Tis' the season of open-source ☃️
Holiday coding can be a blessed experience, and there's nothing better than building an awesome project in your time off.
I've gone through countless repos and found the 24 best libraries for your Christmas coding.
Web-Dev🌐:
1. CopilotTextarea👑 - AI-powered Writing in React Apps
A drop-in replacement for any react <textarea> with the features of Github CopilotX.
Autocompletes, insertions, edits.
Can be fed any context in real time or by the developer ahead of time.
2.React Joyride - Create product walkthroughs
gilbarbara / react-joyride
Create guided tours in your apps
React Joyride
Create awesome tours for your app!
Showcase your app to new users or explain functionality of new features.
It uses react-floater for positioning and styling.
And you can use your own components too!
View the demo here (or the codesandbox examples)
Read the docs
Talk about it on the Discussions board.
Setup
npm i react-joyride Getting Started
import Joyride from 'react-joyride'; export class App extends React.Component { state = { steps: [ { target: '.my-first-step', content: 'This is my awesome feature!', }, { target: '.my-other-step', content: 'This another awesome feature!', }, ... ] }; render () { const { steps } = this.state; return ( <div className="app"> <Joyride steps={steps} ... /> ... </div>…3.NextAuthJS - Easily set up authentications
nextauthjs / next-auth
Authentication for the Web.
Auth.js
Authentication for the Web.
Open Source. Full Stack. Own Your Data.
Auth.js is a set of open-source packages that are built on standard Web APIs for authentication in modern applications with any framework on any platform in any JS runtime.
Auth js is now part of Better Auth. We recommend new projects to start with Better Auth unless there are some very specific feature gaps (most notably stateless session management without a database).
Features
Flexible and easy to use
- Designed to work with any OAuth service, it supports 2.0+, OIDC
- Built-in support for many popular sign-in services
- Email/Passwordless authentication
- Passkeys/WebAuthn support
- Bring Your Database - or none! - stateless authentication with any backend (Active Directory, LDAP, etc.)
- Runtime-agnostic, runs anywhere! (Docker, Node.js, Serverless, etc.)
Own your data
Auth.js can be used with or without a database.
- An open-source solution that allows you to keep control of your data
- …
4.Trigger.dev - Reliably run long jobs without timeouts
triggerdotdev / trigger.dev
Trigger.dev – build and deploy fully‑managed AI agents and workflows
Build and deploy fully‑managed AI agents and workflows
Website | Docs | Issues | Feature requests | Public roadmap | Self-hosting
About Trigger.dev
Trigger.dev is the open-source platform for building AI workflows in TypeScript. Long-running tasks with retries, queues, observability, and elastic scaling.
The platform designed for building AI agents
Build AI agents using all the frameworks, services and LLMs you're used to, deploy them to Trigger.dev and get durable, long-running tasks with retries, queues, observability, and elastic scaling out of the box.
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Long-running without timeouts: Execute your tasks with absolutely no timeouts, unlike AWS Lambda, Vercel, and other serverless platforms.
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Durability, retries & queues: Build rock solid agents and AI applications using our durable tasks, retries, queues and idempotency.
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True runtime freedom: Customize your deployed tasks with system packages – run browsers, Python scripts, FFmpeg and more.
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Human-in-the-loop: Programmatically pause your tasks until a human…
UI/UX 🦋:
5. Flowbite - Top Library of CSS Components
One of the best and most respected libraries of UI components.
Based on utility-first CSS framework.
Easy to work with, full of important supports and templates.
6.MaterialUI - Foundational React components implemented with Google's Material Design
mui / material-ui
Material UI: Comprehensive React component library that implements Google's Material Design. Free forever.
Material UI
Material UI is a comprehensive library of React components that features our independent implementation of Google's Material Design system It's trusted by some of the world's greatest product teams because it's been rigorously battle-tested through more than a decade of development by thousands of open-source contributors.
Material UI's core functionality is extended by MUI X, a suite of complex components for advanced use cases.
Documentation
Get started in the Material UI documentation.
Older versions
Note: @next points to pre-releases. Use @latest for the latest stable release.
