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Krane
KraneGo

A lightweight, self-hosted container management platform for cost-effective deployment of side-projects and small workloads.

#side-projects#devops#deployments
Stars85
Forks9
Last commit3 years ago
Vebview.JS
Vebview.JSV

A lightweight framework for building cross-platform desktop applications using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript with native APIs.

#native-api#vlang#web-app-porting
Stars84
Forks6
Last commit8 months ago
AHKhttp
AHKhttpAutoHotkey

A basic HTTP server implementation written in AutoHotkey for lightweight web serving.

#http-server#web-server#autohotkey
Stars83
Forks22
Last commit2 years ago
MacMusicPlayer
MacMusicPlayerSwift

A lightweight menu bar music player for macOS with native interface, multi-language support, and YouTube/SoundCloud download capabilities.

#audio-player#lightweight#media-control
Stars82
Forks0
Last commit1 month ago
Lua-star
Lua-starLua

A pure Lua library for A* path-finding with flexible map integration and optional caching.

#open-source#ai-navigation#lightweight
Stars80
Forks7
Last commit4 years ago
shash
shashLua

A simple, lightweight spatial hash library for Lua, optimized for 2D bounding box overlap detection.

#spatial-hash#collision-detection#spatial-indexing
Stars78
Forks4
Last commit4 years ago
boxed
boxedGo

A Dropbox-based blog engine that serves markdown articles directly from your Dropbox folder.

#static-site-generator#blog-engine#lightweight
Stars78
Forks9
Last commit7 years ago
simplehttp
simplehttpGo

A simple and lightweight HTTP server for serving local directories over HTTP.

#http-server#http#lightweight
Stars75
Forks3
Last commit3 years ago
Synapses
Synapses

A collection of neural network libraries for functional and mainstream languages, offering efficient lazy evaluation and cross-language compatibility.

#functional-programming#neural-network#csharp
Stars73
Forks6
Last commit4 years ago
jute
juteC++

A single-header C++ JSON parser with a read-only API, designed for simplicity and drop-in use.

#data-serialization#cpp17#lightweight
Stars73
Forks24
Last commit3 months ago
vuemoji-picker
vuemoji-pickerTypeScript

A lightweight Vue 2 and 3 wrapper component for emoji-picker-element.

#emoji#wrapper-library#emoji-picker
Stars72
Forks6
Last commit1 year ago
Mous Player
Mous PlayerC++

A lightweight, extensible audio player and converter for FreeBSD, Linux, and macOS with multiple interface options.

#qt#plugin-system#converter
Stars72
Forks17
Last commit3 years ago
pico-lambda
pico-lambdaJavaScript

A 640-byte functional library that curries and composes native JavaScript array and string methods.

#functional-programming#arrays#currying
Stars71
Forks4
Last commit8 years ago
StringDB
StringDBC#

A modular key/value archival database for .NET designed to use minimal RAM and produce compact database files.

#database#storage#low-memory
Stars71
Forks12
Last commit3 years ago
RapidMQ
RapidMQGo

A pure Go library for managing local message queues with disk persistence and custom worker processing.

#message-queue#concurrent-processing#local-queue
Stars70
Forks12
Last commit8 years ago
CrunchyCleaner
CrunchyCleanerGo

A lightweight, cross-platform cache cleanup tool with a simple TUI for Windows and Linux.

#cli-app#cleaner#cleaners
Stars70
Forks1
Last commit20 days ago
chart
chartTypeScript

A zero-dependency library for generating ASCII line charts in console environments for Node.js and browsers.

#chart#command-line-tools#console-ascii
Stars68
Forks1
Last commit3 years ago
GMTwitch
GMTwitchGame Maker Language

A lightweight Twitch API wrapper and chat interface for Game Maker: Studio.

#library#lightweight#twitch-api
Stars68
Forks19
Last commit4 years ago
libvldmail
libvldmailC

A C library for RFC-compliant email address validation with Unicode support and strict mode options.

#c-library#library#email-validation
Stars67
Forks7
Last commit3 months ago
Preact Translate
Preact TranslateTypeScript

A minimalistic internationalization (i18n) library for Preact with a bundle size of around 1KB.

#preact-components#internationalization#lightweight
Stars67
Forks6
Last commit3 months ago
chaperone-docker
chaperone-dockerJavaScript

Docker base images using the Chaperone lightweight process manager for multi-process container management.

#alpine-linux#devops#container-orchestration
Stars66
Forks11
Last commit7 years ago
TrendChart Elements
TrendChart ElementsTypeScript

Lightweight web components for generating simple, responsive trend charts using HTML attributes and CSS variables.

#responsive#web-components#chart
Stars64
Forks9
Last commit4 months ago
vector.lua
vector.luaLua

A simple 2D vector library for Lua, inspired by Processing's PVector and designed for game development.

#2d-vectors#vectors#geometry
Stars63
Forks9
Last commit1 year ago
minipb
minipbPython

A lightweight, pure Python Protocol Buffer library supporting multiple schema formats and MicroPython.

#embedded-systems#micropython#python-library
Stars63
Forks8
Last commit3 years ago
KAConf
KAConfJava

An annotation-based configuration system for Java and Kotlin with a tiny footprint and no third-party dependencies.

#property-injection#spring-boot-inspired#lightweight
Stars63
Forks5
Last commit3 years ago
jcSlider
jcSliderHTML

A lightweight, responsive jQuery slider plugin using CSS animations for smooth transitions.

#jquery#css-animations#slider
Stars62
Forks16
Last commit10 years ago
Boundstone
BoundstoneV

A high-performance, fast-compiling, lightweight server software for Minecraft: Bedrock Edition written in V.

#multiplayer#v-lang#high-performance
Stars62
Forks5
Last commit6 years ago
nvenv
nvenvV

A lightweight and blazing fast Neovim version manager written in Vlang.

#fast#developer-tools#vlang
Stars62
Forks5
Last commit1 year ago
godbal
godbalGo

A lightweight, no-ORM database abstraction layer for Go with SQL builder and easy result mapping (currently MySQL only).

#database-driver#sqlbuilder#lightweight
Stars60
Forks29
Last commit7 years ago
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