nginx

nginx Joined Feb 2012 View on GitHub

Stars: 56,883; across 59 public repos
Rank: #488; of 94,827 organizations, top 0.5%; Down 15 places this week

Repositories with 50+ stars

nginx's repositories with their overall rank
Rank	Repository	Language	Stars
1,149	nginx The official NGINX Open Source repository.	C	32,088
11,523	unit NGINX Unit - universal web app server - a lightweight and versatile open source server that simplifies the application stack by natively executing application code across eight different...	C	5,534
12,671	kubernetes-ingress NGINX and NGINX Plus Ingress Controllers for Kubernetes	Go	5,097
19,078	docker-nginx Official NGINX Dockerfiles	Shell	3,509
33,653	nginx-prometheus-exporter NGINX Prometheus Exporter for NGINX and NGINX Plus	Go	2,023
42,489	njs A subset of JavaScript language to use in nginx	C	1,611
56,764	nginx-gateway-fabric NGINX Gateway Fabric provides an implementation for the Gateway API using NGINX as the data plane.	Go	1,193
71,102	ngx-rust Rust binding for NGINX	Rust	926
85,372	nginx-s3-gateway NGINX S3 Gateway	Shell	762
91,528	ansible-role-nginx Ansible role for installing NGINX	Jinja	707
93,191	njs-examples NGINX JavaScript examples	JavaScript	693
129,739	docker-nginx-unprivileged Unprivileged NGINX Dockerfiles	Dockerfile	481
136,315	nginx-acme An NGINX module with the implementation of the automatic certificate management (ACMEv2) protocol	Rust	455
161,684	agent NGINX Agent provides an administrative entry point to remotely manage, configure and collect metrics and events from NGINX instances	Go	375
207,743	nginx-otel	C++	281
305,381	ansible-role-nginx-config Ansible role for configuring NGINX	Jinja	177
372,822	nginx-tests Test suite for nginx.	Perl	139
492,025	documentation Public source for docs.nginx.com	HTML	98
503,967	njs-acme Nginx NJS module runtime to work with ACME providers like Let's Encrypt for automated no-reload TLS certificate issue/renewal.	TypeScript	95
508,071	nginx.org Sources for the NGINX website and documentation	XSLT	94
732,722	nginx-asg-sync NGINX Plus Integration with Cloud Autoscaling	Go	59
742,438	unit-docs NGINX Unit's official website and documentation	Python	58

Among 94,827 organizations

40k–63k stars: 367 organizations, including nginx

top 50%top 10%top 1%top 0.1%

Stars along the bottom, and organizations in each band on a log scale

Where the stars are

nginx 32.1k, 56%unit 5.5k, 10%kubernetes-ingress 5.1k, 9%docker-nginx 3.5k, 6%nginx-prometheus-exporter 2k, 4%njs 1.6k, 3%nginx-gateway-fabric 1.2k, 2%ngx-rust 926, 2%nginx-s3-gateway 762, 1%

7 more repos 720, 1%

ansible-role-nginx 707, 1%njs-examples 693, 1%docker-nginx-unprivileged 481, 1%nginx-acme 455, 1%

Smaller repos 428, 1%

agent 375, 1%nginx-otel 281, <1%

Languages

C 39.2k stars, 69% · 3 repos
Go 8.7k stars, 15% · 5 repos
Shell 4.3k stars, 8% · 2 repos
Rust 1.4k stars, 2% · 2 repos
Jinja 884 stars, 2% · 2 repos
JavaScript 693 stars, 1% · 1 repo
Dockerfile 481 stars, 1% · 1 repo
C++ 281 stars, <1% · 1 repo

and 5 more languages

When they were made

22 repos with 50+ stars, made between 2014 and 2025

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Quick stats

Next rank: +5 stars to reach #487
Next milestone: +133,886 stars to reach the top 0.1%
Public repos: 59, 22 with 50+ stars
Popular repos: 7 over 1k stars, 1 over 10k stars
Top repo: nginx, #1,149 of all repos, 56% of stars
Smaller repos: 428 stars from repos under 50