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87Health
Library npm

@napi-rs/canvas

A native Node.js binding to Google's Skia graphics engine that implements the HTML5 Canvas API with zero system dependencies.

2,344
MIT
Used by 8
77Health
Library Cargo

Proptest

Hypothesis-inspired property testing for Rust with automatic shrinking to minimal failing cases.

2,269
Other
Used by 8
55Health
Library Go

go-yaml

A dependency-free, spec-compliant YAML encoder and decoder for Go, built from scratch with AST access, YAML Path queries, and reversible transformations.

2,241
MIT
Used by 8
49Health
Library PyPI

html2text

Converts HTML into clean, readable Markdown-formatted plain text, as both a Python library and a CLI tool.

2,173
GPL 3.0
Used by 8
67Health
Library Go

go-smtp

An ESMTP client and server library for Go, implementing RFC 5321 plus AUTH, LMTP, and modern mail extensions.

2,057
MIT
Used by 8
41Health
Library npm

axios-retry

Axios plugin that automatically retries failed HTTP requests with configurable conditions and backoff strategies.

2,010
Apache 2.0
Used by 8
92Health
SDK npm

@clerk/backend

The official JavaScript SDK for Clerk's Backend API and JWT session verification.

1,768
MIT
Used by 8
67Health
Library Cargo

dialoguer

A Rust library for interactive command-line prompts and menus

1,617
MIT
Used by 8
49Health
Library Go

snappy

Google's Go implementation of the Snappy compression format, with assembly-accelerated block and streaming compression.

1,574
BSD 3
Used by 8
93Health
Library PyPI

yarl

Immutable, encoding-aware URL class for Python, built for aiohttp and async network code

1,501
Apache 2.0
Used by 8
41Health
Library npm

dequal

A tiny (304B to 489B gzipped), zero-dependency utility for deep equality checks in JavaScript.

1,469
MIT
Used by 8
48Health
Library Cargo

rmp-serde

Serde-powered MessagePack serialization and deserialization for Rust

1,426
MIT
Used by 8
58Health
Tool npm

compression-webpack-plugin

Webpack plugin that pre-compresses your build output with gzip, Brotli, or Zstandard so servers can send smaller assets via Content-Encoding.

1,424
MIT
Used by 8
42Health
Library Cargo

rust-pretty-assertions

Drop-in replacements for Rust's assert_eq! and assert_ne! that print colorful, side-by-side diffs instead of raw Debug dumps.

1,358
Other
Used by 8
91Health
SDK Composer

Sentry for Laravel

Official Sentry SDK for Laravel with automatic error, log, and performance tracing capture

1,350
MIT
Used by 8
68Health
Library Cargo

similar

A dependency-free Rust diffing library with Myers, Patience, Histogram, and LCS algorithms

1,337
Apache 2.0
Used by 8
72Health
Library Cargo

console

A Rust library for terminal and console abstraction: colors, styles, cursor control, and terminal size detection

1,199
MIT
Used by 8
88Health
Library PyPI

PyMdown Extensions

A rich extension pack for Python-Markdown adding tabs, superfences, emoji, and more

1,131
MIT
Used by 8
83Health
Library PyPI

validators

A Python library for validating strings — emails, URLs, IPs, and more — without defining a schema.

1,131
MIT
Used by 8
40Health
Library npm

http-status-codes

Type-safe, dependency-free HTTP status code and reason phrase constants for Node.js and TypeScript.

1,121
MIT
Used by 8
95Health
Library PyPI

OpenTelemetry Instrumentation for Requests

Automatic distributed tracing for Python's requests HTTP library

1,119
Apache 2.0
Used by 8
38Health
Library Cargo

byteorder

A lightweight Rust library for reading and writing numbers in big-endian and little-endian order

1,101
Other
Used by 8
36Health
SDK PyPI

aioboto3

An async wrapper around boto3's high-level AWS resources, backed by aiobotocore

1,004
Apache 2.0
Used by 8
44Health
Library npm

tailwindcss-aspect-ratio

A Tailwind CSS plugin that adds composable aspect-w/aspect-h utility classes for locking element aspect ratios.

998
MIT
Used by 8

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