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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.

5929 packages

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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
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
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
92Health
Library npm

undici

A fast, spec-compliant HTTP/1.1 client for Node.js, built from scratch with zero runtime dependencies

7,695
MIT
Used by 70
83Health
Library npm

Pino

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

18,194
MIT
Used by 67
69Health
Library npm

JSZip

Create, read, and edit ZIP files directly in JavaScript, in the browser or Node.js.

10,383
Other
Used by 65
98Health
Library PyPI

pandas

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

49,732
BSD 3
Used by 61
92Health
Library PyPI

Pillow

The friendly PIL fork that adds image processing capabilities to Python

13,812
Other
Used by 60
91Health
SDK PyPI

boto3

The official AWS SDK for Python — call every Amazon Web Services API from your code.

9,900
Apache 2.0
Used by 59
96Health
SDK PyPI

OpenAI Python SDK

The official Python library for the OpenAI REST API, generated from OpenAI's OpenAPI spec with typed sync and async clients.

31,622
Apache 2.0
Used by 57
84Health
Library PyPI

cryptography

The standard cryptographic library for Python, pairing safe high-level recipes with low-level primitives backed by Rust and OpenSSL.

7,765
Other
Used by 53
60Health
Library npm

Winston

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

24,520
MIT
Used by 50
88Health
Library PyPI

Click

A composable Python toolkit for building command line interfaces with minimal boilerplate.

17,664
BSD 3
Used by 50
93Health
Library PyPI

urllib3

A powerful, user-friendly HTTP client for Python with thread-safe connection pooling, TLS verification, and retry handling.

4,058
MIT
Used by 48

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