Open-source templating software
2037 open-source libraries, tools and applications tagged templating, ranked by how closely templating is their primary purpose, then by adoption and maintenance health. Each entry links to a page with sources, use cases and when to choose or avoid it.
2037 products, primary matches first, then adoption-weighted; health v2 shown.
| Product | Health v2 | Stars | Maturity |
|---|---|---|---|
| bucketsio/buckets Buckets is a Node.js-based content management system for building dynamic websites, installable as an NPM module and backed by MongoDB. It … | 10 | 1049 | abandoned |
| kippt/jekyll-incorporated Jekyll Incorporated is a modern Jekyll-based blog theme designed for company, product, and team blogs. It ships with configuration, styling… | 10 | 1048 | abandoned |
| Enclavely/tailor Tailor is a free WordPress page builder plugin that provides true drag-and-drop layout creation with rows, nested columns, templates, and a… | 23 | 1034 | abandoned |
| Stacey Stacey is a lightweight PHP-based flat-file CMS that generates websites from YAML content files, images, and directory structure using Twig… | 32 | 1033 | abandoned |
| maqetta/maqetta Maqetta is a browser-based WYSIWYG authoring tool for designing HTML5 desktop and mobile user interfaces via drag-and-drop assembly. It inc… | 23 | 1025 | abandoned |
| daylightstudio/FUEL-CMS FUEL CMS is an open-source content management system built on the CodeIgniter PHP framework, aimed at developers building customizable clie… | 57 | 1020 | abandoned |
| phimpme/phimpme-generator A Django-based web service that lets users generate a customized version of the Phimp.me Android photo-sharing app with their own branding … | 32 | 1015 | abandoned |
| dyve/django-bootstrap-toolkit A Django app providing template tags, filters, and form widgets for integrating Bootstrap v2 into Django projects. The project is officiall… | 10 | 1014 | abandoned |
| falnatsheh/MarkdownView MarkdownView is an Android library that extends WebView to render Markdown text or local/remote Markdown files as formatted HTML, with opti… | 10 | 1013 | abandoned |
| CSSX CSSX is a set of tools (transpiler, client-side library, CLI, and bundler plugins) for writing vanilla CSS inside JavaScript, generating re… | 32 | 1000 | abandoned |
| mjml-react A React component library that wraps MJML markup to generate responsive HTML emails programmatically. It lets developers compose email temp… | 32 | 998 | abandoned |
| xb2016/kratos-pjax Kratos-pjax is a clean, responsive WordPress blog theme built on Bootstrap and Font Awesome with pjax page loading. The project is deprecat… | 56 | 996 | abandoned |
| Jasonette Jasonette is a declarative framework that lets you build fully native iOS and Android apps using only JSON markup fetched over HTTP, with n… | 32 | 241 | abandoned |
| Bootstrap Bootstrap is a popular open‑source front‑end toolkit that provides a collection of CSS, HTML, and JavaScript components for building respon… | 73 | 174948 | active |
| Angular Angular is a full-featured, opinionated web framework for building scalable mobile and desktop web applications using TypeScript. It provid… | 94 | 101014 | active |
| Home Assistant Home Assistant is an open‑source home automation platform that runs locally on your hardware. It integrates thousands of devices and servic… | 95 | 91576 | active |
| vue-element-admin Vue Element Admin is a production‑ready admin dashboard template built with Vue 2 and Element UI. It provides a full set of UI components, … | 23 | 90176 | active |
| sveltejs/svelte Svelte is a compiler‑based UI framework that turns declarative components written in HTML, CSS and JavaScript into highly optimized JavaScr… | 93 | 88236 | active |
| Laravel Laravel is a batteries-included PHP web application framework with expressive syntax, covering routing, ORM (Eloquent), migrations, queues,… | 99 | 85265 | stable |
| facebook/docusaurus Docusaurus is a React-based static-site generator from Meta for building, deploying, and maintaining documentation websites. It turns Markd… | 94 | 66480 | stable |
| HyperFrames HyperFrames is an open-source TypeScript framework that turns HTML, CSS, media, and seekable animations into deterministic MP4 videos. It c… | 79 | 66034 | active |
| Astro Astro is a modern web framework focused on building fast, content‑driven sites. It combines static‑site generation with server‑side renderi… | 93 | 63018 | active |
| Nuxt Nuxt is an open‑source full‑stack framework built on Vue.js that enables server‑side rendering, static site generation, and hybrid renderin… | 94 | 60893 | active |
