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Open Source Build & Deployment Tools

Open source build & deployment tools

projects 84 combined stars ★ 719K refresh nightly
Build & Deployment is one of the most active slices of the open source world — the 11 projects below are ranked by GitHub stars, which makes this page roughly a community-voted shortlist rather than a vendor-curated catalogue. Every card shows the license and the last-commit date, so you can filter out the two failure modes of free software in one glance: restrictive licensing that blocks your use case, and abandonment that leaves you maintaining a fork. When two projects look comparable, prefer the one with more recent activity and the more permissive license (MIT/Apache-2.0 over AGPL) unless copyleft specifically serves your goals. Hover into any project for its full README — the documentation quality is usually the honest tell of engineering quality.

All Build & Deployment tools

vite ★ 84K

Next generation frontend tooling. It's fast!

rank001 licenseMIT written inTypeScript typeBuild & Deployment
webpack ★ 66K

A bundler for javascript and friends. Packs many modules into a few bundled assets. Code Splitting allows for loading parts of the application on demand. Throug

rank002 licenseMIT written inJavaScript typeBuild & Deployment
Appwrite ★ 58K

Open-source backend platform for rapid app development

rank003 licenseBSD-3-Clause written inTypeScript typeBuild & Deployment
parcel ★ 44K

The zero configuration build tool for the web. 📦🚀

rank004 licenseMIT written inJavaScript typeBuild & Deployment
esbuild ★ 40K

An extremely fast bundler for the web

rank005 licenseMIT written inGo typeBuild & Deployment
Harness ★ 39K

End-to-end open source software delivery platform

rank006 licenseApache-2.0 written inGo typeBuild & Deployment
Dokku ★ 32K

Self-hosted mini-PaaS for deploying applications easily

rank007 licenseMIT written inGo typeBuild & Deployment
turborepo ★ 31K

Build system optimized for JavaScript and TypeScript, written in Rust

rank008 licenseMIT written inRust typeBuild & Deployment
nx ★ 29K

The Monorepo Platform that amplifies both developers and AI agents. Nx optimizes your builds, scales your CI, and fixes failed PRs automatically. Ship in half t

rank009 licenseMIT written inTypeScript typeBuild & Deployment
NocoBase ★ 25K

Build custom apps without code, deploy with ease

rank010 license— written inTypeScript typeBuild & Deployment
gradle ★ 19K

Adaptable, fast automation for all

rank011 licenseApache-2.0 written inGroovy typeBuild & Deployment
rspack ★ 13K

Fast Rust-based bundler for the web with a modernized webpack API 🦀

rank012 licenseMIT written inRust typeBuild & Deployment
devbox ★ 12K

Instant, easy, and predictable development environments

rank013 licenseApache-2.0 written inGo typeBuild & Deployment
xmake ★ 12K

🔥 A cross-platform build utility based on Lua

rank014 licenseApache-2.0 written inLua typeBuild & Deployment
chalice ★ 11K

Python Serverless Microframework for AWS

rank015 licenseApache-2.0 written inPython typeBuild & Deployment
wxt ★ 11K

⚡ Next-gen Web Extension Framework

rank016 licenseMIT written inTypeScript typeBuild & Deployment
NHost ★ 9.4K

Serverless backend platform for modern app development

rank017 licenseMIT written inGo typeBuild & Deployment
Woodpecker CI ★ 8.1K

Simple yet powerful CI/CD engine with great extensibility

rank018 licenseApache-2.0 written inGo typeBuild & Deployment
kubevela ★ 7.9K

The Modern Application Platform.

rank019 licenseApache-2.0 written inGo typeBuild & Deployment
midway ★ 7.8K

🍔 A Node.js Serverless Framework for front-end/full-stack developers. Build the application for next decade. Works on AWS, Alibaba Cloud, Tencent Cloud and tra

rank020 licenseMIT written inTypeScript typeBuild & Deployment
DependencyCheck ★ 7.8K

OWASP dependency-check is a software composition analysis utility that detects publicly disclosed vulnerabilities in application dependencies.

rank021 licenseApache-2.0 written inJava typeBuild & Deployment
lightningcss ★ 7.7K

An extremely fast CSS parser, transformer, bundler, and minifier written in Rust.

rank022 licenseMPL-2.0 written inRust typeBuild & Deployment
piku ★ 6.6K

The tiniest PaaS you've ever seen. Piku allows you to do git push deployments to your own servers.

rank023 licenseMIT written inPython typeBuild & Deployment
Rivet ★ 6.6K

Build stateful backends with in-memory actors

rank024 licenseApache-2.0 written inRust typeBuild & Deployment
Bear ★ 6.5K

Generate compile_commands.json for any C or C++ build

rank025 licenseGPL-3.0 written inRust typeBuild & Deployment
farm ★ 5.6K

Extremely fast Vite-compatible web build tool written in Rust

rank026 licenseMIT written inRust typeBuild & Deployment
tsuru ★ 5.3K

Open source and extensible Platform as a Service (PaaS).

