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Individual-maintained means one person created the project and holds the final say over its releases and direction, even when others contribute. Many widely used libraries and tools work this way, sometimes funded through sponsorships or a paid product alongside. Decisions can be quick and consistent, and continuity depends on that person. A record holds this value when the repository belongs to a personal account or the project names one person as its author and lead, with no company or foundation behind it.

102 projects are maintained by an individual, listed alphabetically. Mostly UI components and editors, site and docs generators and Libraries and ORMs, of 22 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

  • Adminer

    Web-based database management tool distributed as a single PHP file.

  • amCharts 5

    JavaScript library for interactive charts, maps and stock charts in web pages and web apps.

  • Anime.js

    JavaScript animation library that animates CSS properties, SVG, DOM attributes and JavaScript objects.

  • asdf

    Command-line version manager for language runtimes and developer tools, configured per project in a .tool-versions file.

  • Atomico

    Micro-library for building web components with functions and hooks.

  • Autoprefixer

    PostCSS plugin that parses CSS and adds vendor prefixes to rules, using browser support data from Can I Use.

B

  • BackstopJS

    Visual regression testing tool that captures screenshots of a web app over time and compares them against approved references.

  • Basecoat

    Component library built with Tailwind CSS that works with any web stack.

  • Beasties

    Build plugin that inlines a page's critical CSS and lazy-loads the rest of its stylesheets.

  • Bits UI

    Headless, unstyled Svelte component primitives for building accessible component libraries.

  • BSSG

    Static site generator written in Bash that builds a website from Markdown posts and pages.

  • Bull Board

    Dashboard UI for Bull and BullMQ job queues, mounted into an existing Node server or run as a standalone CLI or Docker image.

C

  • Camaleon CMS

    Content management system for Ruby on Rails, distributed as a gem and run inside a Rails application.

  • Cash

    Small jQuery-style library for DOM manipulation in modern browsers.

  • CASL

    JavaScript authorization library that defines what a given user may access, for browsers and Node.js.

  • Comentario

    Self-hosted web comment engine that adds threaded comments, voting and moderation to web pages through an embedded widget.

  • Conform

    Type-safe form validation library that progressively enhances HTML forms, with React bindings and support for Remix and Next.js.

  • CookieConsent

    Vanilla JavaScript consent management library that shows a cookie banner and blocks scripts until visitors consent.

  • Cropper.js

    JavaScript image cropper, built as a series of web components.

  • cva

    A TypeScript library for building type-safe, variant-driven class names with Tailwind CSS or any other styling approach.

D

  • daisyUI

    Component library for Tailwind CSS that adds named component classes and themes.

  • Day.js

    JavaScript library that parses, validates, manipulates and displays dates and times, with a largely Moment.js-compatible API.

  • dnd kit

    Drag and drop toolkit for the web, with a framework-agnostic core and adapters for React, Vue, Svelte and Solid.

  • DOMPurify

    DOM-based XSS sanitizer that cleans HTML, MathML and SVG markup in the browser or on Node.js.

  • Driver.js

    JavaScript library for product tours, element highlights and feature hints on web pages.

E

  • Easy CMS

    Embedded headless CMS that runs inside a Nuxt or Next.js app, with a typed local API, a REST API and an admin at /admin.

  • EasyMDE

    Drop-in JavaScript Markdown editor that replaces a textarea, with a toolbar, live rendering of Markdown syntax and autosave.

  • EJS

    Templating language that generates HTML from plain JavaScript written inside templates, for Node.js and the browser.

  • Embla Carousel

    JavaScript carousel library with fluid motion, swipe gestures and a plugin system, usable with React, Vue, Svelte, Solid or plain JavaScript.

  • Endroid QR Code

    PHP library that generates QR codes as PNG, WebP, SVG, EPS or binary output.

  • esbuild

    JavaScript and TypeScript bundler and minifier, shipped as a native binary with a JavaScript API.

  • Eta

    Embedded JavaScript template engine written in TypeScript that renders templates in Node, Deno and the browser.

F

  • Faircamp

    Static site generator that builds a website from a folder of audio files, for audio producers.

