7 Repos I Wish I’d Known As A Developer Years Ago

These are the most popular repositories that I recently discovered, and now I am sharing them with you.

Halim Shams
4 min readJan 8, 2023
Article by — Halim Shams

I’m sure that you’ve heard of many repositories, but these are the TOP-7 most used and popular repos amongst professional developers. Repositories on GitHub is hopefully FREE to use for anyone, fortunately some developers created so helpful repos that help millions of developers to become expert.

Now without further ado, Let’s dive in…

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1. Developer Roadmap

It’s hard to start learning skills like: Frontend Dev, Backend Dev, CS, Blockchain and more… without any roadmap, so this repository provides more than 20 roadmaps to help you follow your passion in the most efficient way possible.

Popularity

  • 224k Stars
  • 32.4k Forks

2. Web Dev For Beginners

Web Development for Beginners is a 12-week, 24-lesson curriculum for Web development. It covers the basics of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. The best part of this repository is that each lesson includes pre- and post-lesson quizzes.

Popularity

  • 62.9k Stars
  • 9.9k Forks
  • Created by Microsoft

3. Coding Interview University

A complete computer science study plan to become a software engineer. After going through this study plan, you’ll get hire as a Software Engineer.

Note: This is a study plan for Software Engineering, not Web Development.

Popularity

  • 243k Stars
  • 64.7k Forks

4. Free for Devs

Developers and Open Source authors now have a massive amount of services offering free tiers, but it can be hard to find them all to make informed decisions. Free for Dev is a list of software, Software as a Service, Product as a Service, Logging as a Service (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, etc.) and other offerings that have free tiers for developers.

Popularity

  • 64.5k Stars
  • 7k Forks

5. Tech Interview Handbook

Doing LeetCode is time-taking for some of us, this repo provides you FREE and curated technical interview preparation materials that won’t take more of your golden time.

Popularity

  • 84.6k Stars
  • 11.1k Forks

6. Free Programming Books

One of my favorite in this list is this repo which let you have access to FREE available programming books. This repo is one of the most popular repositories on GitHub.

Popularity

  • 261k Stars
  • 53.1k Forks

7. RealWorld

RealWorld defines itself as “The mother of all demo apps,” but from my point of view, this repository is the mother of frameworks. This repo developed a clone of Medium.com called “Conduit” using different Frontend and Backend frameworks to see how different frameworks work and to find out the difference between the performance of different frameworks.

Popularity

  • 71.5k Stars
  • 6.7k Forks

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I Write about Web Development and All the Related Content 🚀 I'm a Self-Taught Full-Stack Developer 💛