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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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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
76Health
Library Cargo

serde

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

10,825
Other
Used by 108
93Health
Library PyPI

Pydantic

Data validation and settings management using Python type hints, backed by a Rust core.

28,772
MIT
Used by 102
84Health
Library Cargo

reqwest

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

11,821
Other
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
73Health
Library Cargo

tempfile

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

1,463
Other
Used by 68
67Health
Library Cargo

base64

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

736
Apache 2.0
Used by 66
79Health
Library Cargo

regex

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

4,024
Apache 2.0
Used by 58
79Health
Library Cargo

Chrono

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

3,907
Other
Used by 58
90Health
Library Cargo

Clap

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

16,707
Other
Used by 56
85Health
Library Cargo

uuid

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

1,242
Other
Used by 56
70Health
Library Cargo

sha2

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

2,265
Other
Used by 55
58Health
Library Cargo

tracing

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

6,873
MIT
Used by 51
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
76Health
Library Cargo

toml

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

1,073
Apache 2.0
Used by 31
76Health
Library Cargo

quote

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

1,580
Other
Used by 30
92Health
Library PyPI

LiteLLM

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

58,726
MIT
Used by 26
40Health
Library Cargo

once_cell

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

2,091
Apache 2.0
Used by 26
50Health
Library Cargo

serde_yaml

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

1,018
Apache 2.0
Used by 25
94Health
Library Cargo

rustls

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

7,619
Other
Used by 23
55Health
Library Cargo

Tower

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

4,294
MIT
Used by 23
79Health
Library Cargo

sysinfo

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

2,742
MIT
Used by 22

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