Joy UI
This repository also contains Joy UI, an experimental component library that implements our own in-house Joy Design Joy UI is in beta and development is currently on hold…
7. SwiperUI - Respected library for implementing mobile swipe UI
nolimits4web / swiper
Most modern mobile touch slider with hardware accelerated transitions
Get Started | Documentation | Demos
Swiper
Swiper - is the free and most modern mobile touch slider with hardware accelerated transitions and amazing native behavior. It is intended to be used in mobile websites, mobile web apps, and mobile native/hybrid apps.
Swiper is not compatible with all platforms, it is a modern touch slider which is focused only on modern apps/platforms to bring the best experience and simplicity.
Features
- Tree-shakeable: Only modules you use will be imported into your app's bundle.
- Mobile-friendly: It is intended to be used in mobile websites, mobile web apps, and mobile native/hybrid apps.
- Library Agnostic: Swiper doesn't require any JavaScript libraries like jQuery, which makes Swiper much smaller and faster. It can be safely used with libraries such as jQuery, Zepto, jQuery Mobile, etc.
- 1:1 Touch movement: By default…
8.ReactSpring - implement animations in React with realistic physics
pmndrs / react-spring
✌️ A spring physics based React animation library
Special thanks to
Warp is built for coding with multiple AI agents
react-spring
A spring-physics first animation library
giving you flexible tools to confidently cast your ideas
react-spring is a cross-platform spring-physics first animation library.
It's as simple as:
const styles = useSpring({ from: { opacity: 0 }, to: { opacity: 1 } }) <animated.div style={styles} /> Just a small bit about us:
- Cross-Platform: We support
react-dom,react-native,react-three-fiber,react-konva&react-zdog. - Versatile: Be declarative with your animations or if you prefer, imperative.
- Spring-Physics First: By default animation use springs for fluid interactivity, but we support durations with easings as well.
There's a lot more to be had! Give it a try and find out.
Getting Started
⚡️ Jump Start
# Install the entire library npm install…
GenAI🤖:
9. CopilotPortal: Embed an actionable LLM chatbot inside your app.
A context-aware LLM chatbot inside your application that answers questions and takes actions.
Get a working chatBot with a few lines of code, then customize and embed as deeply as you need to.
10.llamafile - Collapse complexities of working with LLMs to a single file
mozilla-ai / llamafile
Distribute and run LLMs with a single file.
llamafile
We want to hear from you! Mozilla.ai recently adopted the llamafile project, and we're planning an approach for codebase modernization. Please share what you find most valuable about llamafile and what would make it more useful for your work Read more via the blog and add your voice to the discussion here.
llamafile lets you distribute and run LLMs with a single file. (announcement blog post)
Our goal is to make open LLMs much more accessible to both developers and end users. We're doing that by combining llama.cpp with Cosmopolitan Libc into one framework that collapses all the complexity of LLMs down to a single-file executable (called a "llamafile") that runs locally on most computers, with no installation.

llamafile is a Mozilla Builders project.
Quick Start
Download and run your first llamafile in minutes:
# Download an example model (LLaVA 1.5 7B) curl -LO https://huggingface.co/Mozilla/llava-v1.5-7b-llamafile/resolve/main/llava-v1.5-7b-q4.llamafile #
…
mozilla-ai / llamafile
Distribute and run LLMs with a single file.
llamafile
We want to hear from you! Mozilla.ai recently adopted the llamafile project, and we're planning an approach for codebase modernization. Please share what you find most valuable about llamafile and what would make it more useful for your work Read more via the blog and add your voice to the discussion here.
llamafile lets you distribute and run LLMs with a single file. (announcement blog post)
Our goal is to make open LLMs much more accessible to both developers and end users. We're doing that by combining llama.cpp with Cosmopolitan Libc into one framework that collapses all the complexity of LLMs down to a single-file executable (called a "llamafile") that runs locally on most computers, with no installation.

llamafile is a Mozilla Builders project.
Quick Start
Download and run your first llamafile in minutes:
# Download an example model (LLaVA 1.5 7B) curl -LO https://huggingface.co/Mozilla/llava-v1.5-7b-llamafile/resolve/main/llava-v1.5-7b-q4.llamafile #…
11. Pezzo.ai - Developer favorite LLM ops & observability
pezzolabs / pezzo
🕹️ Open-source, developer-first LLMOps platform designed to streamline prompt design, version management, instant delivery, collaboration, troubleshooting, observability and more.
