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Help Us Rename the PrimeNG community fork! Moving Beyond "Open-Prime"
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Help Us Rename the PrimeNG community fork! Moving Beyond "Open-Prime"

Hey everyone!

As shared in the sub over the last days, PrimeNG transitioned away from its traditional open-source model.

We started working on atruly community-governed, MIT-licensed alternative, 'open-prime' (https://github.com/openng-foundation/open-prime).

As we set up our foundations, the original creators reached out with a very reasonable and friendly request: to drop the "Prime" branding to avoid any future copyright or trademark confusion as they process their product suites.

We want to use this as an opportunity to give this project its own unique, powerful identity—and we want the community to build it with us.

Here are a few directions we are thinking about:

The Successor Route: (e.g., ApexNG, OptimaNG) — Professional, premium-sounding independent names.

The OSS Roots Route: (e.g., LibreNG, CivicNG) — Highlighting community ownership.

The Visual/UI Route: (e.g., PrismNG) — Phonetically similar, clean, and relates to UI components.

Share your thoughts and drop your own suggestions!

u/GeromeGrignon — 4 days ago
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PrimeNG community fork proposal

As announced on June 29th, PrimeNG is moving away from the open-source model, and the original primeng GitHub repository has been archived.

You can find community reactions here: https://www.reddit.com/r/angular/comments/1uilrlx/primeng_v22_is_no_longer_open_source/

As part of the new OpenNG Foundation, we are considering taking up the lead to maintain a fork of the MIT version of the lib.

It's under discussion, and we would need community feedback to evaluate if it's doable and on how to manage the current situation.

Some statements:

- an update is required to rename everything from 'primeng' to 'openprime' due to PrimeTek trademark
- the components need to be updated to the latest Angular APIs (including input(), control flow among other things)
- there are 900+ issues opened (including 300+ in stale state)
- there are 200+ open pull requests
- there would be no support for previous primeng versions
- the focus would be to make the library stable and accessible: adding features would happen only if people contribute
- over time, some changes might make this fork differ from the new PrimeUI project, not providing a way to easily migrate.

PrimeNG is still a big project, we are considering starting with a trial maintenance initiative for 2 months: depending on the community effort at helping with existing issues/prs, there will be long-term maintenance.

It'll be a great way to identify active contributors who might be promoted to maintainers if they want to be more active on such a project, making the whole thing a community effort.

A 'fork' has been created already, porting all existing open issues/pr: https://github.com/openng-foundation/open-prime

What are your thoughts?
Do you have some pain points not covered here?

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u/GeromeGrignon — 6 days ago
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OpenNG Foundation

Still having no news from the ngneat organization, I decided to revive an old idea, to create a foundation for Angular open-source projects, to help govern/maintain them.

The GitHub Organization, OpenNG Foundation, is still empty.

Our priority will be to fork and revive key, unmaintained Angular projects to ensure they stay secure, updated, and community-driven.

u/GeromeGrignon — 18 days ago
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Available open-source contributions for Angular 22 new features

I updated my Realworld Angular project towards v22, and it already uses Signal Forms and the Resource API.

There are still a few features being introduced and missing to enhance the user/dev experience, so I created related issues.

I could solve it in minutes, but I know some people are struggling to discover open-source opportunities, so here we are. You are welcome to join!

Available issues project: https://github.com/orgs/realworld-angular/projects/2/views/7
The GitHub project: https://github.com/realworld-angular/realworld-angular

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u/GeromeGrignon — 28 days ago
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RealWorld Angular playground

Always landing on unmaintained Angular example apps or just willing to try out a new version/lib/feature without bootstrapping a whole new app, I just released this new 'Realworld Angular' playground.

I maintained the original RealWorld project for years, only to find out it was quite limited in being strict with the specs and hard to assert quality projects.

This new open-source project is only focused on Angular. You can run the project locally, fork it, and it's pretty unique as it's provided with a real API you can use for free: the project is not limited to using data mocks and not exploring all aspects of a real-world application.

Give it a try: https://github.com/realworld-angular/realworld-angular

u/GeromeGrignon — 2 months ago