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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.

5929 packages

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92Health
Library npm

postcss

A CSS transformation engine that parses styles into an AST, letting JS plugins lint, prefix, and rewrite CSS — the foundation beneath Autoprefixer, Tailwind, and 200+ other tools.

28,977
MIT
Used by 277
78Health
Library npm

dotenv

Loads environment variables from a .env file into process.env for Node.js apps.

20,543
Other
Used by 227
78Health
Library npm

date-fns

Modern JavaScript date utility library with 200+ pure, immutable functions

36,647
MIT
Used by 202
89Health
Library npm

jsdom

A pure-JavaScript implementation of the WHATWG DOM and HTML standards for Node.js.

21,692
MIT
Used by 200
94Health
Library npm

Axios

Promise-based HTTP client for the browser and Node.js with interceptors, automatic transforms, and cancellation

109,216
MIT
Used by 190
85Health
Framework npm

Express

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

69,493
MIT
Used by 158
84Health
Library npm

ws

A simple, blazing-fast, thoroughly tested WebSocket client and server library for Node.js.

22,807
MIT
Used by 116
81Health
Library PyPI

Requests

The elegant, human-friendly HTTP library that made Python's most-used API for talking to the web.

54,353
Apache 2.0
Used by 112
94Health
Library npm

Marked

A fast, low-level Markdown compiler that parses CommonMark and GFM into HTML in Node.js, browsers, or the CLI.

37,214
MIT
Used by 112
82Health
Library npm

i18next

The internationalization framework for JavaScript, with zero runtime dependencies and a pluggable ecosystem for every environment.

8,637
MIT
Used by 110
90Health
Library npm

sharp

High-performance Node.js image processing powered by libvips, built for fast resizing and format conversion.

32,726
Apache 2.0
Used by 109
93Health
Library PyPI

Pydantic

Data validation and settings management using Python type hints, backed by a Rust core.

28,891
MIT
Used by 104
82Health
Library npm

js-yaml

A fast, complete YAML 1.2 and 1.1 parser and serializer for JavaScript.

6,634
MIT
Used by 101
96Health
Framework PyPI

pytest

The Python testing framework that makes writing small tests easy and scales to complex functional test suites.

14,543
MIT
Used by 100
88Health
Library npm

yaml

A definitive TypeScript parser and stringifier for YAML, supporting 1.1 and 1.2 with comment and CST access.

1,692
Other
Used by 99
62Health
Framework npm

Commander.js

The complete, battle-tested framework for building Node.js command-line interfaces.

28,412
MIT
Used by 94
96Health
Library npm

OpenTelemetry JavaScript (@opentelemetry/api)

Vendor-neutral tracing, metrics, and context API that libraries and apps instrument once, so any OpenTelemetry-compatible backend can consume it.

3,479
Apache 2.0
Used by 91
56Health
Library PyPI

HTTPX

A next-generation HTTP client for Python with sync, async, and HTTP/2 support

15,517
BSD 3
Used by 86
64Health
Library npm

fs-extra

Drop-in replacement for Node's fs module adding copy, remove, mkdirs, and JSON helpers with native promise support.

9,590
MIT
Used by 84
95Health
Library PyPI

NumPy

The fundamental N-dimensional array library powering Python's scientific computing stack.

32,864
BSD 3
Used by 82
92Health
Library npm

ioredis

A robust, full-featured Redis client for Node.js with built-in Cluster, Sentinel, and TypeScript support.

15,343
MIT
Used by 81
53Health
Library PyPI

PyYAML

A full-featured YAML parser and emitter for Python, with C-accelerated bindings

2,950
MIT
Used by 80
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

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