Open Source
We at the Guardian try to be as open and transparent as possible. That means developing in public repositories where anyone can see our work. You can explore our source code on GitHub.
What we work with
Languages
Frameworks
Tools
There are plenty more where these came from, but they are good starting points. And if you want to see our code in action…
Here’s 10 recently updated repositories:
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frontend
(5873 stars - updated Oct 8, 2025)
The Guardian DotCom.
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grid
(1450 stars - updated Oct 8, 2025)
The Guardian’s image management system
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coverdrop
(258 stars - updated Oct 8, 2025)
Blowing the whistle through a news app
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dotcom-rendering
(257 stars - updated Oct 8, 2025)
The Guardian web rendering service (aka DCR/DCAR)
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giant
(55 stars - updated Oct 8, 2025)
Platform for journalists to search, analyse, categorise and share unstructured data
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prism
(48 stars - updated Oct 8, 2025)
Tool for collecting live data about infrastructure so it can be easily queried by users and automated tooling
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janus-app
(12 stars - updated Oct 8, 2025)
Google-backed AWS account access
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source-apps
(7 stars - updated Oct 8, 2025)
Source library for Guardian apps - https://theguardian.design/
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mobile-save-for-later
(5 stars - updated Oct 8, 2025)
A serverless project to save articles for later
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media-atom-maker
(4 stars - updated Oct 8, 2025)
A tool for creating media atoms, including a UI specifically for managing video (aka MAM)