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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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54Health
Framework Go

Cobra

The commander library that powers Kubernetes, Hugo, and GitHub CLI's command-line interfaces.

44,650
Apache 2.0
Used by 62
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
66Health
Library Go

color

Colorized terminal output for Go with ANSI escape codes, 24-bit RGB, and built-in Windows support.

8,002
MIT
Used by 29
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
92Health
Framework Go

urfave/cli

A declarative, dependency-free Go package for building fast, friendly command-line tools.

24,260
MIT
Used by 17
51Health
Library Go

pty

A minimal, dependency-free Go library for opening and managing Unix pseudo-terminals.

2,095
MIT
Used by 17
48Health
Library Go

go-isatty

Cross-platform Go library that detects whether a file descriptor is connected to a terminal, including Cygwin and MSYS2 ptys on Windows.

926
MIT
Used by 17
75Health
Library Go

lipgloss

Lipgloss brings a CSS-like, declarative styling API to Go terminal apps, covering colors, borders, layout, and compositing for building polished TUIs.

11,876
MIT
Used by 16
78Health
Library Go

migrate

Database schema migrations for Go, usable as a CLI tool or an importable library with pluggable source and database drivers.

18,944
MIT
Used by 15
82Health
Framework Go

Bubble Tea

A Go framework based on The Elm Architecture for building terminal UIs, from simple prompts to full-window, high-performance TUI applications.

45,125
MIT
Used by 13
74Health
Library Go

go-toml

The original Go library for loading, querying, and marshaling TOML documents, now superseded by go-toml v2.

1,986
MIT
Used by 12
81Health
Framework Go

Ginkgo

A mature, BDD-style testing framework for Go that pairs with Gomega to write expressive, parallelizable specs.

9,061
MIT
Used by 10
83Health
Tool Go

goose

A database migration tool for Go, driven by SQL files or plain Go functions, with a CLI and an embeddable provider library.

11,507
MIT
Used by 8
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
46Health
Tool Go

Wire

Compile-time dependency injection for Go that generates plain, debuggable initialization code with zero runtime reflection.

14,397
Apache 2.0
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
95Health
Tool Go

BuildKit

The daemon and CLI toolkit behind `docker build`, compiling Dockerfiles and other build definitions into portable, cacheable OCI images.

10,291
Apache 2.0
Used by 6
44Health
Library Go

spinner

A lightweight Go library that adds a configurable terminal spinner or progress indicator to any CLI application, with 90 built-in character sets.

2,531
Apache 2.0
Used by 6
62Health
Library Go

jsonschema

A compliant, dependency-light Go library for compiling and validating JSON Schema across five draft versions, with rich hierarchical errors.

1,276
Apache 2.0
Used by 6
97Health
Tool npm

npm

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

10,156
Used by 5
74Health
Library Go

progressbar

A thread-safe, dependency-light progress bar and spinner library for Go CLI applications.

4,707
MIT
Used by 5
64Health
Library Go

kingpin

A fluent, type-safe command-line flag and argument parser for Go, with nested subcommands and rich usage help.

3,568
MIT
Used by 5

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