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- Finance, mono repos, dependencies & much more. This week’s top 5 open-source projects (February 05, 2024) #32
Finance, mono repos, dependencies & much more. This week’s top 5 open-source projects (February 05, 2024) #32
Hello friend 👋 ! The weekend is over 😢 , but I am back with yet another handful of super-interesting open-source projects.

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Tracking expenses and collaborating with friends, colleagues, or partners simultaneously can be challenging. Expensify allows you to keep track of expenses, spending, travel, and much more while collaborating with friends, colleagues, and partners simultaneously.
Expensify is self-hostable for anyone to check out.


Keeping track of your long lists of dependencies for all your projects is a hard thing to do. Updates, updates, updates, and even more updates. Renovate seeks to fix this problem.
Using Renovate you can keep track of all your dependency versions, by getting automatic PRs when they update. Renovate can be run on a schedule, so you only get updates on weekends, after work, or whatever you want!


NX is an open-source toolkit for managing monorepos. It helps optimize builds, testing, and dependency management for large, complex projects.
At the core of NX is a graph system that analyzes project structure. By running only what had changed, NX minimizes rebuild times for lightning-fast incremental builds.
NX also provides extensive tooling like visualized dependency graphs, code generation, and seamless version migration. The NX Console offers intuitive access to these tools without having to search through documentation.


Wasp is an open-source framework for quickly building full-stack web apps with React, Node.js, and Prisma.
With just a simple configuration file, Wasp generates all the boilerplate code you need for the front and back end. This means you can focus on writing the important logic while Wasp handles the repetitive parts.
Out of the box, Wasp offers auth, APIs, jobs, email sending, deployments, and more. And everything is type-safe across the entire stack.


ECharts is a free, open-source JavaScript charting library. It offers 20+ intuitive chart types for visualizing data, with flexible configuration and customization.
Built on fast canvas and SVG rendering, ECharts handles real-time data streams with ease. It works great for dashboards, analytical apps, and data products.
ECharts follows best practices for information visualization. Out of the box, it supports responsive design, accessibility, and advanced data transforms.
