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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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72Health
Library npm

Chalk

The most popular Node.js library for styling terminal string output with ANSI colors.

23,319
MIT
Used by 98
90Health
Tool npm

Oxlint

Rust-based JavaScript/TypeScript linter that runs 50-100x faster than ESLint, with zero configuration required.

22,902
MIT
Used by 70
89Health
Library npm

xterm.js

A fast, self-contained TypeScript library for embedding fully-featured terminals in the browser.

21,228
MIT
Used by 57
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
46Health
Tool npm

npm-run-all

A cross-platform CLI that runs multiple npm-scripts in parallel or in sequence, replacing fragile shell operators like && with Windows-safe orchestration.

5,834
MIT
Used by 41
76Health
Tool npm

TypeScript Native Preview

Preview npm build of tsgo, the native Go port of the TypeScript compiler ahead of TypeScript 7.0.

26,165
Apache 2.0
Used by 34
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
89Health
Library npm

Ink

React for CLIs — build and test interactive command-line apps using declarative, Flexbox-based components instead of manual stdout writes.

39,967
MIT
Used by 18
93Health
Tool npm

sentry-cli

Official command-line tool for uploading source maps, debug symbols, and managing releases and deploys in Sentry.

1,043
Other
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
43Health
Library Cargo

colored

The simplest way to add ANSI colors and styles to terminal strings in Rust.

2,039
MPL-2.0
Used by 14
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
91Health
Tool npm

Rspack CLI

The official command-line interface for running Rspack builds, dev servers, and previews.

12,930
MIT
Used by 12
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
76Health
Library Go

Bubbles

Ready-made terminal UI components—spinners, tables, lists, inputs, and more—for building Bubble Tea applications in Go.

8,945
MIT
Used by 11
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
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
59Health
Library npm

umzug

Framework-agnostic migration tool for Node.js with a clean, typed API for running and rolling back migrations.

2,214
MIT
Used by 6
57Health
Tool npm

Yarn

A fast, reliable, and secure dependency manager for JavaScript projects, caching every download for deterministic, offline-capable installs.

41,475
Other
Used by 5
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
74Health
Library Go

progressbar

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

4,707
MIT
Used by 5
68Health
Library Go

Glamour

Stylesheet-based Markdown rendering that turns plain text into styled ANSI output for Go CLI apps.

3,717
MIT
Used by 4

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