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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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92Health
Library npm

postcss

A CSS transformation engine that parses styles into an AST, letting JS plugins lint, prefix, and rewrite CSS — the foundation beneath Autoprefixer, Tailwind, and 200+ other tools.

28,972
MIT
Used by 277
94Health
Tool npm

typescript-eslint

The official meta-package bundling the TypeScript ESLint parser, plugin, and rule presets behind a single typed config() helper.

16,391
MIT
Used by 260
95Health
Library npm

Marked

A fast, low-level Markdown compiler that parses CommonMark and GFM into HTML in Node.js, browsers, or the CLI.

37,141
MIT
Used by 112
82Health
Library npm

js-yaml

A fast, complete YAML 1.2 and 1.1 parser and serializer for JavaScript.

6,630
MIT
Used by 101
90Health
Library npm

yaml

A definitive TypeScript parser and stringifier for YAML, supporting 1.1 and 1.2 with comment and CST access.

1,691
Other
Used by 98
63Health
Framework npm

Commander.js

The complete, battle-tested framework for building Node.js command-line interfaces.

28,391
MIT
Used by 94
90Health
Tool npm

Oxlint

Rust-based JavaScript/TypeScript linter that runs 50-100x faster than ESLint, with zero configuration required.

22,741
MIT
Used by 70
66Health
Library Cargo

url

A WHATWG-standard-compliant URL parser and manipulation library for Rust.

1,576
Apache 2.0
Used by 62
81Health
Library npm

PapaParse

The fastest in-browser CSV parser for JavaScript, with streaming, Web Workers, and zero dependencies

13,568
MIT
Used by 61
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
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
79Health
Library npm

markdown-it

A fast, pluggable CommonMark-compliant Markdown parser and renderer for JavaScript, safe by default.

21,901
MIT
Used by 52
90Health
Library npm

Prisma Client

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

47,610
Apache 2.0
Used by 46
90Health
Library npm

Cheerio

The fast, flexible library for parsing and manipulating HTML and XML with a familiar jQuery-style API.

30,483
MIT
Used by 45
79Health
Framework npm

yargs

The modern, pirate-themed command-line argument parser and command framework for Node.js

11,504
MIT
Used by 42
84Health
Library npm

sanitize-html

Allowlist-based HTML sanitizer that strips XSS vectors from untrusted markup while preserving the tags and attributes you choose to keep.

4,619
MIT
Used by 42
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
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
65Health
Tool npm

openapi-typescript

Generate type-safe TypeScript types directly from your OpenAPI 3.0 and 3.1 schemas.

8,366
MIT
Used by 33
89Health
Library npm

cRonstrue

Turns cron expressions into human-readable descriptions, in 30+ languages.

1,632
MIT
Used by 33
87Health
Library npm

fast-xml-parser

Pure-JS XML parser, builder, and validator with no C/C++ bindings and no callbacks

3,139
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
70Health
Library npm

csv-parse

A flexible, dependency-free CSV parser for Node.js and the browser with stream, callback, and sync APIs.

4,287
MIT
Used by 29
92Health
Tool npm

GraphQL Code Generator

A plugin-based CLI that generates typed code from a GraphQL schema and operations

11,263
MIT
Used by 21

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