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85Health
Framework npm

Express

The fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework for Node.js

69,493
MIT
Used by 158
94Health
SDK npm

AWS SDK for JavaScript (S3 Client)

The official modular AWS SDK v3 client for Amazon S3, with TypeScript-first APIs and streaming support.

3,668
Apache 2.0
Used by 129
91Health
Tool PyPI

Uvicorn

A lightning-fast ASGI server for Python, built on uvloop and httptools.

10,993
BSD 3
Used by 83
50Health
Library npm

cors

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

6,195
MIT
Used by 79
91Health
Framework PyPI

FastAPI

A modern, high-performance Python web framework for building APIs with automatic validation, serialization, and interactive docs.

102,676
MIT
Used by 78
90Health
Framework npm

Hono

A small, ultrafast web framework built on Web Standards that runs identically everywhere.

32,364
MIT
Used by 60
91Health
SDK PyPI

boto3

The official AWS SDK for Python — call every Amazon Web Services API from your code.

9,909
Apache 2.0
Used by 60
97Health
SDK npm

Google Cloud Storage

Node.js client library for Google Cloud Storage — upload, download, and manage buckets and objects programmatically.

3,201
Apache 2.0
Used by 59
50Health
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
85Health
Library npm

Multer

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

12,087
MIT
Used by 44
95Health
SDK Go

AWS SDK for Go v2

The official AWS SDK for Go — type-safe, modular clients for every AWS service.

3,658
Apache 2.0
Used by 44
95Health
Framework PyPI

aiohttp

Asynchronous HTTP client and server framework for Python's asyncio, covering both API calls and building web/WebSocket services.

16,561
Apache 2.0
Used by 40
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.

5,391
Apache 2.0
Used by 37
85Health
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
82Health
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
90Health
Framework npm

tRPC Server

Build end-to-end typesafe APIs in TypeScript with no schemas, no code generation, and zero runtime bloat.

40,666
MIT
Used by 35
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.

21,838
BSD 3
Used by 35
90Health
Library npm

@hono/zod-validator

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

993
MIT
Used by 34
96Health
SDK npm

google-api-nodejs-client

Google's officially supported Node.js client library for calling hundreds of Google APIs with built-in OAuth 2.0, API key, and service-account auth.

12,256
Apache 2.0
Used by 33
88Health
Tool PyPI

Gunicorn

A fast, lightweight pre-fork WSGI and ASGI HTTP server for running Python web apps in production on UNIX.

10,686
MIT
Used by 33
69Health
Library npm

compression

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

2,805
MIT
Used by 33
90Health
SDK npm

@cloudflare/workers-types

Official TypeScript type definitions for the Cloudflare Workers runtime, covering fetch handlers and platform bindings like KV, D1, R2, and Durable Objects.

8,770
Other
Used by 29
90Health
Library npm

Smithy Core (@smithy/core)

The shared runtime orchestration layer that powers every AWS SDK for JavaScript v3 client, unifying middleware, serialization, retries, and auth.

328
Apache 2.0
Used by 29
81Health
Framework PyPI

Flask

A lightweight WSGI web framework for Python that scales from a single file to complex applications.

74,802
BSD 3
Used by 28

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