Awesome REA: a curated list of 250 REA resources, projects built with it, tools, and guides

[awesomerea]

I put together an awesome-list for REA: https://github.com/awesomerea/awesome-rea

What's in it:

• Official docs grouped by target (native, JS/Electron/web, mobile, firmware), guides, showcases, blog
• Built with REA: ~45 community projects (DX-Ball, TH04, Ledger Reborn, ReaCut, open-obsidian, picoprint, and more) plus analyses and benchmarks from these discussions
• Tools built on REA, packaging (Docker, Nix, Homebrew), and agent adapters (LM Studio, PiCode, DeepSeek Harness, ZCode)
• Articles and tutorials in 8 languages, critical reviews, the other case trackers and lists

Every entry was checked for an explicit REA credit in its README or author write-up before inclusion. Links are checked weekly by CI.

If you built something with REA that isn't listed, open a PR or reply here with the repo and I'll add it. Critical takes are welcome too; the list has a section for them.

[rmueller83]

It would be great to have a guide which shows the setup of REA with local-only AI

[smichea]

Hi @awesomerea, thanks for maintaining this collection and checking the provenance of the projects you list.

I maintain OpenDeviceDB, an open directory of existing device-protocol and interoperability work. It has a website, JSON API and MCP server so people can check what is already known about a device before investigating it. Would it fit your list's hardware/protocol resources? I would be happy to submit a short entry following your contribution guidelines. There may also be useful overlap in sharing well-documented device case studies.