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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reading-time
Fast, dependency-free JavaScript library that estimates reading time from plain text, Markdown, or HTML.
Pympler
Measure, monitor, and analyze the memory behavior of Python objects in a running application.
IxJS
LINQ-style Array#extras operators for composing lazy iterables and async iterables in JavaScript and TypeScript.
laravel-opcache
Artisan commands and a facade to clear, inspect, and pre-compile PHP OPcache in Laravel apps.
remote-dom
Take a tree of DOM elements built in a sandboxed JavaScript environment and mirror it onto the real DOM in a different environment, without ever exposing the main thread.
Countries
Typed ISO country, language, currency, and continent data with zero-dependency lookup utilities for JavaScript and TypeScript.
darling
Parse attributes into structs when writing custom Rust derive macros
retry
Lightweight abstraction for exponential backoff and custom retry strategies in Node.js
ProxyManager LTS
Long-term-support fork of ocramius/proxy-manager for generating PHP lazy-loading and virtual proxies
typed-builder
Rust derive macro that generates compile-time type-checked builders with required-field enforcement.
user-agents
A JavaScript library that generates realistic, frequency-weighted random user agents and browser fingerprints from a dataset refreshed daily.
Web Components Template Polyfill
A minimal polyfill that backfills the native HTML template element for browsers without HTMLTemplateElement support.
pyahocorasick
Fast multi-pattern string search for Python using the Aho-Corasick automaton
bstr
Extension traits that let Rust treat byte slices and Vec<u8> as conventionally-UTF-8 byte strings.
python-devtools
Python's missing debug print command, plus pretty formatting, timing, and pytest helpers.
django-ipware
A Django application to reliably retrieve a client's real IP address from the request
postman-code-generators
Generates ready-to-run code snippets in 30+ languages and HTTP clients from a Postman SDK Request object.
throttle-debounce
Lightweight throttle and debounce functions for rate-limiting JavaScript event handlers.
duct
Run child processes and shell-like pipelines in Rust, correctly and portably
Addressing
A PHP addressing library for postal address formatting, validation, and CLDR-powered country and subdivision data.
radashi
A dependency-free, tree-shakeable TypeScript utility toolkit and community-maintained fork of Radash.
self_update
Rust library for updating standalone executables in place from release backends.
Laravel Package Tools
A fluent PackageServiceProvider that removes the boilerplate from building Laravel packages.
slab
Pre-allocated storage for a uniform Rust data type with O(1) insert, remove, and lookup via stable integer keys.