| MadsLorentzen/ai-job-search An AI-powered job application framework built on Claude Code that runs locally: it evaluates job postings, tailors CVs, writes cover letter… | 83 | 60836 | active |
| Odoo Odoo is an open‑source suite of web‑based business applications that can be used individually or together as a full ERP system. It provides… | 77 | 55115 | active |
| Vue Core Vue.js is a progressive, incrementally-adoptable JavaScript framework for building web user interfaces, written in TypeScript. It features … | 100 | 54658 | stable |
| Semantic UI Semantic UI is a JavaScript‑based UI component library that provides a large collection of styled elements and behaviors. It emphasizes nat… | 23 | 51021 | active |
| Cal.com (Cal.diy) Cal.diy is an open‑source, self‑hosted scheduling platform built with the T3 stack (Next.js, TypeScript, Prisma, Tailwind CSS). It provides… | 82 | 48921 | active |
| Discourse Discourse is an open‑source, Ruby‑on‑Rails based community platform for discussion forums, Q&A, and real‑time chat. It can be self‑hosted o… | 83 | 47962 | active |
| Pandoc Pandoc is a universal markup converter written in Haskell, available as both a library and a command-line tool. It converts documents betwe… | 99 | 46615 | stable |
| fastapi/full-stack-fastapi-template A full-stack web application template combining a FastAPI backend with a React frontend, including SQLModel, PostgreSQL, JWT authentication… | 91 | 45973 | active |
| Bubble Tea Bubble Tea is a Go framework for building rich terminal user interfaces using a functional, Elm‑style architecture. It provides a declarati… | 98 | 45408 | active |
| Payload Payload is an open-source, MIT-licensed fullstack Next.js framework and headless CMS written in TypeScript. A single config instantly gener… | 93 | 44931 | stable |
| amruthpillai/reactive-resume Reactive Resume is a free, open‑source web application for building, customizing, and exporting resumes. It runs in the browser and can be … | 99 | 44150 | active |
| ToolJet/ToolJet ToolJet is an open-source low-code platform for building internal tools, dashboards, and business applications with a visual drag‑and‑drop … | 93 | 41018 | active |
| Fiber Fiber is an Express‑inspired web framework for Go built on top of the high‑performance Fasthttp engine. It provides routing, middleware, te… | 95 | 40210 | active |
| Halo Halo is a powerful and easy-to-use open-source website building tool (CMS) written in Java, supporting blogs, knowledge bases, corporate si… | 99 | 39944 | active |
| ASP.NET Core ASP.NET Core is an open‑source, cross‑platform framework for building modern cloud‑based web applications and services with .NET and C#. It… | 97 | 38467 | active |
| solidjs/solid Solid is a declarative JavaScript library for building user interfaces that compiles JSX templates to real DOM nodes instead of using a Vir… | 85 | 36077 | active |
| Laravel Laravel is a batteries-included PHP web application framework with expressive syntax, covering routing, ORM (Eloquent), templating (Blade),… | 95 | 34966 | stable |
| Vue Vben Admin Vue Vben Admin is an open-source admin dashboard template built with Vue 3, Vite, TypeScript, and Shadcn UI in a monorepo layout. It provid… | 91 | 33548 | active |
| labstack/echo Echo is a high‑performance, minimalist web framework for Go. It provides a fast router, built‑in middleware, data binding, and automatic TL… | 98 | 32774 | active |
| Symfony Symfony is a full‑stack PHP framework for building web and console applications. It provides reusable components, a powerful CLI, and a rob… | 93 | 31168 | active |
| Symfony Symfony is a full-stack PHP framework for building web and console applications, plus a set of reusable, decoupled PHP components used by p… | 93 | 31168 | stable |
| Layui Layui is an open-source, MIT-licensed Web UI component library built with vanilla HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, offering a lightweight modular… | 93 | 30578 | active |
| React Boilerplate React Boilerplate is a highly scalable, offline‑first starter kit for building React applications. It provides a CLI for rapid scaffolding,… | 23 | 29474 | active |
| squidfunk/mkdocs-material Material for MkDocs is a powerful documentation framework and theme on top of MkDocs that turns Markdown files into a professional, searcha… | 92 | 27516 | stable |
| OpenAPI Generator OpenAPI Generator is a Java‑based tool that automatically creates API client libraries, server stubs, documentation, and configuration from… | 91 | 26758 | active |
| Elixir Elixir is a dynamic, functional programming language built on the Erlang VM (BEAM), designed for building scalable and maintainable applica… | 97 | 26688 | stable |
