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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.

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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
76Health
Library Cargo

serde

A generic framework for serializing and deserializing Rust data structures efficiently and safely.

10,838
Other
Used by 109
95Health
Framework Cargo

Tokio

The async runtime powering most of Rust's networked, concurrent, and I/O-bound applications.

33,257
MIT
Used by 96
82Health
Library Cargo

reqwest

An ergonomic, batteries-included HTTP client for Rust, with async and blocking APIs.

11,845
Other
Used by 72
68Health
Library Cargo

tempfile

A secure, cross-platform Rust library for temporary files and directories that clean up automatically on drop.

1,468
Other
Used by 69
66Health
Library Cargo

base64

Correct, fast, and configurable base64 encoding and decoding for Rust, with pluggable alphabets and padding.

738
Apache 2.0
Used by 66
67Health
Library Cargo

sha2

Pure Rust implementation of the SHA-2 hash function family (SHA-224/256/384/512) with hardware-accelerated backends.

2,267
Other
Used by 61
77Health
Library Cargo

regex

Rust's finite-automata regex engine with guaranteed linear-time matching and no catastrophic backtracking.

4,038
Apache 2.0
Used by 59
73Health
Library Cargo

Chrono

Timezone-aware date and time handling for Rust, with correct calendar operations and flexible strftime-style formatting.

3,913
Other
Used by 59
90Health
Tool npm

SWC

Rust-based JavaScript/TypeScript compiler, a drop-in super-fast alternative to Babel

34,208
Apache 2.0
Used by 56
90Health
Library Cargo

Clap

The most widely used command-line argument parser for Rust, with both derive and builder APIs.

16,725
Other
Used by 56
81Health
Library Cargo

uuid

Generate and parse UUIDs in Rust across every standardized version, from v1 to v8.

1,247
Other
Used by 56
58Health
Library Cargo

tracing

Structured, application-level diagnostics for async Rust programs, built around scoped spans and events.

6,892
MIT
Used by 51
90Health
Tool PyPI

Ruff

An extremely fast Python linter and code formatter, written in Rust, built as a drop-in replacement for Flake8, Black, isort, and dozens of plugins.

49,811
MIT
Used by 46
91Health
Framework Cargo

Tauri

Build tiny, fast, and secure desktop and mobile apps with a Rust backend and a web frontend.

111,435
Apache 2.0
Used by 42
75Health
Library Cargo

toml

A native Rust encoder and decoder for TOML with first-class Serde support.

1,080
Apache 2.0
Used by 31
65Health
Library Cargo

quote

The quasi-quoting library that turns Rust syntax into token streams for procedural macros.

1,579
Other
Used by 30
92Health
Framework Cargo

axum

Ergonomic and modular HTTP routing and request-handling framework for Rust, built on Tokio, Hyper, and Tower.

27,254
MIT
Used by 28
92Health
Library PyPI

LiteLLM

Call 100+ LLM APIs from OpenAI to Anthropic to Bedrock through one unified, OpenAI-format Python interface.

59,739
MIT
Used by 27
40Health
Library Cargo

once_cell

Single-assignment cells and lazy statics for Rust, without macros or unsafe code

2,089
Apache 2.0
Used by 26
50Health
Library Cargo

serde_yaml

Strongly typed YAML serialization and deserialization for Rust, built on Serde

1,014
Apache 2.0
Used by 25
52Health
Library Cargo

Tower

Modular, reusable Rust components for building async network clients and servers

4,304
MIT
Used by 24
93Health
Library Cargo

rustls

A modern, memory-safe TLS library for Rust with no unsafe code and no legacy crypto by default.

7,640
Other
Used by 23
80Health
Library Cargo

sysinfo

Cross-platform Rust library for fetching system information — CPU, memory, disks, processes, and networks

2,747
MIT
Used by 22

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