rank027 licenseBSD-3-Clause written inGo typeBuild & Deployment
extension.js ★ 5.2K

The cross-browser extension framework.

rank028 licenseMIT written inTypeScript typeBuild & Deployment
tau ★ 5.2K

Fullstack Workspace for Humans & Machines

rank029 licenseBSD-3-Clause written inGo typeBuild & Deployment
modern.js ★ 5.1K

A progressive web framework based on React and Rsbuild.

rank030 licenseMIT written inTypeScript typeBuild & Deployment
sbt ★ 5.0K

sbt, the interactive build tool

rank031 licenseApache-2.0 written inScala typeBuild & Deployment
style-dictionary ★ 4.9K

A build system for creating cross-platform styles.

rank032 licenseApache-2.0 written inJavaScript typeBuild & Deployment
/dev/push ★ 4.8K

Deploy apps instantly with git push - open source alternative

rank033 licenseMIT written inTypeScript typeBuild & Deployment
trunk ★ 4.4K

Build, bundle & ship your Rust WASM application to the web.

rank034 licenseApache-2.0 written inRust typeBuild & Deployment
cake ★ 4.2K

:cake: Cake (C# Make) is a cross platform build automation system.

rank035 licenseMIT written inC# typeBuild & Deployment
retire.js ★ 4.2K

scanner detecting the use of JavaScript libraries with known vulnerabilities. Can also generate an SBOM of the libraries it finds.

rank036 licenseApache-2.0 written inJavaScript typeBuild & Deployment
middy ★ 3.9K

🛵 The stylish Node.js middleware engine for AWS Lambda 🛵

rank037 licenseMIT written inJavaScript typeBuild & Deployment
pants ★ 3.9K

The Pants Build System

rank038 licenseApache-2.0 written inPython typeBuild & Deployment
proguard ★ 3.7K

ProGuard, Java optimizer and obfuscator

rank039 licenseGPL-2.0 written inJava typeBuild & Deployment
rsbuild ★ 3.4K

Fast, extensible build tool for modern web development

rank040 licenseMIT written inTypeScript typeBuild & Deployment
penguin-harness ★ 3.1K

🐧 Harness for RSI. Let AI Build AI. Multi-Agent Auto-Dev Platform. Everything is Transparent.

rank041 licenseApache-2.0 written inTypeScript typeBuild & Deployment
cargo-make ★ 3.0K

Rust task runner and build tool.

rank042 licenseApache-2.0 written inRust typeBuild & Deployment
mill ★ 2.8K

A better build tool for Java, Scala and Kotlin: Simpler than Maven, easier than Gradle, with 3-7x faster dev workflows than other JVM build tools

rank043 licenseMIT written inScala typeBuild & Deployment
please ★ 2.6K

High-performance extensible build system for reproducible multi-language builds.

rank044 licenseApache-2.0 written inGo typeBuild & Deployment
scons ★ 2.4K

SCons - a software construction tool

rank045 licenseMIT written inPython typeBuild & Deployment
1backend ★ 2.4K

Build AI (or any) apps with scalable microservices & microfrontends.

rank046 licenseAGPL-3.0 written inGo typeBuild & Deployment
swift-build ★ 2.3K

A high-level build system based on llbuild, used by Xcode, Swift Playground, and the Swift Package Manager

rank047 licenseApache-2.0 written inSwift typeBuild & Deployment
pybuilder ★ 2.1K

Software build automation tool for Python.

rank048 licenseApache-2.0 written inPython typeBuild & Deployment
Serverless-Devs ★ 1.8K

:fire: Serverless Devs: Serverless developer tool ( Serverless Devs: Serverless 开发者工具 )

rank049 licenseApache-2.0 written inTypeScript typeBuild & Deployment
paasta ★ 1.7K

An open, distributed platform as a service

rank050 licenseApache-2.0 written inPython typeBuild & Deployment
create-elm-app ★ 1.7K

🍃 Create Elm apps with zero configuration

rank051 licenseMIT written inJavaScript typeBuild & Deployment
wordpressify ★ 1.6K

🎈 Automate your WordPress development workflow.

rank052 licenseMIT written inPHP typeBuild & Deployment
toast ★ 1.6K

Containerize your development and continuous integration environments. 🥂

rank053 licenseMIT written inRust typeBuild & Deployment
Semaphore ★ 1.6K

Open source CI/CD platform that's faster and costs less

rank054 licenseNOASSERTION written inElixir typeBuild & Deployment
corrosion ★ 1.5K

Marrying Rust and CMake - Easy Rust and C/C++ Integration!

rank055 licenseMIT written inCMake typeBuild & Deployment
xc ★ 1.4K

Markdown defined task runner.

rank056 licenseMIT written inGo typeBuild & Deployment
ultra-runner ★ 1.2K

🏃⛰ Ultra fast monorepo script runner and build tool

rank057 licenseApache-2.0 written inTypeScript typeBuild & Deployment
cloud-in-a-bottle ★ 1.2K

Deploy, use, and share web apps on a server you control. Your apps, data, and infrastructure stay yours.

