{"id":29659,"date":"2017-04-06T18:01:59","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T10:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/?p=29659"},"modified":"2022-08-11T19:02:42","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T11:02:42","slug":"explore-open-source-projects-gittrends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/explore-open-source-projects-gittrends\/","title":{"rendered":"Explore Open Source Projects with GitTrends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: GitTrends is no longer in service.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of new open source projects <strong>get posted to GitHub<\/strong> every day. Over the years, this created a <strong>huge library of projects<\/strong> and it can be tough <strong>sifting through everything<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>But the new free web app, <strong>GitTrends<\/strong> makes <strong>searching for projects<\/strong> easy and fun!<\/p>\n<p class=\"note\"><strong>Read Also:<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/open-source-community-give-back\/\">10 Ways You Can Contribute to The Open Source Community<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can <strong>search for terms<\/strong> related to libraries such as jQuery, React, or anything similar. GitTrends will <strong>autosuggest related libraries<\/strong> with links to each one.<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/explore-open-source-projects-gittrends\/01-gittrends-search.jpg\" alt=\"gittrends search\" width=\"800\" height=\"478\"><\/figure>\n<p>You can also <strong>explore the newest libraries manually<\/strong> through the <strong>\u201cExplore\u201d<\/strong> page.<\/p>\n<p>By default, GitTrends <strong>organizes projects by rank<\/strong>. This seems to be an <strong>average of many factors<\/strong> including stars, watchers, contributions, and other metrics pulled from GitHub\u2019s API.<\/p>\n<p>If you have a specific sorting preference, you can <strong>change these results<\/strong> by limiting the total stars, the programming language, or by the domain of six very specific topics:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Application software<\/li>\n<li>Documentation<\/li>\n<li>Non-web libraries and frameworks<\/li>\n<li>Software tools<\/li>\n<li>System software<\/li>\n<li>Web libraries and frameworks<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>For some reason, GitTrends <strong>does not have a \u201crecency\u201d search<\/strong> which would be phenomenal. Maybe in future updates, we\u2019ll see this functionality.<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/explore-open-source-projects-gittrends\/02-gittrends-search.jpg\" alt=\"gittrends search repos\" width=\"800\" height=\"406\"><\/figure>\n<p>This site isn\u2019t just about finding cool libraries & projects, though. It\u2019s also great for <strong>browsing repo stats, metrics<\/strong> and <strong>graphing visuals<\/strong> such as \u201ctotal stars over time\u201d. You can <strong>check these metrics<\/strong> for any GitHub project, from newer JS libraries to Bootstrap.<\/p>\n<p>Each page <strong>includes raw numbers<\/strong> for total contributors, forks, stars\/unstars, and two important dates: when the project <strong>was created<\/strong> and when it <strong>was last updated<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/explore-open-source-projects-gittrends\/03-gittrends-graphs.jpg\" alt=\"bootstrap graphs on gittrends\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\"><\/figure>\n<p>This little web app should be a solid bookmark for any professional developer. It can help you <strong>search through literally <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/github.blog\/2013-12-23-10-million-repositories\/\" rel=\"noopener\">millions of repos<\/a><\/strong> to find the vital information you need.<\/p>\n<p class=\"note\"><strong>Read Also:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/github-overlooked-features\/\">10 Useful Github Features You Need To Know<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update: GitTrends is no longer in service. Dozens of new open source projects get posted to GitHub every day. Over the years, this created a huge library of projects and it can be tough sifting through everything. But the new free web app, GitTrends makes searching for projects easy and fun! Read Also:10 Ways You&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3393],"tags":[2726,1026],"topic":[4520],"class_list":["entry-content","is-maxi"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.8 (Yoast SEO v27.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Explore Open Source Projects with GitTrends - Hongkiat<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Update: GitTrends is no longer in service. Dozens of new open source projects get posted to GitHub every day. Over the years, this created a huge library\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/explore-open-source-projects-gittrends\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Explore Open Source Projects with GitTrends\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Update: GitTrends is no longer in service. Dozens of new open source projects get posted to GitHub every day. Over the years, this created a huge library\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/explore-open-source-projects-gittrends\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Hongkiat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hongkiatcom\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-04-06T10:01:59+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-08-11T11:02:42+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/explore-open-source-projects-gittrends\/01-gittrends-search.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jake Rocheleau\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@hongkiat\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@hongkiat\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jake Rocheleau\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.hongkiat.com\\\/blog\\\/explore-open-source-projects-gittrends\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.hongkiat.com\\\/blog\\\/explore-open-source-projects-gittrends\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Jake Rocheleau\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.hongkiat.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/966b2daea15283b4145e71aa98a82c2a\"},\"headline\":\"Explore Open Source Projects with GitTrends\",\"datePublished\":\"2017-04-06T10:01:59+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-08-11T11:02:42+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.hongkiat.com\\\/blog\\\/explore-open-source-projects-gittrends\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":306,\"commentCount\":1,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.hongkiat.com\\\/blog\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.hongkiat.com\\\/blog\\\/explore-open-source-projects-gittrends\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/assets.hongkiat.com\\\/uploads\\\/explore-open-source-projects-gittrends\\\/01-gittrends-search.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"GitHub\",\"Open-source\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Toolkit\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.hongkiat.com\\\/blog\\\/explore-open-source-projects-gittrends\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.hongkiat.com\\\/blog\\\/explore-open-source-projects-gittrends\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.hongkiat.com\\\/blog\\\/explore-open-source-projects-gittrends\\\/\",\"name\":\"Explore Open Source Projects with GitTrends - Hongkiat\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.hongkiat.com\\\/blog\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.hongkiat.com\\\/blog\\\/explore-open-source-projects-gittrends\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.hongkiat.com\\\/blog\\\/explore-open-source-projects-gittrends\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/assets.hongkiat.com\\\/uploads\\\/explore-open-source-projects-gittrends\\\/01-gittrends-search.