Awesome Lists

About

Awesome lists, connected

Awesome lists are lists of great open source projects, curated by developers. We read all of them, follow the links between them and rank projects by how many curators recommend them. That makes it easy to find the best library for your next project.

Team

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Changelog

  1. Sep 2026

    A fresh design

    • New look with dark mode, shared with Smart News and facts.dev
    • Filter and sort the entries of any awesome list, with a table of contents and markers for inactive projects
    • Faster search with tabs for lists and projects; click a topic to search for it
    • Press / anywhere to search
  2. Nov 2024

    GitHub 3d explorer

  3. Oct 2024

    Recommendations and search

  4. Sep 2024

    First release

    • Import awesome lists from GitHub and show them on a website
    • Rank the projects by the number of backlinks from awesome lists
    • Badge to show the backlinks

Tech stack

The big picture

How the data flows from GitHub to this website

Attribution

Thunder icon by Smashicons - Flaticon

Add a GitHub project

Missing a project or an awesome list? Paste its GitHub URL and we fetch it right away.