Community
Combine filters →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.
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Actix WebRust web framework for building HTTP servers and web applications, with routing, middleware, WebSocket support and an async runtime.
AdminNeoDatabase management tool written in PHP that is distributed as a single file and built on Adminer.
AutomergeLibrary of data structures for building collaborative applications, with a JavaScript package and a Rust core.
AxiosPromise-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.
BiomeToolchain for web projects with a formatter and a linter, usable from the command line and through a language server.
BootstrapHTML, CSS and JavaScript toolkit for developing responsive, mobile-first projects on the web.
C
CasdoorOpen-source identity and access management and single sign-on platform with a web admin console.
cert-managerKubernetes controller that issues and renews X.509 TLS certificates for workloads in a Kubernetes or OpenShift cluster.
Chart.jsJavaScript charting library that draws charts on an HTML5 canvas.
Connect for ECMAScriptTypeScript 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 ORMTypeScript ORM that maps SQL databases to typed schemas and queries, with a companion migration tool, Drizzle Kit.
E
F
Fabric.jsJavaScript HTML5 canvas library for interactive objects, with SVG and JSON import and export.
FakerJavaScript library that generates fake but realistic data for testing and development, in the browser and in Node.js.
FiberExpress-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 UIJavaScript 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.
gulpJavaScript toolkit that automates build and workflow tasks by composing single-purpose tasks and plugins into streaming pipelines defined in a gulpfile.
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- 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.
LucideOpen-source set of scalable vector icons, distributed as packages for vanilla JavaScript and for frameworks.
M
MicronautJVM application framework for Java, Kotlin and Groovy with compile-time dependency injection, AOP and HTTP servers and clients.
N
NATSMessaging 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.
NuxtVue-based framework for building server-rendered, static and hybrid websites and web apps.
P
pgAdminOpen-source administration and development tool for PostgreSQL, run as a desktop application or as a web application.
PhalconFull-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 FrameworkJava and Scala web framework whose production build is a distribution that runs as a server process, with Twirl templates.
PostgRESTStandalone web server that serves a RESTful API directly from a PostgreSQL database schema.
R
React SuiteReact component library of UI components, published as the rsuite npm package.
RedictDistributed key/value store, an independent LGPL-licensed fork of Redis.
RollupJavaScript module bundler that compiles ES module source into bundles for browsers, Node.js and other platforms.
Ruby on RailsRuby web application framework with an ORM, routing, ERB views, background jobs and built-in deployment tooling.
S
SanicAsynchronous Python web framework with its own production-ready web server.
ShikiSyntax highlighter for JavaScript runtimes that colors code with the TextMate grammars used by VS Code.
Socket.IOLibrary that enables low-latency, bidirectional and event-based communication between a client and a server.
SPIPPublishing 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.
SvelteCompiler that turns Svelte components into JavaScript that updates the DOM directly, used to build web applications.
SvelteKitSvelte-based framework for building web applications with server rendering, prerendering and client-side rendering.
SWCRust-based platform that compiles, bundles and minifies JavaScript and TypeScript, with npm packages for its JavaScript APIs.
T
TablerFree and open source HTML dashboard UI kit built on Bootstrap 5, with layouts and components for admin panels and web apps.
V
Vinyl CacheCaching HTTP reverse proxy, installed in front of any HTTP server to cache its responses, configured with the Vinyl Configuration Language (VCL).
VitePressStatic site generator built on Vite and Vue that turns Markdown content into content-centric websites.
VitessCloud-native, horizontally scalable distributed database system built around MySQL.
VueJavaScript framework for building user interfaces on the web, with a reactive rendering system and optional server rendering.
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WordPressOpen-source PHP content management system for websites and blogs, with a block editor, themes and plugins.
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