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90Health
Library npm

Prisma Client

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

47,610
Apache 2.0
Used by 46
57Health
Library npm

reflect-metadata

A polyfill for the Metadata Reflection API that powers decorator metadata in TypeScript and JavaScript.

3,360
Apache 2.0
Used by 46
86Health
Library npm

react-hotkeys-hook

A lightweight React hook for wiring up keyboard shortcuts in components declaratively.

3,505
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
48Health
Library npm

unified

Parse, inspect, transform, and serialize content through syntax-tree plugins.

5,030
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
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
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
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
82Health
Library npm

@hono/node-server

The official Node.js adapter that runs your Hono application on a native Node HTTP server using web-standard APIs.

676
MIT
Used by 37
93Health
Framework npm

Docusaurus

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

66,246
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
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
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
97Health
SDK npm

google-api-nodejs-client

Google's officially supported Node.js client library for calling hundreds of Google APIs with built-in OAuth 2.0, API key, and service-account auth.

12,249
Apache 2.0
Used by 33

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