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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.

5929 packages

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92Health
Library npm

ioredis

A robust, full-featured Redis client for Node.js with built-in Cluster, Sentinel, and TypeScript support.

15,343
MIT
Used by 81
53Health
Library PyPI

PyYAML

A full-featured YAML parser and emitter for Python, with C-accelerated bindings

2,950
MIT
Used by 80
50Health
Library npm

cors

Node.js CORS middleware for Express and Connect that sets standards-compliant headers to control cross-origin browser access.

6,195
MIT
Used by 79
91Health
Framework PyPI

FastAPI

A modern, high-performance Python web framework for building APIs with automatic validation, serialization, and interactive docs.

102,676
MIT
Used by 78
63Health
Library PyPI

python-dotenv

Load environment variables from a .env file into Python's os.environ, the standard way to keep 12-factor config out of your code

8,883
BSD 3
Used by 73
90Health
Tool npm

Oxlint

Rust-based JavaScript/TypeScript linter that runs 50-100x faster than ESLint, with zero configuration required.

22,902
MIT
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

7,705
MIT
Used by 70
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
85Health
Library npm

Pino

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

18,227
MIT
Used by 67
92Health
Library PyPI

Pillow

The friendly PIL fork that adds image processing capabilities to Python

13,856
Other
Used by 62
63Health
Library Cargo

url

A WHATWG-standard-compliant URL parser and manipulation library for Rust.

1,575
Apache 2.0
Used by 62
98Health
Library PyPI

pandas

The Python DataFrame library for fast, flexible, and expressive data analysis and manipulation.

49,851
BSD 3
Used by 61
79Health
Library npm

PapaParse

The fastest in-browser CSV parser for JavaScript, with streaming, Web Workers, and zero dependencies

13,576
MIT
Used by 61
59Health
Library npm

chokidar

Minimal and efficient cross-platform file watching for Node.js.

12,244
MIT
Used by 61
90Health
Framework npm

Hono

A small, ultrafast web framework built on Web Standards that runs identically everywhere.

32,364
MIT
Used by 60
91Health
Library npm

Faker

Generate massive amounts of realistic fake data for testing, seeding, and mocking in JavaScript and TypeScript.

15,502
MIT
Used by 60
91Health
SDK PyPI

boto3

The official AWS SDK for Python — call every Amazon Web Services API from your code.

9,909
Apache 2.0
Used by 60
97Health
SDK PyPI

OpenAI Python SDK

The official Python library for the OpenAI REST API, generated from OpenAI's OpenAPI spec with typed sync and async clients.

31,709
Apache 2.0
Used by 59
97Health
SDK npm

Google Cloud Storage

Node.js client library for Google Cloud Storage — upload, download, and manage buckets and objects programmatically.

3,201
Apache 2.0
Used by 59
79Health
Library npm

Drizzle ORM

A lightweight, zero-dependency TypeScript ORM with full SQL-like query flexibility

35,907
Apache 2.0
Used by 57
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
84Health
Library PyPI

cryptography

The standard cryptographic library for Python, pairing safe high-level recipes with low-level primitives backed by Rust and OpenSSL.

7,786
Other
Used by 54
78Health
Library npm

markdown-it

A fast, pluggable CommonMark-compliant Markdown parser and renderer for JavaScript, safe by default.

21,945
MIT
Used by 52

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