🧩 Also available as a Chrome extension

:sparkles: Star History :sparkles:

star-history.com, the de facto GitHub star history graph.

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👇 THIS is a live chart. Follow instruction to embed yours.

👇 THIS is also a live badge with global rank. Follow instruction to embed yours.

🎁 Sponsors

Bytebase

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✨ Features

• Unique sketch xkcd feeling chart;
• One-click generation of high-quality image for chart;
• Support multiple chart view mode based on date or timeline;
• Embed the real-time chart into GitHub readme or other websites (like the one we embed here on the top)
• And various useful functions:
  • toggle repo visibility;
  • shortcut to input repo;
  • share on Twitter quickly;
  • support input multiple repos;
  • ...waiting for you to find out!

🌠 Screenshots

🧩 Free chrome extension

🏗 Development

We do not accept external contribution.

Star-history is built using a modern tech stack: Next.js + TailwindCSS.

Prerequisites

• Node.js
• pnpm

Homepage

Homepage of star-history with most of useful features and blogs about open source.

cd frontend && pnpm i && pnpm dev

The website will be served at http://localhost:3000.

Chrome Extension

Chrome extension supports the basic chart viewer as a free additional product.

cd frontend && pnpm build:ext

Load the built ./dist folder as unpacked project to chrome extensions page.

API Server

API server is an experimental feature. It's mainly used to generate chart SVG image file that can be embedded into GitHub readme.

cd backend && pnpm i && pnpm dev

The API server will be running on http://localhost:8080.