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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 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
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
54Health
Library Composer

Collision

Beautiful command-line error reporting for PHP apps and test suites

4,659
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
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The original Go library for loading, querying, and marshaling TOML documents, now superseded by go-toml v2.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
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
87Health
Framework Composer

Symfony Console

The PHP framework component for building beautiful, testable command-line applications

9,811
MIT
Used by 8
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
74Health
Library Go

progressbar

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

4,707
MIT
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
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
47Health
Library PyPI

questionary

A Python library for building pretty, interactive command-line prompts — select menus, checkboxes, autocomplete, and confirmations.

2,182
MIT
Used by 4
77Health
Library Cargo

comfy-table

A minimalistic Rust library for building beautiful, dynamically-wrapped terminal tables

1,397
MIT
Used by 4

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