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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| programming-nu/nu Nu is an interpreted object-oriented Lisp dialect implemented in Objective-C that runs on the Objective-C runtime and Foundation framework.… | 23 | 2185 | maintenance |
| web2py web2py is a free, open-source full-stack Python framework for agile development of secure, database-driven web applications, featuring its … | 82 | 2169 | maintenance |
| NLRX-WJC/react-antd-admin-template A React + Ant Design admin dashboard template with built-in login, dynamic routing, permission checks, and typical business pages like tabl… | 23 | 2153 | maintenance |
| alexdrone/Render Render (CoreRender) is a SwiftUI-inspired declarative UI framework built on top of UIKit, compatible with iOS 10+ and Objective-C. It uses … | 23 | 2148 | maintenance |
| Elder.js Elder.js is an opinionated static site generator and web framework for Svelte built with SEO in mind, supporting both static site generatio… | 23 | 2124 | maintenance |
| Dragonfly Dragonfly is a Ruby gem for on-the-fly processing and management of images and other file attachments, with a Rack-based app that serves pr… | 70 | 2106 | maintenance |
| davidmoreno/onion Onion (libonion) is a lightweight C library for building HTTP servers and web applications by layering URL handlers. It is designed to add … | 67 | 2088 | maintenance |
| linb/CrossUI CrossUI is an open-source cross-browser JavaScript framework for building single-page rich web applications, with 100+ UI components and dr… | 72 | 2031 | maintenance |
| fossasia/open-event-wsgen Open Event Website App Generator is a Node.js/Express application that generates static event websites from event JSON data and media files… | 10 | 2017 | maintenance |
| dunky11/react-saas-template A React + Material-UI starter template for building SaaS or admin websites, including landing page, dashboard, blog, and Stripe payment int… | 32 | 1959 | maintenance |
| pybbs (朋也社区) pybbs is a self-hosted community forum (BBS) application written in Java with Spring Boot. It provides a full front-end forum and an admin … | 41 | 1958 | maintenance |
| cfenollosa/bashblog Bashblog is a single ~1k-line Bash script that generates a complete static blog from plain text or Markdown posts. It requires no installat… | 70 | 1931 | maintenance |
| zhangyuang/egg-react-ssr A minimal Egg.js + React server-side rendering application scaffold supporting both JavaScript and TypeScript, with seamless CSR/SSR mode s… | 10 | 1904 | maintenance |
| ninjaframework/ninja Ninja is a full stack web framework for Java built on mature technologies like Servlets, Guice, JPA, Flyway, and Maven. It provides routing… | 62 | 1900 | maintenance |
| tonsky/rum Rum is a simple, decomplected, isomorphic HTML UI library for Clojure and ClojureScript. On the client it works as a thin React wrapper, wh… | 26 | 1829 | maintenance |
| flareact/flareact Flareact is an edge-rendered React framework built for Cloudflare Workers, inspired by Next.js. It provides file-based routing, dynamic pag… | 23 | 1824 | maintenance |
| suweiteng/vue2-management-platform An open-source admin/management platform built with Vue 2.0 and Element UI, featuring mock data, a rich text editor (UEditor), and export f… | 32 | 1821 | maintenance |
| strongself/Generamba Generamba is a Ruby-based CLI code generator for Xcode projects, primarily designed to scaffold VIPER modules in Objective-C and Swift. It … | 23 | 1811 | maintenance |
| ZHENFENG13/ssm-demo A demo admin management system built with the classic Java SSM stack (Spring, SpringMVC, MyBatis) plus easyUI, Redis caching, and Maven. It… | 32 | 1809 | maintenance |
| ustwo/ustwo.com-frontend The front-end source code and build tooling for the ustwo.com corporate website, built as a React single-page application with server-side … | 32 | 1797 | maintenance |
