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December 2016

Permanent archive for December 2016, ranking tracked GitHub repositories by stars gained during that calendar month from GitStarClub's precomputed ranking data.

Answer capsule

As of June 21, 2026, December 2016 GitHub Star Rankings ranks tracked GitHub repositories by stars gained in the selected period. freeCodeCamp/freeCodeCamp leads with +14.6k stars, followed by jwasham/coding-interview-university and Tencent/mars. GitStarClub generates this visible ranking from GitStarClub's precomputed ranking and repository data, without runtime search, a database, or AI. - GitStarClub

Data as of
June 21, 2026
Source
GitStarClub

December 2016

In December 2016, freeCodeCamp/freeCodeCamp led GitHub with +14,567 stars, ahead of jwasham/coding-interview-university and Tencent/mars. jwasham/coding-interview-university grew fastest, up 45%. 16 repositories first crossed 10,000 stars (e.g. axios/axios, grafana/grafana).

Daily movement

Most stars added

December 2016 GitHub repositories by stars gained

  1. 1
    +14.6kTypeScript
  2. 3
    Tencent/mars17.6k
    +5.7kC++
  3. 4
    +5.7kUnknown
  4. 5
    +4.0kPython
  5. 6
    +3.6kJavaScript
  6. 7
    +3.3kC++
  7. 8
    vercel/hyper44.6k
    +3.3kTypeScript
  8. 9
    vuejs/vue209.9k
    +3.3kTypeScript
  9. 10
    +3.1kHTML
  10. 13
    +2.8kTypeScript
  11. 14
    +2.7kPython
  12. 16
    +2.5kJavaScript
  13. 17
    +2.3kSwift
  14. 18
    +2.2kJavaScript

Fastest growth

December 2016 GitHub repositories by growth rate

  1. 2
    vuejs/vue209.9k
    +11.6%TypeScript
  2. 3
    +9.6%C++
  3. 4
    +7.6%TypeScript
  4. 6
    +5.6%Unknown
  5. 7
    react/react246.0k
    +5.2%JavaScript
  6. 8
    +5%Shell
  7. 9
    +4.7%C
  8. 10
    +4.6%Python

Newcomers

December 2016 GitHub repositories crossing 10k stars

  1. axios/axios109.1k
    10k crossing day: Dec 9, 2016JavaScript
  2. 10k crossing day: Dec 21, 2016TypeScript
  3. 10k crossing day: Dec 7, 2016TypeScript
  4. 10k crossing day: Dec 3, 2016JavaScript
  5. 10k crossing day: Dec 21, 2016Unknown
  6. 10k crossing day: Dec 14, 2016Unknown
  7. 10k crossing day: Dec 4, 2016C
  8. 10k crossing day: Dec 20, 2016JavaScript
  9. 10k crossing day: Dec 27, 2016Unknown
  10. caolan/async28.1k
    10k crossing day: Dec 29, 2016JavaScript

