🧩 Also available as a Chrome extension

✨ Star History ✨

star-history.com, the missing GitHub star history graph of GitHub repos.

👆 THIS is a live chart created with the following html: 👇

<picture>
  <source media="(prefers-color-scheme: dark)" srcset="https://api.star-history.com/svg?repos=star-history/star-history&type=Date&theme=dark" />
  <source media="(prefers-color-scheme: light)" srcset="https://api.star-history.com/svg?repos=star-history/star-history&type=Date" />
  <img alt="Star History Chart" src="https://api.star-history.com/svg?repos=star-history/star-history&type=Date" />
</picture>

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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

Star-history is built using a modern tech stack: Vue + Vite + TailwindCSS.

Prerequisites

• Node.js
• pnpm

Install dependencies

pnpm i

Start with your interest

• Main website is the homepage of star-history with most of useful features and blogs about open source.

  pnpm dev

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

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

  pnpm build:ext

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

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

  cd server
  pnpm i && pnpm dev

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