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26Health
Library npm

mdast-util-gfm

Composes five mdast GitHub Flavored Markdown extensions into one parser and serializer for autolinks, footnotes, tables, strikethrough, and tasklists.

24
MIT
Used by 8
94Health
Library npm

gridstack.js

A dependency-free TypeScript library for building draggable, resizable, responsive dashboard grid layouts in the browser.

9,115
MIT
Used by 7
83Health
SDK PyPI

PyGithub

A typed Python library for the GitHub REST API, wrapping repositories, issues, pull requests, and organizations as lazy-loading objects.

7,772
Other
Used by 7
80Health
Library npm

recast

JavaScript AST transformer and nondestructive pretty-printer for building codemods

5,253
MIT
Used by 7
48Health
Library npm

mdast-util-to-markdown

Serializes an mdast syntax tree back into CommonMark-compatible markdown text, with pluggable handlers for custom syntax extensions.

141
MIT
Used by 7
49Health
Library npm

github-markdown-css

Drop-in CSS that renders any markdown container in GitHub's exact visual style, light or dark.

8,933
MIT
Used by 6
91Health
Library Go

Chroma

A general-purpose syntax highlighting library for Go, supporting 200+ languages and multiple output formats out of the box.

5,031
MIT
Used by 5
56Health
Library npm

microdiff

A tiny, zero-dependency library for deep diffing objects and arrays with full TypeScript support.

3,871
MIT
Used by 5
50Health
Library Cargo

syntect

High-quality Rust syntax highlighting using Sublime Text's grammar and theme formats

2,419
MIT
Used by 5
41Health
Library npm

refractor

Lightweight virtual syntax highlighter that wraps Prism to output hast syntax trees instead of HTML strings.

869
MIT
Used by 5
83Health
Library npm

Badge Maker

The standalone SVG badge-rendering library and CLI extracted from Shields.io, with no server dependency.

27,187
MIT
Used by 3
90Health
SDK Cargo

Octocrab

A modern, extensible GitHub API client for Rust with REST and GraphQL support.

1,443
Other
Used by 3
84Health
Library npm

Sugar High

Lightweight, zero-dependency syntax highlighter that turns code into HTML without a DOM, in browsers and JS runtimes alike.

1,355
MIT
Used by 3
53Health
SDK PyPI

github3.py

A comprehensive, actively developed Python wrapper around GitHub's REST API v3.

1,257
BSD 3
Used by 3
75Health
Library npm

ast-types

An Esprima-compatible implementation of the Mozilla JS Parser API, with typed AST builders and visitors.

1,173
MIT
Used by 3
77Health
SDK npm

request.js

A lightweight, fetch-based HTTP client for calling GitHub's REST and GraphQL APIs with sensible defaults.

264
MIT
Used by 3
34Health
SDK npm

sns-payload-validator

Verifies AWS SNS message signatures for HTTP/S and Lambda payloads.

13
MIT
Used by 3
47Health
Library npm

esprima

A high-performance, standard-compliant ECMAScript parser producing ESTree-compatible ASTs for JavaScript tooling.

7,138
Other
Used by 2
78Health
SDK npm

GitHub Actions Toolkit (@actions/artifact)

The official Node.js SDK for uploading, downloading, and managing GitHub Actions workflow artifacts.

5,848
MIT
Used by 2
72Health
Library npm

react-shiki

A performant syntax-highlighting component and hook for React, powered by Shiki's TextMate grammars and themes.

538
MIT
Used by 2
86Health
Library PyPI

tree-sitter-language-pack

Precompiled tree-sitter parsers and queries for 306+ languages in one install

466
MIT
Used by 2
48Health
SDK npm

plugin-paginate-graphql.js

Octokit plugin that auto-paginates GitHub GraphQL API queries using cursor-based pagination.

62
MIT
Used by 2
47Health
SDK npm

@octokit/webhooks-methods

Sign and verify GitHub webhook payload signatures with constant-time HMAC comparison, in Node.js and the browser.

27
MIT
Used by 2
57Health
SDK npm

@octokit/auth-oauth-device

GitHub OAuth Device Flow authentication strategy for Octokit-based JavaScript apps.

14
MIT
Used by 2

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