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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| blacksmithgu/obsidian-dataview An Obsidian plugin that indexes metadata from Markdown files (frontmatter and inline fields) and provides a SQL-like query language plus a … | 54 | 9383 | active |
| Astro Starlight is a full-featured documentation website framework built on top of the Astro web framework. It provides built-in site navigation,… | 92 | 9350 | stable |
| Just the Docs Just the Docs is a modern, highly customizable, responsive Jekyll theme designed for building documentation websites, with built-in client-… | 86 | 9208 | active |
| huntabyte/shadcn-svelte A community-led Svelte port of shadcn/ui providing accessible, customizable UI components that you copy into your app via a CLI, built on b… | 97 | 9190 | active |
| open-pencil/open-pencil OpenPencil is an open-source, AI-native design editor that opens and writes native Figma (.fig) files, with built-in AI chat that can creat… | 83 | 9153 | active |
| GoAdmin GoAdmin is a Go framework for rapidly building data visualization and admin panel applications, inspired by laravel-admin. It provides an o… | 32 | 9012 | active |
| CoreBunch/Instatic Instatic is a self-hosted, MIT-licensed visual CMS that combines a canvas page editor, content engine, media, auth, forms, and plugin syste… | 78 | 8915 | active |
| nuejs/nue Nue is a standards-first web development framework and toolkit (Nuekit) for building fast websites, blogs, SPAs, and full-stack apps with m… | 54 | 8822 | active |
| Bottle Bottle is a fast, lightweight WSGI micro web-framework for Python distributed as a single file module with no dependencies beyond the stand… | 73 | 8792 | stable |
| CakePHP CakePHP is a rapid development MVC framework for PHP that provides an ORM, validation, caching, authentication, and code generation out of … | 99 | 8789 | stable |
| toptal/gitignore.io gitignore.io is a web service and API that generates useful .gitignore files for Git repositories based on operating system, programming la… | 32 | 8750 | active |
| yangzongzhuan/RuoYi RuoYi is a lightweight Java rapid development framework and admin management system built on Spring Boot, MyBatis, and Shiro. It ships with… | 77 | 8588 | active |
| Sylius/Sylius Sylius is an open-source headless eCommerce platform and framework built on top of PHP/Symfony and API Platform. It provides a powerful RES… | 93 | 8545 | active |
| windingwind/zotero-better-notes Better Notes is a Zotero plugin for comprehensive note management, adding an enhanced note editor, note linking, templates, and two-way Mar… | 89 | 8281 | active |
| Orchard CMS Orchard Core is an open-source, modular, multi-tenant application framework built on ASP.NET Core, plus a full-featured content management … | 94 | 8203 | stable |
| openedx/openedx-platform Open edX Platform is the open-source Learning Management System (LMS) and Studio (CMS) that powers online course delivery and authoring at … | 66 | 8193 | active |
| ReactPy ReactPy is a Python library for building reactive user interfaces in pure Python without writing JavaScript, using a component model that m… | 87 | 8148 | active |
| TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks The TechEmpower Framework Benchmarks (TFB) project, a suite that measures and compares the performance of web application frameworks across… | 10 | 8106 | active |
| vercel-labs/native Native SDK is a toolkit for building native desktop applications with declarative .native markup views and app logic written in TypeScript … | 82 | 7783 | active |
| liangliangyy/DjangoBlog DjangoBlog is a full-featured, self-hosted blog platform built on Python 3.10+ and Django 5.2. It offers article/page management, Markdown … | 85 | 7437 | active |
| sparckles/Robyn Robyn is a high-performance async Python web framework with a Rust runtime, offering routing, middleware, WebSockets, templating, authentic… | 93 | 7407 | active |
| Turbo Turbo is a JavaScript library from the Hotwire stack that accelerates links and form submissions, decomposes pages into lazily loaded frame… | 85 | 7402 | stable |
| makepad/makepad Makepad is a creative software development platform for Rust that provides a cross-platform UI runtime with a live-editable design DSL, com… | 68 | 7205 | active |
| Kiranism/next-shadcn-dashboard-starter A free, MIT-licensed admin dashboard starter template built with Next.js 16, shadcn/ui, Tailwind CSS v4, and TypeScript. It provides produc… | 88 | 7142 | active |
