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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
95Health
SDK npm

OpenAI

The official Node.js/TypeScript client for the OpenAI API, auto-generated from OpenAI's own OpenAPI spec.

11,192
Apache 2.0
Used by 86
97Health
Framework npm

Electron

Build cross-platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS on Chromium and Node.js

123,289
MIT
Used by 69
90Health
Framework npm

Hono

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

32,364
MIT
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
90Health
SDK npm

@clickhouse/client

The official TypeScript client for connecting Node.js applications to ClickHouse over HTTP.

332
Apache 2.0
Used by 38
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
94Health
SDK npm

Node-Redis

The official, high-performance TypeScript client for Redis in Node.js.

17,586
MIT
Used by 32
97Health
SDK npm

@azure/identity

Microsoft Entra ID credential library that authenticates every Azure SDK client, from managed identity in production to CLI and browser login in development.

2,296
MIT
Used by 28
92Health
Framework npm

NestJS

A progressive Node.js framework for building efficient, scalable, and maintainable server-side applications in TypeScript.

76,743
MIT
Used by 27
71Health
SDK npm

dockerode

A Node.js client for the Docker Engine Remote API, covering containers, images, networks, and volumes with streams intact.

4,946
Apache 2.0
Used by 19
82Health
SDK PyPI

duckdb

The official Python client for DuckDB, an in-process analytical SQL database

189
MIT
Used by 14
89Health
Framework Cargo

napi-rs

Build precompiled Node.js add-ons in Rust via Node-API, no node-gyp required

7,950
MIT
Used by 13
63Health
SDK npm

@sendgrid/mail

Official Node.js SDK for sending transactional and marketing email through the Twilio SendGrid API.

3,052
MIT
Used by 13
95Health
SDK npm

firebase-admin-node

Firebase Admin Node.js SDK for privileged, server-side access to Firebase Authentication, Firestore, Realtime Database, Cloud Messaging, and Storage.

1,750
Apache 2.0
Used by 11
94Health
SDK npm

elasticsearch-js

The official Node.js client for Elasticsearch, giving JavaScript and TypeScript apps a typed, fully-featured way to talk to an Elasticsearch cluster.

5,287
Apache 2.0
Used by 10
90Health
Framework npm

Mastra Core

The TypeScript framework for building AI agents, workflows, and RAG apps with unified access to 40+ LLM providers.

28,377
Apache 2.0
Used by 8
92Health
SDK npm

@clerk/backend

The official JavaScript SDK for Clerk's Backend API and JWT session verification.

1,759
MIT
Used by 8
93Health
SDK npm

dd-trace

Datadog's official Node.js APM tracer, auto-instrumenting 100+ frameworks for tracing, profiling, security, and LLM observability.

837
Other
Used by 8
90Health
SDK npm

@amplitude/analytics-browser

The official Amplitude Web SDK for capturing product-analytics events, sessions, and web attribution in the browser.

181
MIT
Used by 7
81Health
Framework npm

grammY

The modern TypeScript framework for building Telegram bots on Node.js and Deno

3,757
MIT
Used by 6
87Health
SDK npm

node-oracledb

Oracle's official Node.js driver for connecting JavaScript and TypeScript apps directly to Oracle Database, in pure JS or with an optional native client.

2,369
Other
Used by 6
53Health
SDK npm

@neondatabase/serverless

Neon's serverless PostgreSQL driver for JavaScript and TypeScript, built for edge and serverless runtimes using HTTP and WebSockets instead of raw TCP.

549
MIT
Used by 5

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