ServiceNow is an amazing development platform where you can build sophisticated applications and address a variety of business and IT problems companies facing every day.

However, when it comes to a ServiceNow development community, it may feel like it stands aside to the rest of the software and web development worlds. ServiceNow is a closed ecosystem, with its own rules and development concepts. This might be good for the platform (from a management standpoint), but it also might be a bad thing for developers. Because they are isolated from modern software/web development concepts and technologies.

We can change that by bringing open source ideas and projects to the ServiceNow development community.

The fundamental principle of open source is the ability to collaborate and contribute, share solutions and ideas. It is not easy when you’re working with a closed ecosystem, e.g. you can find a lot of projects on ServiceNow Share, but it’s not possible to contribute to those projects.

Today millions of developers use GitHub for sharing and contributing to open source projects. We can do the same in ServiceNow development community.

That is the main goal of dev-labs.io — collect and share links to ServiceNow open source projects so everyone can collaborate and contribute to those projects.

dev-labs.io

It is a catalog of links to open source projects for ServiceNow, updated daily.

All projects stored on GitHub in public repos, so you can pick a project, clone/download, install, collaborate, share and propose changes.

This is how modern software/web development community does it.

If you have a ServiceNow project, script snippets, etc. and want to share it with the community — just host it in a public GitHub repo and submit a link at dev-labs.io

Currently it’s just a few projects in a catalog, and you already can find some pretty awesome stuff:

— ServiceNow Portal page prototype built with Blueprintjs components:

— Custom login page for ServiceNow apps:

— Machine learning framework to run predictive models in ServiceNow applications:

Keep in mind — this is an open source and you’re encouraged to contribute!