| evidence-dev/evidence Evidence is an open-source business intelligence framework that lets you build interactive data reports and dashboards using SQL and Markdo… | 82 | 7045 | active |
| ParthJadhav/app-store-screenshots An AI agent skill that scaffolds a production-ready Next.js screenshot editor for generating App Store and Google Play marketing screenshot… | 57 | 6954 | active |
| Ren'Py Ren'Py is an open-source visual novel engine that lets creators build interactive stories using words, images, and sounds, combining an eas… | 92 | 6904 | active |
| Flarum Flarum is open-source forum software for building online discussion communities, built in PHP on Laravel with a Mithril-powered frontend. I… | 95 | 6758 | stable |
| vercel/platforms A production-ready Next.js multi-tenant application template from Vercel that demonstrates subdomain-based tenancy with custom routing, Red… | 70 | 6710 | active |
| django-oscar Django-Oscar is a domain-driven e-commerce framework for Django that lets every part of the core be customized or overridden. It supports a… | 87 | 6624 | active |
| Hanami Hanami is a full-stack, modular Ruby web framework composed of small single-purpose libraries (router, actions, views, database, assets) ti… | 97 | 6426 | active |
| Foundation for Sites Foundation for Sites is a responsive front-end framework providing HTML, CSS (Sass), and JavaScript components for building websites and ap… | 67 | 29798 | maintenance |
| epwalsh/obsidian.nvim A Neovim plugin written in Lua for writing and navigating Obsidian markdown vaults directly from the editor. It provides autocompletion for… | 57 | 6211 | active |
| nolly-studio/cult-ui cult/ui is a collection of accessible, customizable React components built with Tailwind CSS and Framer Motion, designed for design enginee… | 63 | 6161 | active |
| css-doodle css-doodle is a web component for drawing generative patterns and visual art with CSS. It generates a grid of cells styled by CSS rules wit… | 100 | 6067 | active |
| toeverything/blocksuite BlockSuite is a TypeScript toolkit of headless editor frameworks, web components, and editors for building content editing and collaborativ… | 77 | 6030 | active |
| Quarto Quarto is an open-source scientific and technical publishing system built on Pandoc that renders Markdown documents with embedded executabl… | 94 | 6025 | stable |
| CodeIgniter 4 CodeIgniter 4 is a lightweight, full-stack PHP web framework with a small footprint, MVC architecture, and built-in security features like … | 94 | 5985 | active |
| jekip/naive-ui-admin Naive Ui Admin is a free, MIT-licensed admin dashboard solution built on Vue3, Vite, TypeScript, and Naive UI. It provides pre-built compon… | 48 | 5920 | active |
| Material Kit Material Kit is a free, MIT-licensed Bootstrap 5 UI Kit from Creative Tim inspired by Google's Material Design, offering 60+ styled compone… | 23 | 5918 | active |
| Themer Themer is a theme generator that takes a set of colors and outputs themes for editors, terminals, and many other apps, plus matching deskto… | 59 | 5853 | active |
| AidLux (AidLearning) AidLux (originally AidLearning) is an AIoT development platform that runs a native Ubuntu Linux environment with GUI, deep learning tooling… | 63 | 5812 | active |
| WUBING2023/PaperSpine PaperSpine is an orchestrated AI-agent skill (for Claude Code, Codex, OpenClaw, and Hermes CLI) that guides academic writing: it learns fro… | 66 | 5724 | active |
| Shiny Shiny is an R (and Python) package for building interactive web applications entirely in R or Python code, without needing HTML, CSS, or Ja… | 81 | 5695 | stable |
| HisMax/RedInk RedInk is a self-hostable web application that generates complete Xiaohongshu (Little Red Book) image-and-text posts from a single topic se… | 54 | 5632 | active |
| apache/groovy Apache Groovy is a multi-faceted programming language for the JVM that offers Java-like syntax with productivity features such as closures,… | 77 | 5474 | stable |
| sadmann7/skateshop An open-source e-commerce skateshop web application built with Next.js 14 and the T3 stack, featuring a storefront, seller and customer wor… | 33 | 5445 | active |
| IHP IHP is a batteries-included, type-safe full-stack web framework built on Haskell and Nix, featuring compile-checked HTML (HSX), typed SQL q… | 89 | 5359 | active |
| QOR QOR is a set of modular Go libraries that abstract common features needed for building business applications, CMSs, and e-commerce systems,… | 64 | 5345 | active |
| Solidus Solidus is a free, open-source eCommerce platform built as a Ruby on Rails framework, providing a full storefront, admin dashboard, and com… | 100 | 5344 | active |
