awesome-for-beginners
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A list of awesome beginners-friendly projects.
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A curated list of beginner-friendly projects across various programming languages and technologies
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.NET
Legerity
A framework for speeding up the development of automated UI tests for Windows, Android, iOS, and Web with Appium/Selenium on .NET
Legerity for Uno Platform
An extension framework to Legerity for speeding up the development of automated UI tests for Uno Platform applications with Appium/Selenium on .NET
MvvmCross
The .NET MVVM framework for cross-platform solutions, including Xamarin.iOS, Xamarin.Android, Windows and Mac
RawCMS
RawCMS is a headless CMS written in ASP.NET Core, built for developers that embrace API-first technology
Shouldly
Should testing for .NET - the way Asserting Should be!
Angular
Oppia
Oppia is an open-source project whose aim is to empower learners across the globe by providing access to high-quality, engaging education. We envision a society in which access to high-quality education is a human right rather than a privilege
Ansible
- Exosphere
Exosphere is a user-friendly client interface for OpenStack-based cloud systems
C
Profanity
Ncurses XMPP chat client
C#
Cake
Cake (C# Make) is a free and open source cross-platform build automation system with a C# DSL for tasks such as compiling code, copying files and folders, running unit tests, compressing files and building NuGet packages
grok.net
Cross platform .NET grok implementation
osu!
Music game. Rhythm is just a click away!
Spectre.Console
A .NET library that makes it easier to create beautiful console applications
Uno Platform
OSS project for creating pixel-perfect, single-source C# and XAML apps which run natively on iOS, Android, macOS, Linux and Web via WebAssembly
C++
electron
Build cross platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
F3D
Fast and minimalist 3D viewer
Godot Engine
2D and 3D cross-platform game engine. Also has C# and Python code
MiniOB
MiniOB is a compact database that assists developers in understanding the fundamental workings of a database(main language is Chinese)
MoveIt
Easy-to-use open source robotics manipulation platform for developing commercial applications, prototyping designs, and benchmarking algorithms
projectM
A music visualizer library using OpenGL and GLSL. Has applications using Qt5, SDL, emscripten, iTunes, Kodi
Roc Toolkit
A toolkit for real-time audio streaming over the network
tensorflow
Computation using data flow graphs for scalable machine learning
Yugabyte DB
Distributed SQL database
Clojure
Alda
A music programming language for musicians. 🎶
Dart
dart.dev
A website covering Dart language and common libraries, for developers of Dart libraries, web apps, server-side code, and mobile (Flutter) apps
flutter
Flutter is Google's UI toolkit for building beautiful, natively compiled applications for mobile, web, desktop, and embedded devices from a single codebase
OpenFoodFacts
Collaborative, free and open database of food products from around the world. Scan barcode to get info or add a product
Elixir
Elm
- Exosphere
Exosphere is a user-friendly client interface for OpenStack-based cloud systems
Go
containerd
Industry-standard container runtime with an emphasis on simplicity, robustness and portability
Docker/CLI
The Docker CLI
Dragonfly
Provide efficient, stable and secure file distribution and image acceleration based on p2p technology
Helm
The Kubernetes Package Manager
httpexpect
End-to-end HTTP and REST API testing for Go
Hugo
A Fast and Flexible Static Site Generator built with love in GoLang
Kanister
A Data Protection Workflow Management Engine
Killgrave
Simple way to generate mock servers in Go
Kubernetes
Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management System
lxd
System container and virtual machine manager
Mattermost
Open source Slack-alternative in Golang and React
Meshery
Meshery, the service mesh management plane
Moby
Open-source application container engine
- PureLB
Load-balancer orchestrator for Kubernetes that uses standard Linux networking and routing protocols
script
A Go library for doing the kind of tasks that shell scripts are good at: reading files, executing subprocesses, counting lines, matching strings, and so on. Beginners are very welcome and will get detailed code review and help through the PR process
Terraform
A tool for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure safely and efficiently
TiDB
A distributed scalable Hybrid Transactional and Analytical Processing (HTAP) database
utils
Common Utilities library for Go
Haskell
