Utilities, IDs & Helpers Packages
General-purpose utilities, helpers, and ID/UUID generation libraries that fill the small gaps every codebase eventually needs (Lodash, uuid, nanoid).
Packages in Utilities, IDs & Helpers
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gix
An idiomatic, lean, fast and safe pure Rust implementation of Git for programmatic repository access.
Numeral.js
Format and manipulate numbers, currency, and percentages with Excel-style format strings.
hotkeys-js
Zero-dependency JavaScript library for binding, scoping, and dispatching keyboard shortcuts in the browser.
lark
A modern parsing toolkit for Python supporting Earley, LALR(1), and CYK parsers with automatic tree construction.
accounting.js
A lightweight, dependency-free JavaScript library for parsing and formatting numbers, money, and currency values.
Symfony Filesystem
Cross-platform filesystem and path utilities for PHP applications
cast
Safe, predictable type conversion for Go — turn any value into the exact type you need without panics.
react-native-share
Native share sheets and direct social-app sharing for React Native, from a single cross-platform API.
Device Detector
Universal PHP library for parsing user agents into browsers, OS, and device info
cuid
A collision-resistant, sequential ID generator for Node and browsers
composer/semver
PHP semantic version comparison, constraint parsing, and validation library from the Composer team
Vue Demi
A compatibility shim for writing one library that works across Vue 2 and Vue 3
webextension-polyfill
A lightweight polyfill that gives Chrome extensions Firefox's Promise-based browser API namespace.
Scraper
HTML parsing and querying with CSS selectors, built on Servo's html5ever and selectors crates.
node-pool
Promise-based generic resource pool for reusing or throttling expensive resources like database connections.
filetype
Fast, dependency-free Go library that detects file and MIME types from magic number signatures.
derive_more
Adds #[derive(...)] macros for Add, From, Display, IntoIterator, Deref, and other common Rust traits
sprintf-js
Complete JavaScript sprintf implementation for the browser and Node.js
langdetect
Python port of Google's Java language-detection library for text language identification
simplex-noise
A fast, dependency-free simplex noise implementation for JavaScript and TypeScript
pyperclip
A cross-platform Python module for copying and pasting text to the system clipboard, with zero required dependencies.
update-notifier
Notify CLI users of new npm package versions without slowing down startup
module-alias
Register directory aliases and custom module paths in Node.js to replace long relative require/import chains with short names.
react-fast-compare
The fastest deep-equal comparison for React, purpose-built for React.memo and shouldComponentUpdate.
