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Leaderboard for 7 October 2026

The biggest Lua projects on GitHub, the ones gaining stars fastest right now, and the same leaderboard a year ago. We have recorded it every day since December 2018.

Most starred today

  1. 1 Kong/kong 🦍 The API and AI Gateway 44k +21 / 7d
  2. 2 nvim-lua/kickstart.nvim A launch point for your personal nvim configuration 32k +25 / 7d
  3. 3 koreader/koreader An ebook reader application supporting PDF, DjVu, EPUB, FB2 and many more formats, running on Cervantes, Kindle, Kobo, PocketBook and Android devices 30k +122 / 7d
  4. 4 NvChad/NvChad Blazing fast Neovim framework providing solid defaults and a beautiful UI, enhancing your neovim experience. 29k +8 / 7d
  5. 5 nagadomi/waifu2x Image Super-Resolution for Anime-Style Art 28k
  6. 6 LazyVim/LazyVim Neovim config for the lazy 28k +38 / 7d
  7. 7 folke/lazy.nvim 💤 A modern plugin manager for Neovim 22k +19 / 7d
  8. 8 nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim Find, Filter, Preview, Pick. All lua, all the time. 20k +6 / 7d
  9. 9 iDvel/rime-ice Rime 配置：雾凇拼音 | 长期维护的简体词库 20k +83 / 7d
  10. 10 LunarVim/LunarVim 🌙 LunarVim is an IDE layer for Neovim. Completely free and community driven. 19k
  11. 11 jcjohnson/neural-style Torch implementation of neural style algorithm 18k
  12. 12 avante-corp/avante.nvim Use your Neovim like using Cursor AI IDE! 18k +6 / 7d
  13. 13 apache/apisix The Cloud-Native API Gateway and AI Gateway 17k +23 / 7d
  14. 14 cmusatyalab/openface Face recognition with deep neural networks. 15k +2 / 7d
  15. 15 AstroNvim/AstroNvim AstroNvim is an aesthetic and feature-rich neovim config that is extensible and easy to use with a great set of plugins 14k +12 / 7d
  16. 16 neovim/nvim-lspconfig Quickstart configs for Nvim LSP 14k +5 / 7d
  17. 17 junyanz/CycleGAN Software that can generate photos from paintings, turn horses into zebras, perform style transfer, and more. 13k
  18. 18 xmake-io/xmake 🔥 A cross-platform build utility based on Lua 12k +7 / 7d
  19. 19 karpathy/char-rnn Multi-layer Recurrent Neural Networks (LSTM, GRU, RNN) for character-level language models in Torch 12k +1 / 7d
  20. 20 phillipi/pix2pix Image-to-image translation with conditional adversarial nets 11k
  21. 21 mason-org/mason.nvim Portable package manager for Neovim that runs everywhere Neovim runs. Easily install and manage LSP servers, DAP servers, linters, and formatters. 11k +5 / 7d
  22. 22 Sjj1024/PakePlus-Android Turn any webpage/HTML/Vue/React and so on into desktop and mobile app under 5M with easy in few minutes. 轻松将任意网站/HTML/Vue/React等项目构建为轻量级(小于5M)多端桌面应用和手机应用仅需几分钟. https://ppofficial.netlify.app 10k +102 / 7d
  23. 23 Openwrt-Passwall/openwrt-passwall 9.9k
  24. 24 nvim-mini/mini.nvim Library of 45+ independent Lua modules improving Neovim experience with minimal effort 9.6k +13 / 7d
  25. 25 hrsh7th/nvim-cmp A completion plugin for neovim coded in Lua. 9.5k

Climbing fastest this week

A different population from the leaderboard above. These are ranked by stars gained, so a project going from 200 to 2,000 shows up here and can never appear on a top-100 list by total stars.

  1. 1 koreader/koreader An ebook reader application supporting PDF, DjVu, EPUB, FB2 and many more formats, running on Cervantes, Kindle, Kobo, PocketBook and Android devices +149 30k total
  2. 2 AndyHazz/bookshelf.koplugin A nice looking home screen for KOReader. Lets you pick a book from your shelf and read it, with some customisation around the book preview info that's shown. +60 1.0k total
  3. 3 apache/apisix The Cloud-Native API Gateway and AI Gateway +32 17k total
  4. 4 beyond-all-reason/Beyond-All-Reason Main game repository for Beyond All Reason. +27 4.3k total
  5. 5 id577/FS25_AdvancedDamageSystem Advanced Damage System mod for Farming Simulator 25 +9 282 total
  6. 6 Questie/Questie Questie: The WoW Classic quest helper +6 1.1k total
  7. 7 RestedXP/RXPGuides RXPGuides is a platform to write in-game leveling guides for WoW Classic +4 162 total
  8. 8 Stephan-S/FS25_AutoDrive FS25 version of the AutoDrive mod +2 667 total
  9. 9 Courseplay/Courseplay_FS25 Courseplay for Farming Simulator 2025 +1 923 total
  10. 10 overextended/ox_inventory Slot-based inventory with metadata. +0 563 total

A year ago today

The same leaderboard on 7 October 2025. 1 of today's top ten were not in it.

  1. 1 Kong/kong 42k
  2. 2 nagadomi/waifu2x 28k
  3. 3 nvim-lua/kickstart.nvim 27k
  4. 4 NvChad/NvChad 27k
  5. 5 koreader/koreader 23k
  6. 6 LazyVim/LazyVim 23k
  7. 7 LunarVim/LunarVim 19k
  8. 8 folke/lazy.nvim 19k
  9. 9 nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim 18k
  10. 10 jcjohnson/neural-style 18k

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