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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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86Health
Framework npm

Express

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

69,454
MIT
Used by 158
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
79Health
Library npm

MSW (Mock Service Worker)

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

18,203
MIT
Used by 57
90Health
Library npm

Prisma Client

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

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

form-data

Build readable multipart/form-data streams in Node.js for forms and file uploads

2,355
MIT
Used by 45
94Health
Library npm

MySQL2

Fast, pure-JavaScript MySQL client for Node.js with prepared statements, promises, and pooling.

4,384
MIT
Used by 41
92Health
Framework npm

Astro

The web framework for building fast, content-driven websites with islands architecture.

62,548
MIT
Used by 39
93Health
Tool npm

webpack-dev-server

The official live-reloading development server for webpack, with hot module replacement, HTTPS, and proxying built in.

7,843
MIT
Used by 38
82Health
Library npm

@hono/node-server

The official Node.js adapter that runs your Hono application on a native Node HTTP server using web-standard APIs.

676
MIT
Used by 37
71Health
Framework Go

Gin

A high-performance HTTP web framework for Go, built on a zero-allocation radix-tree router with an Express.js-style API.

89,216
MIT
Used by 22
57Health
Library npm

decimal.js

An arbitrary-precision Decimal type for JavaScript with full trigonometric support

7,252
MIT
Used by 12
42Health
Library npm

GSAP

The industry-standard JavaScript animation library for tweening CSS, SVG, canvas, and UI with rock-solid cross-browser reliability.

28,405
Other
Used by 11
95Health
Library npm

node-mssql

The Node.js client for Microsoft SQL Server, wrapping Tedious (or MSNodeSQLv8) behind a unified pool, request, and transaction API.

2,275
MIT
Used by 11
82Health
Library npm

graphql-ws

Zero-dependency server and client implementing the GraphQL over WebSocket Protocol

1,871
MIT
Used by 11
86Health
Tool npm

start-server-and-test

Starts your dev server, waits for it to respond, runs your test command, then shuts the server down automatically.

1,581
MIT
Used by 9
66Health
Library Go

go-smtp

An ESMTP client and server library for Go, implementing RFC 5321 plus AUTH, LMTP, and modern mail extensions.

2,048
MIT
Used by 8
55Health
SDK npm

msgraph-sdk-javascript

Official Microsoft Graph JavaScript SDK for calling the Graph API from Node.js and the browser.

833
MIT
Used by 8
90Health
Tool npm

verdaccio

A lightweight, zero-config-required private npm registry with built-in caching and proxying of public registries.

17,881
MIT
Used by 7
94Health
Library npm

gridstack.js

A dependency-free TypeScript library for building draggable, resizable, responsive dashboard grid layouts in the browser.

9,115
MIT
Used by 7
95Health
Framework npm

oidc-provider

Certified OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect authorization server you mount into your own Node.js app.

3,810
MIT
Used by 7
89Health
Library npm

assistant-ui

Composable React primitives and a headless runtime for building production-grade AI chat interfaces.

12,141
MIT
Used by 6
41Health
Library npm

big.js

A small, fast, dependency-free JavaScript library for arbitrary-precision decimal arithmetic.

5,196
MIT
Used by 6
54Health
Library npm

serve-handler

The config-driven static file request handler powering Vercel's serve CLI

618
MIT
Used by 6
79Health
Library npm

graphql-upload

Express/Koa middleware and an Upload scalar for GraphQL multipart file uploads

1,442
MIT
Used by 5

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