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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

31Health
Library Cargo

tap

Suffix-position tap and pipe extension methods for every Rust type

509
MIT
Used by 1
34Health
Library Cargo

soa-derive

A Rust derive macro that turns Vec<T> into a cache-friendly struct-of-arrays layout with matching Vec, Ref, Slice, and Ptr helper types.

491
Other
Used by 1
57Health
Library PyPI

srsly

Unified, cross-platform JSON, JSONL, MessagePack, Pickle, and YAML serialization for Python

488
MIT
Used by 1
65Health
Library npm

hoek

General-purpose Node.js utilities for deep cloning, merging, and object traversal, built for the hapi ecosystem.

481
BSD 3
Used by 1
43Health
Library npm

tld.js

Parses hostnames and URLs to reliably extract domains, subdomains, and public suffixes using Mozilla's public suffix list.

475
MIT
Used by 1
44Health
Library PyPI

wasabi

A lightweight, zero-dependency console printing and formatting toolkit for Python

471
MIT
Used by 1
41Health
Library PyPI

cymem

A Cython memory pool for RAII-style, garbage-collector-tied memory management

462
MIT
Used by 1
36Health
Library npm

react-lifecycles-compat

Polyfill that makes React 16.3+ lifecycles work on older versions of React.

459
MIT
Used by 1
42Health
Library Composer

laravel-model-flags

Add lightweight, queryable boolean flags to Eloquent models without adding a migration column for every piece of state you need to track.

456
MIT
Used by 1
59Health
Library PyPI

whois

A Python library for querying and parsing WHOIS domain registration data across 100+ TLDs without a third-party API.

455
MIT
Used by 1
49Health
Library Cargo

procfs

A safe, idiomatic Rust interface for reading and parsing the Linux /proc pseudo-filesystem.

446
Apache 2.0
Used by 1
56Health
Library Cargo

generic-array

Generic array types for Rust, letting structs and traits be generic over array length via typenum-backed sizes.

438
MIT
Used by 1
44Health
Library PyPI

scrubadub

scrubadub finds and redacts personally identifiable information from free text using a pluggable, locale-aware pipeline of detectors and post-processors.

432
Apache 2.0
Used by 1
40Health
Library Composer

Brick PhoneNumber

Parse, validate, and format phone numbers as immutable PHP value objects.

428
MIT
Used by 1
84Health
Library npm

ZenFS Core

A cross-platform, in-process filesystem that mirrors Node's fs API in the browser, in Node, and anywhere JavaScript runs.

425
Other
Used by 1
84Health
Library PyPI

w3lib

A dependency-free Python library of browser-accurate URL, HTML, and HTTP utilities built for Scrapy and other web-scraping tools.

417
BSD 3
Used by 1
52Health
Library PyPI

universal-pathlib

A pathlib-compatible API that works over local and remote fsspec filesystems.

409
MIT
Used by 1
29Health
Library npm

awesome-debounce-promise

Debounce async function calls and API requests in JavaScript/TypeScript, resolving only the last promise to avoid race conditions.

392
MIT
Used by 1
41Health
Library npm

transformation-matrix

Tree-shakeable 2D affine transformation matrix library for JavaScript and TypeScript.

388
MIT
Used by 1
71Health
Library PyPI

asyncstdlib

Async-native reimplementations of Python's builtins, itertools, functools, contextlib, and heapq for asyncio, trio, and any event loop.

381
MIT
Used by 1
38Health
Library Cargo

foldhash

A fast, non-cryptographic, DoS-resistant hashing algorithm for Rust data structures.

379
Other
Used by 1
48Health
Library Cargo

itoa

Fast, allocation-free conversion of integer primitives to decimal strings for Rust.

379
Other
Used by 1
38Health
Library PyPI

typing_inspect

Runtime introspection helpers for Python's typing module — detect generics, unions, and type variables reliably.

375
MIT
Used by 1
43Health
Library npm

FastPriorityQueue.js

A fast, dependency-free, heap-based priority queue for JavaScript and Node.js.

364
Apache 2.0
Used by 1

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