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93Health
Library npm

jsdom

A pure-JavaScript implementation of the WHATWG DOM and HTML standards for Node.js.

21,681
MIT
Used by 199
90Health
Library npm

DOMPurify

DOM-only, uber-tolerant XSS sanitizer for HTML, MathML, and SVG that runs in the browser and on the server.

17,387
Apache 2.0
Used by 135
95Health
Library npm

Marked

A fast, low-level Markdown compiler that parses CommonMark and GFM into HTML in Node.js, browsers, or the CLI.

37,141
MIT
Used by 112
92Health
Library npm

undici

A fast, spec-compliant HTTP/1.1 client for Node.js, built from scratch with zero runtime dependencies

7,695
MIT
Used by 70
93Health
Library PyPI

urllib3

A powerful, user-friendly HTTP client for Python with thread-safe connection pooling, TLS verification, and retry handling.

4,058
MIT
Used by 48
68Health
Library npm

proxy-agent

Maps HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS, and PAC proxy protocols to the correct Node.js http.Agent implementation automatically.

1,161
MIT
Used by 47
90Health
Library npm

Prisma Client

Auto-generated, type-safe database client for Node.js and TypeScript.

47,610
Apache 2.0
Used by 46
90Health
Library npm

Cheerio

The fast, flexible library for parsing and manipulating HTML and XML with a familiar jQuery-style API.

30,483
MIT
Used by 45
62Health
Library npm

Handlebars.js

A logic-less, extensible templating engine built on Mustache syntax with helpers, partials, and precompilation.

18,673
MIT
Used by 44
84Health
Library npm

sanitize-html

Allowlist-based HTML sanitizer that strips XSS vectors from untrusted markup while preserving the tags and attributes you choose to keep.

4,619
MIT
Used by 42
38Health
Library npm

rehype-raw

A rehype plugin that reparses embedded raw HTML in a hast tree so it becomes real syntax nodes.

210
MIT
Used by 40
75Health
Library npm

turndown

Convert HTML into clean, customizable Markdown in Node.js and the browser.

11,438
MIT
Used by 38
40Health
Library npm

lowlight

Virtual syntax highlighting for virtual DOMs and non-HTML things, powered by highlight.js

923
MIT
Used by 37
44Health
Library npm

remark-math

A unified remark plugin that adds LaTeX math syntax to markdown, ready to render with KaTeX or MathJax.

513
MIT
Used by 37
40Health
Library npm

unist-util-visit

Tiny utility to walk unist syntax trees and run a visitor on matching nodes

357
MIT
Used by 36
54Health
Library npm

html-to-image

Turns any DOM node into a PNG, JPEG, SVG, or canvas image entirely client-side, with no server or screenshot service required.

7,235
MIT
Used by 34
37Health
Library npm

rehype-sanitize

A unified rehype plugin that sanitizes HTML to prevent XSS by dropping anything a schema does not explicitly allow.

222
MIT
Used by 33
87Health
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
73Health
Library npm

Mammoth.js

Convert Word .docx documents into clean, semantic HTML and Markdown in JavaScript.

6,300
Other
Used by 25
56Health
Library npm

html-to-text

Advanced HTML to plain text converter with word wrapping, tables, and customizable selectors

1,762
MIT
Used by 23
84Health
Library npm

http-proxy-middleware

The one-liner Node.js proxy middleware for connect, express, next.js, hono, and more.

11,126
MIT
Used by 20
45Health
Library PyPI

markupsafe

Escapes untrusted strings for safe use in HTML and XML markup, preventing injection attacks in templated output.

697
BSD 3
Used by 20
48Health
Library npm

forge

A native, pure-JavaScript implementation of TLS and PKI cryptography for building crypto-based Node.js and browser apps.

5,331
Other
Used by 17
40Health
Library npm

rehype-highlight

Rehype plugin that syntax-highlights code blocks at build time using lowlight and highlight.js.

331
MIT
Used by 17

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