Hasura GraphQL Engine
Blazing fast, instant realtime GraphQL APIs on Postgres with fine grained access control, also trigger webhooks on database events
Java
appsmith
Drag & Drop internal tool builder
Codename One
Cross-platform mobile app development framework for Java developers
DSA
DSA questions practising repo for Java developers
elasticsearch
Open Source, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine
Images-to-PDF
An android app to convert images to PDF file
JabRef
Desktop application for managing literature references using modern Java features including JavaFX. Dedicated to code quality and constructive feedback: Each Pull Request is reviewed by two developers to provide high-quality feedback and to ensure high quality of new contributions
OpenMetadata
OpenMetadata is an all-in-one platform for data discovery, data quality, observability, governance, data lineage, and team collaboration
QuestDB
Questdb is a fast open source SQL time series database
Strongbox
Strongbox is an artifact repository manager written in Java
TEAMMATES
TEAMMATES is a free online tool for managing peer evaluations and other feedback paths of your students
Trino (formerly Presto SQL)
A distributed SQL query engine for big data. Ask for guidance on project's Slack
Wikimedia Commons Android App
Allows users to upload pictures from their Android phone/tablet to Wikimedia Commons
- XWiki
XWiki is a free wiki software platform written in Java with a design emphasis on extensibility. Beginners should follow the onboarding wiki
JavaScript
altair
A beautiful feature-rich GraphQL Client for all platforms
Ancient Beast
Turn based strategy game where you 3d print a squad of creatures with unique abilities in order to defeat your enemies
- API-pull-with-JavaScript
API data extraction and delivery to the user to present
appsmith
Drag & Drop internal tool builder
AVA
Futuristic test runner
Babel
A compiler for writing next generation JavaScript
Botpress
The only sane way to build great bots
Brave Browser
Desktop browser for macOS, Windows, and Linux
Check It Out
Check It Out is an ncurses-like CLI to let the user interactively navigate and select a git branch to check out
Create React App
Create React apps with no build configuration
cypress
Fast, easy and reliable testing for anything that runs in a browser
electron
Build cross platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
Ember.js
A JavaScript framework for creating ambitious web applications
Ember.js Data
A data persistence library for Ember.js
ESLint
A fully pluggable tool for identifying and reporting on patterns in JavaScript
eslint-plugin-unicorn
Awesome ESLint rules
Fastify
Fast and low overhead web framework, for Node.js
freeCodeCamp
Open source codebase and curriculum. Learn to code and help nonprofits
Gatsby.js
Build blazing fast, modern apps and websites with React
Ghost
Just a blogging platform
grommet
a react-based framework that provides accessibility, modularity, responsiveness, and theming in a tidy package
Habitica
Habitica is a gamified task manager, webapp and android/ios app, really wonderful atmosphere. Guidance for contributing here (mongo, express, vue, node stack for webapp)
HMPL
Server-oriented customizable templating for JavaScript
Hoppscotch
A free, fast and beautiful API request builder
HueHive
A open source react native app iOS and android for color palette management
iD
The easy-to-use OpenStreetMap editor in JavaScript
Jasmine
Simple JavaScript testing framework for browsers and node.js
Jest
A complete and easy to set up JavaScript testing solution
json-editor
JSON Schema Based Editor. JSON Editor takes a JSON Schema and uses it to generate an HTML form. It has full support for JSON Schema version 3 and 4 and can integrate with several popular CSS frameworks (bootstrap, spectre, tailwind)
Kinto.js
An offline-first JavaScript client leveraging the Kinto API for remote data synchronization
Leaflet
JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps
material-ui
React components for faster and easier web development. Build your own design system, or start with Material Design
Mattermost
Open source Slack-alternative in Golang and React
Meteor
Meteor is an ultra-simple environment for building modern web applications
Mocha
Javascript test framework for Node.js and the browser
Moment.js
A lightweight JavaScript date library for parsing, validating, manipulating, and formatting dates
name-suggestion-index
Canonical common brand names for OpenStreetMap
NativeScript
NativeScript is an open source framework for building truly native mobile apps with JavaScript. Use web skills, like Angular and Vue.js, FlexBox and CSS, and get native UI and performance on iOS and Android
