Developer Tools, ranked by momentum

What’s trending in Developer Tools: the projects accelerating fastest right now — ranked by how quickly their growth is speeding up, not by how many stars they already have.

104 tracked projects · updated daily · 1 Oct 2026

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farion1231/cc-switchA cross-platform desktop All-in-One assistant for Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, OpenClaw, Gemini CLI & Hermes Agent. Only official website: ccswitch.io

+264.4136.4k 292

HelixDB/helix-dbHelixDB is an OLTP graph-vector database built in Rust on Object Storage.

+21.76.1k 390

zed-industries/zedCode at the speed of thought – Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter.

+4.190.8k 490

tauri-apps/tauriBuild smaller, faster, and more secure desktop and mobile applications with a web frontend.

+11.9111.4k 588

Infisical/infisicalInfisical is the open-source platform for secrets, certificates, and privileged access management.

+4.929.4k 687

n8n-io/n8nFair-code workflow automation platform with native AI capabilities. Combine visual building with custom code, self-host or cloud, 400+ integrations.

+3.3205.9k 786

vitejs/viteNext generation frontend tooling. It's fast!

+5.483.0k 884

astral-sh/ruffAn extremely fast Python linter and code formatter, written in Rust.

+2.449.8k 984

yt-dlp/yt-dlpA feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader

+9.7193.4k 1083

drizzle-team/drizzle-ormORM

+3.035.9k 1183

neovim/neovimVim-fork focused on extensibility and usability

+3.3102.6k 1282

ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh🙃 A delightful community-driven (with 2,500+ contributors) framework for managing your zsh configuration. Includes 300+ optional plugins (rails, git, macOS, hub, docker, homebrew, node, php, python, etc), 140+ themes to spice up your morning, and an auto-update tool that makes it easy to keep up with the latest updates from the community.

+2.0189.9k 1382

jarun/nnnn³ The unorthodox terminal file manager

+16.122.0k 1477

usebruno/brunoOpensource IDE For Exploring and Testing API's (lightweight alternative to Postman/Insomnia)

+0.447.2k 1573

FujiwaraChoki/MoneyPrinterV2Automate the process of making money online.

+2.032.0k 1673

pocketbase/pocketbaseOpen Source realtime backend in 1 file

+2.161.1k 1771

spf13/cobraA Commander for modern Go CLI interactions

+3.144.6k 1871

vadimdemedes/ink🌈 React for interactive command-line apps

+1.439.9k 1970

oven-sh/bunIncredibly fast JavaScript runtime, bundler, test runner, and package manager – all in one

+0.696.0k 2069

reflex-dev/reflex🕸️ Web apps in pure Python 🐍

+2.428.9k 2168

fuxicodex/FuxiFuXi is a fast, self-contained AI coding agent that lives in your terminal — edit code, run commands, and drive tools, with cost-aware routing across LLM providers.

+10.33.4k 2263

heckmon/roxum-ideA minimal and powerful IDE/Code editor for Android

+0.9618 2362

web-infra-dev/rspackFast Rust-based bundler for the web with a modernized webpack API 🦀

+0.312.9k 2461

athasdev/athasA lightweight, cross-platform code editor, built with Tauri (Rust and React) with Git support, AI agents, vim keybindings.

+1.03.1k 2561

appsmithorg/appsmithPlatform to build admin panels, internal tools, and dashboards. Integrates with 25+ databases and any API.

-0.140.9k

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