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

    (5870 stars - updated Aug 7, 2025)

    The Guardian DotCom.

  2. dotcom-rendering

    (256 stars - updated Aug 7, 2025)

    The Guardian web rendering service (aka DCR/DCAR)

  3. prout

    (146 stars - updated Aug 7, 2025)

    Looks after your pull requests, tells you when they're live

  4. giant

    (55 stars - updated Aug 7, 2025)

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

  5. play-googleauth

    (37 stars - updated Aug 7, 2025)

    Simple play module for authenticating against Google

  6. consent-management-platform

    (30 stars - updated Aug 7, 2025)

    Guardian consent management

  7. support-frontend

    (26 stars - updated Aug 7, 2025)

    💁‍♀️❤️📰 Frontend for the Supporter platform

  8. manage-frontend

    (15 stars - updated Aug 7, 2025)

  9. commercial

    (14 stars - updated Aug 7, 2025)

    Guardian advertising business logic

  10. play-secret-rotation

    (14 stars - updated Aug 7, 2025)

    Rotate your Application Secret on an active cluster of Play app servers