| fossasia/badgeyay Badgeyay is a web application for generating attendee badges for conferences, concerts, and meetups. Users can customize badge size and bac… | 10 | 1791 | maintenance |
| fuce1314/Springboot_v2 SpringBoot_v2 is a clean, well-commented Spring Boot admin scaffold (boilerplate) with a Vue/Bootstrap front-end, login/registration, permi… | 32 | 1778 | maintenance |
| SpringMVC-Mybatis-Shiro-redis An upgraded demo application showing Apache Shiro permission/role-based access control integrated with SpringMVC, Mybatis, Redis, and Freem… | 32 | 1775 | maintenance |
| Shards UI Kit Shards Dashboard is a free admin dashboard template pack built on the Shards UI design system, available in a React (Create React App) vers… | 23 | 1709 | maintenance |
| LANIF-UI/dva-boot-admin DVA Boot Admin is a React-based admin dashboard scaffold built on React 16, React Router 4, DVA 2, and Ant Design 4. It provides an out-of-… | 23 | 1673 | maintenance |
| q2a/question2answer Question2Answer (Q2A) is a free, open-source PHP/MySQL platform for building question-and-answer websites, used by tens of thousands of sit… | 23 | 1669 | maintenance |
| xcatliu/pagic Pagic is a static site generator powered by Deno and React that renders markdown and tsx files into static HTML pages. Pages are pre-render… | 23 | 1658 | maintenance |
| c-smile/sciter-js-sdk Sciter.JS is a cross-platform desktop application framework that lets you build native apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, powered by the … | 10 | 1644 | maintenance |
| rapidoid/rapidoid Rapidoid is an extremely fast HTTP server and full-stack Java web framework with modules for REST APIs, web GUI, ORM, security, and configu… | 23 | 1633 | maintenance |
| Bootstrap Admin Theme A free, MIT-licensed generic admin dashboard theme built on Bootstrap, providing pre-built pages for login, dashboards, charts, tables, for… | 10 | 1624 | maintenance |
| unvell/ReoGrid ReoGrid is an open-source .NET spreadsheet component (MIT Community Edition, V3) that embeds an Excel-like grid into WinForms and WPF appli… | 67 | 1606 | maintenance |
| Faygo Faygo is a fast and concise Go web framework for building high-performance web applications, especially APIs, with minimal code. Defining a… | 23 | 1590 | maintenance |
| Achrou/goindex-theme-acrou A theme/extension for GoIndex that indexes Google Drive files in the browser via Cloudflare Workers. It adds features like multi-drive swit… | 23 | 1585 | maintenance |
| matyunya/smelte Smelte is a UI framework providing Material Design components built with Svelte and Tailwind CSS. It offers a wide range of components and … | 32 | 1545 | maintenance |
| regebro/hovercraft Hovercraft! is a command-line tool that generates impress.js presentations from reStructuredText files. The output is a standalone HTML sli… | 32 | 1508 | maintenance |
| ermouth/jQuery.my jQuery.my is a jQuery plugin for reactive two-way data binding between DOM form controls and JavaScript state objects, defined via a single… | 23 | 1504 | maintenance |
| FuelPHP FuelPHP v1.x is a lightweight, flexible MVC/HMVC web framework for PHP, featuring ViewModels (Presenters), closure-based routing, modular p… | 75 | 1503 | maintenance |
| montagejs/montage Montage is an open-source HTML5 application framework for building rich single-page web applications using standard web technologies. It pr… | 62 | 1501 | maintenance |
| kss-node/kss-node kss-node is a Node.js implementation of the KSS (Knyle Style Sheets) documentation syntax for CSS, which parses human-readable KSS comments… | 23 | 1498 | maintenance |
| creativetimofficial/notus-nextjs Notus NextJS is a free, MIT-licensed UI kit and admin dashboard template built with Tailwind CSS and NextJS/React by Creative Tim. It ships… | 23 | 1491 | maintenance |
