1,493 repositories starred since May 2011. Mostly web and app development, and lately learning resources and other things.
Over time
Each line is a starred repository at the date it was starred. Height is its GitHub stars. Drag across the graph or pick a year to filter the list below.
- May 2011: first stars, QuincyKit, laconic
- 2012–2013: 12 stars in 2 years
- 2015: 503 stars, 244 in Web & apps
- AI & LLMs17
- ML & data15
- Web & apps708
- Infra & backend65
- Libraries & tools370
- Systems & graphics56
- Security3
- Learning & other259
Drift
Share of each kind of repository among the stars added each year.
- Learning & other 29%
- Libraries & tools 21%
- Infra & backend 6%
- Web & apps 7%
- AI & LLMs 31%
Terrain
Categories are regions. Where stars cluster, the ground rises. The most-starred repositories are marked like towns. Select a region to filter.
Findings
2015 was the busiest year: 503 stars, 244 of them in Web & apps.
They find things early: 61% of their stars have fewer than 1,000 stars on GitHub.
328 of their stars are archived or deprecated, and 93 name a successor. Another 804 have had no commits in two years.
The longest pause was 12 months, from Jan 2012 to Feb 2013.
JavaScript accounts for 66% of their stars, TypeScript for 14%.
Games & graphics
- 2025-07-11113
- 2025-02-01390
- 2021-06-05ImperialCollegeLondon/natural_number_game305
Building the natural numbers in Lean 3. The original natural number game, now frozen. See README for Lean 4 information.
Leanv1.3.12021-06-05 - 2020-09-28coldi/r3f-game-demo653
A demo on how to do a simple tile-based game with React and react-three-fiber
TypeScript2020-09-28 - 2019-01-15kkga/gamedesign-playlist313
Collection of articles, books, videos and other things I found useful for those interested in the topic.
2019-01-15 - 2017-12-17boardgameio/boardgame.io12.5K
State Management and Multiplayer Networking for Turn-Based Games
TypeScript2017-12-17 - 2016-12-30676
- 2016-05-194.1K
- 2016-01-08182
- 2015-01-19162
- 2014-11-05328
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