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matheusconaga/github-project-cards

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TLDR

Hosted service that returns SVG cards summarising a GitHub repo so you can embed them in a README or profile with a single markdown line.

Mindmap

mindmap
  root((github-project-cards))
    Inputs
      Owner and repo
      Theme name
      Locale
      Tech list
    Outputs
      SVG card
      Embeddable URL
    Use Cases
      Embed in README
      Decorate profile
      Self-host on Vercel
    Tech Stack
      Next.js
      React
      TypeScript
      Satori

Things people build with this

USE CASE 1

Embed a card summarising a repo in a README using a single markdown line.

USE CASE 2

Customise card content with theme, locale, technologies, and star or fork visibility flags.

USE CASE 3

Self-host the service on Vercel to control uptime and branding.

USE CASE 4

Use the live preview page to copy a ready-made markdown snippet.

Tech stack

Next.jsReactTypeScriptSatoriVercel

Getting it running

Difficulty · easy Time to first run · 5min

No setup needed to consume the cards; self-hosting requires a Vercel account and forking the repo.

MIT license. You can use, modify, and redistribute it freely, including commercially, as long as you keep the copyright notice.

In plain English

GitHub Project Cards is a small open source tool that generates picture-style cards summarising a GitHub repository. The cards are produced as SVG images, which means you can drop them into a README, a portfolio site, a documentation page, or a profile page by pasting a single markdown line. The image is fetched on demand from a hosted URL, so there is no copy-and-paste of any code into your own project. The basic usage is one markdown line, where you put the owner and repository name into the URL's query string. The endpoint then returns a card with the repository's name, description, and other details rendered into an image. The README shows extra query parameters you can add: a theme name, a locale, a custom image, a list of technologies to display, and switches to show or hide the star count and fork count. Four themes are listed in the README, called Dark, Light, GitHub, and Dracula, and there are two locales available, Brazilian Portuguese and English. There is also a live preview page on the project's hosted site where you can adjust the card's options visually and copy the resulting markdown when you are happy with it. The project itself is built with Next.js, React, TypeScript, and a rendering library called Satori, and it is set up for deployment on Vercel. The README invites people to deploy their own copy on Vercel if they want to host the card service themselves. Contributions are welcomed through a CONTRIBUTING.md file in the repository, and the code is released under the MIT license. The project keeps its scope narrow: it makes one kind of card, with a small set of theme and content options, and exposes it as a URL you can embed anywhere markdown is rendered.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
Give me the markdown line that embeds a github-project-cards card for facebook/react with the Dracula theme and the star count hidden.
Prompt 2
Deploy my own copy of github-project-cards to Vercel and explain how to point a custom domain at the deployed instance.
Prompt 3
Add a new theme called Solarized to github-project-cards by editing the Satori template, and show me the file diff.
Prompt 4
Build a small page that lists 10 of my repos using github-project-cards URLs, with the GitHub theme and pt-BR locale.
Prompt 5
Use github-project-cards to generate a card for my own profile README with a custom image and a list of three technologies.
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