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Next.js

The React Framework

Next.js is an open-source libraries and runtimes project on GitHub under the MIT license (permissive), with 143k stars. It is built with V8, TypeScript, Express and react. Its last push was today.

Stars
143k
License
MIT
Activity
Active
Latest release
v16.4.4

Code on GitHub Website

Judgement

What it is
Framework or platform
What it does
A React framework for full-stack web apps with routing, server rendering, static generation, server components and API routes.
Adopt it when
You build a React web app that needs SEO-friendly rendering and back-end routes in one project.
Watch out
Features fit Vercel's hosting best, and caching and server component behaviour have been confusing across versions.
Ready for
Production-ready
Runs as
Library
Built with
TypeScript, React and Rust
How established
Established: started 10 years ago, latest release v16.4.4.
What the license allows
You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.

Judged on 2026-11-03 from the project's README and GitHub data. The license and age lines are worked out directly.

Built from

V8TypeScriptExpressreactTailwindcssTokio

Follow it down: Next.js → V8 → LLVM project → runs on a microchip

How compilers were built, back to punched paper tape

Built on Next.js: 48 projects

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    NextChat ChatGPTNextWeb

    ✨ Zero-config AI chat assistant. No API key needed — sign up and instantly chat with GPT-5, Claude 4, Gemini 2.5, DeepSeek & 100+ top models. Pay-as-you-go saves you more. Available on Web, iOS, macOS, Android, Linux, Windows.

    Complete system Usable You want a fast personal chat front end you can deploy to Vercel or run as a desktop app.

    ★ 89k MIT TypeScript Active, pushed 13 days ago
  2. 2
    LobeHub lobehub

    🤯 LobeHub is your Chief Agent Operator, organizing your agents into 7×24 operations by hiring, scheduling, and reporting on your entire AI team.

    Complete system Production-ready You want a polished multi-model chat and agent workspace, hosted or self-hosted.

    ★ 84k See repository TypeScript Active, pushed today
  3. 3
    Payload payloadcms

    Payload is the open-source, fullstack Next.js framework, giving you instant backend superpowers. Get a full TypeScript backend and admin panel instantly. Use Payload as a headless CMS or for building powerful applications.

    Framework or platform Production-ready Your team builds in Next.js and wants the CMS and backend in the same codebase, on Postgres, SQLite or MongoDB.

    ★ 46k MIT TypeScript Active, pushed today
  4. 4
    Postiz-app gitroomhq

    📨 The ultimate agentic social media scheduling tool 🤖

    Complete system Usable You manage several social accounts and want a Buffer alternative you can self-host or buy hosted.

    ★ 41k AGPL-3.0 TypeScript Active, pushed today
  5. 5
    Umami umami-software

    Umami is a privacy-first web and product analytics platform. Traffic, campaigns, behavior, conversions, and revenue in one place. No cookies, no surveillance, self-hosted or in the cloud.

    Complete system Production-ready You want a simple Google Analytics replacement you can self-host on Postgres with a permissive license.

    ★ 40k MIT TypeScript Active, pushed today
  6. 6
    DeepWiki-Open AsyncFuncAI

    Open Source DeepWiki: AI-Powered Wiki Generator for GitHub/Gitlab/Bitbucket Repositories. Join the discord: https://discord.gg/gMwThUMeme

    Developer tool Experimental You want AI-written overview documentation for a codebase you host, using your own model keys or Ollama.

    ★ 18k MIT Python Active, pushed 5 days ago
  7. 7
    NoteGen codexu

    Capture first. Organize later. A local-first Markdown app that turns scattered records into clear notes with AI.

    Complete system Usable You collect scattered snippets during the day and want AI to draft notes from them.

    ★ 13k GPL-3.0 TypeScript Active, pushed today
  8. 8
    M3E Canvas lnkiai

    Sketch Material 3 Expressive screens in the browser and turn them into vibe-coding prompts.

    Developer tool Experimental You prototype Android-style apps and hand the build to an AI coding assistant.