Pezzo is a fully cloud-native and open-source LLMOps platform. Seamlessly observe and monitor your AI operations, troubleshoot issues, save up to 90% on costs and latency, collaborate and manage your prompts in one place, and instantly deliver AI changes
✨ Features
Documentation
Click here to navigate to the Official Pezzo Documentation
In the documentation, you can find information on how to use Pezzo, its architecture, including tutorials and recipes for varius use cases and LLM providers.
Supported Clients
Looking for a client that's not listed here? Open an issue and let us know!
Getting Started - Docker Compose
If you simply want to run the full Pezzo stack locally, check out Running With Docker Compose in the documentation.
If you want to run Pezzo in development mode, continue reading.
12.Tavily - Dev friendly autonomous GPT agent that Searches data & writes reports
assafelovic / gpt-researcher
An LLM agent that conducts deep research (local and web) on any given topic and generates a long report with citations.
🔎 GPT Researcher
GPT Researcher is an open deep research agent designed for both web and local research on any given task.
The agent produces detailed, factual, and unbiased research reports with citations. GPT Researcher provides a full suite of customization options to create tailor made and domain specific research agents. Inspired by the recent Plan-and-Solve and RAG papers, GPT Researcher addresses misinformation, speed, determinism, and reliability by offering stable performance and increased speed through parallelized agent work.
Our mission is to empower individuals and organizations with accurate, unbiased, and factual information through AI.
Why GPT Researcher?
- Objective conclusions for manual research can take weeks, requiring vast resources and time.
- LLMs trained on outdated information can hallucinate, becoming irrelevant for current research tasks.
- Current LLMs have token limitations, insufficient for generating long research reports.
- Limited web sources in existing services lead to misinformation…
Security/Privacy 🔐:
13. Wazuh - Unified Open-Source Security Platform
Unified open-source security platform for endpoints and cloud workloads.
Threat detection, prevention and response.
Protects on-premise, containerized and cloud environments.
14.Zeek - Analyze network traffic in-depth
zeek / zeek
Zeek is a powerful network analysis framework that is much different from the typical IDS you may know.
A powerful framework for network traffic analysis and security monitoring.
Key Features — Documentation — Getting Started — Development — License
Key Features
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In-depth Analysis Zeek ships with analyzers for many protocols, enabling high-level semantic analysis at the application layer.
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Adaptable and Flexible Zeek's domain-specific scripting language enables site-specific monitoring policies and means that it is not restricted to any particular detection approach.
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Efficient Zeek targets high-performance networks and is used operationally at a variety of large sites.
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Highly Stateful Zeek keeps extensive application-layer state about the network it monitors and provides a high-level archive of a network's activity.
Getting Started
The best place to find information about getting started with Zeek is our web site www.zeek.org, specifically the documentation section there. On the web site you can also find downloads for stable releases, tutorials on getting Zeek set up, and many other useful…
15. SuperTokens - Open source authentication provider
supertokens / supertokens-core
Open source alternative to Auth0 / Firebase Auth / AWS Cognito
Open-Source auth provider
Add secure login and session management to your apps. SDKs available for popular languages and front-end frameworks e.g. Node.js, Go, Python, React.js, React Native, Vanilla JS, etc.
Supertokens architecture is optimized to add secure authentication for your users without compromising on user and developer experience
Three building blocks of SuperTokens architecture
- Frontend SDK: Manages session tokens and renders login UI widgets
- Backend SDK: Provides APIs for sign-up, sign-in, signout, session refreshing, etc. Your Frontend will talk to these APIs
- SuperTokens Core: The HTTP service for the core auth logic and database operations. This service is used by the Backend SDK
Features
- Passwordless Login
- Social Login
- Email Password Login
- Phone Password Login
- Session Management
- Multi-Factor Authentication
- Multi Tenancy / Organization Support (Enterprise SSO)
- User Roles
- Microservice Authentication
Learn more
16.Sniffnet - Locally monitor your internet traffic
Application to comfortably monitor your Internet traffic.
Cross-platform. Intuitive. Reliable.