| isso-comments/isso Isso is a lightweight, self-hosted commenting server written in Python and JavaScript, designed as a drop-in replacement for Disqus. It emb… | 75 | 5313 | active |
| Docz Docz is a zero-configuration documentation tool for JavaScript projects that turns MDX files into live-reloading, production-ready document… | 10 | 23568 | maintenance |
| React on Rails React on Rails is a Ruby gem plus npm package that integrates React components into Ruby on Rails applications via view helpers, Shakapacke… | 100 | 5193 | active |
| Datastar Datastar is a lightweight hypermedia framework for building reactive web applications using declarative data-* attributes in HTML, with a s… | 93 | 5100 | active |
| saicaca/fuwari Fuwari is a static blog template built with Astro and Tailwind CSS, featuring smooth animations, light/dark mode, and customizable theming.… | 56 | 5038 | active |
| CrowCpp/Crow Crow is a fast, header-only C++ microframework for building HTTP and WebSocket web services, with Flask-style routing and type-safe handler… | 88 | 4997 | active |
| Tencent/tmagic-editor TMagic is a visual page-building (low-code) platform from Tencent, written in TypeScript with Vue 3. It provides an editor package, runtime… | 97 | 4943 | active |
| dotnetcore/BootstrapBlazor Bootstrap Blazor is an enterprise-level UI component library for Blazor, built on top of Bootstrap styling. It provides a rich set of Razor… | 95 | 4937 | stable |
| palxiao/poster-design XunPai Design (poster-design) is an open-source online image editor and poster designer built with Vue3, Vite, and Express, inspired by too… | 75 | 4874 | active |
| 201206030/novel-plus novel-plus is a full-featured novel/fiction CMS built on Spring Boot, comprising a reader-facing portal, author backend, admin dashboard, a… | 100 | 4756 | active |
| San San is a fast, lightweight (under 17k gzipped), flexible JavaScript MVVM component framework developed by Baidu. It offers declarative HTML… | 73 | 4736 | active |
| Mosaic Lite A free, open-source landing page template built with React, Next.js, and Tailwind CSS, created by Cruip. It provides a professional, ready-… | 44 | 4708 | active |
| danburzo/percollate Percollate is a Node.js command-line tool that converts web pages into readable, well-formatted PDF, EPUB, HTML, or Markdown documents. It … | 48 | 4686 | active |
| octokatherine/readme.so readme.so is an online drag-and-drop editor for building project README files quickly. It lets developers pick sections, edit content, rear… | 61 | 4627 | active |
| dotnetcore/Util Util is an application framework for the .NET platform aimed at boosting the productivity of small and medium development teams. It combine… | 23 | 4595 | active |
| Aimeos Aimeos is a full-featured, open-source PHP e-commerce framework that integrates with Laravel, Symfony, and TYPO3 to build online shops, mar… | 76 | 4537 | stable |
| NG-ALAIN NG-ALAIN is an out-of-the-box admin panel front-end framework built on NG-ZORRO (Ant Design for Angular). It provides responsive layouts, i… | 91 | 4533 | active |
| laruence/yaf Yaf (Yet Another Framework) is a high-performance PHP MVC framework written in C and distributed as a compiled PHP extension via PECL/PIE. … | 84 | 4511 | stable |
| LibrePDF/OpenPDF OpenPDF is an open-source Java library (LGPL/MPL licensed, forked from iText 4) for creating, editing, rendering, and encrypting PDF docume… | 92 | 4378 | active |
| Kroki Kroki is a unified HTTP API service that converts textual diagram descriptions (PlantUML, Mermaid, GraphViz, Ditaa, Excalidraw, and many mo… | 91 | 4354 | active |
| lc-soft/LCUI LCUI is a small C library for building cross-platform graphical user interfaces with fully custom-drawn components and a built-in CSS engin… | 68 | 4348 | active |
| vivek9patel/vivek9patel.github.io A personal portfolio website that simulates the Ubuntu 20.04 desktop environment in the browser, built with Next.js and Tailwind CSS. It re… | 32 | 4324 | active |
| peterbrittain/asciimatics Asciimatics is a cross-platform Python library providing curses-like low-level console operations plus higher-level APIs and widgets for bu… | 60 | 4303 | stable |
| Python-Markdown/markdown Python-Markdown is a Python implementation of John Gruber's Markdown that converts Markdown text to HTML, nearly compliant with the origina… | 95 | 4251 | stable |
| ashutosh1919/masterPortfolio A customizable React-based portfolio website template for software developers. It provides prebuilt sections for skills, projects, experien… | 57 | 4227 | active |
