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Open Source Packages

Libraries, frameworks, tools, and SDKs used by the apps in this directory — scored the same way as the apps themselves.

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95Health
Library npm

Axios

Promise-based HTTP client for the browser and Node.js with interceptors, automatic transforms, and cancellation

109,212
MIT
Used by 190
86Health
Framework npm

Express

The fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework for Node.js

69,454
MIT
Used by 158
75Health
Library Cargo

serde_json

The de facto standard JSON library for Rust, built on the Serde serialization framework

5,636
Apache 2.0
Used by 111
76Health
Library Cargo

serde

A generic framework for serializing and deserializing Rust data structures efficiently and safely.

10,825
Other
Used by 108
93Health
Framework Cargo

Tokio

The async runtime powering most of Rust's networked, concurrent, and I/O-bound applications.

33,150
MIT
Used by 95
96Health
Library npm

OpenTelemetry JavaScript (@opentelemetry/api)

Vendor-neutral tracing, metrics, and context API that libraries and apps instrument once, so any OpenTelemetry-compatible backend can consume it.

3,467
Apache 2.0
Used by 91
95Health
SDK npm

Stripe Node.js Library

The official Node.js and TypeScript library for the Stripe API, giving developers a fully typed client for payments, billing, and Connect.

4,504
MIT
Used by 80
90Health
Framework PyPI

FastAPI

A modern, high-performance Python web framework for building APIs with automatic validation, serialization, and interactive docs.

102,333
MIT
Used by 76
84Health
Library Cargo

reqwest

An ergonomic, batteries-included HTTP client for Rust, with async and blocking APIs.

11,821
Other
Used by 70
73Health
Library Cargo

tempfile

A secure, cross-platform Rust library for temporary files and directories that clean up automatically on drop.

1,463
Other
Used by 68
67Health
Library Cargo

base64

Correct, fast, and configurable base64 encoding and decoding for Rust, with pluggable alphabets and padding.

736
Apache 2.0
Used by 66
79Health
Library Cargo

regex

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

4,024
Apache 2.0
Used by 58
79Health
Library Cargo

Chrono

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

3,907
Other
Used by 58
79Health
Library npm

MSW (Mock Service Worker)

Seamless REST and GraphQL API mocking for browser and Node.js

18,203
MIT
Used by 57
90Health
Library Cargo

Clap

The most widely used command-line argument parser for Rust, with both derive and builder APIs.

16,707
Other
Used by 56
85Health
Library Cargo

uuid

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

1,242
Other
Used by 56
90Health
Tool npm

SWC

Rust-based JavaScript/TypeScript compiler, a drop-in super-fast alternative to Babel

34,191
Apache 2.0
Used by 55
70Health
Library Cargo

sha2

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

2,265
Other
Used by 55
58Health
Library Cargo

tracing

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

6,873
MIT
Used by 51
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.

49,630
MIT
Used by 46
90Health
Library npm

Prisma Client

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

47,610
Apache 2.0
Used by 46
91Health
Framework Cargo

Tauri

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

111,069
Apache 2.0
Used by 39
96Health
SDK npm

@slack/web-api

Slack's official Node.js HTTP client for calling any of the 270+ Web API methods, with built-in queuing, retries, pagination, and rate-limit handling.

3,378
MIT
Used by 38
90Health
Framework npm

tRPC Server

Build end-to-end typesafe APIs in TypeScript with no schemas, no code generation, and zero runtime bloat.

40,607
MIT
Used by 35

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