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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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98Health
SDK npm

Google Cloud Storage

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

3,195
Apache 2.0
Used by 59
74Health
Library npm

Drizzle ORM

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

35,767
Apache 2.0
Used by 57
51Health
Library npm

cookie-parser

Express middleware that parses HTTP Cookie headers into req.cookies, with support for signed and JSON-encoded cookie values.

2,030
MIT
Used by 52
75Health
Library npm

qs

A battle-tested querystring parser and serializer for Node.js with nested object support and built-in security limits.

8,940
BSD 3
Used by 49
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
47Health
Library npm

form-data

Build readable multipart/form-data streams in Node.js for forms and file uploads

2,355
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
75Health
Library npm

file-type

Detect the file type of a buffer, stream, or file by reading its magic number.

4,326
MIT
Used by 44
94Health
Library npm

OpenTelemetry Auto-Instrumentations for Node.js

Zero-code observability for Node.js apps, bundling every OpenTelemetry contrib instrumentation into a single metapackage.

927
Apache 2.0
Used by 44
75Health
Library npm

execa

A modern process-execution library for Node.js with template-string syntax and zero shell-injection risk.

7,602
MIT
Used by 43
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
44Health
Library npm

buffer

The Node.js Buffer API, reimplemented for the browser on top of Uint8Array.

1,891
MIT
Used by 42
91Health
Library npm

BullMQ

Fast, reliable Redis-based message queue and background job processing for Node.js and TypeScript.

9,396
MIT
Used by 41
51Health
Library npm

mime-types

The ultimate JavaScript content-type utility for resolving MIME types from file extensions and paths.

1,475
MIT
Used by 41
59Health
Library npm

Archiver

A streaming Node.js library for generating ZIP and TAR archives on the fly

2,977
MIT
Used by 40
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
95Health
Library npm

Socket.IO

Bidirectional, low-latency, event-based realtime communication for Node.js and the browser.

63,200
MIT
Used by 39
75Health
Library npm

turndown

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

11,438
MIT
Used by 38
92Health
SDK npm

@clickhouse/client

The official TypeScript client for connecting Node.js applications to ClickHouse over HTTP.

331
Apache 2.0
Used by 38
69Health
Tool npm

html-webpack-plugin

Generates and injects your webpack bundle tags into HTML files automatically, with zero configuration required.

10,716
MIT
Used by 37
40Health
Library npm

lowlight

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

923
MIT
Used by 37

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