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40Health
Library npm

remark-gfm

Add GitHub Flavored Markdown support to remark for tables, task lists, footnotes, and strikethrough.

1,246
MIT
Used by 149
82Health
SDK npm

Octokit REST

The official GitHub REST API client for JavaScript and TypeScript, with a typed method for every endpoint.

663
MIT
Used by 36
51Health
Library npm

debug

A tiny, zero-config JavaScript debugging utility with namespaced, color-coded output for Node.js and the browser.

11,454
MIT
Used by 32
96Health
SDK Go

go-github

A comprehensive Go client library for the GitHub REST API, covering everything from repos and issues to Actions, Apps, and enterprise admin endpoints.

11,307
BSD 3
Used by 23
73Health
SDK npm

octokit.js

The all-batteries-included GitHub SDK for browsers, Node.js, and Deno.

7,845
MIT
Used by 21
80Health
SDK npm

@octokit/core

Extendable client for GitHub's REST and GraphQL APIs

1,285
MIT
Used by 15
38Health
SDK npm

passport-github2

A Passport.js strategy for authenticating Node.js applications with GitHub via OAuth 2.0.

237
MIT
Used by 12
73Health
SDK npm

@octokit/auth-app

GitHub App authentication strategy for JavaScript and Octokit

180
MIT
Used by 12
28Health
Library npm

micromark-extension-gfm

Bundles all six GitHub Flavored Markdown micromark extensions—tables, footnotes, strikethrough, autolinks, tag filtering, and task lists—into a single drop-in plugin.

40
MIT
Used by 11
84Health
Framework npm

Chat SDK

A unified TypeScript SDK for building chat bots and AI agents across every major messaging platform

2,362
MIT
Used by 10
85Health
Library Composer

Symfony VarDumper

A better dump() function for PHP that walks and renders any variable clearly.

7,428
MIT
Used by 9
67Health
Library npm

react-diff-viewer-continued

A maintained React component for rendering GitHub-style text diffs

232
MIT
Used by 8
26Health
Library npm

mdast-util-gfm

Composes five mdast GitHub Flavored Markdown extensions into one parser and serializer for autolinks, footnotes, tables, strikethrough, and tasklists.

24
MIT
Used by 8
88Health
Tool Composer

Laravel Debugbar

An in-browser debugging and profiling toolbar that integrates PHP Debug Bar with Laravel.

19,278
MIT
Used by 7
83Health
SDK PyPI

PyGithub

A typed Python library for the GitHub REST API, wrapping repositories, issues, pull requests, and organizations as lazy-loading objects.

7,772
Other
Used by 7
49Health
Library npm

github-markdown-css

Drop-in CSS that renders any markdown container in GitHub's exact visual style, light or dark.

8,933
MIT
Used by 6
56Health
Library npm

microdiff

A tiny, zero-dependency library for deep diffing objects and arrays with full TypeScript support.

3,871
MIT
Used by 5
83Health
Library npm

Badge Maker

The standalone SVG badge-rendering library and CLI extracted from Shields.io, with no server dependency.

27,187
MIT
Used by 3
42Health
SDK npm

chrome-remote-interface

A Node.js client for the Chrome DevTools Protocol, exposing every browser command, event, and type as a plain JavaScript API.

4,553
MIT
Used by 3
90Health
SDK Cargo

Octocrab

A modern, extensible GitHub API client for Rust with REST and GraphQL support.

1,443
Other
Used by 3
53Health
SDK PyPI

github3.py

A comprehensive, actively developed Python wrapper around GitHub's REST API v3.

1,257
BSD 3
Used by 3
77Health
SDK npm

request.js

A lightweight, fetch-based HTTP client for calling GitHub's REST and GraphQL APIs with sensible defaults.

264
MIT
Used by 3
78Health
SDK npm

GitHub Actions Toolkit (@actions/artifact)

The official Node.js SDK for uploading, downloading, and managing GitHub Actions workflow artifacts.

5,848
MIT
Used by 2
38Health
Tool PyPI

ghp-import

A small CLI that copies a built docs directory straight onto your repo's gh-pages branch.

626
Apache 2.0
Used by 2

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