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51Health
Library npm

jsonwebtoken

The de facto Node.js library for signing, verifying, and decoding JSON Web Tokens.

18,196
MIT
Used by 93
51Health
Library npm

cors

Node.js CORS middleware for Express and Connect that sets standards-compliant headers to control cross-origin browser access.

6,194
MIT
Used by 79
89Health
Library npm

jose

Zero-dependency JWT, JWS, JWE, and JWK toolkit for Node.js, browsers, and edge runtimes.

7,792
MIT
Used by 66
67Health
Library Go

jwt

A zero-dependency Go implementation of JSON Web Tokens (JWT) with pluggable HMAC, RSA, RSA-PSS, ECDSA, and Ed25519 signing methods.

9,225
MIT
Used by 62
70Health
Library Cargo

sha2

Pure Rust implementation of the SHA-2 hash function family (SHA-224/256/384/512) with hardware-accelerated backends.

2,265
Other
Used by 55
84Health
Library PyPI

cryptography

The standard cryptographic library for Python, pairing safe high-level recipes with low-level primitives backed by Rust and OpenSSL.

7,765
Other
Used by 53
51Health
Library npm

cookie-parser

Express middleware that parses HTTP Cookie headers into req.cookies, with support for signed and JSON-encoded cookie values.

2,030
MIT
Used by 52
56Health
Library npm

bcrypt.js

A zero-dependency, pure JavaScript implementation of bcrypt for hashing and verifying passwords in Node.js and the browser.

3,797
BSD 3
Used by 51
87Health
Library npm

Multer

Streamlined multipart/form-data file upload handling for Express and Node.js APIs.

12,085
MIT
Used by 44
85Health
Library PyPI

PyJWT

A Python implementation of RFC 7519 for encoding, decoding, and verifying JSON Web Tokens.

5,700
MIT
Used by 44
44Health
Library npm

crypto-js

A JavaScript library of crypto standards - hashing, HMAC, PBKDF2, and symmetric ciphers for Node.js and the browser.

16,409
MIT
Used by 40
82Health
Library npm

@hono/node-server

The official Node.js adapter that runs your Hono application on a native Node HTTP server using web-standard APIs.

676
MIT
Used by 37
84Health
Library npm

body-parser

Node.js body-parsing middleware that turns raw HTTP request bodies into ready-to-use req.body objects.

5,499
MIT
Used by 36
49Health
Library Go

mux

A lightweight, http.Handler-compatible Go router that matches requests by path, host, method, headers, and query, and can reverse them back into URLs.

21,836
BSD 3
Used by 35
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
48Health
Library npm

bcrypt

Battle-tested password hashing for Node.js using the adaptive bcrypt algorithm.

7,803
MIT
Used by 34
89Health
Library npm

@hono/zod-validator

Type-safe request validation middleware for Hono, powered by Zod schemas.

992
MIT
Used by 34
72Health
Library npm

compression

Node.js middleware that transparently gzip-, deflate-, or Brotli-compresses HTTP responses for Express and raw http servers.

2,806
MIT
Used by 33
65Health
Library PyPI

Certifi

Mozilla's curated root CA bundle for verifying SSL/TLS certificates in Python.

997
MPL-2.0
Used by 32
43Health
Library npm

passport

Simple, unobtrusive authentication middleware for Node.js with 480+ pluggable strategies.

23,530
MIT
Used by 31
64Health
Library npm

cookie

Basic HTTP cookie parser and serializer for HTTP servers, with zero dependencies and full RFC 6265 support.

1,534
MIT
Used by 31
85Health
Library npm

express-rate-limit

Basic IP rate-limiting middleware for Express to throttle repeated requests and protect public APIs and sensitive endpoints.

3,305
MIT
Used by 30
73Health
Library Go

go-oidc

A Go client library for OpenID Connect, built on top of golang.org/x/oauth2.

2,479
Apache 2.0
Used by 28
73Health
Library npm

NextAuth.js

Open-source authentication for Next.js with OAuth, OIDC, email, and passkey sign-in.

28,365
Other
Used by 26

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