  • fast-check

    Property-based testing framework for JavaScript and TypeScript that generates inputs to check properties of code.

  • FastAPI

    Python web framework for building APIs from standard Python type hints, served by an ASGI server.

  • fastest-validator

    JavaScript validation library that compiles an object schema into a checker function for Node.js, browsers and Deno.

  • FlyEnv

    Native local development environment for Windows, macOS and Linux that runs runtimes, databases and web servers on the host, with local sites, HTTPS and an MCP server for AI coding agents.

  • Framework7

    Open-source framework for building mobile, desktop and web apps with native-looking UI components.

  • Fumadocs

    React documentation framework that composes into an existing React framework to build docs sites.

  • Fuse.js

    Lightweight fuzzy-search library written in TypeScript, with no dependencies, for searching in browsers and on servers.

  • fuzzysort

    JavaScript library that fuzzy-matches search text against strings and object properties, with scores and highlighting.

G

  • GLightbox

    Pure JavaScript lightbox that shows images, videos, iframes and inline content.

  • goober

    CSS-in-JS library whose styled API is inspired by emotion.

  • Got

    Human-friendly HTTP request library for Node.js with promise and stream APIs, retries, timeouts and RFC 7234 caching.

  • GraphQL Code Generator

    Plugin-based command-line tool that generates typed code from a GraphQL schema and its operations.

  • GraphQL Mesh

    Framework for composing REST, OpenAPI, gRPC, SOAP, database and GraphQL sources into a GraphQL federation supergraph.

  • graphql-ws

    Zero-dependency GraphQL over WebSocket server and client library for JavaScript, with adapters for common WebSocket servers.

H

  • Handlebars

    JavaScript templating engine that compiles Handlebars templates into functions that render HTML, text and other output.

  • HastySite

    Static site generator written in Nim that builds a site from Markdown contents and Mustache templates.

  • Heckle

    Minimal Jekyll clone for Node.js that builds a site from Jekyll-style folders with Mold templates.

  • Hiawatha

    Open source web server for Unix-like systems, focused on security and a small footprint, with CGI, FastCGI and reverse proxy support.

  • Hologram

    Elixir full-stack web framework whose client-side code runs in the browser as Elixir, compiled to JavaScript.

  • Hono

    Web framework built on Web Standards that runs on any JavaScript runtime.

  • howler.js

    JavaScript audio library for the modern web that plays sounds through the Web Audio API with an HTML5 Audio fallback.

  • Huginn

    Self-hosted system for building agents that watch the web and incoming events and take automated actions on the user's behalf.

I

  • Iconoir

    Open source SVG icon set with packages for React, React Native, Vue, Flutter and CSS.

  • InsightFlare

    Privacy-friendly web analytics tool that a site owner deploys to their own Cloudflare account and embeds with a small script.

  • Intervention Image

    PHP image processing library for creating, editing and composing images through one API over GD, Imagick or libvips.

J

  • JSDoc

    Documentation generator that builds HTML API documentation from comments placed in JavaScript source code.

K

  • Kart

    Python static site generator that uses Jinja2 templates and Markdown, with blog and tag index support.

  • Kobalte

    UI toolkit of unstyled, accessible components and primitives for building web apps with SolidJS.

L

  • Ladle

    Component workshop that runs React component stories in a Vite dev server and builds them into a static app.

  • Laradock

    Docker Compose setup and CLI that starts a pre-configured local stack of PHP, web server and service containers for PHP projects.

  • Litekart

    Self-hosted ecommerce platform whose Go backend, GoCommerce, serves the API and an admin panel for a separate SvelteKit storefront.

M

  • Material for MkDocs

    Documentation framework on top of MkDocs that builds static documentation sites from Markdown.

  • minista

    Static site generator that builds websites from React JSX components with Vite.

  • mise

    Command-line tool that installs a project's dev tools, sets its environment variables and runs its tasks from one mise.toml file.

N

  • Nginx Proxy Manager

    Web admin interface for managing Nginx reverse proxy hosts, distributed as a Docker image with free Let's Encrypt certificates.

