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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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74Health
Library npm

dotenv

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

20,536
Other
Used by 227
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
65Health
Library npm

React Testing Library

Simple and complete React DOM testing utilities that encourage good testing practices.

19,651
MIT
Used by 195
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
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
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
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
76Health
Library Cargo

serde

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

10,825
Other
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
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
69Health
Library npm

DOM Testing Library

Simple, framework-agnostic DOM query utilities that test your UI the way real users interact with it.

3,332
MIT
Used by 87
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
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
93Health
Library npm

ioredis

A robust, full-featured Redis client for Node.js with built-in Cluster, Sentinel, and TypeScript support.

15,339
MIT
Used by 81
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

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