Translated in:
🇨🇳 🇩🇪 🇫🇷 🇷🇺 🇵🇹 🇪🇦 🇮🇹 🇵🇱 + 16 more languages
Support Sniffnet's development 💖
Sniffnet is completely free, open-source software which needs lots of effort and time to develop and maintain.
If you appreciate Sniffnet, consider sponsoring your support will enable a constant growth with new features and functionalities.
Do you want to help the project in an alternative way? You can also head to the official store and put your hands on some cool merchandise!
A special mention goes to these awesome organizations and folks who are sponsoring Sniffnet:
Download
Links in the table above will download the latest version of Sniffnet directly from…
Mobile 📱:
17. Tamagui - Respected react native UI & optimization library
Tamagui is designed to rapidly style React applications.
It incorporates an optional UI kit and an optimizing compiler for performance enhancement.
Allows for seamless code sharing between web and native platforms, optimizing styled components for each environment.
18.EarlGrey - iOS UI testing by Google
mui / material-ui
Material UI: Comprehensive React component library that implements Google's Material Design. Free forever.
Material UI
Material UI is a comprehensive library of React components that features our independent implementation of Google's Material Design system It's trusted by some of the world's greatest product teams because it's been rigorously battle-tested through more than a decade of development by thousands of open-source contributors.
Material UI's core functionality is extended by MUI X, a suite of complex components for advanced use cases.
Documentation
Get started in the Material UI documentation.
Older versions
Note: @next points to pre-releases. Use @latest for the latest stable release.
Joy UI
This repository also contains Joy UI, an experimental component library that implements our own in-house Joy Design Joy UI is in beta and development is currently on hold…
19. ReactNativeMaps - Highly customizable map component for apps
react-native-maps / react-native-maps
React Native Mapview component for iOS + Android
React Native Map components for iOS + Android
Contributing
This project is being maintained by a small group of people, and any help with issues and pull requests are always appreciated. If you are able and willing to contribute, please read the guidelines.
Installation
See Installation Instructions.
See Setup Instructions for the Included Example Project.
Compatibility
React Native Compatibility
Version Requirements:
Compatibility
Fabric (New Architecture)
Version React Native Requirement 1.26.1+ >= 0.81.1 1.26.0 and below >= 0.76
Old Architecture
Version React Native Requirement 1.14.0 - 1.20.1 >= 0.74 < 1.14.0 >= 0.64.3
Component API
General Usage
import MapView from 'react-native-maps';
or
var MapView = require('react-native-maps');
…
react-native-maps / react-native-maps
React Native Mapview component for iOS + Android
React Native Map components for iOS + Android
Contributing
This project is being maintained by a small group of people, and any help with issues and pull requests are always appreciated. If you are able and willing to contribute, please read the guidelines.
Installation
See Installation Instructions.
See Setup Instructions for the Included Example Project.
Compatibility
React Native Compatibility
Version Requirements:
Compatibility
Fabric (New Architecture)
| Version | React Native Requirement |
|---|---|
| 1.26.1+ | >= 0.81.1 |
| 1.26.0 and below | >= 0.76 |
Old Architecture
| Version | React Native Requirement |
|---|---|
| 1.14.0 - 1.20.1 | >= 0.74 |
| < 1.14.0 | >= 0.64.3 |
Component API
General Usage
import MapView from 'react-native-maps'; or
var MapView = require('react-native-maps'); …
20.ReactNativePaper - Design library for iOS and Android
callstack / react-native-paper
Material Design for React Native (Android & iOS)
Material design for React Native.
reactnativepaper.com
React Native Paper is the cross-platform UI kit library containing a collection of customizable and production-ready components, which by default are following and respecting the Google’s Material Design guidelines.
Getting Started
Refer to the getting started guide for instructions.
Documentation
Check the components and their usage in our documentation.
Features
- Follows material design guidelines
- Works on both iOS and Android following platform adaptation guidelines
- Full theming support
Try it out
🧑💻 Run the example app with Expo to see it in action. The source code for the examples are under the /example folder.
📲 You can also try out components in our demo apps available in the both stores Android and iOS.
Contributing
Read the contribution guidelines before contributing.
Figma and Sketch component kits
Use official component kits provided by Material Design.
