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48Health
Library npm

bcrypt

Battle-tested password hashing for Node.js using the adaptive bcrypt algorithm.

7,803
MIT
Used by 34
55Health
Library npm

superjson

Serialize JavaScript to a superset of JSON that keeps Dates, Maps, Sets, BigInts, and more intact.

5,277
MIT
Used by 32
87Health
Library npm

fast-xml-parser

Pure-JS XML parser, builder, and validator with no C/C++ bindings and no callbacks

3,139
MIT
Used by 32
65Health
Library PyPI

Certifi

Mozilla's curated root CA bundle for verifying SSL/TLS certificates in Python.

997
MPL-2.0
Used by 32
38Health
Library npm

gray-matter

Fast, dependable front-matter parser for YAML, JSON, TOML, and CoffeeScript metadata blocks

4,490
MIT
Used by 31
64Health
Library npm

cookie

Basic HTTP cookie parser and serializer for HTTP servers, with zero dependencies and full RFC 6265 support.

1,534
MIT
Used by 31
76Health
Library Cargo

toml

A native Rust encoder and decoder for TOML with first-class Serde support.

1,073
Apache 2.0
Used by 31
98Health
Library PyPI

Protocol Buffers

Google's language-neutral, platform-neutral binary format for serializing structured data

72,037
BSD 3
Used by 30
45Health
Library npm

zod-to-json-schema

Converts Zod validation schemas into standard JSON Schema, ready for OpenAPI, OpenAI, and JSON Schema draft 7 consumers.

1,252
Other
Used by 30
70Health
Library npm

csv-parse

A flexible, dependency-free CSV parser for Node.js and the browser with stream, callback, and sync APIs.

4,287
MIT
Used by 29
89Health
Library PyPI

lxml

A fast, feature-rich Python library for processing XML and HTML, built on libxml2 and libxslt.

3,055
BSD 3
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.

324
Apache 2.0
Used by 29
45Health
Library npm

JSON5

JSON for humans: an extended JSON syntax with comments, trailing commas, and unquoted keys for hand-written config.

7,162
MIT
Used by 28
36Health
Library Cargo

hex

Encode and decode data to and from hexadecimal in Rust, with no_std and serde support.

272
Apache 2.0
Used by 28
95Health
Library PyPI

PyArrow

Python bindings for Apache Arrow's columnar in-memory format, giving pandas, NumPy, and data pipelines a fast, zero-copy way to move and process tabular data.

17,110
Apache 2.0
Used by 27
69Health
Library npm

query-string

Parse and stringify URL query strings in JavaScript with flexible array, number, and boolean handling.

6,906
MIT
Used by 27
91Health
Library PyPI

jsonschema

The reference implementation of JSON Schema validation for Python, supporting every draft from 3 to 2020-12.

4,980
MIT
Used by 26
63Health
Library npm

jsonc-parser

A fault-tolerant scanner and parser for JSONC (JSON with comments), with SAX-style visiting, DOM trees, and edit APIs.

758
MIT
Used by 26
50Health
Library Cargo

serde_yaml

Strongly typed YAML serialization and deserialization for Rust, built on Serde

1,018
Apache 2.0
Used by 25
46Health
Library npm

openapi-types

Type-safe TypeScript definitions for OpenAPI 2.0, 3.0, and 3.1 specification documents, covering paths, schemas, and components.

921
MIT
Used by 25
94Health
Library Cargo

rustls

A modern, memory-safe TLS library for Rust with no unsafe code and no legacy crypto by default.

7,619
Other
Used by 23
83Health
Library PyPI

Charset Normalizer

A pure-Python universal charset detector that turns text of unknown encoding into clean Unicode.

794
MIT
Used by 23
60Health
Library Go

gjson

Fast, dependency-light JSON value extraction for Go using dot-notation paths.

15,558
MIT
Used by 22
41Health
Library Go

mapstructure

A Go library for decoding generic map values into strongly typed structs, and back again.

8,023
MIT
Used by 22

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