🚀 High-growth repos you should contribute to this weekend 🧑‍💻
Tags: programming, opensource, github, discuss
Published: 2024-03-08 11:35:52

Hey friends,

For this week's article, we reviewed last month's fastest-growing open-source organisations and hand-picked the repos we think you should contribute to. 🗳️

If you are new to our content, a warm welcome, my name is Bap, and I'm the DevRel Lead at Quira. 👋

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This means we are constantly on a quest to discover the hidden gems within the open-source ecosystem!

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With this in mind, let's explore last month's fastest-growing repositories you might consider contributing to. 👇

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## Methodology 🔎

Our approach towards finding the projects relied on finding repos with the highest MoM % growth. 

Since smaller projects can have a considerably higher percentage growth, we thought a fair barometer was to filter for projects which grew to a minimum of `2,000 stars`. 

We also checked each repo individually and hand-selected the projects we believed would be the most interesting to shout out. 

Let's now dive into each repo. 😄


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# readysettech/readyset 🏎️

- ReadySet boosts Postgres & MySQL performance. It offers in-memory store benefits without app rewrites.

- It speeds up complex SQL reads and ensures cache-database sync automatically.

- Wire-compatible with Postgres & MySQL, it integrates easily, simplifying database operations.


🏗️ **Contributor's Corner**:

- ~3,700 stars, the repo is written in Rust.
- ~240 issues, including 14 labelled as _first-issues_.
- The median response time is ~3 days.

You can find their repo on GitHub [here](https://github.com/readysettech/readyset).

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# continuedev/continue ✍️

- Continue is an open-source VS Code and JetBrains autopilot, simplifying coding with LLMs.

- It allows editing in natural language, enabling code refactoring or generating files from scratch.

- Continue enhances coding efficiency & creativity and integrates with most providers.


👷 **Contributor's Corner**:

- ~8,400 stars with ~75% of the repo in TS and ~10% in Kotlin.
- There have been 9 new contributors in the last month.
- Maintainers have a ~90% reply rate for their issues.

You can find their repo on GitHub [here](https://github.com/continuedev/continue).

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# loft-sh/devpod 🚚

- DevPod creates customisable developer environments in containers for any backend, using a devcontainer.json.

- DevPod offers flexible development across local, remote, or cloud setups.

- Highlights include cost efficiency, no vendor lock-in, cross IDE support, and an open-source, feature-rich framework.


🧑‍💻 **Contributor's Corner**:

- ~6,800 stars with ~65% of the repo written in Go. The rest is mainly written in TS and Rust. 
- The medium merge time for contributions is around 5 hours.
- Maintainers have near perfect ~100% reply rate for their issues.

You can find their repo on GitHub [here](https://github.com/loft-sh/devpod).

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# permitio/opal 🔐

- OPAL updates policies and data in real-time for Policy Engines like OPA and AWS' Cedar. This ensures live app authorisation sync.

- It automates service synchronisation with application changes, helping boost security and compliance.

- Designed for microservices and cloud-native setups, OPAL offers integration and real-time updates via a client-server architecture.


🧱 **Contributor's Corner**:

- ~2,200 stars with the repo being mainly written in Python.
- With 38 open issues, 4 are labelled _good-first-issue_.
- Median merge time is less than 1 hour.

You can find their repo on GitHub [here](https://github.com/permitio/opal).

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# astral-sh/ruff 🐍

- Ruff is a high-speed Python linter and formatter, outperforming traditional tools with 10-100x faster analyses.

- Ruff integrates over 700 rules. This includes native re-implementations of known plugins, features first-party editor integrations, and enhances developer workflows with a built-in caching and automatic fix support.

- It offers installation via pip, supports pyproject.toml, and is compatible with Python 3.12.

🏗️ **Contributor's Corner**:

- ~25,000 stars, the repo is mainly written in Rust (~98%). 
- 25 issues, including 4 labelled as _good-first-issues_.
- 84% reply rate to issues.

You can find their repo on GitHub [here](https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff).

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# wasp-lang/wasp 🐝

- Wasp is a Rails-like framework for React, Node.js, and Prisma.

- Wasp enables rapid development and deployment of full-stack web apps with minimal code.

- It eliminates boilerplate and offers features like full-stack Auth and RPC.


🚧 **Contributor's Corner**:

- ~9,900 stars with ~55% of the repo written in TS, and ~35% in JS.
- ~400 issues with close to 160 labelled as _enhancement_.
- Median merge time hovering around ~20 hours.

You can find their repo on GitHub [here](https://github.com/wasp-lang/wasp).

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That's it for this one. 🌟

I hope you enjoyed learning about these projects. If you enjoyed reading this piece, please feel free to share this article with your friends and colleagues!

Also, please consider staring the above repos. We are not associated with them, we simply think great projects deserve great recognition!


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See you next week,

Your Dev.to buddy 💚

Bap


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