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

    (5872 stars - updated Oct 28, 2025)

    The Guardian DotCom.

  2. grid

    (1451 stars - updated Oct 28, 2025)

    The Guardian’s image management system

  3. riff-raff

    (269 stars - updated Oct 28, 2025)

    The Guardian's deployment platform

  4. dotcom-rendering

    (258 stars - updated Oct 28, 2025)

    The Guardian web rendering service (aka DCR/DCAR)

  5. giant

    (56 stars - updated Oct 28, 2025)

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

  6. facia-tool

    (28 stars - updated Oct 28, 2025)

    Guardian front pages editor (AKA Fronts tool)

  7. commercial

    (15 stars - updated Oct 28, 2025)

    Guardian advertising business logic

  8. manage-frontend

    (15 stars - updated Oct 28, 2025)

  9. gateway

    (13 stars - updated Oct 28, 2025)

    🕵️🆔👤The platform for authentication at (profile.)theguardian.com

  10. support-service-lambdas

    (10 stars - updated Oct 28, 2025)

    Lambdas covering supporter operations, mostly in life operations