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13 top open-source tools you must use for your next big project in 2025πŸš€

Sunil Kumar Dash on January 06, 2025

This will be an exciting year for tech, and we may see some breakthrough achievements across multiple domains, AI tools, frameworks, databases, and...
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Great roundup of open-source tools! πŸ‘

Not open-source, but definitely worth checking out too: Exocoding. We just launched, and it’s free to use! It’s all about giving devs the freedom to generate code without low-code constraints or vendor lock-in.

Would love to hear your thoughts if you give it a spin!

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Sunil Kumar Dash β€’

Oh, that's great. It actually looks promising.

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ExoCody β€’

Thank you! Really appreciate that. 😊 Have you had a chance to give it a try yet? I’d love to hear your thoughts or any feedback you might have!

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Nice list, thanks!

Would you mind checking out our AG2 platform for multi-agent automation as well? It'd be great to hear what you think!

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How does it differ from OG autogen? Is it a fork? Autogen

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Yes, it's a fork but also a continuation from OG AutoGen v0.2 without any structural changes. The initiators of AutoGen decided to part ways with Microsoft a few months ago to continue working on it in a truly open-source community fashion. After all legalities were sorted out, this version is now known as AG2.

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That's interesting. We've been using Autogen; will check out AG2.

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Great, thanks! Do let us know your thoughts.

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Does the cover photo has anything to do with the article bro? I thought you were leaking GTA 6 pfft

Anyway, interesting list. So far, I've spent lot of time with Astro and I can say it keeps getting better.

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Sunil Kumar Dash β€’

Haha....It was just on my mind while writing it.

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Ken Lee β€’

Thanks for ai-intergration tool sharing

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Sunil Kumar Dash β€’

You're welcome

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Nozibul Islam β€’

Great.

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Sunil Kumar Dash β€’

Thank you

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Maksim Zaikov β€’

Good list, thank you!

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Sunil Kumar Dash β€’

I'm glad you liked Maksim.

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Dhrubo Kayal β€’

You also need DB2Rest to turn your database into REST API in minutes to quickly build your apps.

DB2Rest.com

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Suraj β€’

Great share!

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Sammy Scolling β€’

Thanks for this list. i have been using Hono it's great.

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Joseph Kiran β€’

Very Useful! Thank you.

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Dianjeol β€’

How can you not add OpenHands? ;O

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John Cook β€’

I was thinking something like Encore. Might be a goos fit for our next project.

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tim brandom β€’

Great list, I am building an AI code reviewing agent for my local use cases. Composio seems good for this. Thanks.

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Sunil Kumar Dash β€’

Thank you, it's great.

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Vin Dublin β€’ β€’ Edited

Great list! I can't wait to try Val Town & Hono.

I haven't tried Astro yet, but a similar open source alternative that fits the same use case but maybe has more purposes might be Modulo.js. I just used it to soft launch an early version of a "static" PWA Daily Write, and I highly recommend the framework!

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You have a certificate warning.

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Vin Dublin β€’ β€’ Edited

Thank you! Whoops, I was typing on my phone, and it was a typo. Apologies. I corrected it.