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40Health
Library npm

remark-gfm

Add GitHub Flavored Markdown support to remark for tables, task lists, footnotes, and strikethrough.

1,246
MIT
Used by 149
75Health
Library Cargo

serde_json

The de facto standard JSON library for Rust, built on the Serde serialization framework

5,636
Apache 2.0
Used by 111
56Health
Library npm

fs-extra

Drop-in replacement for Node's fs module adding copy, remove, mkdirs, and JSON helpers with native promise support.

9,589
MIT
Used by 84
60Health
Library npm

diff

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

9,207
BSD 3
Used by 70
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
83Health
Library npm

Pino

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

18,194
MIT
Used by 67
60Health
Library npm

Winston

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

24,520
MIT
Used by 50
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
85Health
Library PyPI

PyJWT

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

5,700
MIT
Used by 44
84Health
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
83Health
Library npm

type-fest

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

17,409
Other
Used by 32
55Health
Library npm

superjson

Serialize JavaScript to a superset of JSON that keeps Dates, Maps, Sets, BigInts, and more intact.

5,277
MIT
Used by 32
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
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.

1,252
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.

7,162
MIT
Used by 28
91Health
Library PyPI

jsonschema

The reference implementation of JSON Schema validation for Python, supporting every draft from 3 to 2020-12.

4,980
MIT
Used by 26
60Health
Library Go

gjson

Fast, dependency-light JSON value extraction for Go using dot-notation paths.

15,558
MIT
Used by 22
53Health
Library npm

jsonrepair

Repair invalid or broken JSON documents — missing quotes, trailing commas, truncation, and more

2,404
Other
Used by 21
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
70Health
Library PyPI

orjson

A fast, correct, Rust-backed JSON library for Python with native dataclass, datetime, and numpy support

8,228
Apache 2.0
Used by 19
47Health
Library npm

node-xml2js

XML-to-JavaScript-object parser and builder for Node.js

4,962
MIT
Used by 19
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

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