heroku
Heroku Joined Sept 2008 View on GitHub
- Stars
- 37,018
- across 667 public repos
- Rank
- #881
- of 94,827 organizations, top 0.9%
- New on the board this week
Repositories with 50+ stars
| Rank | Repository | Language | Stars |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 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
Stars along the bottom, and organizations in each band on a log scale
Where the stars are
Languages
- Ruby 6.7k stars, 18% · 22 repos
- JavaScript 5.9k stars, 16% · 13 repos
- Shell 5.5k stars, 15% · 20 repos
- TypeScript 3.2k stars, 9% · 6 repos
- Python 2.7k stars, 7% · 8 repos
- Go 2.1k stars, 6% · 9 repos
- Erlang 1.7k stars, 4% · 3 repos
- EJS 1.1k stars, 3% · 1 repo
and 13 more languages
When they were made
100 repos with 50+ stars, made between 2009 and 2025
Quick stats
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- Public repos
- 667, 101 with 50+ stars
- Popular repos
- 65 over 100 stars, 5 over 1k stars
- Top repo
- react-refetch, #19,784 of all repos, 9% of stars
- Smaller repos
- 4,990 stars from repos under 50