netlify-cms
Open source content management for your git workflow
Next.js
A minimalistic framework for universal server-rendered React applications
Node.js core
JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine
nuclear
Multiplatform music player that streams from free sources
p5.js
p5.js is a client-side JS platform that empowers artists, designers, students, and anyone to learn to code and express themselves creatively on the web
pixi.js
A 2D JavaScript Renderer
PouchDB
PouchDB is a pocket-sized database
Predator
A powerful open-source platform for load testing APIs
ramda-adjunct
Ramda Adjunct is the most popular and most comprehensive set of functional utilities for use with Ramda, providing a variety of useful, well tested functions with excellent documentation
- Rawsec Cybersecurity Inventory
An inventory of tools and resources that aims to help people to find everything related to CyberSecurity
React
A declarative, efficient, and flexible JavaScript library for building user interfaces
React Native
A framework for building native apps with React
React server
React framework with server render for blazing fast page load and seamless transitions between pages in the browser
React-content-loader
Tool to create your own react-content-loader easily
ReactiveSearch
A UI components library for Elasticsearch: Available for React, Vue and React Native
reactjs.org
The documenation website for reactjs
Reddit Enhancement Suite
A browser extension to enhance the Reddit browsing experience
Semantic-UI-React
The official React integration for Semantic UI
serverless
The Serverless Framework
SirixDB
A Svelte/Sapper based web front-end for SirixDB, which is a versioned NoSQL document store (XML and JSON) written in Java
Storybook JS
Storybook is a frontend workshop for building UI components and pages in isolation
stryker
The JavaScript mutation testing framework
Superalgos
A completely Open Source crypto trading bot rewarding good contributions with the SA(Superalgos)-Token
Svelte
Component framework that runs at build time, converting your components into highly efficient imperative code that surgically updates the DOM
swag-for-dev
Swag opportunities for developers
Tessel 2 CLI
Command line interface to Tessel 2
Time to Leave
Working hours time tracker app based on Electron and Javascript
Vest
Validations framework inspired by unit testing frameworks
Video Hub App
Angular & Electron app for browsing and searching videos on your PC
Video.js
The player framework
Vite
Next generation frontend tooling. It's fast! Alternative to Create React App
Vue Router
The official router for Vue.js
Vue.js
The Progressive JavaScript Framework
VuePress
Minimalistic Vue-powered static site generator
webdriver.io
Next-gen browser and mobile automation test framework for Node.js
Yarn
Fast, reliable, and secure dependency management
JSON
- Rawsec Cybersecurity Inventory
An inventory of tools and resources that aims to help people to find everything related to CyberSecurity
Julia
Julia
Julia Projects for Beginners — Easy Ideas to Get Started Coding in Julia
Julia Language: Good first issue
"Move like Python, Run like C" - A fresh approach to technical computing!
Julia Language: Help wanted
"Move like Python, Run like C" - A fresh approach to technical computing!
Kotlin
Atrium
Multiplatform assertion library for Kotlin
Hexagon
A microservices toolkit written in Kotlin
Non-Blocking SirixDB HTTP(S)-Server
A non-blocking HTTP(S)-Server for SirixDB, a temporal, evolutionary NoSQL document store for XML and JSON
OpenCalc
A simple and beautiful calculator for Android
Scribe-Android
Android keyboards for language learners with translation, verb conjugation and more!
Markdown
tldr-pages
Collaborative cheatsheets for console commands
MLOps
SuperDuperDB
🔮SuperDuperDB: Bring AI to your favourite database! Integrate, train and manage any AI models and APIs directly with your database and your data
Perl
Ravada
Remote Virtual Desktops Manager
PHP
Appwrite
An End-to-end backend server for frontend and mobile developers. 🚀
Deployer
A deployment tool written in PHP with support for popular frameworks out of the box
- Drupal
Leading open-source CMS for ambitious digital experiences that reach your audience across multiple channels
Flarum
Simple forum software for building great communities
FreshRSS
FreshRSS is a self-hosted RSS and Atom feed aggregator. It is lightweight, easy to work with, powerful, and customizable. Since 2012
Matomo
Matomo is the leading Free/Libre open analytics platform
- MediaWiki
The free and open-source wiki software package that powers Wikipedia
NextCloud Server
Nextcloud server, a safe home for all your data
OrgManager
Supercharge your GitHub organizations!
