Engineering
@ The Guardian 

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:

  1. frontend

    (5873 stars - updated Sep 17, 2025)

    The Guardian DotCom.

  2. dotcom-rendering

    (257 stars - updated Sep 17, 2025)

    The Guardian web rendering service (aka DCR/DCAR)

  3. recommendations

    (72 stars - updated Sep 17, 2025)

    Recommendations for how to develop software at the Guardian

  4. giant

    (55 stars - updated Sep 17, 2025)

    Platform for journalists to search, analyse, categorise and share unstructured data

  5. prism

    (48 stars - updated Sep 17, 2025)

    Tool for collecting live data about infrastructure so it can be easily queried by users and automated tooling

  6. support-frontend

    (26 stars - updated Sep 17, 2025)

    💁‍♀️❤️📰 Frontend for the Supporter platform

  7. cdk

    (22 stars - updated Sep 17, 2025)

    Generic Guardian flavoured AWS CDK components

  8. manage-frontend

    (15 stars - updated Sep 17, 2025)

  9. security-hq

    (12 stars - updated Sep 17, 2025)

    Centralised security information for AWS accounts

  10. support-service-lambdas

    (10 stars - updated Sep 17, 2025)

    Lambdas covering supporter operations, mostly in life operations