| microfeed/microfeed microfeed is an open-source, agentic, headless CMS that self-hosts on Cloudflare Workers, D1, and R2, letting users publish podcasts, blogs… | 98 | 4117 | active |
| alex-shpak/hugo-book Hugo Book is a minimal, book-style documentation theme for the Hugo static site generator. It provides a sidebar file-tree menu, full-text … | 87 | 4101 | active |
| swagger-api/swagger-codegen Swagger Codegen is a template-driven code generator that parses OpenAPI/Swagger definitions to produce API client SDKs, server stubs, and d… | 95 | 17789 | maintenance |
| Dcat Admin Dcat Admin is a Laravel-based admin panel builder that lets developers create full-featured, attractive back-office systems with minimal co… | 32 | 4020 | active |
| WebGAL WebGAL is an open-source web-based visual novel engine written in TypeScript and React, letting creators build galgames that run in any bro… | 90 | 3981 | active |
| Twill Twill is an open source CMS toolkit for Laravel that lets developers rapidly build custom, feature-rich admin consoles with pre-built Vue.j… | 92 | 3976 | active |
| kemalcr/kemal Kemal is a fast, lightweight web framework for the Crystal language with a Sinatra-like DSL for building web applications and JSON APIs. It… | 95 | 3928 | stable |
| Pimcore Pimcore is an open core PHP framework and platform for Product Experience Management that unifies PIM, MDM, DAM, CDP, DXP/CMS, and digital … | 93 | 3855 | active |
| InfyOmLabs/laravel-generator InfyOm Laravel Generator is a PHP/Laravel package that generates complete CRUD scaffolding—migrations, models, controllers, repositories, r… | 23 | 3815 | active |
| async-labs/builderbook An open-source full-stack web application for self-publishing and selling books or other online content, built with React, Next.js, Materia… | 34 | 3792 | active |
| pallets/quart Quart is an async Python web application framework that reimplements Flask's API on top of asyncio and ASGI. It supports HTML templating, J… | 96 | 3673 | stable |
| adrianhajdin/portfolio A modern, minimal developer portfolio website built with Next.js, Three.js, Framer Motion, and Tailwind CSS, featuring 3D elements, a bento… | 25 | 3663 | active |
| observablehq/framework Observable Framework is an open-source static site generator for building data apps, dashboards, and reports. It combines reactive JavaScri… | 68 | 3648 | active |
| sligter/LandPPT LandPPT is an AI-powered presentation generation platform that turns a topic or uploaded documents (PDF, Word, Markdown, Excel, PPT) into p… | 79 | 3611 | active |
| designmodo/Flat-UI Flat UI Free is a flat-design theme and component framework built on top of Bootstrap 3, distributed as compiled CSS/JS, LESS/SCSS sources,… | 33 | 15263 | maintenance |
| Tencent-TDS/KuiklyUI KuiklyUI is a Kotlin Multiplatform UI framework from Tencent TDS that lets developers build apps with one codebase targeting Android, iOS, … | 87 | 3570 | active |
| react/react-strict-dom React Strict DOM is a library for building styled React components that render to HTML/CSS on web and truly native components on native pla… | 70 | 3567 | active |
| AMP AMP (AMPHTML) is an open-source web component framework for building fast, user-first websites, Web Stories, ads, and interactive emails us… | 95 | 14905 | maintenance |
| honkit/honkit HonKit is a Node.js command line tool and library for building beautiful books and documentation from Markdown or AsciiDoc files, forked fr… | 91 | 3521 | active |
| WordPress/wordpress-develop The official Git mirror of the WordPress core development repository (synced from Subversion), containing the PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript so… | 77 | 3488 | stable |
| espocrm/espocrm EspoCRM is a free, open-source CRM web application with a PHP REST API backend and a single-page application frontend. It manages leads, co… | 98 | 3478 | stable |
| imraywang/wewrite WeWrite is a Python-based AI agent skill that automates the full WeChat Official Account content pipeline: topic selection from trending ne… | 77 | 3473 | active |
| pandao/editor.md Editor.md is an open-source embeddable online Markdown editor component built on CodeMirror, jQuery, and Marked. It provides real-time prev… | 23 | 14315 | maintenance |
| Backpack for Laravel Backpack for Laravel is a collection of open-source Laravel packages for rapidly building custom admin panels on top of Eloquent models. It… | 95 | 3377 | stable |
| sycamore-rs/sycamore Sycamore is a reactive library for building web user interfaces in Rust compiled to WebAssembly, using fine-grained reactivity with signals… | 82 | 3357 | active |