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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 npm

clipboard-polyfill

A ponyfill for the async Clipboard API, giving reliable copy/paste of text and rich content across old and modern browsers.

926
MIT
Used by 1
44Health
Library PyPI

django-annoying

A small Django app of decorators and helpers that eliminate common Django boilerplate.

926
BSD 3
Used by 1
42Health
Library Composer

ramsey/uuid-doctrine

Use ramsey/uuid UUIDs as native Doctrine field types for your entity identifiers.

903
MIT
Used by 1
63Health
Library Cargo

linkme

Safe, zero-cost distributed slices for Rust, gathered by the linker across your dependency graph.

895
Other
Used by 1
79Health
Library PyPI

snowballstemmer

Pure-Python Snowball stemming algorithms for dozens of natural languages.

879
BSD 3
Used by 1
65Health
Library Cargo

compact_str

A memory-efficient Rust string type that inlines up to 24 bytes on the stack, skipping heap allocation for common cases.

872
MIT
Used by 1
55Health
Library Composer

presenter

Easy view presenters for Laravel that keep display logic out of models and views.

864
MIT
Used by 1
36Health
Library PyPI

multipledispatch

Type-based multiple dispatch for Python, resolving which function to call from the types of all positional arguments, not just the first.

848
BSD 3
Used by 1
60Health
Library Cargo

palette

Type-safe Rust library for correct linear color calculations and conversion across color spaces.

836
Other
Used by 1
37Health
Library Cargo

xshell

Cross-platform utilities and a cmd! macro for writing ergonomic bash-like scripts in Rust.

833
Other
Used by 1
45Health
Library PyPI

netaddr

A pure-Python library for parsing, validating, and manipulating IPv4, IPv6, CIDR, and MAC/EUI network addresses.

831
Other
Used by 1
34Health
Library Cargo

self-replace

Rust utility crate that lets executables replace or uninstall themselves.

824
Apache 2.0
Used by 1
38Health
Library npm

tiny-async-pool

Run many promise-returning functions with a bounded concurrency limit using native async iterators.

821
MIT
Used by 1
38Health
Library Composer

Nanoid-PHP

A tiny, secure, URL-friendly unique string ID generator for PHP, ported from JavaScript's nanoid.

811
MIT
Used by 1
46Health
Library npm

react-native-orientation-locker

Lock, detect, and react to screen orientation changes across iOS, Android, and Windows with one React Native API.

805
MIT
Used by 1
47Health
Library Composer

Laravel Money

Currency formatting and conversion for Laravel without the intl extension.

790
MIT
Used by 1
51Health
Library Cargo

indoc

A procedural macro for indented, heredoc-style string literals in Rust, so multiline strings stay readable without breaking your code's indentation.

789
Other
Used by 1
35Health
Library npm

url-search-params

A lightweight polyfill bringing the URLSearchParams API to browsers and Node.js environments without native support.

761
MIT
Used by 1
54Health
Library Cargo

dyn-clone

A Clone trait that works with trait objects, letting you clone boxed dyn values in Rust.

756
Other
Used by 1
68Health
Library Cargo

tinyvec

A 100% safe Rust crate of vec-like data structures with zero unsafe code, built for no_std and embedded projects.

755
Other
Used by 1
46Health
Library Composer

Symfony ProxyManager Bridge

Discontinued bridge that generated lazy-loading proxy services for Symfony's DI container via ProxyManager.

752
MIT
Used by 1
42Health
Library Composer

Spatie URL

A small PHP library to parse, build, and manipulate URLs with an immutable, fluent API.

740
MIT
Used by 1
85Health
Library PyPI

Nameparser

Simple Python module for parsing human names into their components

716
LGPL-2.1
Used by 1
34Health
Library Cargo

wee_alloc

A tiny, code-size-optimized global allocator for Rust and WebAssembly

714
MPL-2.0
Used by 1

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