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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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91Health
Tool npm

prettier

An opinionated code formatter that enforces consistent style across every language your project speaks.

52,316
MIT
Used by 310
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
75Health
Library Go

testify

The essential Go toolkit for assertions, mocks, and structured test suites.

26,217
MIT
Used by 102
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
54Health
Framework Go

Cobra

The commander library that powers Kubernetes, Hugo, and GitHub CLI's command-line interfaces.

44,650
Apache 2.0
Used by 62
65Health
Library Go

jwt

A zero-dependency Go implementation of JSON Web Tokens (JWT) with pluggable HMAC, RSA, RSA-PSS, ECDSA, and Ed25519 signing methods.

9,230
MIT
Used by 62
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
76Health
Library npm

file-type

Detect the file type of a buffer, stream, or file by reading its magic number.

4,325
MIT
Used by 44
95Health
SDK Go

AWS SDK for Go v2

The official AWS SDK for Go — type-safe, modular clients for every AWS service.

3,658
Apache 2.0
Used by 44
44Health
Library npm

buffer

The Node.js Buffer API, reimplemented for the browser on top of Uint8Array.

1,891
MIT
Used by 42
91Health
Library npm

BullMQ

Fast, reliable Redis-based message queue and background job processing for Node.js and TypeScript.

9,442
MIT
Used by 41
51Health
Library Go

websocket

A fast, RFC 6455-compliant WebSocket implementation for Go with full control over framing, compression, and concurrency.

24,878
Other
Used by 39
83Health
Library Go

Logrus

Structured, pluggable logging for Go with a stdlib-compatible API and level-based hooks.

25,755
MIT
Used by 36
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
49Health
Library Go

mux

A lightweight, http.Handler-compatible Go router that matches requests by path, host, method, headers, and query, and can reverse them back into URLs.

21,838
BSD 3
Used by 35
91Health
Library Go

go-redis

The official, idiomatic Go client for Redis — connection pooling, Cluster, Sentinel, pipelines, and client-side caching built in.

22,255
Other
Used by 34
92Health
Framework Composer

PHPUnit

The de facto standard, programmer-oriented unit testing framework for PHP.

20,057
BSD 3
Used by 34
82Health
Library Go

Go-MySQL-Driver

A pure Go implementation of the MySQL wire protocol, used as the database/sql driver for MySQL, MariaDB, and TiDB.

15,285
MPL-2.0
Used by 33
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

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