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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

23Health
Library npm

unist-util-stringify-position

Serializes a unist node, position, or point into a human-readable location string for error and warning messages.

6
MIT
Used by 1
23Health
Library Cargo

homedir

A lightweight, cross-platform Rust crate for looking up any user's home directory.

5
Apache 2.0
Used by 1
17Health
Library Cargo

js_option

A drop-in Option-like Rust type that distinguishes an explicit null from a missing/undefined JSON field.

5
MIT
Used by 1
17Health
Library npm

system-ca

Reads trusted certificates from the OS certificate store on Windows, macOS, and Linux for use with Node's TLS APIs.

5
Apache 2.0
Used by 1
17Health
Library Cargo

url-parse

A Rust library that breaks URLs into scheme, credentials, domain, port, path, query, and anchor, with support for custom schemes.

5
MIT
Used by 1
14Health
Library Cargo

clearurls

A Rust library that strips tracking parameters and redirects from URLs using the crowd-sourced ClearURLs rules.

4
Other
Used by 1
42Health
Library Composer

Utopia Compression

A lightweight PHP library providing one unified API for Brotli, GZIP, Deflate, LZ4, Snappy, XZ, and Zstd compression.

4
MIT
Used by 1
20Health
Library PyPI

packaging-legacy

Support for legacy Python packaging APIs removed from packaging.

4
Other
Used by 1
16Health
Library Cargo

streaming-decompressor

A FallibleStreamingIterator that decompresses items with one reused buffer, avoiding per-item allocation.

4
Apache 2.0
Used by 1
17Health
Library npm

string-env-interpolation

Resolves ${VAR:default} placeholders in any string using environment variables, for lightweight config templating.

4
MIT
Used by 1
20Health
Library Cargo

alloc-checked

Fallible Rust collections that return Result instead of panicking on allocation failure.

3
Apache 2.0
Used by 1
23Health
Library npm

estree-util-is-identifier-name

A tiny estree utility that checks whether a string or code point can be a valid ECMAScript identifier name.

3
MIT
Used by 1
61Health
Library npm

nextcloud-initial-state

Reads server-injected initial state data into Nextcloud app frontends with typed fallbacks.

3
GPL 3.0
Used by 1
60Health
Library npm

nextcloud-sharing

Typed share models, public-share helpers, and a reactive Share API with dialog UI for building Nextcloud file-sharing features.

3
GPL 3.0
Used by 1
17Health
Library Cargo

precomputed-hash

A minimal Rust trait for types that already know their own hash, letting hash maps skip re-hashing.

3
MIT
Used by 1
21Health
Library PyPI

pyasynchat

A drop-in backport of Python's removed asynchat module for Python 3.12 and later

3
Other
Used by 1
18Health
Library Cargo

radix

Zero-dependency Rust crate for converting numbers between radices 2 through 36, with a typed, lossless string representation.

3
MIT
Used by 1
18Health
Library npm

rxjs-mergemap-array

An RxJS operator that maps each unique element of an array-valued stream into its own long-lived observable, preserving output order.

3
MIT
Used by 1
17Health
Library Cargo

StringReader

Wrap a Rust string so it can be consumed through the std::io::Read trait.

3
MIT
Used by 1
45Health
Library npm

@readme/data-urls

A lightweight, fully-typed utility for parsing and validating data: URLs in JavaScript and TypeScript.

2
Other
Used by 1
21Health
Library npm

json-reduce

Reduce any JSON value depth-first with subtree-skipping support, for TypeScript and JavaScript.

2
MIT
Used by 1
22Health
Library Cargo

mime-infer

Infer MIME and media types from file extensions in Rust

2
MIT
Used by 1
13Health
Library Cargo

random-port

Find an available TCP or UDP network port in Rust

2
MIT
Used by 1
17Health
Library Cargo

rectutils

Common rectangle algorithms for Rust: clipping, quadtree, and rect packing

2
MIT
Used by 1

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