GitHub repositories taking off in the last year
Ranked by how many more stars each repo got in the last year than its pace over the 365 days before would predict. Star counts come from GitHub. Last updated 11 Nov 2026, 12:20 UTC.
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- Stars gained
- New stars in the window. "all" means the repo is younger than the window, so the number is every star it has.
- Today
- Stars since midnight US Pacific time, so a partial day.
- Above pace
- How many more stars the repo got than its pace in the window before would predict. +500 means 500 more than usual.
- Momentum
- A daily score: 8 points per star and 2 per fork since midnight UTC, reduced for repos that are this busy every day.
- Speed-up
- Stars per day in the window divided by stars per day in the window before. "New" means the repo is younger than the window. "Under 14 days" (twice the window; "Under 2 years" for 1 year) means it is older than the window but too young for a full window before it to compare with.
- Suspected
- Repositories with at least 50 stars are left out as likely bought stars when they have no detected programming language and got those stars within a day of being created; or got them within 14 days while having no watchers, at most 1 fork, no detected language or under 1 KB of code other than HTML and CSS, and either 5 KB or less of files or an owner that is a personal account with at most 1 follower. Repositories with no detected language are also left out when, at any age, they have 5 KB or less of files and got at least 90% of their stars on a single day that ended more than a day ago; or have 5 KB or less of files and belong to a personal account with no followers that was created at most an hour before the repository. Any repository with at least 50 stars is also left out when, under 3 days old, it has no watchers and at least 5 forks and belongs to a personal account with no followers; it stays out while that account has no followers. Some repositories are also left out, or kept in, by hand after a review of the daily lists, whatever the rules above say. See them.
- Bars
- Stars per day (per week for 90 days and 1 year). Bright bars are the selected window. Heights use a square-root scale, so quieter days stay visible next to a spike.
| # | Repository | Stars | Today | 7d | 30d | 1y | Above pace ↑ | Momentum | Speed-up | Weekly stars |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21051 |
LLJS: Low-Level JavaScript |
1,178 | 0 | +1 | +1 | +5 | -1 | 0 | 0.8x, slowing | |
| 21052 |
Test your Rails application's JavaScript with the mocha test framework and chai assertion library |
1,040 | 0 | +1 | +1 | +2 | -1 | 0 | 0.7x, slowing | |
| 21053 |
Plugin for heroku CLI that can manipulate the repo |
684 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +3 | -1 | 0 | 0.8x, slowing | |
| 21054 |
The git-scm.com website. Note that this repository is only for the website; issues with git itself should go to https://git-scm.com/community. |
2,422 | 0 | -1 | +10 | +136 | -1 | 0 | 1.0x, steady | |
| 21055 |
Extends Chai with assertions about promises. |
1,419 | 0 | 0 | +1 | +4 | -1 | 0 | 0.8x, slowing | |
| 21056 |
Basic layout of a WordPress Git repository. I use this as a base when creating a new repo. |
1,855 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +16 | -1 | 0 | 0.9x, slowing | |
| 21057 |
Plug-ins for DataTables |
1,074 | 0 | +1 | +2 | +18 | -1 | 0 | 0.9x, slowing | |
| 21058 |
Alloy is an MVC framework for the Appcelerator Titanium SDK |
956 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | -1 | 0 | 0.7x, slowing | |
| 21059 |
:speech_balloon: A jQuery plugin that creates hover tooltips. |
813 | 0 | +1 | +1 | +1 | -1 | 0 | 0.5x, slowing | |
| 21060 |
:snowboarder: EJDB2 — Embeddable JSON Database engine C library. Simple XPath like query language (JQL). |
1,487 | 0 | +1 | +2 | +30 | -1 | 0 | 1.0x, steady | |
| 21061 |
Node.js module that automatically follows HTTP(S) redirects |
586 | 0 | +2 | +6 | +24 | -1 | 0 | 1.0x, steady | |
| 21062 |
HeadHunter API: документация и библиотеки |
624 | 0 | +1 | +2 | +58 | -1 | 0 | 1.0x, steady | |
| 21063 |
Purely functional JSON parser and library in scala. |
544 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +3 | -1 | 0 | 0.8x, slowing | |
| 21064 |
An open-source, web-based viewer for zoomable images, implemented in pure JavaScript. |
3,536 | 0 | +2 | +16 | +271 | -1 | 0 | 1.0x, steady | |
| 21065 |
A Marketplace for JMeter Plugins |
590 | 0 | +1 | +1 | +19 | -1 | 0 | 1.0x, steady | |
| 21066 |
WebSharper - Full-stack, functional, reactive web apps and microservices in F# and C# |
636 | 0 | +1 | +2 | +26 | -1 | 0 | 1.0x, steady | |
| 21067 |
Advanced rhythm game for Windows, Linux and OS X. Designed for both home and arcade use. |