| jonseg/crud-admin-generator CRUD Admin Generator is an open-source tool that generates a complete PHP backend (built on the Silex framework) from an existing MySQL dat… | 32 | 1419 | maintenance |
| BootstrapDash/StarAdmin-Free-Bootstrap-Admin-Template Star Admin is a free, responsive admin dashboard template built with Bootstrap 4, featuring a clean, elegant UI with pre-built components, … | 23 | 1419 | maintenance |
| ustayready/CredSniper CredSniper is a phishing framework built on Python's Flask micro-framework and Jinja2 templating that launches realistic phishing sites wit… | 32 | 1394 | maintenance |
| xiongwilee/Gracejs Gracejs (formerly koa-grace v2) is a Node.js BFF framework built on Koa 2 that implements an MVC + RESTful architecture for front-end/back-… | 34 | 1388 | maintenance |
| withstars/Books-Management-System A Java web application for managing a library, built with Spring, Spring MVC, JdbcTemplate, MySQL, and Bootstrap. It supports reader and ad… | 10 | 1382 | maintenance |
| panique/mini MINI is an extremely simple barebone PHP application skeleton, reduced to the max, that provides clean URLs, demo CRUD actions, and PDO-bas… | 32 | 1360 | maintenance |
| creativetimofficial/light-bootstrap-dashboard Light Bootstrap Dashboard is a free, MIT-licensed Bootstrap 4 admin dashboard template by Creative Tim, designed to be beautiful and simple… | 23 | 1360 | maintenance |
| NeutroniumCore/Neutronium Neutronium is a .NET library for building desktop applications with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript UIs using the MVVM pattern, powered by Chromi… | 23 | 1351 | maintenance |
| yuvalsuede/ai-component-generator A Next.js web application that generates UI components (HTML, Tailwind CSS, React, Material UI) from free-form text prompts using OpenAI's … | 31 | 1344 | maintenance |
| basecamp/mail_view MailView is a Ruby gem that lets Rails developers preview plain text and HTML email templates in a browser without actually sending mail. I… | 10 | 1321 | maintenance |
| fschutt/azul Azul is a free, reactive desktop GUI framework for Rust, C, C++, Python and other languages, built on Mozilla's WebRender with a CSS/HTML-l… | 90 | 6129 | experimental |
| lpereira/lwan Lwan is a high-performance, scalable HTTP server written in C that can serve both static and dynamic content, and can also be embedded as a… | 68 | 6041 | experimental |
| xbin-store A distributed B2C e-commerce mall application modeled after a well-known Chinese B2C site, built with Spring Boot, Dubbox RPC, Spring MVC, … | 32 | 1299 | maintenance |
| justpy-org/justpy JustPy is an object-oriented, component-based high-level Python web framework that lets developers build interactive websites and GUIs enti… | 46 | 1283 | maintenance |
| h5ds/h5ds H5DS is a web-based HTML5 page editor kernel built with React and MobX, letting non-coders create H5 pages similar to Yiqixiu. Its flexible… | 23 | 1264 | maintenance |
| SNFocus/approvalFlow A Vue-based admin interface that mimics DingTalk's approval workflow builder, built on top of form-generator. It supports drag-and-drop for… | 32 | 1247 | maintenance |
| creativetimofficial/material-kit-react Material Kit 2 React is a free, MIT-licensed React UI kit and design system built on MUI, inspired by Google's Material Design. It ships 40… | 23 | 1212 | maintenance |
| jlongster/blog The source code for James Long's personal blog (jlongster.com), a simple Node.js server that indexes blog posts from the filesystem. It pre… | 32 | 1207 | maintenance |
| idratherbewriting.com site A Jekyll theme purpose-built for documentation sites and help systems, featuring multi-level sidebar navigation, search, content reuse, and… | 32 | 1201 | maintenance |