PHP Censor
Open source self-hosted continuous integration server for PHP projects
phpMyAdmin
Admin interface for MySQL written in PHP
PrestaShop
The open source ecommerce solution to start your online business and start selling online
Symfony
Symfony is a PHP framework for web applications and a set of reusable PHP components
Pug
- Rawsec Cybersecurity Inventory
An inventory of tools and resources that aims to help people to find everything related to CyberSecurity
Python
activist
activist.org is a network for political action that allows people to coordinate and collaborate on the issues that matter most to them
Ansible
A simple IT automation platform
ArviZ
Exploratory Anaylsis of Bayesian Models
Bokeh
Bokeh is an interactive visualization library for modern web browsers
BorgBackup
Deduplicating backup program with compression and authenticated encryption
CiviWiki
Building a Better Democracy for the Internet Age
coala
A unified command-line interface for linting and fixing all your code, regardless of the programming languages you use
Colossal-AI
An open-source deep learning system for large-scale model training and inference with high efficiency and low cost
datascience
A Jupyter notebook Python library for introductory data science
Embedchain
Embedchain is a framework to easily create LLM powered bots over any dataset
Fabric
Pythonic remote execution and deployment
FastAPI
A modern, fast (high-performance) web framework for building APIs with Python 3.6+ based on standard Python type hints
H2O Wave
Realtime Web Apps and Dashboards framework for Python and R. Suited (not only) for AI audience
H2O Wave Apps
Sample AI Apps built with H2O Wave
Harmony
Natural language processing tool for psychologists to analyse and compare datasets with AI and LLMs. Up for a challenge? Try for a chance to win up to £500!
jarvis
A personal assistant for Linux, MacOs and Windows based on Command line Interface
Jupyter notebook
Jupyter interactive notebook
Kinto
A lightweight JSON storage service with synchronisation and sharing abilities
matplotlib
Matplotlib is a comprehensive library for creating static, animated, and interactive visualizations in Python
MindsDB
MindsDB is an open source AI layer for existing databases
mitmproxy
An interactive TLS-capable intercepting HTTP proxy for penetration testers and software developers
mygpo
The webservice for gpodder.net, a libre web service that allows users to manage their podcast subscriptions and discover new content
mypy
An optional static typing for python
OMRChecker
OMRChecker helps to grade exams fast and accurately using a scanner 🖨 or your phone 🤳. Learn image processing with Python and OpenCV while contributing to one of the most popular repositories related to OMR topic on github
OpenMetadata
OpenMetadata is an all-in-one platform for data discovery, data quality, observability, governance, data lineage, and team collaboration
Oppia
Oppia is an open-source project whose aim is to empower learners across the globe by providing access to high-quality, engaging education. We envision a society in which access to high-quality education is a human right rather than a privilege
opsdroid
An open source chat-ops bot framework
pandas
Flexible and powerful data analysis / manipulation library for Python, providing labeled data structures similar to R data.frame objects, statistical functions, and much more
Pytest
The pytest framework makes it easy to write small tests, yet scales to support complex functional testing
Python Babel
The Python Internationalization Library
pythonping
PythonPing is a simple library to execute ICMP pings natively in Python without resorting to spawning a shell
Pytorch
PyTorch is an open source machine learning library based on the Torch library, used for applications such as computer vision and natural language processing
SaltStack
Software to automate the management and configuration of any infrastructure or application at scale
scikit-learn
Scikit-learn is a machine learning library for Python
scrapy
A fast high-level web crawling & scraping framework for Python
Sorting-Algorithms-Visualizer
A tool for visualizing sorting algorithms with a educational Wiki Page
SuperDuperDB
🔮SuperDuperDB: Bring AI to your favourite database! Integrate, train and manage any AI models and APIs directly with your database and your data
SymPy
A Python library for symbolic mathematics
tree-sitter-legesher-python
Learn and code in Python using your native language
wemake-python-styleguide
The strictest and most opinionated python linter ever!