rank058 licenseAGPL-3.0 written inPython typeBuild & Deployment
phing ★ 1.2K

PHing Is Not GNU make; it's a PHP project build system or build tool based on Apache Ant.

rank059 licenseLGPL-3.0 written inPHP typeBuild & Deployment
rslib ★ 1.0K

Create JavaScript libraries in a simple and intuitive way.

rank060 licenseMIT written inTypeScript typeBuild & Deployment
pytest-testmon ★ 1.0K

Selects tests affected by changed files. Executes the right tests first. Continuous test runner when used with pytest-watch.

rank061 licenseMIT written inPython typeBuild & Deployment
sandboxd ★ 978

Open-source, self-hosted AI app builder — an agent builds real apps in isolated sandboxes on your own server, each live at a preview URL. Self-host in one comma

rank062 licenseMIT written inGo typeBuild & Deployment
denoify ★ 949

🦕For NPM module authors that would like to support Deno but do not want to write and maintain a port.

rank063 licenseMIT written inTypeScript typeBuild & Deployment
FlubuCore ★ 937

A cross platform build and deployment automation system for building projects and executing deployment scripts using C# code.

rank064 licenseMIT written inC# typeBuild & Deployment
swiftwave ★ 909

Self-hosted lightweight PaaS solution to deploy and manage your applications on any VPS [Your own self-hosted Heroku, Vercel]

rank065 licenseApache-2.0 written inGo typeBuild & Deployment
Ceedling ★ 861

Unit testing and build system for C projects

rank066 licenseMIT written inRuby typeBuild & Deployment
intellij ★ 818

CLion plugin for Bazel projects

rank067 licenseApache-2.0 written inJava typeBuild & Deployment
claudie ★ 793

Cloud-agnostic managed Kubernetes

rank068 licenseApache-2.0 written inGo typeBuild & Deployment
bazel-remote ★ 787

A remote cache for Bazel

rank069 licenseApache-2.0 written inGo typeBuild & Deployment
captain ★ 775

Captain - Convert your Git workflow to Docker :whale: containers

rank070 licenseMIT written inGo typeBuild & Deployment
cell ★ 748

Cell is a Serverless First, componentized, platform-independent progressive application framework based on TypeScript. Cell 是基于 TypeScript 的 Serverless First、组件

rank071 licenseMIT written inTypeScript typeBuild & Deployment
zeabur ★ 735

A platform that helps you deploy services with one click.

rank072 licenseMPL-2.0 written inHTML typeBuild & Deployment
cuber-gem ★ 711

An open-source automation tool that simplifies the deployment of your apps on Kubernetes.

rank073 licenseApache-2.0 written inRuby typeBuild & Deployment
backend.ai ★ 677

Backend.AI is a streamlined, container-based computing cluster platform that hosts popular computing/ML frameworks and diverse programming languages, with plugg

rank074 licenseLGPL-3.0 written inPython typeBuild & Deployment
haskell.nix ★ 634

Alternative Haskell Infrastructure for Nixpkgs

rank075 licenseApache-2.0 written inNix typeBuild & Deployment
epinio ★ 618

Opinionated platform that runs on Kubernetes, that takes you from App to URL in one step.

rank076 licenseApache-2.0 written inGo typeBuild & Deployment
coolify-mcp ★ 617

MCP server for Coolify — 42 optimized tools for managing self-hosted PaaS through AI assistants

rank077 licenseMIT written inTypeScript typeBuild & Deployment
erlang.mk ★ 587

A build tool for Erlang that just works.

rank078 licenseISC written inMakefile typeBuild & Deployment
bex ★ 578

The open-source Render alternative — AI-native. Git push → build → deploy on your own infrastructure; agents are first-class users.

rank079 licenseApache-2.0 written inGo typeBuild & Deployment
ModularPipelines ★ 559

Write your pipelines in C# !

rank080 licenseMIT written inC# typeBuild & Deployment
build-server-protocol ★ 554

Protocol for IDEs and build tools to communicate about compile, run, test, debug and more.

rank081 licenseApache-2.0 written inScala typeBuild & Deployment
bunup ★ 525

📦 Bundles your TypeScript libraries faster than you can say "bundle"

rank082 licenseMIT written inTypeScript typeBuild & Deployment
Stormkit ★ 266

Deploy web apps with automated CI/CD and full infrastructure control

rank083 licenseNOASSERTION written inGo typeBuild & Deployment
Capgo ★ 212

OTA updates for Capacitor apps without app store delays

rank084 licenseAGPL-3.0 written inTypeScript typeBuild & Deployment

Frequently asked questions

How many open source Build & Deployment tools are there?

This registry tracks 84 open source Build & Deployment projects, with 718,837 combined GitHub stars. The list is ranked by stars and refreshed nightly.

What is the most popular open source Build & Deployment project?

vite leads this category with 83,676 GitHub stars, followed by webpack.

Are these Build & Deployment tools free?

Yes — every project listed here is open source. Some also offer paid hosted versions alongside the free self-hosted option; the licence for each project is shown on its card.