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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).

1293 packages

Packages in Utilities, IDs & Helpers

41Health
Library Go

go-qrcode

Pure Go library for encoding QR Codes as PNG images or ASCII art, with zero external dependencies.

3,019
MIT
Used by 3
74Health
Library Composer

Symfony ExpressionLanguage

Symfony component that compiles and evaluates one-line expressions with custom functions and variables

2,838
MIT
Used by 3
72Health
Library Composer

Symfony PropertyAccess

Read and write nested object or array properties using a simple string notation

2,813
MIT
Used by 3
57Health
Library Composer

PHP-DI

A PSR-11 dependency injection container for PHP that autowires your classes

2,774
MIT
Used by 3
46Health
Library npm

loadjs

A tiny (under 1KB) async script and CSS loader for modern browsers with dependency management.

2,570
MIT
Used by 3
72Health
Library npm

Magicast

Programmatically modify JavaScript and TypeScript source code with a JSON-like syntax.

2,480
MIT
Used by 3
53Health
Library PyPI

glom

Declarative nested data access, validation, and restructuring for Python, with readable errors and a built-in CLI.

2,170
BSD 3
Used by 3
50Health
Library npm

promise-polyfill

A lightweight, spec-compliant ES6 Promise polyfill for browsers and Node.js environments that lack native Promise support.

2,142
MIT
Used by 3
66Health
Library PyPI

emoji

A Python library for converting shortcode text like :thumbs_up: into Unicode emoji and back, with full support for the official Unicode emoji set and 13 language packs.

2,042
BSD 3
Used by 3
42Health
Library npm

common-tags

A well-tested library of tagged template literal functions for cleaning up multiline strings, HTML, and lists in ES2015+ JavaScript.

2,024
MIT
Used by 3
50Health
Library npm

store2

A friendlier localStorage and sessionStorage API with JSON, namespacing, and pluggable extensions

1,943
MIT
Used by 3
44Health
Library npm

randexp.js

Generates random strings that match any given JavaScript regular expression.

1,866
MIT
Used by 3
92Health
Library Go

go-getter

A Go library for downloading files and directories from Git, HTTP, S3, GCS, and other sources using a single URL string.

1,825
MPL-2.0
Used by 3
51Health
Library npm

emojilib

A keyword-to-emoji mapping library for building emoji search and autocomplete.

1,775
MIT
Used by 3
75Health
Library PyPI

python-slugify

A Python library that generates clean, unicode-aware slugs from arbitrary strings

1,625
MIT
Used by 3
75Health
Library Go

shortuuid

A Go library for generating concise, unambiguous, URL-safe UUIDs compatible with Python's shortuuid.

1,432
MIT
Used by 3
70Health
Library npm

chrome-launcher

Finds and launches Google Chrome from Node.js with the DevTools Protocol port open, ready for automation.

1,366
Apache 2.0
Used by 3
51Health
Library Cargo

aho-corasick

A SIMD-accelerated Rust implementation of the Aho-Corasick algorithm for finding many string patterns at once in linear time.

1,302
MIT
Used by 3
52Health
Library Go

go-colorful

A Go library for converting, comparing, and blending colors across RGB, CIE-Lab, HCL, Oklab, and other perceptual color spaces.

1,260
MIT
Used by 3
59Health
Library Go

cpuid

Detects CPU features and topology across x86, ARM64, and RISC-V64 without cgo, giving Go programs fast, cached access to hardware capabilities.

1,218
MIT
Used by 3
60Health
Library Go

regexp2

A feature-rich Go regex engine ported from .NET with backtracking, lookaround, and Perl-compatible syntax.

1,191
MIT
Used by 3
46Health
Library Go

mmap-go

A portable memory-mapped file (mmap) package that gives Go programs one byte-slice API across platforms.

1,113
BSD 3
Used by 3
46Health
Library Cargo

whatlang

Fast, lightweight natural language and script detection for Rust

1,088
MIT
Used by 3
57Health
Library npm

@manypkg/get-packages

Async and sync APIs that discover every package in a Yarn, npm, pnpm, Bun, Lerna, or Rush monorepo.

1,046
MIT
Used by 3

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