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Heroku Joined Sept 2008 View on GitHub

Stars
37,018
across 667 public repos
Rank
#881
of 94,827 organizations, top 0.9%
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Repositories with 50+ stars

heroku's repositories with their overall rank
RankRepositoryLanguageStars
19,784

A simple, declarative, and composable way to fetch data for React components

JavaScript 3,398
50,574

A heroku plugin for awesome pg:* commands that are also great and fun and super.

TypeScript 1,352
50,674

Heroku's classic buildpack for Node.js apps

Shell 1,349
50,705

Heroku CLI

Ruby 1,348
61,777

Getting Started with Node.js on Heroku

EJS 1,084
66,626

Heroku's classic buildpack for Python apps

Ruby 993
67,485

[DEPRECATED] Heroku log router

Erlang 979
73,370

A Django 2.0 base template featuring all recommended best practices for deployment on Heroku and local development.

Python 895
74,063

Heroku CLI

TypeScript 886
75,388

This repository is deprecated. Head over to https://github.com/heroku/node-js-getting-started

JavaScript 870
77,032

Getting Started with Python on Heroku

Python 850
78,026 Ruby 838
80,151

Heroku's classic buildpack for PHP apps

Shell 815
82,453

Heroku's classic buildpack for Go apps

Shell 791
83,059

Heroku's classic buildpack for Ruby apps

Ruby 785
91,153

DEPRECATED: see

Go 710
94,274

Plugin for heroku CLI that can manipulate the repo

TypeScript 684
96,557

[DEPRECATED] Heroku buildpack for handling static sites and single page web apps

Ruby 666
101,649

Vegur: HTTP Proxy Library

Erlang 630
116,648

Helps use multiple accounts on Heroku.

JavaScript 542
137,318

[DEPRECATED] Do not use! See https://github.com/heroku/django-heroku/issues/56

Python 451
177,176 Java 338
177,176

Classic buildpack that installs pgbouncer in the dyno alongside your app.

Shell 338
184,287

Lightweight Java application launcher. Launch your webapp in the most popular open source web container available with a single command.

Java 323
197,020

[DEPRECATED] Classic buildpack that installs Google Chrome.

Shell 299
197,553

A Go API client for the v2 Docker Registry API

Go 298
213,696

Recipes for building the base images for Heroku's stacks

Shell 272
224,262

Getting Started with Java on Heroku

HTML 257
227,154

Classic buildpack that installs nginx

Shell 253
228,627

Classic buildpack that installs APT packages

Shell 251
228,627

Getting Started with Go on Heroku

Go 251
233,403

[DEPRECATED] Login and OAuth management service for Heroku

CSS 245
241,629

HTTP log transport.

Go 235
248,654

Terrier is a Image and Container analysis tool that can be used to scan Images and Containers to identify and verify the presence of specific files according to their hashes.

Go 227
250,491

This is the public roadmap for Salesforce Heroku services.

225
254,211

HTTP metrics monitoring endpoint

Ruby 221
258,039

Ruby HTTP client for the Heroku API

Ruby 217
260,998

Python interface to the Salesforce.com Bulk API

Python 214
270,337

onboarding, offboarding, or crossboarding made easy

SCSS 205
278,318

Getting Started with PHP on Heroku

HTML 198
281,877

DEPRECATED Heroku Toolbelt plugin to help configure, test and release apps to Heroku using local containers.

JavaScript 195
283,083

A wrapper around the Heroku API for Node.js

JavaScript 194
287,982

Heroku's classic buildpack for Scala apps

Ruby 190
306,866

A little guide about how to be the Erlang medic in a time of war. It is first and foremost a collection of tips and tricks to help understand where failures come from, and a dictionary of...

TeX 176
311,270

Use Postgres advisory lock to isolate code execution across machines

Ruby 173
314,361

A build server in the cloud.