Zulip
Powerful open source group chat
Ruby
Avo Admin for Ruby on Rails
Build business apps 10x faster using Ruby on Rails
bolt
Bolt is a Ruby command-line tool for executing commands, scripts, and tasks on remote systems using SSH and WinRM
chatwoot
Opensource customer support platform which can be an alternative to Intercom, Zendesk, Drift, Crisp etc
chef
A systems integration framework, built to bring the benefits of configuration management to your entire infrastructure
Hanami
A modern framework for Ruby
JRuby
An implementation of Ruby on the Java Virtual Machine
mapknitter
Upload your own aerial images, position (rubbersheet) them in a web interface over existing map data, and share via web or composite and export for print
multiwoven
The open-source reverse ETL, data activation platform for modern data teams
ohai
Ohai profiles your system and emits JSON
open-build-service
A generic system to build and distribute packages from sources in an automatic, consistent and reproducible way
osem
Open Source Event Manager. An event management tool tailored to Free and Open Source Software conferences
PublicLab.org
An open source publishing platform for environmental projects. Check out new contributors welcome page
Ruby on Rails
Ruby on Rails (Rails) is an open source web application framework written in Ruby
Sinatra
Classy web-development dressed in a DSL
Rust
a-b-street
Transportation planning and traffic simulation software for creating cities friendlier to walking, biking, and public transit
dotenv-linter
Lightning-fast linter for .env files. Written in Rust
Hyper
A fast, safe and correct low-level HTTP library for Rust
Iron
An extensible, concurrent web framework for Rust
nushell
A modern shell for the GitHub era written in Rust
Ockam
End-to-end encryption and mutual authentication for distributed applications
Rust-Clippy
A bunch of lints to catch common mistakes and improve Rust code
Rustfmt
A tool for formatting Rust code according to style guidelines
Servo
A browser engine designed for applications including embedded use
Sniffnet
Application to comfortably monitor network traffic
TensorZero
TensorZero creates a feedback loop for optimizing LLM applications — turning production data into smarter, faster, and cheaper models
TiKV
A distributed transactional key-value database
- Veloren
Veloren is a multiplayer voxel RPG written in Rust
zoom-rs
Teleconference system with a web based user interface written in Rust
Scala
playframework
The High Velocity Web Framework
Twitter Util
Wonderful reusable code from Twitter
Smalltalk
Pharo
A dynamic reflective pure object-oriented language supporting live programming inspired by Smalltalk
Swift
Basic-Car-Maintenance
A basic app to track your car's maintenance events, like fixes, oil changes, etc
TypeScript
activist
activist.org is a network for political action that allows people to coordinate and collaborate on the issues that matter most to them
Amplication
Amplication is an open-source development tool. It helps you develop quality Node.js applications without spending time on repetitive coding tasks
Booster
A truly serverless framework, write your code and deploy it in seconds without any server configuration files
Graphback
A CLI and runtime framework to generate a GraphQL API in seconds
H2O Wave
Realtime Web Apps and Dashboards framework for Python and R. Suited (not only) for AI audience
Hasura GraphQL Engine
Blazing fast, instant realtime GraphQL APIs on Postgres with fine grained access control, also trigger webhooks on database events
Impler.io
100% open source data import experience with readymade CSV & Excel import widget 🚀
LinksHub
LinksHub aims to provide developers with access to a wide range of free resources and tools that they can use in their work
LitmusChaos
Litmus is a toolset to do cloud-native chaos engineering
Manifest
Manifestis an open-source Backend-as-a-Service allowign developers to create a backend easily and quickly
Node Efficientnet
EfficientNet Image Recognition model for Node JS ( written with tensorflow.js )
OpenMetadata
OpenMetadata is an all-in-one platform for data discovery, data quality, observability, governance, data lineage, and team collaboration
Oppia
Oppia is an open-source project whose aim is to empower learners across the globe by providing access to high-quality, engaging education. We envision a society in which access to high-quality education is a human right rather than a privilege
reatom
Reatom is declarative and reactive state manager, designed for both simple and complex applications
Storybook JS
Storybook is a frontend workshop for building UI components and pages in isolation
tinyhttp
A 0-legacy, tiny & fast web framework as a replacement of Express
TypeScript
A superset of JavaScript that compiles to clean JavaScript output
typescript-eslint
Monorepo for all the tooling which enables ESLint to support TypeScript
Visual Studio Code
A code editor redefined and optimized for building and debugging modern web and cloud applications
Vite
Next generation frontend tooling. It's fast! Alternative to Create React App
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