Repositories every developer should know about — not just what's trending today.

vitejs/viteEditor's Pick

“The modern default frontend build tool - native ESM in dev means a dev server that starts and reloads almost instantly, even on large apps.”

jesseduffield/lazygitEditor's Pick

“A terminal UI for git that makes staging, committing, and rebasing dramatically faster - most developers who try it stop using raw git commands for daily work.”

stablyai/orcaEditor's Pick

“Runs several coding agents in parallel, each in its own isolated git worktree, so you can compare approaches and pick the best result instead of babysitting one agent at a time.”

ajeetdsouza/zoxideEditor's PickHidden Gem

“A smarter replacement for cd that learns your navigation habits and dramatically speeds up terminal workflows.”

atuinsh/atuinEditor's PickHidden Gem

“Replaces basic shell history with a searchable, syncable database of every command you've ever run - it's the kind of tool you can't go back from once you've used it.”

nushell/nushellEditor's PickHidden Gem

“Rethinks the shell around structured data - piping the output of one command into the next as a real table, not text you have to re-parse with awk/sed.”

eslint/eslint

“The standard JavaScript linter - catches real bugs, not just style nits, and its plugin ecosystem covers virtually every framework.”

oven-sh/bunHidden Gem

“A drop-in Node.js/npm replacement that's dramatically faster at installs, startup, and test execution - low-risk to try on an existing project.”

prettier/prettier

“Opinionated, zero-config code formatting - once adopted, formatting simply stops being a discussion topic in code review.”

pnpm/pnpmHidden Gem

“A content-addressable package manager that's both faster and dramatically more disk-efficient than npm/yarn, with none of npm's phantom-dependency bugs.”

denoland/denoHidden Gem

“An all-in-one JavaScript runtime, bundler, test runner, and package manager - genuinely faster than the Node.js equivalents it replaces.”

vercel/turborepoHidden Gem

“Makes monorepo builds fast via aggressive local/remote caching - the difference is dramatic once a repo has more than a couple of packages.”