| Express Admin Express Admin is a Node.js application that auto-generates responsive administrative interfaces for relational databases including MySQL, M… | 23 | 1192 | maintenance |
| jazzband/django-admin2 django-admin2 is an extendable, adaptable rewrite of django.contrib.admin built on modern Class-Based Views, with drop-in themes and a buil… | 67 | 1186 | maintenance |
| knadh/tg-archive tg-archive is a Python CLI tool that syncs Telegram group chat messages into a local SQLite database and generates a static website archive… | 61 | 1172 | maintenance |
| WhiteHouse/petitions A Drupal 7 installation profile that powers We The People, the White House online petition platform at petitions.whitehouse.gov. It lets us… | 10 | 1147 | maintenance |
| cretueusebiu/laravel-nuxt A starter template combining Laravel 8 backend with Nuxt 2 (Vue) frontend, supporting SPA or SSR modes. It ships with authentication featur… | 23 | 1141 | maintenance |
| josephernest/writing Writing is a lightweight, distraction-free Markdown and LaTeX text editor that runs entirely in the browser with no server code. It offers … | 32 | 1119 | maintenance |
| ijry/lyadmin lyadmin is a lightweight general-purpose admin backend built on ThinkPHP and Bootstrap3, featuring system settings, upload management, perm… | 67 | 1059 | maintenance |
| GoodManWEN/GoodManWEN.github.io A Vue-based website that simulates a Linux desktop GUI styled after the Deepin distribution, serving as a personal blog and resume showcase… | 23 | 1049 | maintenance |
| CreativeIT/material-angular-dashboard A free, MIT-licensed Angular admin dashboard template styled with Google Material Design, featuring a responsive dark theme built with Sass… | 23 | 1045 | maintenance |
| slimjs/slim.js Slim.js is an ultra-lightweight (~3KB gzipped) front-end micro-framework for building native Web Components with declarative templates and … | 23 | 1037 | maintenance |
| laodaobazi/ldbz-shop A distributed e-commerce mall system built with Spring Boot, Dubbo RPC, MySQL, Redis, and SolrCloud, with separate web apps for admin, cart… | 32 | 1035 | maintenance |
| creativetimofficial/material-dashboard-angular2 A free Material Design admin dashboard template built on Angular and Bootstrap, created by Creative Tim. It provides a responsive layout wi… | 23 | 1023 | maintenance |
| samuelkraft/notion-blog-nextjs A Next.js example blog that fetches posts from Notion's Public API and renders them as a website. It serves as a starter template for build… | 32 | 1020 | maintenance |
| PHPixie/Project PHPixie is a lightweight fullstack MVC framework for PHP designed for speed and simplicity, with a strict architecture that avoids antipatt… | 23 | 1018 | maintenance |
| Pipeline Visual Builder A web-based visual editor for the Pipeline page-building framework, letting users assemble and configure pages via drag-and-drop components… | 32 | 1017 | maintenance |
| scoumbourdis/grocery-crud Grocery CRUD is a PHP library for the CodeIgniter framework that auto-generates a full, production-ready CRUD (create, read, update, delete… | 23 | 1006 | maintenance |
| buqiyuan/vite-vue3-lowcode An experimental H5 mobile low-code platform built with Vue 3, Vite, TypeScript, Vant, and Element Plus. It provides a drag-and-drop visual … | 32 | 3405 | experimental |
| atuinsh/desktop Atuin Desktop is a local-first, executable runbook editor that combines documentation with live terminal execution, letting users chain she… | 10 | 2452 | experimental |
| dot-agent/nextpy Nextpy is a pure-Python fullstack web framework optimized for AI agents and code generation, describing itself as a self-modifying software… | 19 | 2347 | experimental |
| vlang/gitly Gitly is a lightweight, self-hosted GitHub/GitLab alternative written in V, distributed as a single sub-1 MB binary with compiled templates… | 74 | 1486 | experimental |
