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Libraries, frameworks, tools, and SDKs used by the apps in this directory — scored the same way as the apps themselves.

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93Health
Framework Cargo

Tokio

The async runtime powering most of Rust's networked, concurrent, and I/O-bound applications.

33,150
MIT
Used by 95
92Health
Library Cargo

futures

The foundational Future, Stream, and Sink traits and combinators for zero-cost async Rust

5,921
Apache 2.0
Used by 65
82Health
Library npm

RxJS

The standard library for composing asynchronous and event-based programs using observable sequences

31,698
Apache 2.0
Used by 53
60Health
Library npm

p-limit

A tiny, battle-tested utility for running async functions with a strict concurrency limit.

2,925
MIT
Used by 45
76Health
Library Cargo

async-trait

Type erasure for async fn in Rust traits, enabling async methods behind dyn dispatch.

2,196
Other
Used by 43
98Health
Library PyPI

google-auth

The foundational Python library for authenticating to Google Cloud and Google APIs with OAuth2, service accounts, and Application Default Credentials.

5,383
Apache 2.0
Used by 35
90Health
Library PyPI

websockets

Build correct, fast WebSocket servers and clients in Python with asyncio, threading, or Sans-I/O APIs.

5,717
BSD 3
Used by 29
90Health
Library npm

Smithy Core (@smithy/core)

The shared runtime orchestration layer that powers every AWS SDK for JavaScript v3 client, unifying middleware, serialization, retries, and auth.

324
Apache 2.0
Used by 29
37Health
Library npm

async-mutex

Mutex and semaphore primitives for synchronizing async workflows in JavaScript and TypeScript.

1,434
MIT
Used by 27
40Health
Library Cargo

once_cell

Single-assignment cells and lazy statics for Rust, without macros or unsafe code

2,091
Apache 2.0
Used by 26
56Health
Library Cargo

tokio-tungstenite

Asynchronous, Tokio-native WebSocket streams built on tungstenite

2,507
MIT
Used by 25
63Health
Library npm

async

Higher-order async utility functions for callback, async/await, and promise-based control flow in Node.js and the browser.

28,131
MIT
Used by 23
55Health
Library Cargo

Tower

Modular, reusable Rust components for building async network clients and servers

4,294
MIT
Used by 23
64Health
Library Cargo

rayon

Simple, guaranteed data-race-free work-stealing parallelism for Rust — turn sequential iterators parallel by changing one call.

13,313
Apache 2.0
Used by 22
66Health
Library npm

p-queue

Promise queue with concurrency control, interval-based rate limiting, and priority scheduling for async tasks.

4,272
MIT
Used by 22
87Health
Library PyPI

AnyIO

High-level async concurrency and networking API that runs on both asyncio and Trio

2,542
MIT
Used by 22
53Health
Library Cargo

DashMap

A blazing-fast concurrent HashMap for Rust that shards state across locks instead of using one global RwLock.

4,113
MIT
Used by 21
89Health
Library PyPI

filelock

A platform-independent file lock for Python that supports the with-statement.

972
MIT
Used by 21
91Health
Library npm

Effect

A TypeScript library and ecosystem for building robust, type-safe, concurrent applications with a full functional effect system

16,037
MIT
Used by 18
60Health
Library Cargo

async-stream

Build asynchronous streams in Rust using async/await notation instead of hand-written state machines

776
MIT
Used by 18
72Health
Library npm

p-map

Map over promises concurrently, with controlled concurrency, backpressure, abort signals, and error aggregation.

1,511
MIT
Used by 17
41Health
Library npm

cross-spawn

A cross-platform drop-in replacement for Node's spawn and spawnSync that fixes Windows-only child_process bugs.

1,171
MIT
Used by 17
65Health
Library Cargo

parking_lot

A faster, smaller drop-in replacement for Rust's standard library Mutex, RwLock, Condvar, and Once.

3,410
Apache 2.0
Used by 16
84Health
Library PyPI

greenlet

Lightweight in-process coroutines for cooperative concurrency in Python

1,849
Other
Used by 16

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