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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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85Health
Framework npm

Express

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

69,493
MIT
Used by 158
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
54Health
Framework Go

Cobra

The commander library that powers Kubernetes, Hugo, and GitHub CLI's command-line interfaces.

44,650
Apache 2.0
Used by 62
90Health
Framework npm

Hono

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

32,364
MIT
Used by 60
94Health
Tool npm

mocha

The classic, battle-tested JavaScript test framework for Node.js and the browser, built around flexible async testing and pluggable reporters.

22,896
MIT
Used by 30
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
83Health
Tool npm

svgo

A Node.js library and command-line tool that optimizes SVG files by removing redundant markup through a configurable plugin pipeline.

22,703
MIT
Used by 23
77Health
Framework Go

Gin

A high-performance HTTP web framework for Go, built on a zero-allocation radix-tree router with an Express.js-style API.

89,268
MIT
Used by 22
93Health
Tool npm

nest-cli

Scaffolds, builds, and serves NestJS applications through schematics-driven code generation and pluggable compiler backends.

2,199
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
94Health
Tool Go

grpc-gateway

A protoc plugin that generates a reverse-proxy server, turning RESTful HTTP/JSON requests into gRPC calls from the same service definitions.

20,004
BSD 3
Used by 16
82Health
Framework Go

Bubble Tea

A Go framework based on The Elm Architecture for building terminal UIs, from simple prompts to full-window, high-performance TUI applications.

45,125
MIT
Used by 13
94Health
Framework Go

Echo

A minimalist, high-performance Go web framework with a radix-tree router, built-in middleware chain, and first-class HTTP/2 support.

32,734
MIT
Used by 13
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
86Health
Tool npm

js-beautify

Reformats and re-indents JavaScript, HTML, and CSS into clean, readable code

8,999
MIT
Used by 11
62Health
Tool npm

jest-junit

A Jest reporter that converts test results into JUnit-compatible XML for CI dashboards and test-analytics tools.

502
Apache 2.0
Used by 11
81Health
Framework Go

Ginkgo

A mature, BDD-style testing framework for Go that pairs with Gomega to write expressive, parallelizable specs.

9,061
MIT
Used by 10
74Health
Tool Composer

Laravel IDE Helper

Generate accurate PHPDocs for Laravel facades, models, and macros to power IDE autocompletion.

14,967
MIT
Used by 9
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
83Health
Tool Go

goose

A database migration tool for Go, driven by SQL files or plain Go functions, with a CLI and an embeddable provider library.

11,507
MIT
Used by 8
91Health
Tool npm

verdaccio

A lightweight, zero-config-required private npm registry with built-in caching and proxying of public registries.

17,898
MIT
Used by 7
46Health
Tool Go

Wire

Compile-time dependency injection for Go that generates plain, debuggable initialization code with zero runtime reflection.

14,397
Apache 2.0
Used by 7
91Health
Framework npm

Pulumi

Infrastructure as Code in your favorite programming language, powered by a shared multi-language deployment engine.

25,735
Apache 2.0
Used by 6
92Health
Tool Go

nats-server

High-performance, self-hostable messaging server for NATS.io, powering pub/sub, request/reply, and JetStream persistence across cloud and edge.

20,778
Apache 2.0
Used by 6

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