When studying a profession, we often encounter the fact that new knowledge gives us a feeling of the full picture, when everything becomes clearer.
As the industry develops, something new appears every day that gives more advantageous positions to those who know it. This was the case, for example, with the emergence of ChatGPT, knowledge of which gave people a huge advantage.
In this article, I tried to collect 10 projects, knowledge of which will help you become a great specialist.
Let's go!
1. 💎 Bifrost - Fastest enterprise AI gateway
To be honest, I can describe the project simply and quickly. If you want a powerful LLM Gateway for your project, and at the same time deploy it in a user-friendly interface without setting up a bunch of configs and other things, then this project is for you.
🌱 Star the Bifrost repository ☆
2. 👾 Godot - Free and open source 2D and 3D game engine
A truly legendary engine like Unity or Unreal Engine for games. If you are a game developer, you should know this project. From pet projects for the university to multi-million dollar games - it gives it all.
Godot Engine is a feature-packed, cross-platform game engine to create 2D and 3D games from a unified interface. It provides a comprehensive set of common tools, so that users can focus on making games without having to reinvent the wheel.
3. ▲ Turborepo - Build system optimized for JavaScript and TypeScript, written in Rust
Created by the same folks behind Vercel and Next.js, Turborepo is a high-speed build system that’s especially useful for monorepos.
Turborepo is a high-performance build system for JavaScript and TypeScript codebases, written in Rust.
4. 🐈⬛ Nest.js - A progressive Node.js framework for building efficient, scalable, and enterprise-grade server-side applications
If you’ve ever wished Express had a bit more structure, Nest.js is the upgrade you’ve been looking for. It brings TypeScript, OOP, and a modular architecture to Node.js development.
Nest is a framework for building efficient, scalable Node.js server-side applications. It uses modern JavaScript, is built with TypeScript (preserves compatibility with pure JavaScript) and combines elements of OOP (Object Oriented Programming), FP (Functional Programming), and FRP (Functional Reactive Programming).
🌱 Star the Nest.js repository ☆
5. ⚙️ GitMCP - free, open-source, remote MCP server for any GitHub project
The following project is a server implementing the MCP protocol that connects LLM directly to a GitHub repository.
GitMCP is a free, open-source, remote Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that transforms any GitHub project (repositories or GitHub pages) into a documentation hub.
🌱 Star the GitMCP repository ☆
6. 📁 Linux kernel - Linux kernel source tree
Now let's look at something truly colossal. The next project needs no introduction, but if anyone doesn't know, it's the kernel of the Linux operating system, which you may be using to view this article.
The Linux kernel is the core of any Linux operating system. It manages hardware,
system resources, and provides the fundamental services for all other software.
🌱 Star the Linux kernel repository ☆
7. 🗄️ Redis - Preferred, fastest, and most feature-rich cache, data structure server, and document and vector query engine.
If you need a fast response from your database, this system is 100% suitable.
non-relational NoSQL database management system
8. 💼 Frappe HR - Open Source HR and Payroll Software
The next project is an open source business solution for HR management from Frappe. This company has been around for a long time and has a really big name in the industry, as you may have used (or are using) its ERPNext product if you work as a manager.
Frappe HR has everything you need to drive excellence within the company. It's a complete HRMS solution with over 13 different modules right from Employee Management, Onboarding, Leaves, to Payroll, Taxation, and more!
🌱 Star the Frappe HR repository
9. ⚙️ MLX - An array framework for Apple silicon
An excellent framework from Apple that will allow you to teach your MacBook, iMac and other devices to solve many necessary tasks for business and more.
MLX is designed by machine learning researchers for machine learning researchers. The framework is intended to be user-friendly, but still efficient to train and deploy models. The design of the framework itself is also conceptually simple.
10. 👀 Mockoon - Easiest and quickest way to run mock APIs locally
Now, let's move on to creating an API. If you want to test your application route on a localhost, say, how information about products comes in, then you can do it thanks to this tool without deploying to dev or prod.
Mockoon is the easiest and quickest way to design and run mock APIs. No remote deployment, no account required, free and open-source.
🖋️ Conclusion
In this article, I have reviewed only a small part of the volume of projects that are important and even necessary for every developer to know. It is clear that, well, let's say, there are hundreds of such projects today, and maybe more. But I hope you have discovered something new, and if not, at least remembered that there is.
Thank you very much for reading this article ❤️!
What other projects do you know that are not so popular, but also useful? It will be interesting to find out in the comments!