Ruby 171
322,287

Heroku's classic buildpack for Java apps

Shell 166
322,287

A toolkit for importing AWS detailed billing reports into Redshift

JavaScript 166
322,287

A toolkit for building excellent APIs with Elixir

Elixir 166
330,622

Classic buildpack that adds support for multiple Procfiles

Shell 161
332,301

DEPRECATED! Official Heroku Ruby Legacy API wrapper

Ruby 160
334,024

DEPRECATED: Real-time Heroku operations dashboard

Clojure 159
342,860

[DEPRECATED] Please use https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/using-multiple-buildpacks-for-an-app instead

Shell 154
370,617

DEFUNCT: Realtime analysis of your Heroku app logs.

Ruby 140
377,305

Builds API CLI plugin

TypeScript 137
379,570

This project has been sunset. See: https://github.com/heroku/heroku.py/issues/61

Python 136
384,074 JavaScript 134
393,443

[DEPRECATED] Use https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-chrome-for-testing instead.

Shell 130
403,474

Getting Started with Ruby on Heroku

HTML 126
427,929

Heroku's classic buildpack for Clojure apps

Ruby 117
436,799 JavaScript 114
443,082

Collecting metrics over discrete time intervals

Go 112
452,663

An sbt plugin for deploying Heroku Scala applications

Scala 109
465,949

Erlang buildpack

Shell 105
480,769

Terraform Heroku provider

Go 101
508,071 TypeScript 94
512,314

example facebook app for heroku

PHP 93
512,314

*DEPRECATED* The semver.io instance has now been sunset: https://github.com/heroku/semver.io/issues/74

CoffeeScript 93
521,219

A tool to help Heroku add-on providers integrate their services with Heroku

Ruby 91
525,778

An Alpine-based Docker example

Dockerfile 90
530,478

Reads and writes netrc files.

Ruby 89
535,295 Ruby 88
550,054

Ruby gem that reports app runtime metrics (GC, ObjectSpace, Puma) to Heroku's Application Metrics dashboard

Ruby 85
566,057

Shell as a Service: API to inspect and execute scripts in a server's environment via HTTP and WebSockets

Go 82
566,057

🐒 Kong API gateway as a Heroku app

Lua 82
566,057

Heroku Platform MCP Server using the Heroku CLI

TypeScript 82
577,198 Shell 80
577,198

CLI plugin to allow retrying the latest release-phase command

JavaScript 80
600,866

A Node.js wrapper for Facebook authentication and API

JavaScript 76
607,110 AspectJ 75
607,110

Logs to stdout so you don't have to

Ruby 75
607,110

Heroku Cloud Native Buildpacks overview and tutorials

Ruby 75
626,825

A Heroku Buildpack that generates a REST webservice from a Core Data model

Shell 72
633,655

**This buildpack is deprecated!** Please use the official Node.js buildpack combined with the static or nginx buildpack instead.

Ruby 71
648,250

Recipes for building Heroku's Cloud Native Buildpacks builder images

Shell 69
671,363 Python 66
687,796

Easy to use CLI security checks for the Heroku platform. Validate baseline security configurations for your own Heroku deployments.

Python 64
696,124

Heroku's classic buildpack for Gradle apps

Shell 63
713,793 Java 61
723,126

C Language Pack

Shell 60
723,126 JavaScript 60
742,438

Command line tool to deploy JVM apps directly to Heroku without pushing to a Git repository

Java 58
742,438

A Heroku buildpack for ember-cli apps; powers dashboard.heroku.com

Shell 58
752,808

An example of using Create React App with Rails 5 API and ActiveAdmin on Heroku

Ruby 57
774,412

Heroku CLI plugin to fork an existing app into a new app

JavaScript 55
774,412
x

A set of packages for reuse within Heroku Go applications

Go 55
809,321 Ruby 52
809,321

[DEPRECATED] See https://www.heroku.com/blog/jupyter-notebooks-heroku-persistent-storage/ instead

Python 52
834,145

See https://github.com/heroku/plugin-buildpack-registry instead

JavaScript 50
834,145

Cache environment variables as Erlang app variables

Erlang 50

Among 94,827 organizations

25k–40k stars: 673 organizations, including heroku

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100 repos with 50+ stars, made between 2009 and 2025

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65 over 100 stars, 5 over 1k stars
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react-refetch, #19,784 of all repos, 9% of stars
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