Complete ranking

Complete December 2016 GitHub repository rankings

  1. 1
    +14.6kTypeScript
  2. 3
    Tencent/mars17.6k
    +5.7kC++
  3. 4
    +5.7kUnknown
  4. 5
    +4.0kPython
  5. 6
    +3.6kJavaScript
  6. 7
    +3.3kC++
  7. 8
    vercel/hyper44.6k
    +3.3kTypeScript
  8. 9
    vuejs/vue209.9k
    +3.3kTypeScript
  9. 10
    +3.1kHTML
  10. 13
    +2.8kTypeScript
  11. 14
    +2.7kPython
  12. 16
    +2.5kJavaScript
  13. 17
    +2.3kSwift
  14. 18
    +2.2kJavaScript
  15. 20
    react/react246.0k
    +2.1kJavaScript
  16. 21
    +2.1kUnknown
  17. 22
    +2.0kUnknown
  18. 23
    +1.9kJavaScript
  19. 24
    react/yoga18.8k
    +1.9kC++
  20. 25
    alibaba/weex18.5k
    +1.7kC++
  21. 26
    axios/axios109.1k
    +1.7kJavaScript
  22. 27
    pubkey/rxdb23.2k
    +1.7kTypeScript
  23. 29
    +1.6kMDX
  24. 31
    +1.5kJava
  25. 32
    +1.5kC
  26. 33
    +1.5kShell
  27. 34
    +1.5kUnknown
  28. 36
    +1.4kUnknown
  29. 37
    +1.4kJavaScript
  30. 38
    +1.4kJavaScript
  31. 39
    +1.4kC++
  32. 40
    d3/d3113.1k
    +1.3kShell
  33. 41
    +1.3kC++
  34. 42
    yarnpkg/yarn41.5k
    +1.3kJavaScript
  35. 43
    +1.3kC
  36. 44
    +1.2kPython
  37. 45
    +1.2kTypeScript
  38. 46
    +1.2kTypeScript
  39. 47
    +1.1kUnknown
  40. 48
    +1.1kC++
  41. 49
    +1.1kTypeScript
  42. 50
    rwf2/Rocket25.7k
    +1.1kRust
  43. 51
    +1.1kJavaScript
  44. 52
    +1.1kVue
  45. 53
    +1.1kC
  46. 54
    +1.1kTypeScript
  47. 55
    +1.1kJavaScript
  48. 56
    +1.0kTypeScript
  49. 57
    moby/moby71.7k
    +1.0kGo
  50. 58
    nodejs/node117.9k
    +1.0kJavaScript
  51. 59
    +1.0kJavaScript
  52. 60
    +1.0kTypeScript
  53. 61
    +994SCSS
  54. 62
    +978Python
  55. 63
    iview/iview23.8k
    +956Vue
  56. 64
    +949TypeScript
  57. 65
    +926TypeScript
  58. 66
    golang/go134.8k
    +920Go
  59. 67
    atom/atom60.8k
    +915JavaScript
  60. 68
    +907Go
  61. 69
    +888Java
  62. 71
    +886Blade
  63. 72
    +866Kotlin
  64. 73
    +862Shell
  65. 74
    amark/gun19.1k
    +842JavaScript
  66. 75
    +837HTML
  67. 76
    +829JavaScript
  68. 77
    +816TypeScript
  69. 78
    jgthms/bulma50.1k
    +815CSS
  70. 79
    jestjs/jest45.5k
    +815TypeScript
  71. 80
    +813JavaScript
  72. 81
    +812JavaScript
  73. 82
    +801HTML
  74. 83
    +796JavaScript
  75. 84
    +795TypeScript
  76. 85
    +793Python
  77. 86
    +791Kotlin
  78. 87
    +790Python
  79. 89
    +776JavaScript
  80. 90
    RasaHQ/rasa21.2k
    +773Python
  81. 93
    +769JavaScript
  82. 94
    +761CSS
  83. 95
    +760JavaScript
  84. 96
    +756Java
  85. 97
    BVLC/caffe34.6k
    +755C++
  86. 98
    +748JavaScript
  87. 99
    +746Unknown
  88. 100
    apache/mxnet20.8k
    +740C++

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Frequently asked questions

What does December 2016 GitHub Star Rankings rank?

As of June 21, 2026, December 2016 GitHub Star Rankings ranks tracked GitHub repositories by stars gained in the selected period.

Which repository leads December 2016 GitHub Star Rankings?

freeCodeCamp/freeCodeCamp leads December 2016 GitHub Star Rankings with +14.6k stars.

Who follows freeCodeCamp/freeCodeCamp in December 2016 GitHub Star Rankings?

jwasham/coding-interview-university appears next in the visible ranking with +9.6k stars.

Does December 2016 GitHub Star Rankings use live database queries?

No. GitStarClub renders December 2016 GitHub Star Rankings from GitStarClub's precomputed ranking and repository data.