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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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92Health
Library npm

postcss

A CSS transformation engine that parses styles into an AST, letting JS plugins lint, prefix, and rewrite CSS — the foundation beneath Autoprefixer, Tailwind, and 200+ other tools.

28,972
MIT
Used by 277
94Health
Tool npm

typescript-eslint

The official meta-package bundling the TypeScript ESLint parser, plugin, and rule presets behind a single typed config() helper.

16,391
MIT
Used by 260
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
95Health
Library npm

Marked

A fast, low-level Markdown compiler that parses CommonMark and GFM into HTML in Node.js, browsers, or the CLI.

37,141
MIT
Used by 112
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
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
82Health
Library npm

js-yaml

A fast, complete YAML 1.2 and 1.1 parser and serializer for JavaScript.

6,630
MIT
Used by 101
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
90Health
Library npm

yaml

A definitive TypeScript parser and stringifier for YAML, supporting 1.1 and 1.2 with comment and CST access.

1,691
Other
Used by 98
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
63Health
Framework npm

Commander.js

The complete, battle-tested framework for building Node.js command-line interfaces.

28,391
MIT
Used by 94
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
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
90Health
Tool npm

Oxlint

Rust-based JavaScript/TypeScript linter that runs 50-100x faster than ESLint, with zero configuration required.

22,741
MIT
Used by 70
84Health
Library Cargo

reqwest

An ergonomic, batteries-included HTTP client for Rust, with async and blocking APIs.

11,821
Other
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
73Health
Library Cargo

tempfile

A secure, cross-platform Rust library for temporary files and directories that clean up automatically on drop.

1,463
Other
Used by 68
67Health
Library Cargo

base64

Correct, fast, and configurable base64 encoding and decoding for Rust, with pluggable alphabets and padding.

736
Apache 2.0
Used by 66

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