Top 18 Highly Rated Front‑End Open‑Source Projects for Learning

For developers who want to start front‑end development, HTML, CSS and JavaScript are essential, and exploring high‑quality open‑source projects can accelerate learning; this article lists the domestic projects with the highest scores and over 100 stars.

1. Layui – Minimalist Modular UI Framework Rating: 9.3, Stars: 873 License: MIT Languages: JavaScript, HTML/CSS Platform: Cross‑platform Source: https://gitee.com/sentsin/layui Layui follows native HTML/CSS/JS conventions, offers a low entry barrier, lightweight components, and is especially suited for server‑side programmers who prefer to work directly with the browser without complex build tools.

2. ECharts – JavaScript Chart Library Rating: 8.9, Stars: 2,448 License: BSD Language: JavaScript Platform: Cross‑platform Source: https://gitee.com/echarts/echarts Developed by Baidu, ECharts provides a rich set of interactive, customizable charts built on the lightweight ZRender canvas library, supporting line, bar, scatter, pie, K‑line, map, force‑directed, chord diagrams and more.

3. Pintuer – Responsive Cross‑Screen Front‑End Framework Rating: 8.7, Stars: 220 License: Apache Languages: JavaScript, HTML/CSS Platform: Cross‑platform Source: https://gitee.com/pintuer/pintuer Pintuer offers a comprehensive set of styles for text, icons, media, tables, forms, buttons, grids, etc., enabling rapid development of responsive pages that adapt to phones, tablets and desktops.

4. MDUI – Lightweight Material Design UI Framework Rating: 8.6, Stars: 215 License: MIT Languages: JavaScript, HTML/CSS Platform: Cross‑platform Source: https://github.com/zdhxiong/mdui MDUI implements Material Design components 1:1, provides 19 primary colors, 16 accent colors, a dark theme, and remains under 26 KB (CSS) and 12 KB (JS) when minified.

5. Win10‑UI – Windows 10‑Style Responsive UI Framework Rating: 8.5, Stars: 170 License: SATA Languages: JavaScript, HTML/CSS Platform: Cross‑platform Source: https://github.com/yuri2peter/win10-ui Win10‑UI mimics Windows 10 desktop elements (icons, windows, start menu, live tiles) and works on modern browsers and mobile devices, making it suitable for quick back‑office UI development.

6. blessed‑contrib – Node.js Terminal UI Library Rating: 8.5, Stars: 125 License: MIT Language: JavaScript Platform: Cross‑platform Source: https://github.com/yaronn/blessed-contrib A library for building terminal dashboards with charts, tables and other widgets, running directly in a Node.js console.

7. ORY Editor – Modern Content Editor Based on React & Redux Rating: 8.3, Stars: 109 License: AGPL Language: JavaScript Platform: Cross‑platform Source: https://github.com/ory/editor A WYSIWYG editor written in React that avoids the limitations of contenteditable, works offline, and allows custom plugins and designs.

8. Lottie – Mobile Animation Framework Rating: 8.3, Stars: 317 License: Apache Languages: Java, Objective‑C, JavaScript Platform: Android (also iOS & React Native) Sources: Android – https://github.com/airbnb/lottie-android; iOS – https://github.com/airbnb/lottie-ios; React Native – https://github.com/airbnb/lottie-react-native Lottie renders After Effects animations in native apps, supporting path trimming, masks, caching and other advanced features.

9. JQuery EasyUI Insdep Theme – Theme Pack for EasyUI 1.5.x Rating: 8.3, Stars: 101 License: GPL Language: JavaScript Platform: Cross‑platform Source: https://gitee.com/weavors/JQuery-EasyUI-1.5.x-Of-Insdep-Theme Provides a free visual theme and styling patches for EasyUI components, plus beautified third‑party plugins such as UEditor, Cropper, Highcharts, etc.

10. Neditor – Modern Rich‑Text Editor Based on UEditor Rating: 8.3, Stars: 503 License: MIT Language: JavaScript Platform: Cross‑platform Source: https://gitee.com/notadd/neditor A fork of Baidu’s UEditor with updated UI and additional features, aimed at delivering a cleaner Chinese rich‑text editing experience.

11. iView – Vue.js UI Component Library Rating: 8.3, Stars: 475 License: MIT Language: HTML/CSS (Vue components) Platform: Cross‑platform Source: https://gitee.com/icarusion/iview Offers high‑quality, feature‑rich components, a friendly API, single‑file Vue components, and builds on npm + webpack + Babel with ES2015 support.

12. Element – Vue 2.0 Component Library Rating: 8.2, Stars: 609 License: MIT Language: JavaScript Platform: Cross‑platform Source: https://github.com/ElemeFE/element Designed for developers, designers and product managers, providing a complete UI kit and design resources for rapid Vue‑based web development.

13. Amaze UI – HTML5 Cross‑Screen Front‑End Framework Rating: 8.1, Stars: 1,213 License: MIT Languages: JavaScript, HTML/CSS Platform: Cross‑platform Source: https://gitee.com/amazeui/amazeui Adopts component‑based development and mobile‑first design, enabling fast assembly of HTML5 web apps; widely used in China with tens of thousands of stars.

14. WeUI – UI Library for WeChat Web Apps Rating: 7.7, Stars: 2,002 License: MIT Languages: JavaScript, HTML/CSS Platform: Cross‑platform Source: (official repository) Provides UI components that match the native WeChat visual style, including buttons, cells, dialogs, toasts, articles, icons, etc., ensuring a consistent user experience across WeChat web pages.

15. AdminLTE – Dashboard WebApp Template Rating: 7.6, Stars: 136 License: MIT Languages: JavaScript, HTML/CSS Platform: Cross‑platform Source: https://github.com/almasaeed2010/AdminLTE/ A popular Bootstrap‑based admin dashboard template offering responsive layouts, numerous plugins and easy customization.

16. Walle – Web Deployment System Tool Rating: 7.4, Stars: 359 License: MIT Languages: PHP, HTML/CSS Platform: Cross‑platform Source: (official repository) Supports Git, SVN, and multiple language stacks (PHP, Python, Java) for one‑click deployment, rollback and version management via a web UI.

17. Charisma – Responsive Backend Management Template Rating: 7.4, Stars: 1,055 License: Apache Languages: HTML/CSS Platform: Cross‑platform Source: (official repository) Built on Twitter Bootstrap, includes nine themes and a collection of UI components for rapid backend interface creation.

18. LibreBoard – Open‑Source Kanban Board System Rating: 7.4, Stars: 380 License: MIT Languages: JavaScript, HTML/CSS Platform: Cross‑platform Source: (official repository) A Trello‑like Kanban board implementation that can be installed on the Sandstorm platform or run via a verified Docker image.

Note: All rating and star data are sourced from Open‑Source China.