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2017-04-06T10:01:59+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-08-11T11:02:42+00:00\",\"description\":\"Update: GitTrends is no longer in service. Dozens of new open source projects get posted to GitHub every day. Over the years, this created a huge library\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.hongkiat.com\\\/blog\\\/explore-open-source-projects-gittrends\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.hongkiat.com\\\/blog\\\/explore-open-source-projects-gittrends\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.hongkiat.com\\\/blog\\\/explore-open-source-projects-gittrends\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/assets.hongkiat.com\\\/uploads\\\/explore-open-source-projects-gittrends\\\/01-gittrends-search.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/assets.hongkiat.com\\\/uploads\\\/explore-open-source-projects-gittrends\\\/01-gittrends-search.jpg\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.hongkiat.com\\\/blog\\\/explore-open-source-projects-gittrends\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.hongkiat.com\\\/blog\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Explore Open Source Projects with GitTrends\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.hongkiat.com\\\/blog\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.hongkiat.com\\\/blog\\\/\",\"name\":\"Hongkiat\",\"description\":\"Tech and Design Tips\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.hongkiat.com\\\/blog\\\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.hongkiat.com\\\/blog\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.hongkiat.com\\\/blog\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Hongkiat.com\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.hongkiat.com\\\/blog\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.hongkiat.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.hongkiat.com\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/hkdc-logo-rect-yoast.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.hongkiat.com\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/hkdc-logo-rect-yoast.jpg\",\"width\":1200,\"height\":799,\"caption\":\"Hongkiat.com\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.hongkiat.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.facebook.com\\\/hongkiatcom\",\"https:\\\/\\\/x.com\\\/hongkiat\",\"https:\\\/\\\/www.pinterest.com\\\/hongkiat\\\/\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.hongkiat.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/966b2daea15283b4145e71aa98a82c2a\",\"name\":\"Jake Rocheleau\",\"description\":\"Jake is a writer and designer with over 10 years experience working on the web. He writes about user experience design and cool resources for designers\",\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.hongkiat.com\"],\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.hongkiat.com\\\/blog\\\/author\\\/jake\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Explore Open Source Projects with GitTrends - Hongkiat","description":"Update: GitTrends is no longer in service. Dozens of new open source projects get posted to GitHub every day. Over the years, this created a huge library","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/explore-open-source-projects-gittrends\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Explore Open Source Projects with GitTrends","og_description":"Update: GitTrends is no longer in service. Dozens of new open source projects get posted to GitHub every day. Over the years, this created a huge library","og_url":"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/explore-open-source-projects-gittrends\/","og_site_name":"Hongkiat","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hongkiatcom","article_published_time":"2017-04-06T10:01:59+00:00","article_modified_time":"2022-08-11T11:02:42+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/explore-open-source-projects-gittrends\/01-gittrends-search.jpg","type":"","width":"","height":""}],"author":"Jake Rocheleau","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@hongkiat","twitter_site":"@hongkiat","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Jake Rocheleau","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/explore-open-source-projects-gittrends\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/explore-open-source-projects-gittrends\/"},"author":{"name":"Jake Rocheleau","@id":"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/966b2daea15283b4145e71aa98a82c2a"},"headline":"Explore Open Source Projects with GitTrends","datePublished":"2017-04-06T10:01:59+00:00","dateModified":"2022-08-11T11:02:42+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/explore-open-source-projects-gittrends\/"},"wordCount":306,"commentCount":1,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/explore-open-source-projects-gittrends\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/explore-open-source-projects-gittrends\/01-gittrends-search.jpg","keywords":["GitHub","Open-source"],"articleSection":["Toolkit"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/explore-open-source-projects-gittrends\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/explore-open-source-projects-gittrends\/","url":"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/explore-open-source-projects-gittrends\/","name":"Explore Open Source Projects with GitTrends - Hongkiat","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/explore-open-source-projects-gittrends\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/explore-open-source-projects-gittrends\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/explore-open-source-projects-gittrends\/01-gittrends-search.jpg","datePublished":"2017-04-06T10:01:59+00:00","dateModified":"2022-08-11T11:02:42+00:00","description":"Update: GitTrends is no longer in service. Dozens of new open source projects get posted to GitHub every day. Over the years, this created a huge library","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/explore-open-source-projects-gittrends\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/explore-open-source-projects-gittrends\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/explore-open-source-projects-gittrends\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/explore-open-source-projects-gittrends\/01-gittrends-search.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/explore-open-source-projects-gittrends\/01-gittrends-search.jpg"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/explore-open-source-projects-gittrends\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Explore Open Source Projects with GitTrends"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/","name":"Hongkiat","description":"Tech and Design Tips","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/#organization","name":"Hongkiat.com","url":"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/hkdc-logo-rect-yoast.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/hkdc-logo-rect-yoast.jpg","width":1200,"height":799,"caption":"Hongkiat.com"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hongkiatcom","https:\/\/x.com\/hongkiat","https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/hongkiat\/"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/966b2daea15283b4145e71aa98a82c2a","name":"Jake Rocheleau","description":"Jake is a writer and designer with over 10 years experience working on the web. He writes about user experience design and cool resources for designers","sameAs":["https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com"],"url":"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/author\/jake\/"}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uxU-7In","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29659"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61624,"href":"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29659\/revisions\/61624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29659"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=29659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}