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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

28Health
Library Cargo

murmur3

A Rust implementation of the fast, non-cryptographic MurmurHash3 algorithm.

78
Apache 2.0
Used by 3
44Health
Library Cargo

opener

Open any file or link in the system default program from Rust, on every major platform.

75
Apache 2.0
Used by 3
31Health
Library PyPI

py

Legacy Python support library for path, ini-config, and code introspection utilities

72
MIT
Used by 3
48Health
Library Cargo

serde_json_path

RFC 9535 JSONPath queries for serde_json Value trees in Rust.

70
MIT
Used by 3
28Health
Library Cargo

pathdiff

Tiny Rust library for computing a relative path between two paths

68
MIT
Used by 3
27Health
Library PyPI

diff-match-patch

Python packaging of Google's Diff Match Patch library for plain-text diff, match, and patch

59
Apache 2.0
Used by 3
49Health
Library npm

safe-regex2

Detects catastrophic, exponential-time regular expressions before they can freeze your app.

56
MIT
Used by 3
39Health
Library npm

@jridgewell/trace-mapping

Trace generated code positions back to their original source through a source map, without WASM.

54
MIT
Used by 3
32Health
Library npm

rtl-detect

Detects right-to-left languages and locale text direction in JavaScript.

54
BSD 3
Used by 3
73Health
SDK npm

pulumi-random

Generate cryptographically random passwords, strings, IDs, UUIDs, and pet names as first-class Pulumi resources.

43
Apache 2.0
Used by 3
49Health
Library PyPI

cssselect2

CSS4 selector matching for Python ElementTree-like document trees

34
BSD 3
Used by 3
24Health
Library npm

w3c-keyname

Normalizes any KeyboardEvent into a consistent, W3C-compliant key name string across browsers.

34
MIT
Used by 3
24Health
Library npm

timers-browserify

A polyfill that brings Node's timers module, including its private enroll/active APIs and setImmediate, to browserify bundles.

24
MIT
Used by 3
27Health
Library npm

vfile-message

A tiny error-like message class for creating vfile lint warnings and errors even without a file instance.

11
MIT
Used by 3
64Health
Library Composer

Mobile Detect

Lightweight PHP class for detecting mobile phones and tablets from the User-Agent.

10,678
MIT
Used by 2
62Health
Library Composer

phpDocumentor Reflection DocBlock

A spec-compliant PHPDoc parser that turns DocBlock comments into structured, queryable objects.

9,355
MIT
Used by 2
66Health
Library Composer

Doctrine Collections

Typed, expressive collection objects for PHP with criteria-based filtering and lazy loading

5,976
MIT
Used by 2
44Health
Library npm

perfect-freehand

Draw perfect pressure-sensitive freehand lines from an array of input points, with no rendering dependencies.

5,739
MIT
Used by 2
43Health
Library Go

go.uuid

Pure Go implementation of RFC 4122 UUIDs (versions 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5) with parsing, string formatting, and database/sql integration built in.

4,896
MIT
Used by 2
48Health
Library Composer

Jenssegers Agent

PHP desktop and mobile user-agent parser with first-class Laravel support.

4,872
MIT
Used by 2
49Health
Library Go

concurrent-map

A thread-safe, sharded map for Go that avoids the lock contention of a single global mutex.

4,528
MIT
Used by 2
46Health
Library Go

archiver

A pure-Go library and CLI for creating, opening, and streaming zip, tar, and rar archives with multiple compression formats.

4,374
MIT
Used by 2
88Health
Library Composer

Symfony DependencyInjection

Standardize and centralize how objects are constructed in your PHP application with a powerful service container.

4,164
MIT
Used by 2
45Health
Library npm

mobile-detect.js

A JavaScript port of the PHP Mobile-Detect library that identifies phones, tablets, OS, and browser versions by matching a user-agent string against an extensive device-pattern ruleset.

4,134
MIT
Used by 2

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