets to plain CSS with Node.js or in the browser.

  • Lightning CSS

    CSS parser, transformer, bundler and minifier written in Rust, usable from JavaScript, Rust or a standalone CLI.

  • Lucide

    Open-source set of scalable vector icons, distributed as packages for vanilla JavaScript and for frameworks.

M

  • Micronaut

    JVM application framework for Java, Kotlin and Groovy with compile-time dependency injection, AOP and HTTP servers and clients.

N

  • NATS

    Messaging server that routes messages between applications and services by subject, with optional persistence through JetStream.

  • Nitro

    TypeScript server toolkit for full-stack servers with filesystem routing, storage, caching and a Vite plugin, deployable to Node.js, Bun, Deno and serverless hosts.

  • Node-RED

    Browser-based flow editor and Node.js runtime for building event-driven applications that connect devices, services and data.

  • Nuxt

    Vue-based framework for building server-rendered, static and hybrid websites and web apps.

P

  • pgAdmin

    Open-source administration and development tool for PostgreSQL, run as a desktop application or as a web application.

  • Phalcon

    Full-stack PHP web framework delivered as a PHP extension.

  • PHP-FPM

    FastCGI process manager for PHP, built as an optional SAPI in the PHP source tree.

  • Play Framework

    Java and Scala web framework whose production build is a distribution that runs as a server process, with Twirl templates.

  • PostgREST

    Standalone web server that serves a RESTful API directly from a PostgreSQL database schema.

R

  • React Suite

    React component library of UI components, published as the rsuite npm package.

  • Redict

    Distributed key/value store, an independent LGPL-licensed fork of Redis.

  • Rollup

    JavaScript module bundler that compiles ES module source into bundles for browsers, Node.js and other platforms.

  • Ruby on Rails

    Ruby web application framework with an ORM, routing, ERB views, background jobs and built-in deployment tooling.

S

  • Sanic

    Asynchronous Python web framework with its own production-ready web server.

  • Shiki

    Syntax highlighter for JavaScript runtimes that colors code with the TextMate grammars used by VS Code.

  • Socket.IO

    Library that enables low-latency, bidirectional and event-based communication between a client and a server.

  • SPIP

    Publishing system for the Internet, written in PHP, for multilingual websites with collaborative editing.

  • Stylelint

    CSS linter that reports errors and enforces conventions in stylesheets, with rules, plugins and shareable configs.

  • Svelte

    Compiler that turns Svelte components into JavaScript that updates the DOM directly, used to build web applications.

  • SvelteKit

    Svelte-based framework for building web applications with server rendering, prerendering and client-side rendering.

  • SWC

    Rust-based platform that compiles, bundles and minifies JavaScript and TypeScript, with npm packages for its JavaScript APIs.

T

  • Tabler

    Free and open source HTML dashboard UI kit built on Bootstrap 5, with layouts and components for admin panels and web apps.

V

  • Vinyl Cache

    Caching HTTP reverse proxy, installed in front of any HTTP server to cache its responses, configured with the Vinyl Configuration Language (VCL).

  • VitePress

    Static site generator built on Vite and Vue that turns Markdown content into content-centric websites.

  • Vitess

    Cloud-native, horizontally scalable distributed database system built around MySQL.

  • Vue

    JavaScript framework for building user interfaces on the web, with a reactive rendering system and optional server rendering.

W

  • WordPress

    Open-source PHP content management system for websites and blogs, with a block editor, themes and plugins.

Which of these is best?

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