cgithub is a lightweight GitHub alternative frontend. It has no bloated JavaScript and doesn't require API keys. It runs on Cloudflare Workers; to use it, deploy your own instance then replace github.com in your URL with your domain.

Features

Implemented:

• Repository overview
• Directory listing and file browsing (tree/blob)
• Commit history (but this often results in 429 Too Many Requests on Cloudflare)
• Issue and pull request lists and search
• Discussions
• Release lists and details
• Wiki
• User and organization profiles

Not implemented:

• Pull request and commit details
• Code search (GitHub requires signing in)
• Pagination (only the first page of issues, pull requests, discussions, commits, releases, branches, and tags is shown, and likewise only the replies GitHub sends with a discussion, and the timeline items it sends with an issue, rather than what is behind a "show more" button)
• Blame, contributors, stargazer/fork lists, network graphs, and insights
• Actions, checks, projects, packages, and gists
• Profile tabs other than the overview (repositories, projects, packages, people, sponsoring)
• Anything requiring an account: signing in, notifications, starring, commenting, editing, or any other write action
• Private repositories

Browser extension redirects

cgithub redirects unsupported routes back to github.com. A browser extension that rewrites github.com URLs to a cgithub instance with declarativeNetRequest will match those redirects and send the request back, looping forever. To avoid this, the extension should configure excludedInitiatorDomains with the cgithub domain:

{
  "action": {
    "type": "redirect",
    "redirect": { "transform": { "host": "cgithub.example" } },
  },
  "condition": {
    "urlFilter": "||github.com",
    "resourceTypes": ["main_frame"],
    // So cgithub's own meta refresh to github.com isn't redirected back here.
    "excludedInitiatorDomains": ["cgithub.example"],
  },
}

Related

• GotHub

Disclosures

AI coding assistants, in particular Claude, are used in the development process.

Phospor Icons used under MIT license.