Made with ❤️ at Callstack
react-native-paper is an open…
Other 🎅:
21. LangChain - Building Custom Action Chains with LLMs
A well-known library, but still included as it's one of my favorites and fun to build with.
Modular components that help you pull together LLMs into actions with integrations to many apps & APIs.
A powerful framework for building LLM agents.
22.ReactAgent - Experimental project. Turn prompts into working react components
eylonmiz / react-agent
The open-source React.js Autonomous LLM Agent
ReactAgent - The open-source React.js Autonomous LLM Agent
Watch Demo »
Website · Watch Demo · Demo Code Example · Docs · Discord
ReactAgent.-.The.open-source.React.js.LLM.Agent.-.Demo.mp4
📖 Introduction
ReactAgent is an experimental autonomous agent that uses GPT-4 language model to generate and compose React components from user stories. It is built with React, TailwindCSS, Typescript, Radix UI, Shandcn UI, and OpenAI API.
🚀 Features
- Generate React Components from user stories
- Compose React Components from existing components
- Use a local design system to generate React Components
- Use React, TailwindCSS, Typescript, Radix UI, Shadcn UI
- Built with Atomic Design Principles
😮 Example
🌈 Quickstart
- Clone repository
git clone git@github.com:eylonmiz/react-agent.git - Change to the project directory
cd react-agent - Get an OpenAI API Key
- Set OPENAI_SECRET_KEY in backend/main .env file (see .env.example) or run the script below
echo OPENAI_SECRET_KEY="INSERT_YOUR_OPENAI_SECRET_KEY_VALUE_HERE" >> backend/main/.env - Install dependencies
yarn install - Run Backend Script…
23.Awesome for Beginers - Github listicle of beginner friendly projects
MunGell / awesome-for-beginners
A list of awesome beginners-friendly projects.
Inspired by First Timers Only blog post.
If you are a maintainer of open-source projects, add the label first-timers-only (or similar) to your project and list it here so that people can find it.
If you are not a programmer but would like to contribute, check out the Awesome for non-programmers list.
If you would like to be guided through how to contribute to a repository on GitHub, check out the First Contributions repository.
Tip
All links open in the same tab. If you want to open in a new tab, use Ctrl + Click (Windows/Linux) or Cmd + Click (Mac).
Table of Contents:
24.Appwrite - Powerful backend platform for web & mobile apps
We just announced DB operators for Appwrite Databases - Learn more
Appwrite Cloud is now Generally Available - Learn more
Appwrite is an all-in-one development platform for Web, Mobile, and Flutter applications. Use built-in backend infrastructure and web hosting, all from a single place. Built with the open source community and optimized for developer experience in the coding languages you love.
English | 简体中文
Appwrite is an end-to-end platform for building Web, Mobile, Native, or Backend apps, packaged as a set of Docker microservices. It includes both a backend server and a fully integrated hosting solution for deploying static and server-side rendered frontends. Appwrite abstracts the complexity and repetitiveness required to build modern apps from scratch and allows you to build secure, full-stack applications faster.
Using Appwrite, you can easily integrate your app with user authentication and multiple sign-in methods, a database for storing and querying…
And...that's it folks!
Hope you enjoy these libraries and that they help/inspire you to build something cool during the Holidays.
Don't forget to STAR🌟 the repos & support this article with reactions if you enjoyed it.
Merry Christmas! 🎅🏽☃️
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Top comments (15)
Flowbit is awesome. And . . I would like to add two more.
1. Swirl
2. Resume Matcher
Good recs.
I'd like to add one more :)
Winglang
A cloud-oriented programming language that allows developers to build distributed systems, leveraging cloud services as first-class citizens.
Love Winglang. Forgot to include it.
Me too 😉
No worries
Woohooo! Nice one.
And after you use Supertokens to authenticate who your user are, make sure to use cerbos.dev to authorize them to do stuff within your applications.
Cerbos ⭐️
github.com/cerbos/cerbos
Thanks for sharing, will check out this library
Really liked it! ReactAgent looks interesting, I'm definitely playing with it over the next few days 🤓
React Agent is pretty fun to play around with, but remember it's an experimental project 😬
Great list, @uliyahoo!
Glad you enjoyed it.
Merry open-source centric Christmas 🎄
Santa's open-source workshop
Nice list!
Thanks for checking it out!