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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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91Health
Tool npm

prettier

An opinionated code formatter that enforces consistent style across every language your project speaks.

52,316
MIT
Used by 310
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
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
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
63Health
Library npm

diff

A battle-tested JavaScript library for computing and applying text diffs at the character, word, line, sentence, CSS, or JSON level.

9,210
BSD 3
Used by 70
85Health
Library npm

Pino

A super fast, low-overhead JSON logger for Node.js applications.

18,227
MIT
Used by 67
60Health
Library npm

Winston

A battle-tested Node.js logging library with pluggable transports, custom formats, and multiple log levels.

24,519
MIT
Used by 50
86Health
Library PyPI

PyJWT

A Python implementation of RFC 7519 for encoding, decoding, and verifying JSON Web Tokens.

5,706
MIT
Used by 44
76Health
Library npm

file-type

Detect the file type of a buffer, stream, or file by reading its magic number.

4,325
MIT
Used by 44
44Health
Library npm

buffer

The Node.js Buffer API, reimplemented for the browser on top of Uint8Array.

1,891
MIT
Used by 42
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
82Health
Library npm

type-fest

A collection of essential, ready-made TypeScript utility types beyond the built-in standard library.

17,417
Other
Used by 32
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
91Health
Framework npm

Fastify

A fast and low-overhead web framework for Node.js, built around schema-based validation and a plugin architecture

37,205
MIT
Used by 25
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
92Health
Framework Go

urfave/cli

A declarative, dependency-free Go package for building fast, friendly command-line tools.

24,260
MIT
Used by 17
48Health
Library npm

swagger-ui-express

Serves interactive Swagger UI API documentation directly from your Express app based on a Swagger/OpenAPI JSON or YAML document.

1,494
MIT
Used by 16

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