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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.

5929 packages

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90Health
Library npm

Tailwind CSS

A utility-first CSS framework for rapidly building custom user interfaces without leaving your markup.

97,558
MIT
Used by 340
91Health
Tool npm

prettier

An opinionated code formatter that enforces consistent style across every language your project speaks.

52,263
MIT
Used by 310
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
74Health
Library npm

dotenv

Loads environment variables from a .env file into process.env for Node.js apps.

20,536
Other
Used by 227
87Health
Library npm

tailwind-merge

Merge Tailwind CSS classes without style conflicts

5,688
MIT
Used by 218
68Health
Library npm

date-fns

Modern JavaScript date utility library with 200+ pure, immutable functions

36,648
MIT
Used by 202
93Health
Library npm

jsdom

A pure-JavaScript implementation of the WHATWG DOM and HTML standards for Node.js.

21,681
MIT
Used by 199
88Health
Library npm

Autoprefixer

Parses your CSS and automatically adds vendor prefixes using real-world browser usage data from Can I Use.

22,229
MIT
Used by 198
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
83Health
Library npm

class-variance-authority

A tiny TypeScript utility for building type-safe, variant-driven className APIs on top of clsx.

6,888
Apache 2.0
Used by 190
86Health
Framework npm

Express

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

69,454
MIT
Used by 158
82Health
Tool npm

esbuild

An extremely fast JavaScript and CSS bundler and minifier written in Go.

40,058
MIT
Used by 139
94Health
SDK npm

AWS SDK for JavaScript (S3 Client)

The official modular AWS SDK v3 client for Amazon S3, with TypeScript-first APIs and streaming support.

3,666
Apache 2.0
Used by 129
83Health
Library npm

ws

A simple, blazing-fast, thoroughly tested WebSocket client and server library for Node.js.

22,804
MIT
Used by 116
82Health
Library PyPI

Requests

The elegant, human-friendly HTTP library that made Python's most-used API for talking to the web.

54,300
Apache 2.0
Used by 110
89Health
Library npm

sharp

High-performance Node.js image processing powered by libvips, built for fast resizing and format conversion.

32,677
Apache 2.0
Used by 109
85Health
Library npm

i18next

The internationalization framework for JavaScript, with zero runtime dependencies and a pluggable ecosystem for every environment.

8,633
MIT
Used by 109
92Health
Tool npm

Sass

The reference Dart implementation of Sass, the mature CSS preprocessor that compiles SCSS and indented syntax to standards-compliant CSS.

4,219
MIT
Used by 108
93Health
Library PyPI

Pydantic

Data validation and settings management using Python type hints, backed by a Rust core.

28,772
MIT
Used by 102
96Health
Framework PyPI

pytest

The Python testing framework that makes writing small tests easy and scales to complex functional test suites.

14,506
MIT
Used by 100
34Health
Library npm

tailwindcss-animate

Tailwind CSS plugin for enter and exit animations using utility classes

3,018
MIT
Used by 100
42Health
Library npm

tw-animate-css

A pure-CSS, Tailwind CSS v4 compatible replacement for tailwindcss-animate.

802
MIT
Used by 97
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

OpenAI

The official Node.js/TypeScript client for the OpenAI API, auto-generated from OpenAI's own OpenAPI spec.

11,174
Apache 2.0
Used by 86

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