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Open Source Packages

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

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88Health
Library PyPI

Click

A composable Python toolkit for building command line interfaces with minimal boilerplate.

17,770
BSD 3
Used by 50
57Health
Library PyPI

rich

A Python library for rendering rich text, tables, progress bars, and syntax-highlighted code in the terminal.

57,443
MIT
Used by 47
90Health
Tool PyPI

Ruff

An extremely fast Python linter and code formatter, written in Rust, built as a drop-in replacement for Flake8, Black, isort, and dozens of plugins.

49,811
MIT
Used by 46
90Health
Library npm

Inquirer.js

Interactive command-line prompts for Node.js — lists, checkboxes, confirms, and more with a single async API.

21,630
MIT
Used by 43
90Health
Library PyPI

tqdm

A fast, extensible progress bar for Python loops and CLI pipelines, with negligible overhead.

31,347
Other
Used by 37
89Health
Framework PyPI

Typer

Typer is a Python library for building CLI applications, using type hints to generate arguments, options, validation, help text, and shell completion automatically.

20,033
MIT
Used by 26
45Health
Library npm

Prompts

Lightweight, beautiful and user-friendly interactive CLI prompts for Node.js.

9,313
MIT
Used by 26
93Health
Tool npm

nest-cli

Scaffolds, builds, and serves NestJS applications through schematics-driven code generation and pluggable compiler backends.

2,199
MIT
Used by 19
41Health
Library npm

cli-table3

Pretty unicode tables for the command line, drop-in API-compatible with the original cli-table

635
MIT
Used by 19
51Health
Tool PyPI

MkDocs

A fast, simple static site generator for building project documentation from Markdown with a single YAML config file.

22,470
Other
Used by 10
91Health
Tool npm

verdaccio

A lightweight, zero-config-required private npm registry with built-in caching and proxying of public registries.

17,898
MIT
Used by 7
79Health
Tool PyPI

Sphinx

A documentation generator that turns reStructuredText or Markdown sources into polished HTML, PDF, EPUB, and more.

8,035
Other
Used by 7
91Health
Framework npm

Pulumi

Infrastructure as Code in your favorite programming language, powered by a shared multi-language deployment engine.

25,735
Apache 2.0
Used by 6
90Health
Tool PyPI

IPython

A productive interactive Python shell with rich introspection, tab completion, and magic commands.

16,787
BSD 3
Used by 5
97Health
Tool npm

npm

The default command-line package manager for Node.js and the JavaScript ecosystem

10,156
Used by 5
91Health
Tool PyPI

Poetry

Poetry is a dependency management and packaging tool for Python that resolves, locks, and installs project dependencies through a single pyproject.toml file.

34,306
MIT
Used by 4
66Health
Framework PyPI

Textual

The Python framework for building sophisticated terminal and web user interfaces with a simple, async-native API.

37,354
MIT
Used by 3
67Health
Library PyPI

DDGS

A Python metasearch library that aggregates text, image, video, news, and book results from ten-plus web search backends through one unified API.

2,992
MIT
Used by 3
33Health
Library npm

ansi-colors

Fast, zero-dependency ANSI color and style helpers for terminal text

451
MIT
Used by 3
80Health
Tool PyPI

gdown

Download public Google Drive files and folders when curl or wget fail

5,434
MIT
Used by 2
90Health
Tool npm

moon

A Rust-based build system and monorepo orchestrator that manages toolchains, tasks, caching, and CI pipelines across the JavaScript, TypeScript, and polyglot ecosystem.

4,115
MIT
Used by 2
86Health
Tool PyPI

pipdeptree

Command-line utility that displays installed Python packages as a dependency tree.

3,024
MIT
Used by 2
70Health
Library PyPI

prettytable

Display tabular data in visually appealing ASCII tables in Python

1,761
BSD 3
Used by 2
86Health
Library PyPI

rich-click

Rich-powered help formatting for Click command-line interfaces

819
MIT
Used by 2

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