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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 Cargo

serde_json

The de facto standard JSON library for Rust, built on the Serde serialization framework

5,638
Apache 2.0
Used by 113
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
51Health
Library npm

superjson

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

5,281
MIT
Used by 32
81Health
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
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.

1,254
Other
Used by 30
45Health
Library npm

JSON5

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

7,168
MIT
Used by 28
90Health
Library PyPI

jsonschema

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

4,986
MIT
Used by 27
61Health
Library Go

gjson

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

15,557
MIT
Used by 22
46Health
Library npm

jsonrepair

Repair invalid or broken JSON documents — missing quotes, trailing commas, truncation, and more

2,408
Other
Used by 21
68Health
Library PyPI

orjson

A fast, correct, Rust-backed JSON library for Python with native dataclass, datetime, and numpy support

8,234
Apache 2.0
Used by 19
47Health
Library npm

node-xml2js

XML-to-JavaScript-object parser and builder for Node.js

4,959
MIT
Used by 19
46Health
Library Go

jsoniter

A high-performance, 100% compatible drop-in replacement for Go's encoding/json.

13,866
MIT
Used by 14
51Health
Library npm

JSON-Patch

Lean, high-performance RFC 6902 JSON Patch and JSON Pointer implementation for applying, generating, validating, and observing diffs between JSON documents.

1,982
MIT
Used by 14
81Health
Library npm

JSONPath

A JavaScript library for querying, transforming, and extracting data from JSON documents using an extended JSONPath syntax.

1,158
MIT
Used by 13
42Health
Library Go

sjson

A fast, dependency-light Go library for setting and deleting values in JSON documents by dot-path, without full unmarshaling.

2,734
MIT
Used by 10
86Health
Library Cargo

serde_with

Custom de/serialization helpers for Rust's serde, via the with and serde_as annotations

860
Apache 2.0
Used by 10
30Health
Library npm

Partial JSON

Parses incomplete JSON strings streamed token-by-token from an LLM into usable JavaScript values as they arrive.

244
MIT
Used by 10
74Health
Library PyPI

feedparser

Parses RSS, Atom, RDF, CDF, and JSON feeds into one normalized Python dictionary.

2,426
Other
Used by 9
85Health
Library PyPI

json_repair

Repair malformed JSON from LLMs, APIs, logs, and user input — a drop-in fallback for json.loads().

5,113
MIT
Used by 8
89Health
Library PyPI

msgspec

A fast, zero-cost serialization and validation library for JSON, MessagePack, YAML, and TOML in Python.

4,129
BSD 3
Used by 8
67Health
Library npm

json-2-csv

Converts arrays of JSON documents to RFC 4180 compliant CSV and back, with native support for nested sub-documents.

458
MIT
Used by 8
46Health
Library npm

flat

Flattens nested JavaScript objects into dot-delimited keys and unflattens them back, with a bundled CLI.

1,817
BSD 3
Used by 7
54Health
Library npm

rss-parser

Lightweight RSS and Atom feed parser for Node.js and the browser that turns XML feeds into plain JavaScript objects

1,529
MIT
Used by 7
49Health
Library npm

json2csv

Convert JSON arrays into CSV strings and files with configurable fields, formatters, and streaming parsers for Node.js.

2,718
MIT
Used by 6

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