2,119 | 0 | +4 | +12 | +142 | -1 | 0 | 1.0x, steady | |
| 21068 |
A backend for Hiera that provides per-value asymmetric encryption of sensitive data |
535 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +5 | -1 | 0 | 0.8x, slowing | |
| 21069 |
Python module to drive LED Matrices & 7-segment displays (MAX7219) and RGB NeoPixels (WS2812 / APA102) |
543 | 0 | +1 | +1 | +15 | -1 | 0 | 0.9x, slowing | |
| 21070 |
Jenkins Build Monitor Plugin |
728 | 0 | +2 | +1 | +6 | -1 | 0 | 0.9x, slowing | |
| 21071 |
Rewrite Clojure code and edn |
668 | 0 | +2 | +4 | +40 | -1 | 0 | 1.0x, steady | |
| 21072 |
GroundDB is a thin layer providing Meteor offline database and methods |
566 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | -1 | 0 | 0.5x, slowing | |
| 21073 |
A Python package for performing pore network modeling of porous media |
548 | 0 | +2 | +6 | +51 | -1 | 0 | 1.0x, steady | |
| 21074 |
Live, generative music from Wikipedia edits |
873 | 0 | 0 | +3 | +32 | -1 | 0 | 1.0x, steady | |
| 21075 |
ATLauncher is a Launcher for Minecraft which integrates multiple different ModPacks to allow you to download and install ModPacks easily and quickly. |
862 | 0 | +3 | +8 | +112 | -1 | 0 | 1.0x, steady | |
| 21076 |
Official home for the pymssql source code. |
891 | 0 | 0 | +1 | +31 | -1 | 0 | 1.0x, steady | |
| 21077 |
OpenPGP (RFC4880) Implementation in IcedCoffeeScript |
538 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +4 | -1 | 0 | 0.8x, slowing | |
| 21078 |
Twirl is Play's default template engine |
561 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +10 | -1 | 0 | 0.9x, slowing | |
| 21079 |
Yii 2.0 Advanced Application Template |
1,664 | 0 | 0 | +2 | +22 | -1 | 0 | 1.0x, steady | |
| 21080 |
A radically powerful Text-Editor/Wysiwyg editor for Angular.js! Create multiple editor instances, two-way-bind HTML content, watch editors for changes and more! |
3,941 | 0 | 0 | +1 | +7 | -1 | 0 | 0.9x, slowing | |
| 21081 |
Official FreeTDS repository |
508 | 0 | +1 | +4 | +23 | -1 | 0 | 1.0x, steady | |
| 21082 |
post mortem tracker |
1,017 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +5 | -1 | 0 | 0.8x, slowing | |
| 21083 |
The first back-end framework specially designed for single-page web applications |
960 | 0 | +1 | +1 | +1 | -1 | 0 | 0.5x, slowing | |
| 21084 |
LKM rootkit for Linux Kernels 2.6.x-7.x (x86/x86_64 and ARM/ARM64) |
2,492 | 0 | +4 | +21 | +351 | -1 | 16 | 1.0x, steady | |
| 21085 |
Client library for Amazon Kinesis |
669 | 0 | +1 | +1 | +18 | -1 | 0 | 0.9x, slowing | |
| 21086 |
3D C++ Game Engine - yet another open source game engine |
3,901 | 0 | -1 | +10 | +228 | -1 | 0 | 1.0x, steady | |
| 21087 |
CSS selectors complexity and performance analyzer |
696 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +4 | -1 | 0 | 0.8x, slowing | |
| 21088 |
Nginx C module to expose Lua API to ngx_lua for Nginx upstreams |
513 | 0 | 0 | +1 | +11 | -1 | 0 | 0.9x, slowing | |
| 21089 |
Simple animations using FontAwesome and some CSS3. |
911 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +5 | -1 | 0 | 0.8x, slowing | |
| 21090 |
🕶 addons.mozilla.org Django app and API 🎉 |
905 | 0 | 0 | +2 | +28 | -1 | 0 | 1.0x, steady | |
| 21091 |
Animated wheel navigation JavaScript library based on Raphaël.js (SVG/VML). It can be a pie menu (radial menu, circular menu) and many more. |
705 | 0 | +1 | +1 | +5 | -1 | 0 | 0.8x, slowing | |
| 21092 |
High-performance browser-grade HTML5 parser |
2,656 | 0 | 0 | +19 | +273 | -1 | 0 | 1.0x, steady | |
| 21093 |
An iBeacon plugin for Phonegap / Cordova 3.x and upwards. Supports both iOS and Android (contributions are welcome) |
727 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | -1 | 0 | 0.5x, slowing | |
| 21094 |
Node.js RSA library |
1,377 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +4 | -1 | 0 | 0.8x, slowing | |
| 21095 |
The Git-Flow Maven Plugin supports various Git workflows, including GitFlow and GitHub Flow. This plugin runs Git and Maven commands from the command line. |
508 | 0 | +1 | -1 | +8 | -1 | 0 | 0.9x, slowing | |
| 21096 |
🅱 The simple way to configure and bootstrap your Nette application. |
688 | 0 | +2 | +2 | +16 | -1 | 0 | 0.9x, slowing | |
| 21097 |
jMetal: a framework for multi-objective optimization with metaheuristics |
562 | 0 | +1 | +4 | +28 | -1 | 0 | 1.0x, steady | |
| 21098 |
A grotesque sans. |
1,707 | 0 | +1 | +4 | +60 | -1 | 8 | 1.0x, steady | |
| 21099 |
Tar file reading/writing for Rust |
746 | 0 | +1 | +6 | +62 | -1 | 0 | 1.0x, steady | |
| 21100 |
RFCs for changes to Ember |
801 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +6 | -1 | 0 | 0.9x, slowing |
Today counts stars since midnight US Pacific time, so it is a partial day. 1 more tracked repositories are still loading their star history and will join the ranking once it is complete.