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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node-unzipper
A streaming zip extraction library for Node.js that supports random access to files on disk, in buffers, over HTTP, or on S3 without buffering the whole archive.
psl
A lightweight JavaScript domain parser that resolves any hostname against the Public Suffix List.
which-rs
Rust crate that locates executable binaries on PATH, mirroring the Unix which command cross-platform
install
A minimal CommonJS module loader that lets you install and synchronously require a tree of modules in any JavaScript environment.
shell-quote
Parses and quotes POSIX shell command strings, guarding against shell injection when building commands programmatically.
lo
A Lodash-style Go library built on Go 1.18+ generics for working with slices, maps, channels, and functions.
bowser
A small, fast browser, platform, and rendering-engine detector for browser and Node environments
RapidFuzz
Fast fuzzy string matching and edit-distance metrics for Python, backed by a C++ core with an automatic pure-Python fallback.
match-sorter
Simple, deterministic best-match sorting and filtering for arrays in JavaScript and TypeScript.
he
A robust, spec-compliant HTML entity encoder and decoder for JavaScript with full Unicode support.
systeminformation
Dependency-free Node.js library exposing 50+ functions for deep hardware, OS, and system telemetry
go-systemd
Go bindings for systemd: socket activation, journald logging, D-Bus unit control, and sd_notify readiness signals in pure Go.
chardet
Universal character encoding detector for Python with built-in language and MIME type detection.
pyparsing
Build recursive-descent parsers in Python without a separate grammar file
pluggy
The minimalist, production-ready plugin and hook system that powers pytest, tox, and devpi
zstd
Idiomatic Rust bindings for the Zstandard compression library
TanStack Devtools (React)
A React component that mounts TanStack's extensible, plugin-based devtools panel inside your app.
bytes
Tiny utility for parsing and formatting byte strings like '1kb'
is-hotkey
Check whether a keyboard event matches a hotkey string like 'mod+s' or 'cmd+alt+space'
path
Browser-compatible republish of Node.js's built-in path module
afero
A drop-in filesystem abstraction for Go that swaps OS, in-memory, archive, and cloud backends without touching your code.
tablewriter
A Go library for rendering rich ASCII, Unicode, Markdown, HTML, and colorized tables, with streaming support for large datasets.
ULID
A fast, sortable, URL-safe unique identifier generator that beats UUIDs for time-ordered keys.
backoff
Python function decorators that retry calls on exceptions or bad return values, with exponential, fibonacci, or constant backoff and jitter.
