Open Source Projects-try and get started 10 interesting GitHub projects for developers
GitHub is a real treasure trove of exciting and practical software projects. Developers will find a huge code base here, which they can edit at will or use as a foundation for their own applications.
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At GitHub you will find a number of projects that can be interesting for developers in several ways.
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There are good reasons for developers to keep an eye on some GitHub projects. On the one hand, because they are extremely useful tools: On GitHub there are a variety of interesting projects that can also make developer life easier and are mostly already available as compiled programs. On the other hand, in some projects it may be worthwhile to contribute a little. Try it out and get started – a win-win situation for developers and projects.
Slidev: Making Code Presentations Easier
Meetings and inevitable presentations are also part of the everyday life of developers. The problem: If you want to build presentations with code snippets appealing and clear in PowerPoint, Keynote or Google Slides, spends a lot of time formatting and image adjustments.
The Slidev project solves this problem in a coder way: Similar to a markdown editor for text documents, Slidev is intended to make the creation of presentation slides much easier. Using theme, Markdown syntax and its own command set, attractive presentations can be generated directly in the text editor-ideal not only for developers.
System Design Primer: Design Scalable Systems
Not only administrators, but also web developers often have to think about the infrastructure of their projects and design them for good scalability. The design of appropriate systems is not always easy.
The “System Design Primer” project provides a remedy by collecting all the necessary information necessary for the design of complex server structures. It is not a software, but a written collection of interesting information and sources to learn how to design scalable systems.
Ventoy: Multiboot made easy
Programmers who want to work on operating systems or try out software directly on a system often have to deal with multi-boot environments or multiple computers. It’s much easier with Ventoy. The small tool is a boot manager, which, however, does not require a fully installed operating system, but simply starts an image file.
The highlight: Any image files can be stored on the USB medium-such as a stick or an external hard drive. By Ventoy they are simply selected and started. Who wants to add a new operating system, simply throws the image file on the medium.
Alacritty: The super-fast Terminal emulator
If developers need a tool frequently, it’s a command line. Alacritty is a powerful terminal emulator for Windows, macOS and many Linux distributions, which impresses with its high speed. The reason for this is the OpenGL support, which on the one hand relieves the main processor and on the other hand offers some optical and technical advantages over other terminal programs.
Spacemacs: Vim and Emacs in one
Text editors are like sand on the sea, but many developers swear by Emacs or Vim. Both editors have certain advantages and disadvantages and not infrequently the advantages and disadvantages of both editors are discussed extensively down to the smallest detail. This does not have to be the case: The Spacemacs project combines the advantages of both editors in a single tool and ensures rapid development thanks to its already quite large community. And there are even T-shirts with the logo.
Publii: Static site CMS with GUI
Large landing pages or the websites of many companies are increasingly relying on static pages instead of a CMS. There are good reasons for this: Static site generators such as Hugo or Gatsby allow the targeted development of well-scalable websites. However, the operation of such tools is not always easy and in many cases these generators are too much of a good thing for small websites.
The Publii project finds a good middle way to classic HTML coding or the WYSIWYG editor: Themes can be designed here using a handlebar tag and CSS, which are then filled with an offline CMS with a graphical user interface. Web design was rarely easier than with Publii. The barrier to entry is low, but the results are impressive.
Taichi: Programming language for graphics
Programming graphical effects is not always easy, which is why the Taichi project was launched: The fully integrated Python graphics programming language is designed for productivity and speed and makes it easy to create even complex graphical effects on CPUs and GPUs in a few simple steps.
Awesome Cheatsheets: Cheat Sheet Collection
Web developers work a lot with command line, various programming languages, PHP, MySQL and Co. – to remember all the commands here is not very easy. Accordingly, it makes sense to bookmark the Awesome Cheatsheet project on Github: Here, “cheat sheets” for various systems and tools are collected, such as Node.js, Visual Studio code or Nginx. The command you are looking for is therefore only two mouse clicks away and the annoying reading of wikis and manpages is eliminated.
OpenFaaS: Functions as a service
The FaaS in OpenFaaS stands for” Functions as a Service ” and means exactly that: Microservices can be broken down into individual functions by the framework and work in their own containers. This makes an entire system extremely flexible and scalable. OpenFaaS can integrate with existing solutions and is independent of the infrastructure, as Kubernetes are used for heavy work.
SwifterSwift: Extensions for Swift programming
Apple’s Swift programming language hit like a bomb in the developer community. The easy-to-use programming language is especially relevant for development for the various Apple operating systems. The SwifterSwift project provides over 500 extensions in a large package that extend the functionality of Swift.
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