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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

22Health
Library PyPI

attr

A tiny Python decorator that sets attributes on a target function or class in a DRY way.

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MIT
Used by 1
26Health
Library npm

collapse-white-space

A tiny ESM utility that collapses runs of whitespace into a single character.

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MIT
Used by 1
31Health
Library npm

@elastic/numeral

Elastic's Kibana-maintained fork of numeral.js for formatting and manipulating numbers, currency, percentages, times, and byte sizes.

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MIT
Used by 1
57Health
Library PyPI

flagsmith-engine

The core Python engine that powers Flagsmith feature-flag and segment evaluation.

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BSD 3
Used by 1
23Health
Library Cargo

capctl

A pure-Rust interface to prctl() and Linux capabilities

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MIT
Used by 1
16Health
Library PyPI

CircularDict

A thread-safe Python dict that behaves like a circular buffer, evicting the oldest entries once a length or byte-size limit is reached.

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MIT
Used by 1
19Health
Library Cargo

nohash

A pass-through Rust Hasher that turns integer HashMap and HashSet lookups into a single stored value instead of a hash computation.

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Other
Used by 1
20Health
Library PyPI

funcsigs

Backport of Python 3's PEP 362 function signature introspection to Python 2.7.

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Apache 2.0
Used by 1
17Health
Library npm

humanize-list

Joins JavaScript arrays into natural, comma-separated English text with an optional Oxford comma and custom conjunctions.

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MIT
Used by 1
17Health
Library Cargo

querystring

A minimal Rust crate that parses and formats URL query strings with two focused functions.

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MIT
Used by 1
22Health
Library npm

rxjs-exhaustmap-with-trailing

A tiny RxJS operator that extends exhaustMap to also emit the trailing value from the source observable.

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MIT
Used by 1
31Health
Library Cargo

url-escape

Rust crate for encoding and decoding special characters in URLs

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MIT
Used by 1
17Health
Library Cargo

c_str_macro

A c_str! macro for creating C-compatible string literals in Rust.

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Other
Used by 1
18Health
Library npm

expr-eval-fork

A security-patched fork of expr-eval for safely parsing and evaluating math expressions in JavaScript without native eval().

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MIT
Used by 1
23Health
Library npm

mdast-util-compact

Merges adjacent text nodes and blockquotes in an mdast syntax tree to keep it compact after edits.

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MIT
Used by 1
51Health
Library PyPI

rignore

High-performance, Rust-powered file system traversal for Python that respects .gitignore rules.

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MIT
Used by 1
37Health
Library npm

@sanity/id-utils

Type-safe utilities for validating, converting, and generating Sanity document IDs across draft, published, and version variants.

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MIT
Used by 1
22Health
Library Cargo

base16

Fast, no_std-friendly hexadecimal (base16) encoding and decoding for Rust

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Other
Used by 1
23Health
Library npm

ccount

A tiny, zero-dependency utility for counting how often a substring occurs in a string.

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MIT
Used by 1
17Health
Library PyPI

colorclass

Cross-platform ANSI color text for Python console apps, with automatic light/dark background detection.

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MIT
Used by 1
17Health
Library Cargo

concat-arrays

A Rust procedural macro for concatenating fixed-size arrays into a single array

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Other
Used by 1
18Health
Library npm

escape-carriage

A tiny npm library that escapes carriage return (\r) characters in text the way a real terminal would render them.

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MIT
Used by 1
17Health
Library npm

json-hero-path

A lightweight TypeScript library for querying, filtering, and updating deeply nested JSON objects using compact, JSONPath-like path strings.

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MIT
Used by 1
11Health
Library Cargo

steppe

A simple Rust library to track and display the progress of multi-step tasks.

6
Other
Used by 1

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