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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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91Health
Tool npm

prettier

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

52,263
MIT
Used by 310
74Health
Library npm

dotenv

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

20,536
Other
Used by 227
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
Tool npm

tsx

A drop-in replacement for the node CLI that runs TypeScript and ESM files instantly, powered by esbuild.

12,141
MIT
Used by 177
96Health
Framework npm

Next.js

The React framework for production: file-based routing, server rendering, and Rust-powered builds.

142,310
MIT
Used by 154
94Health
Tool npm

jest

Delightful JavaScript testing with zero-config setup, snapshots, mocking, and coverage

45,457
MIT
Used by 149
52Health
Tool npm

ts-node

TypeScript execution engine and REPL for Node.js that runs .ts files directly, without a separate compile step.

13,124
MIT
Used by 122
83Health
Library npm

ws

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

22,804
MIT
Used by 116
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
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
95Health
SDK npm

Sentry JavaScript (@sentry/browser)

The official Sentry SDK for capturing errors, performance traces, and session replays in browser JavaScript apps.

8,742
MIT
Used by 110
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
54Health
Library PyPI

HTTPX

A next-generation HTTP client for Python with sync, async, and HTTP/2 support

15,478
BSD 3
Used by 85
56Health
Library npm

fs-extra

Drop-in replacement for Node's fs module adding copy, remove, mkdirs, and JSON helpers with native promise support.

9,589
MIT
Used by 84
91Health
Tool PyPI

Uvicorn

A lightning-fast ASGI server for Python, built on uvloop and httptools.

10,963
BSD 3
Used by 81
96Health
Library PyPI

NumPy

The fundamental N-dimensional array library powering Python's scientific computing stack.

32,741
BSD 3
Used by 80
55Health
Library PyPI

PyYAML

A full-featured YAML parser and emitter for Python, with C-accelerated bindings

2,942
MIT
Used by 79
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
65Health
Library PyPI

python-dotenv

Load environment variables from a .env file into Python's os.environ, the standard way to keep 12-factor config out of your code

8,876
BSD 3
Used by 72
60Health
Library npm

diff

A battle-tested JavaScript library for computing and applying text diffs at the character, word, line, sentence, CSS, or JSON level.

9,207
BSD 3
Used by 70
83Health
Library npm

Pino

A super fast, low-overhead JSON logger for Node.js applications.

18,194
MIT
Used by 67
89Health
Library npm

jose

Zero-dependency JWT, JWS, JWE, and JWK toolkit for Node.js, browsers, and edge runtimes.

7,792
MIT
Used by 66
98Health
Library PyPI

pandas

The Python DataFrame library for fast, flexible, and expressive data analysis and manipulation.

49,732
BSD 3
Used by 61

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