| Vapor Vapor is a high‑performance, server‑side Swift web framework. It provides routing, middleware, ORM, templating, and WebSocket support for b… | 98 | 26228 | active |
| rwf2/Rocket Rocket is an async web framework for Rust focused on usability, security, extensibility, and speed. It provides macro-based routing, compil… | 46 | 25783 | stable |
| kataras/iris Iris is a high‑performance, feature‑rich web framework for Go that supports HTTP/2, MVC, dependency injection, and many built‑in middleware… | 62 | 25555 | active |
| electron-react-boilerplate/electron-react-boilerplate Electron React Boilerplate is a starter kit that combines Electron, React, and modern tooling to quickly build cross‑platform desktop appli… | 67 | 24256 | active |
| krayin/laravel-crm Krayin CRM is a free and open‑source customer relationship management system built with Laravel and Vue.js. It provides a modular admin pan… | 95 | 24027 | active |
| kriasoft/react-starter-kit React Starter Kit is a production‑ready monorepo template for building full‑stack SaaS applications with React 19, tRPC, and Cloudflare Wor… | 68 | 23696 | active |
| livewire/livewire Livewire is a full-stack framework for Laravel that lets developers build dynamic, reactive UI components entirely in PHP without writing s… | 95 | 23591 | stable |
| Forem Forem is an open‑source Ruby on Rails application for building online communities. It powers sites like dev.to and provides features such a… | 77 | 22796 | active |
| JHipster JHipster is a Yeoman-based CLI tool that generates complete modern web applications and microservice architectures. It supports multiple fr… | 94 | 22465 | active |
| leptos-rs/leptos Leptos is a full-stack, isomorphic Rust web framework that uses fine-grained reactive signals to build declarative user interfaces compiled… | 100 | 21404 | active |
| sveltejs/kit SvelteKit is a full‑stack web framework built on Svelte that enables rapid development of performant web applications. It provides routing,… | 91 | 20830 | active |
| vue-pure-admin vue-pure-admin is an open-source, out-of-the-box admin dashboard template built with Vue3, Vite, Element-Plus, TypeScript, Pinia, and Tailw… | 77 | 20650 | active |
| baidu/amis amis is a frontend low-code framework from Baidu that generates admin pages and UIs from JSON configuration. It lets developers build compl… | 59 | 18897 | stable |
| Framework7 Framework7 is a free, open-source HTML framework for building mobile, desktop, and web apps with native iOS and Android (Material Design) l… | 98 | 18765 | stable |
| vercel-labs/json-render json-render is a Generative UI framework that lets AI generate dynamic, personalized interfaces from natural language prompts, constrained … | 77 | 18472 | active |
| vuejs/vitepress VitePress is a Vue-powered static site generator built on Vite, designed primarily for creating fast documentation sites from Markdown. It … | 96 | 18365 | stable |
| emotion Emotion is a high-performance CSS-in-JS library for writing CSS styles with JavaScript, supporting both string and object styles with predi… | 78 | 18019 | stable |
| Flet Flet is a Python framework for building realtime web, mobile, and desktop applications entirely in Python, using Flutter to render the UI. … | 99 | 17380 | active |
| zauberzeug/nicegui NiceGUI is a Python-based UI framework for creating web browser-based graphical user interfaces with simple Python code. It provides standa… | 93 | 16268 | stable |
| chatfire-AI/huobao-drama Huobao Drama is a self-hosted, AI-powered end-to-end short drama generation platform that automates the full pipeline from a one-sentence i… | 82 | 15921 | active |
| remarkjs/react-markdown A React component that safely renders markdown strings to React elements using the unified/remark ecosystem. It supports CommonMark and GFM… | 77 | 15892 | stable |
| Grav CMS Grav is a fast, flat-file content management system built on PHP, Markdown, Twig, and Symfony components that requires no database. Version… | 95 | 15689 | stable |
| MithrilJS/mithril.js Mithril.js is a small (~9 KB gzipped) client-side JavaScript framework for building Single Page Applications, with a virtual DOM, routing, … | 77 | 14501 | stable |
| marko-js/marko Marko is a declarative, HTML-based language and framework for building dynamic, reactive web user interfaces, where nearly any valid HTML i… | 95 | 14459 | active |
| Drogon Drogon is a C++14/17/20-based HTTP web application framework for building high-performance web application servers. It uses non-blocking I/… | 82 | 14326 | active |
