Top 100 Most Valuable GitHub Repositories For Progammers

GitHub undoubtedly has the most popular repositories in the coding world. It isn’t just a code hosting service which offers version control — it also serves a huge network of developers across the world.

Currently, GitHub hosts over 30 million accounts, 2+ million organizations, and more than 96 million repositories, among which exist some of the world’s most valuable Git repos.

Do you ever wonder the value of the repositories hosted there or which ones make their way all the way to the top?

Folks at U°OS ran a simplified version of a reputation algorithm to determine the top 100 most valuable repositories. The results are pretty interesting so let’s take a quick look at all of them.

Top 100 GitHub Projects And Repositories

1. Kubernetes	26. CocoaPods Specifications	51. gRPC	76. Fastlane
2. Apache Spark	27. Elastic Kibana	52. Liferay	77. Kubernetes Website and Documentation
3. Microsoft Visual Studio Code	28. Julia Language	53. CommCare HQ	78. Ruby on Rails
4. NixOS Package Collection	29. Microsoft TypeScript	54. WordPress Gutenberg	79. Zulip
5. Rust	30. Joomla	55. PyTorch	80. Laravel
6. Firehol IP Lists	31. DefinitelyTyped	56. Kubernetes Test Infrastructure	81. Baidu PaddlePaddle
7. Red Hat OpenShift	32. Homebrew Cask	57. Keybase	82. Gatsby
8. Ansible	33. Ceph	58. Facebook React	83. Rust Crate Registry
9. Automattic WordPress Calypso	34. Go	59. Code.org	84. Nintendo 3DS Custom Firmware
10. Microsoft .NET CoreFX	35. AMP HTML Builder	60. Bitcoin Core	85. TiDB
11. Microsoft .NET Roslyn	36. Open edX	61. Arm Mbed OS	86. Angular CLI
12. Node.js	37. Pandas	62. scikit-learn	87. MAPS.ME
13. TensorFlow	38. Istio	63. Nextcloud	88. Eclipse Che
14. freeCodeCamp	39. ManageIQ	64. Helm Charts	89. Brave Browser
15. Space Station 13	40. Godot Engine	65. Terraform	90. Patchwork
16. Apple Swift	41. Gentoo Repository Mirror	66. Ant Design	91. Angular Material
17. Elasticsearch	42. Odoo	67. Phalcon Framework Documentation	92. Python
18. Moby	43. Azure Documentation	68. Documentation for CMS Software for the Large Hadron Collider	93. Space Station 13
19. CockroachDB	44. Magento	69. Apache Kafka Mirror	94. Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead
20. Cydia Compatibility Checker	45. Saltstack	70. Electron	95. Material-UI
21. Servo	46. AdGuard Filters	71. Zephyr Project	96. Ionic
22. Google Flutter	47. Symfony	72. The web-platform-tests Project	97. Oppia
23. macOS Homebrew Package Manager	48. CMS Software for the Large Hadron Collider	73. Marlin Firmware	98. Alluxio
24. Home Assistant	49. Red Hat OpenShift	74. Apache MXNet	99. XX Net
25. Microsoft .NET CoreCLR	50. ownCloud	75. Apache Beam	100. Microsoft .NET CLI

As seen from the table above, the top spots are occupied by big tech companies that are hugely betting on open source projects. Google, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook and even companies like Baidu from China rank in the most valuable Git repos list.

Google Kubernetes tops the list and is followed by Apache Spark, and Microsoft Visual Studio Code on the second and third position.

Apart from familiar names like Red Hat OpenShift and Home Assistant, there are programming languages and frameworks on the list too such as Rust (fifth rank), Node.js, TensorFlow, Python etc.

There are educational projects like freeCodeCamp, Open edX, Oppia, and Code.org but at the same time, there’s a Chinese anti-censorship tool as well — XX Net.

We also have Bitcoin Core for cryptocurrency on the list and the particle detector for CERN’s Large Hadron Collider.

Google’s Flutter, which has seen a sharp increase in its popularity recently, also has a slot on this list.

As far as gaming projects are concerned, we can see familiar names like Space Station 13, Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead and there’s also a gaming engine called Godot.

Just in case you are also a GitHub contributor, you can check out your value score at https://u.community/github and find out your Universal Portable Reputation.