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. grid

    (1461 stars - updated Aug 9, 2026)

    The Guardian’s image management system

  2. dotcom-rendering

    (271 stars - updated Aug 9, 2026)

    The Guardian web rendering service (aka DCR/DCAR)

  3. giant

    (59 stars - updated Aug 9, 2026)

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

  4. csnx

    (45 stars - updated Aug 7, 2026)

    Monorepo for Guardian UIs

  5. content-api-scala-client

    (44 stars - updated Aug 7, 2026)

    A Scala client library for the Guardian's Content API

  6. consent-management-platform

    (30 stars - updated Aug 9, 2026)

    Guardian consent management

  7. facia-tool

    (29 stars - updated Aug 7, 2026)

    Guardian front pages editor (AKA Fronts tool)

  8. manage-frontend

    (15 stars - updated Aug 7, 2026)

  9. security-hq

    (13 stars - updated Aug 7, 2026)

    Centralised security information for AWS accounts

  10. janus-app

    (12 stars - updated Aug 9, 2026)

    Google-backed AWS account access