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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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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
71Health
Library npm

remark

A plugin-powered markdown processor that parses, transforms, and serializes markdown on top of unified.

9,008
MIT
Used by 48
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
91Health
Library npm

Prisma Client

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

47,678
Apache 2.0
Used by 46
55Health
Library npm

reflect-metadata

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

3,361
Apache 2.0
Used by 46
82Health
Library npm

react-hotkeys-hook

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

3,503
MIT
Used by 45
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
48Health
Library npm

unified

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

5,036
MIT
Used by 44
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
95Health
SDK Go

AWS SDK for Go v2

The official AWS SDK for Go — type-safe, modular clients for every AWS service.

3,658
Apache 2.0
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
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
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.

5,834
MIT
Used by 41
50Health
Library npm

mime-types

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

1,476
MIT
Used by 41
74Health
Library npm

js-cookie

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

22,588
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.

63,210
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.

24,878
Other
Used by 39
72Health
Library npm

turndown

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

11,451
MIT
Used by 38
90Health
SDK npm

@clickhouse/client

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

332
Apache 2.0
Used by 38
85Health
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

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