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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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91Health
Tool npm

prettier

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

52,316
MIT
Used by 310
94Health
Library npm

Axios

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

109,216
MIT
Used by 190
85Health
Framework npm

Express

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

69,493
MIT
Used by 158
72Health
Library Cargo

serde_json

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

5,638
Apache 2.0
Used by 113
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.

3,479
Apache 2.0
Used by 91
64Health
Library npm

fs-extra

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

9,590
MIT
Used by 84
94Health
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.

4,516
MIT
Used by 80
91Health
Framework PyPI

FastAPI

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

102,676
MIT
Used by 78
63Health
Library npm

diff

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

9,210
BSD 3
Used by 70
85Health
Library npm

Pino

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

18,227
MIT
Used by 67
79Health
Library npm

MSW (Mock Service Worker)

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

18,227
MIT
Used by 57
60Health
Library npm

Winston

A battle-tested Node.js logging library with pluggable transports, custom formats, and multiple log levels.

24,519
MIT
Used by 50
86Health
Library PyPI

PyJWT

A Python implementation of RFC 7519 for encoding, decoding, and verifying JSON Web Tokens.

5,706
MIT
Used by 44
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
82Health
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
90Health
Framework npm

tRPC Server

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

40,666
MIT
Used by 35
53Health
Library npm

@svgr/core

The Node.js API that converts raw SVG markup into optimized, ready-to-use React components.

11,061
MIT
Used by 34
96Health
SDK npm

google-api-nodejs-client

Google's officially supported Node.js client library for calling hundreds of Google APIs with built-in OAuth 2.0, API key, and service-account auth.

12,256
Apache 2.0
Used by 33
82Health
Library npm

type-fest

A collection of essential, ready-made TypeScript utility types beyond the built-in standard library.

17,417
Other
Used by 32
51Health
Library npm

superjson

Serialize JavaScript to a superset of JSON that keeps Dates, Maps, Sets, BigInts, and more intact.

5,281
MIT
Used by 32
81Health
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
91Health
Library npm

Pinia

Intuitive, type-safe, and flexible state management store for Vue applications.

14,728
MIT
Used by 31
81Health
Library npm

express-rate-limit

Basic IP rate-limiting middleware for Express to throttle repeated requests and protect public APIs and sensitive endpoints.

3,305
MIT
Used by 30
45Health
Library npm

zod-to-json-schema

Converts Zod validation schemas into standard JSON Schema, ready for OpenAPI, OpenAI, and JSON Schema draft 7 consumers.

1,254
Other
Used by 30

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