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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imagesize
Pure-Python library that reads image dimensions and DPI straight from file headers without decoding pixels.
swapper
The unofficial Django API for building swappable, overridable models in reusable apps.
nom_locate
A special input type for nom parsers to locate tokens by line, column, and offset
puremagic
A pure Python, zero-dependency library that identifies file types by their magic numbers, without shelling out to libmagic.
laminas-stdlib
SPL extensions, array utilities, hydrators, and general-purpose helper classes shared across the Laminas PHP ecosystem.
linkify
Rust library that finds URLs and email addresses in plain text with correct boundaries.
ptyprocess
Launch and interact with a subprocess running inside a pseudo terminal (pty).
brace-expansion
Bash-style brace expansion for JavaScript, turning patterns like {a,b,c} and {1..5} into arrays of strings.
rs-natural
A natural language processing toolkit for Rust with distance, tokenizing, and classification.
jsonmerge
Merge a series of JSON documents into one with schema-driven, per-field merge strategies
native-dialog
Cross-platform native file choosers and message boxes for Rust
astunparse
Converts a Python AST back into readable, re-parseable source code, plus a pretty-printing dump utility.
IBANTools
Zero-dependency TypeScript library for validating, formatting, and extracting IBAN, BBAN, and BIC/SWIFT numbers.
Pyphen
A pure Python library that hyphenates text using Hunspell dictionaries, covering 50+ languages.
lazy-regex
Rust macros for regular expressions checked at compile time and compiled once via lazy statics.
gitdb
Pure-Python IO for git-style object databases, streaming loose objects and packs
TinyAudio
Minimal cross-platform audio output library for Rust across every major platform
Asteval
A safe, minimalistic evaluator of Python expressions and statements using the ast module.
color-string
Parses and generates CSS color strings across hex, rgb, hsl, and hwb formats with alpha channel support throughout.
radix_trie
A fast, generic radix trie for Rust with compressed nodes and ancestor/descendant prefix lookups.
IP2Location PHP
Official PHP module for resolving IP addresses to geolocation and network data
OpTree
Optimized C++-accelerated utilities for flattening, mapping, and transforming nested Python pytree structures.
Pyap
Fast Python library for detecting and parsing addresses from free text
deepmerge
A lightweight, strategy-based library for deeply merging nested Python dictionaries, lists, and sets.
