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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
62Health
Framework npm

Commander.js

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

28,412
MIT
Used by 94
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
75Health
Framework npm

yargs

The modern, pirate-themed command-line argument parser and command framework for Node.js

11,504
MIT
Used by 42
92Health
Framework Composer

PHPUnit

The de facto standard, programmer-oriented unit testing framework for PHP.

20,057
BSD 3
Used by 34
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
98Health
Framework Composer

Laravel

The expressive, elegant PHP framework for building modern web applications

34,931
MIT
Used by 21
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
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
87Health
Framework Composer

Symfony Console

The PHP framework component for building beautiful, testable command-line applications

9,811
MIT
Used by 8
87Health
Framework npm

oclif Core

The Node.js framework that powers Salesforce CLI and Heroku CLI, providing flag parsing, help generation, and a plugin system for building CLIs.

317
MIT
Used by 8
81Health
Framework npm

grammY

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

3,757
MIT
Used by 6
92Health
Framework Go

Fiber

An Express-inspired Go web framework built on Fasthttp for zero-allocation, extreme-performance HTTP servers.

40,185
MIT
Used by 4
84Health
Framework npm

graphql-yoga

A fully-featured, spec-compliant GraphQL server built on the WHATWG Fetch API, running anywhere from Node to Cloudflare Workers.

8,529
MIT
Used by 4
60Health
Framework Composer

nwidart/laravel-modules

Split large Laravel applications into self-contained, independently generated modules — each with its own routes, controllers, views, and migrations.

6,214
MIT
Used by 4
52Health
Framework npm

botbuilder-js

The Node.js/TypeScript SDK for Microsoft Bot Framework — adapters, middleware, and channel integrations for building conversational bots.

724
MIT
Used by 4
92Health
Framework npm

CopilotKit

React hooks and providers for building AI copilots with shared state, generative UI, and human-in-the-loop workflows.

37,567
MIT
Used by 3
88Health
Framework Composer

Symfony HttpKernel

A structured, event-driven process for converting an HTTP Request into a Response in PHP.

8,103
MIT
Used by 3
56Health
Framework Composer

FOSRestBundle

Symfony bundle that turns controllers into format-agnostic REST endpoints with content negotiation and view layer

2,795
MIT
Used by 3
87Health
Framework Composer

Symfony SecurityBundle

Symfony's full-stack authentication and authorization layer, configuring firewalls, authenticators, and access rules from YAML

2,489
MIT
Used by 3
71Health
Framework npm

hapi

A config-driven Node.js framework for building HTTP APIs and web servers with built-in validation, caching, and auth.

14,790
BSD 3
Used by 2
38Health
Framework npm

Clipanion

A type-safe, dependency-free CLI framework for building nested, typed command-line applications in TypeScript.

1,256
MIT
Used by 2
83Health
Framework npm

InversifyJS

A lightweight, decorator-driven IoC container that brings SOLID-friendly dependency injection to TypeScript and JavaScript apps.

290
MIT
Used by 2

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