| shuding/nextra Nextra is a static site generation framework built on Next.js and MDX, letting you write content in Markdown/MDX files with file-based rout… | 73 | 13928 | active |
| Shiki Shiki is a syntax highlighter for JavaScript/TypeScript that uses TextMate grammars, the same engine as VS Code, to produce accurate, beaut… | 89 | 13832 | active |
| freshframework/fresh Fresh is a full-stack web framework for Deno that renders server-generated HTML with Preact and ships JavaScript only for interactive 'isla… | 90 | 13792 | active |
| facebook/astryx Astryx is an open source React design system from Meta offering 150+ accessible components, CSS-custom-property theming, dark mode, templat… | 84 | 13694 | active |
| GoFrame GoFrame is a modular, high-performance full-stack development framework for Go, comparable to Laravel or Spring Boot, offering batteries-in… | 97 | 13287 | active |
| Tencent/omi Omi is a Web Components framework built in TypeScript that combines custom elements, shadow DOM, and JSX with signal-driven reactive progra… | 66 | 13271 | active |
| web-infra-dev/rspack Rspack is a fast, Rust-based JavaScript module bundler for the web that modernizes the webpack API to serve as a drop-in replacement. It of… | 94 | 12935 | active |
| Kludex/starlette Starlette is a lightweight, production-ready ASGI framework and toolkit for building async web services in Python. It provides HTTP and Web… | 100 | 12674 | stable |
| Play Framework Play Framework is a high-velocity, reactive web framework for Java and Scala running on the JVM. It offers a stateless, non-blocking archit… | 90 | 12617 | active |
| Formily Formily is a high-performance cross-framework form solution for React, React Native, Vue 2, and Vue 3 that manages field state independentl… | 43 | 12591 | stable |
| git-cliff git-cliff is a highly customizable changelog generator written in Rust that creates changelog files from Git history using Conventional Com… | 92 | 12262 | stable |
| Gutenberg Gutenberg is the block editor project for WordPress, providing a modular editing experience where content is composed of blocks. It ships a… | 95 | 11774 | active |
| Frappe Framework Frappe Framework is a batteries-included, low-code full-stack web application framework written in Python and JavaScript, built around meta… | 95 | 10937 | stable |
| Phalcon Phalcon is a full-stack PHP web framework delivered as a compiled C extension (written in Zephir/C), exposing its functionality as PHP clas… | 98 | 10817 | active |
| MudBlazor MudBlazor is a Material Design component library for Blazor, written entirely in C# with minimal JavaScript. It provides a large set of UI … | 98 | 10637 | active |
| CKEditor 5 CKEditor 5 is a modern JavaScript/TypeScript rich-text (WYSIWYG) editor framework with a modular plugin architecture, custom data model, an… | 98 | 10508 | stable |
| jnsahaj/tweakcn tweakcn is a visual no-code theme editor for shadcn/ui and Tailwind CSS, letting users customize component themes through a web interface. … | 62 | 10453 | active |
| Vincentwei1021/video-shotcraft An AI agent skill that turns Claude Code or Codex into a motion-design studio for producing cinematic product, promo, and demo videos using… | 73 | 10207 | active |
| Uno Platform Uno Platform is an open-source (Apache-2.0) .NET framework for building native mobile, web, desktop, and embedded applications from a singl… | 96 | 10079 | active |
| Keystone CMS KeystoneJS is a Node.js headless CMS and web application framework for defining schemas that generate a GraphQL API and an auto-generated A… | 96 | 9981 | active |
| nicobailon/visual-explainer An agent skill that turns complex terminal output from coding agents into styled, self-contained HTML pages and slide decks with diagrams, … | 77 | 9896 | active |
| Cocos (Cocos Creator Engine) Cocos Engine is the open-source runtime engine behind Cocos Creator, a free cross-platform 2D/3D game development tool built with a C++ cor… | 75 | 9852 | stable |
| Active Admin Active Admin is a Ruby on Rails engine and framework for building elegant administration backends for web applications. It provides a DSL t… | 85 | 9713 | stable |
| oclif/oclif oclif is an open-source framework for building command-line interfaces in Node.js and TypeScript, created by Salesforce. This repository co… | 93 | 9594 | active |
| Carbon Design System Carbon is IBM's open-source design system providing React and web component libraries, Sass styles, design tokens, icons, and pictograms fo… | 94 | 9537 | active |
| loco-rs/loco Loco is a batteries-included web framework for Rust, strongly inspired by Ruby on Rails and built on Axum and SeaORM. It bundles models, co… | 94 | 9466 | active |