| octanejs/octane Octane is a compiled JavaScript UI framework that keeps React's component and hooks API while compiling components to direct DOM code with … | 77 | 1458 | experimental |
| ChinaIceF/PyQt-SiliconUI PyQt-SiliconUI is a Python UI component library built on PyQt5/PyQt6 that provides artistic, animated widgets, layouts, and popovers for de… | 59 | 1286 | experimental |
| mvel/mvel MVEL (MVFLEX Expression Language) is an embeddable expression language and runtime for the Java platform, with MVEL3 transpiling expression… | 74 | 1203 | experimental |
| baku89/glisp Glisp is a Lisp-based design tool that combines a graphical editor with a Lisp interpreter, letting artists mix direct manipulation with co… | 65 | 1182 | experimental |
| Vue Core Vue 2 is the end-of-life repository for Vue.js, a progressive JavaScript framework for building user interfaces that scales from a lightwei… | 23 | 212850 | abandoned |
| anthdm/superkit SUPERKIT is a full-stack web framework for Go that bundles project scaffolding, Templ-based views, Tailwind CSS, database migrations, valid… | 15 | 1101 | experimental |
| levkk/rwf Rwf is a comprehensive MVC web framework for building web applications in Rust, bundling an HTTP server, ORM, dynamic templates, authentica… | 57 | 1062 | experimental |
| azac/cobol-on-wheelchair COBOL on Wheelchair is a micro web-framework written in COBOL that runs via CGI on an Apache server with GNU Cobol. It is a novelty project… | 32 | 1033 | experimental |
| shadcn-ui/taxonomy Taxonomy is an open-source Next.js 13 demo application showcasing the App Router, server components, authentication with NextAuth.js, Prism… | 64 | 19290 | abandoned |
| akveo/blur-admin BlurAdmin is an open-source AngularJS and Bootstrap admin panel front-end framework with a customizable dashboard theme. It ships with resp… | 23 | 11287 | abandoned |
| Shopify/dashing Dashing is a Sinatra-based Ruby framework for building attractive real-time dashboards with widgets, designed to look great on TVs. It is n… | 10 | 10902 | abandoned |
| jquery-archive/jquery-mobile jQuery Mobile is an HTML5-based touch-optimized UI framework built on jQuery and jQuery UI for creating responsive mobile web sites and app… | 10 | 9595 | abandoned |
| pydantic/FastUI FastUI is a framework for building web application UIs with declarative Python code, backed by matching Pydantic models and TypeScript inte… | 10 | 8939 | abandoned |
| ipkn/crow Crow is a fast, header-only C++ micro web framework inspired by Python Flask, offering Flask-like routing, built-in JSON handling, Mustache… | 23 | 7626 | abandoned |
| fex-team/ueditor UEditor is a lightweight, customizable WYSIWYG rich text editor for web pages, originally developed by Baidu's web frontend team and releas… | 10 | 6759 | abandoned |
| ponzu-cms/ponzu Ponzu is an open-source headless CMS and HTTP server framework written in Go that auto-generates content editors and a JSON API from CLI sc… | 43 | 5760 | abandoned |
| vibora-io/vibora Vibora is a fast, asynchronous Python 3.6+ HTTP client/server web framework with features like routing, sessions, websockets, caching, and … | 10 | 5580 | abandoned |
| aspnet/Mvc ASP.NET Core MVC is a model-view-controller framework for building dynamic web sites and HTTP services with clean separation of concerns, m… | 10 | 5564 | abandoned |
| Zend Framework Zend Framework is a collection of 60+ loosely coupled, object-oriented PHP packages for building web applications and services, installable… | 10 | 5429 | abandoned |
| YUI YUI 3 is Yahoo's open-source JavaScript and CSS library for building richly interactive web applications, offering DOM utilities, UI widget… | 23 | 4159 | abandoned |
| NativePHP Desktop A Laravel wrapper for the NativePHP framework that lets developers build native desktop (and mobile) applications using PHP, Laravel, and B… | 10 | 3886 | abandoned |