Best self-hosted software development - ide & tools
An [integrated development environment (IDE)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_development_environment) is a software application that provides comprehensive facilities to computer programmers for software development.
We track 14 self-hosted software development - ide & tools projects. The median health score in this category is 68, against 7 projects rated healthy or better and 1 showing little recent activity. The table below is ordered by health score, not popularity — the most starred project in a category is frequently not the best maintained one.
| # | Project | Health | Activity | Stars | Built with | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Langfuse LLM engineering platform for model tracing, prompt management, and application evaluation. Langfuse helps teams collabor | Thriving · 97 | 35k | Docker | 25 Sept 2026 | |
| 2 | Coder Remote development machines on your own infrastructure. | Thriving · 89 | 17k | Go, Docker | 22 Sept 2026 | |
| 3 | code-server VS Code in the browser, hosted on a remote server. | Healthy · 77 | 79k | Nodejs, Docker | 26 Sept 2026 | |
| 4 | JupyterLab Web-based environment for interactive and reproducible computing. | Healthy · 77 | 15k | Python, Docker | 21 Sept 2026 | |
| 5 | Lowdefy Build internal tools, BI dashboards, admin panels, CRUD apps and workflows in minutes using YAML / JSON. | Healthy · 77 | 3k | Nodejs, Docker | 9 Sept 2026 | |
| 6 | RStudio Server Web browser based IDE for R. | Healthy · 76 | 5.1k | Java, C++ | — | |
| 7 | LiveCodes Feature-rich client-side code playground for React, Vue, Svelte, Solid, Typescript, Python, Go, Ruby, PHP and 90+ other | Healthy · 68 | 1.5k | Nodejs | 8 May 2026 | |
| 8 | Eclipse Che Open source workspace server and cloud IDE. | Steady · 58 | 7.2k | Docker, Java | 9 Sept 2026 | |
| 9 | Hopp Remote pair programming app with low-latency 4K screen sharing, drawing, and remote control, with clients for macOS and | Steady · 52 | 690 | Docker | 20 Sept 2026 | |
| 10 | Azimutt Visual database exploration made for real world databases (big and messy). Explore your database schema as well as data, | Slowing · 40 | 2.2k | Elixir, Nodejs | — | |
| 11 | RapidForge Lightweight platform for building webhooks, scheduled tasks and pages. Implement your logic with Bash or Lua. | Slowing · 37 | 44 | Go, Nodejs | 2 Jul 2026 | |
| 12 | Judge0 CE API to compile and run source code. | Slowing · 36 | 4.5k | Docker | 18 Apr 2024 | |
| 13 | Atheos Web-based IDE framework with a small footprint and minimal requirements, continued from Codiad. | At risk · 23 | 677 | PHP, Docker | 10 Jan 2025 | |
| 14 | RepoFlow Simplify package management for npm, PyPI, Docker, Go, Helm, and more. Try it for free with 10GB storage, 10GB bandwidth | Unrated | — | Nodejs, Docker | — |
Which one should you run?
If you want the safest bet on longevity, Langfuse is the best-maintained project in this category right now at 97/100. Coder is the closest runner-up (89/100) — see the side-by-side comparison.
A health score measures whether a project is alive and shipping. It does not measure whether it has the feature you need. Use it to rule options out, then compare on features.