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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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67Health
Library Cargo

sha2

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

2,267
Other
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
77Health
Library Cargo

regex

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

4,038
Apache 2.0
Used by 59
73Health
Library Cargo

Chrono

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

3,913
Other
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
81Health
Library Cargo

uuid

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

1,247
Other
Used by 56
50Health
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
58Health
Library Cargo

tracing

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

6,892
MIT
Used by 51
74Health
Library npm

qs

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

8,943
BSD 3
Used by 49
66Health
Library npm

proxy-agent

Maps HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS, and PAC proxy protocols to the correct Node.js http.Agent implementation automatically.

1,165
MIT
Used by 48
90Health
Tool PyPI

Ruff

An extremely fast Python linter and code formatter, written in Rust, built as a drop-in replacement for Flake8, Black, isort, and dozens of plugins.

49,811
MIT
Used by 46
91Health
Library npm

Prisma Client

Auto-generated, type-safe database client for Node.js and TypeScript.

47,678
Apache 2.0
Used by 46
46Health
Library npm

form-data

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

2,356
MIT
Used by 45
76Health
Library npm

file-type

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

4,325
MIT
Used by 44
93Health
Library npm

OpenTelemetry Auto-Instrumentations for Node.js

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

931
Apache 2.0
Used by 44
90Health
Library npm

Inquirer.js

Interactive command-line prompts for Node.js — lists, checkboxes, confirms, and more with a single async API.

21,630
MIT
Used by 43
77Health
Library npm

execa

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

7,609
MIT
Used by 43
91Health
Framework Cargo

Tauri

Build tiny, fast, and secure desktop and mobile apps with a Rust backend and a web frontend.

111,435
Apache 2.0
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.

9,442
MIT
Used by 41

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