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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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44Health
Library npm

buffer

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

1,891
MIT
Used by 42
46Health
Tool npm

npm-run-all

A cross-platform CLI that runs multiple npm-scripts in parallel or in sequence, replacing fragile shell operators like && with Windows-safe orchestration.

5,832
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
77Health
Library npm

js-cookie

A simple, lightweight JavaScript API for handling browser cookies, client-side.

22,587
MIT
Used by 40
59Health
Library npm

Archiver

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

2,977
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
51Health
Library Go

websocket

A fast, RFC 6455-compliant WebSocket implementation for Go with full control over framing, compression, and concurrency.

24,870
Other
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
93Health
Framework npm

Docusaurus

React-based static site generator for building fast, maintainable documentation websites.

66,246
MIT
Used by 36
84Health
Library Go

Logrus

Structured, pluggable logging for Go with a stdlib-compatible API and level-based hooks.

25,746
MIT
Used by 36
84Health
Library npm

body-parser

Node.js body-parsing middleware that turns raw HTTP request bodies into ready-to-use req.body objects.

5,499
MIT
Used by 36
49Health
Library Go

mux

A lightweight, http.Handler-compatible Go router that matches requests by path, host, method, headers, and query, and can reverse them back into URLs.

21,836
BSD 3
Used by 35
78Health
Tool npm

TypeScript Native Preview

Preview npm build of tsgo, the native Go port of the TypeScript compiler ahead of TypeScript 7.0.

26,194
Apache 2.0
Used by 34
92Health
Library Go

go-redis

The official, idiomatic Go client for Redis — connection pooling, Cluster, Sentinel, pipelines, and client-side caching built in.

22,234
Other
Used by 34
54Health
Library npm

html-to-image

Turns any DOM node into a PNG, JPEG, SVG, or canvas image entirely client-side, with no server or screenshot service required.

7,235
MIT
Used by 34
86Health
Library npm

cron-parser

Parse, validate, and iterate cron expressions in Node.js with full timezone and DST support.

1,490
MIT
Used by 34
82Health
Library Go

Go-MySQL-Driver

A pure Go implementation of the MySQL wire protocol, used as the database/sql driver for MySQL, MariaDB, and TiDB.

15,282
MPL-2.0
Used by 33
72Health
Library npm

compression

Node.js middleware that transparently gzip-, deflate-, or Brotli-compresses HTTP responses for Express and raw http servers.

2,806
MIT
Used by 33
51Health
Library npm

debug

A tiny, zero-config JavaScript debugging utility with namespaced, color-coded output for Node.js and the browser.

11,454
MIT
Used by 32
74Health
Library npm

helmet

Secure Node and Express apps by setting protective HTTP response headers with a single line of middleware.

10,735
MIT
Used by 32
55Health
Library npm

superjson

Serialize JavaScript to a superset of JSON that keeps Dates, Maps, Sets, BigInts, and more intact.

5,277
MIT
Used by 32
38Health
Library npm

gray-matter

Fast, dependable front-matter parser for YAML, JSON, TOML, and CoffeeScript metadata blocks

4,490
MIT
Used by 31
64Health
Library npm

cookie

Basic HTTP cookie parser and serializer for HTTP servers, with zero dependencies and full RFC 6265 support.

1,534
MIT
Used by 31

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