    ★ 10k MIT TypeScript Active, pushed yesterday
  9. 9
    TaxHacker vas3k

    Self-hosted AI accounting app. LLM analyzer for receipts, invoices, transactions with custom prompts and categories

    Complete system Usable A freelancer or small business wants self-hosted expense capture from receipts and has an LLM API key or local model.

    ★ 6.8k MIT TypeScript Active, pushed 35 days ago
  10. 10
    Invoify al1abb

    An invoice generator app built using Next.js, Typescript, and Shadcn

    Complete system Usable You need to produce good-looking one-off invoices without signing up for an invoicing service.

    ★ 6.4k MIT TypeScript Active, pushed 2 months ago
  11. 11
    DeskcommCRM melgarafael

    Open-source AI sales OS — self-hosted CRM with native AI agents + WhatsApp (WAHA). Open alternative to Kommo, Octadesk & Intercom for any business that sells by chat. MCP-ready, multi-tenant, LGPD.

    Complete system Experimental A Brazilian business that sells over WhatsApp wants a self-hosted alternative to Kommo or Octadesk and can run a VPS.

    ★ 5.1k MIT TypeScript Active, pushed today
  12. 12
    Pagescms hunvreus

    The simplest CMS you'll ever need. Manage content and media right in your GitHub repository.

    Complete system Usable Non-developers need to edit a Git-based static site and you want a hosted editor without setting up a backend.

    ★ 4.2k MIT TypeScript Active, pushed 18 days ago
  13. 13
    Talivia talivia-group

    Open-source, self-hosted revenue-first analytics for founders: web analytics, Session Replay, revenue attribution, and customer revenue integrations. datafast alternative

    Complete system Experimental A founder of a small SaaS wants to see which traffic sources bring paying customers, on their own server.

    ★ 2.3k MIT TypeScript Active, pushed 8 days ago
  14. 14
    Open Mercato open-mercato

    The AI-Engineering Foundation Framework for business apps: open-source TypeScript, with multi-tenancy, RBAC, events and domain modules already decided as conventions and specs, so Cursor, Claude Code and Codex build features instead of re-deciding architecture. Start with 80% done.

    Framework or platform Experimental You are building a custom business system with AI coding tools and want architecture decisions already made.

    ★ 1.9k MIT TypeScript Active, pushed today
  15. 15
    Mediary Scout fancydirty

    巡影 · 开源 AI 影视自动追更与多网盘媒体库整理工具 / Open-source AI agent for cloud drive media tracking & NAS (夸克 Quark / UC / 115 / 123 / 光鸭 Guangya / 天翼 Tianyi)

    Complete system Experimental You use Chinese cloud drives as a media library and want new episodes collected automatically.

    ★ 1.7k 0BSD TypeScript Active, pushed today
  16. 16
    Openship openshiporg

    multi-channel fulfillment at scale

    Complete system Usable A merchant or dropshipper fulfils through several suppliers or 3PLs and wants order routing it controls.

    ★ 1.7k AGPL-3.0 TypeScript Active, pushed 17 days ago
  17. 17
    SplitPro oss-apps

    Open source alternative to Splitwise

    Complete system Usable You split bills with friends or housemates and want to avoid Splitwise's free-tier limits.

    ★ 1.5k MIT TypeScript Active, pushed today
  18. 18
    Visual Center javierbyte

    Tool to better align logos in the center of a container.

    Developer tool Usable You place logos in buttons or tiles and they look off-centre.

    ★ 1.4k BSD-3-Clause JavaScript Active, pushed 3 days ago
  19. 19
    MailCheap marclou

    Newsletters where you pay for the emails you send, not for dormant subscribers, at a fraction of the price of beehiiv and the like. Open source: self-host it, or use mailcheap.ai.

    Complete system Experimental A newsletter with many inactive subscribers wants to cut costs compared with beehiiv or Mailchimp.

    ★ 1.4k AGPL-3.0 JavaScript Active, pushed 9 days ago
  20. 20
    Next WP 9d8dev

    Headless WordPress built with the Next.js App Router and React Server Components

    Template or starter Usable Editors are happy in WordPress but you want a faster React front end.

    ★ 1.3k MIT TypeScript Active, pushed 3 months ago

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    ★ 84k MIT TypeScript Active, pushed today

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