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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
93Health
Tool npm

Vitest

A blazing-fast unit testing framework powered by Vite, with Jest-compatible APIs out of the box.

17,166
MIT
Used by 296
92Health
Framework npm

Playwright

Cross-browser end-to-end web testing and browser automation with a single API for Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit.

96,772
Apache 2.0
Used by 229
95Health
Tool npm

jest

Delightful JavaScript testing with zero-config setup, snapshots, mocking, and coverage

45,465
MIT
Used by 149
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
Framework PyPI

pytest

The Python testing framework that makes writing small tests easy and scales to complex functional test suites.

14,543
MIT
Used by 100
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
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
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
93Health
Tool npm

Cypress

Fast, easy, and reliable end-to-end and component testing for anything that runs in a browser.

51,026
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
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
94Health
Tool npm

mocha

The classic, battle-tested JavaScript test framework for Node.js and the browser, built around flexible async testing and pluggable reporters.

22,896
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
45Health
Library npm

JSON5

JSON for humans: an extended JSON syntax with comments, trailing commas, and unquoted keys for hand-written config.

7,168
MIT
Used by 28
85Health
Library npm

Chai

BDD/TDD assertion library for Node.js and the browser, framework-agnostic

8,268
MIT
Used by 27
90Health
Library PyPI

jsonschema

The reference implementation of JSON Schema validation for Python, supporting every draft from 3 to 2020-12.

4,986
MIT
Used by 27
91Health
Framework npm

Fastify

A fast and low-overhead web framework for Node.js, built around schema-based validation and a plugin architecture

37,205
MIT
Used by 25
61Health
Library Go

gjson

Fast, dependency-light JSON value extraction for Go using dot-notation paths.

15,557
MIT
Used by 22

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