  • ntfy

    Self-hostable HTTP publish-subscribe server that delivers published messages as push notifications to phones, desktops and browsers.

  • nvm

    POSIX shell script that installs and switches between multiple Node.js versions for one user.

O

  • Open Web Analytics

    Open source web analytics framework that records visits to websites and applications and reports on them, with a JavaScript tracker and a PHP server.

P

  • Pandoc

    Haskell library and command-line tool that converts documents between markup formats.

  • Pest

    Testing framework for PHP that is built on PHPUnit and adds an expressive syntax for writing tests.

  • PHPUnit

    Unit testing framework for PHP, installed with Composer and run from the command line.

  • PocketBase

    Open-source Go backend shipped as a single executable, with an embedded SQLite database, realtime subscriptions, authentication and a dashboard.

  • Pollen

    Book-publishing system written in Racket that embeds code in text documents for multiple-output publishing.

  • Publii

    Desktop CMS for Windows, macOS and Linux that builds static websites on the author's computer.

  • pyenv

    Shell-based version manager that switches between multiple installed Python versions.

R

  • React Native for Web

    Implementation of React Native's components and APIs for the web, rendering through React DOM.

  • reveal.js

    Open-source HTML presentation framework for building slide decks that run in a web browser.

S

  • S3Proxy

    Java server that speaks the S3 API and forwards requests to other object storage backends, such as AWS S3, Azure Blob Storage, Google Cloud Storage, the local filesystem and SFTP.

  • shadcn-svelte

    Svelte port of shadcn/ui, with components that a CLI copies into a project's source code.

  • shadcn-templ

    Go and templ components whose source code is added to a project with a CLI, so the project can customize it.

  • shadcn/ui

    Composable React components whose source code is added to a project with a CLI, so the project can customize it.

  • sharp

    Node.js module that resizes and converts JPEG, PNG, WebP, AVIF and other image formats, using the libvips image library.

  • Sonic

    Schema-less search backend server written in Rust that indexes words against identifiers.

  • Stog

    Static site and blog generator written in OCaml that compiles XML documents, with Markdown sources through a plugin.

  • Swoole

    Coroutine-based PHP extension for concurrent networking and TCP, UDP, Unix socket, HTTP and WebSocket servers.

  • Symfony AssetMapper

    Symfony component that maps asset directories to versioned public files and loads JavaScript through browser importmaps, without a bundler.

T

  • Tabler Icons

    Set of free, MIT-licensed SVG icons on a 24x24 grid, published as npm packages for plain HTML and for several frameworks.

  • tailwind-merge

    Utility function that merges Tailwind CSS classes in JavaScript so that conflicting classes resolve without style conflicts.

  • TallStackUI

    Suite of more than 80 Blade components for TALL Stack applications built with Laravel, Livewire, Alpine.js and Tailwind CSS.

  • Traks

    Self-hosted web analytics that runs on Cloudflare Workers, Durable Objects, D1 and R2 in the site owner's own Cloudflare account.

  • Twind

    Compiler that turns Tailwind-style utility classes into CSS at runtime in the browser or in JavaScript environments, without a build step.

U

  • uFuzzy

    JavaScript fuzzy search library that matches a short search phrase against a list of phrases without building an index.

  • uhtml

    Micro HTML and SVG renderer for building reactive web pages with template literals.

V

  • Velite

    Content layer library that turns Markdown, MDX, YAML and JSON files into typed data for a JavaScript or TypeScript application.

  • Vinxi

    JavaScript toolkit for composing full stack applications and frameworks from Vite and Nitro primitives.

W

  • Webmin

    Web-based administration tool for Unix-like servers that configures system files and server applications such as Apache HTTP Server, BIND and MySQL.

Z

  • Zas

    Static site generator written in Go that renders Markdown and HTML pages through a shared layout.

  • Zod

    TypeScript-first schema validation library that validates data and infers static types from the same schemas.

  • Zola

    Static site generator distributed as a single binary, with the Tera template engine, Sass compilation and search built in.

Which of these is best?

We can't tell from here. What suits an editor-heavy marketing site can be wrong for a static documentation site. The list is alphabetical and nobody paid for a place on it.