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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open
Cross-platform Node.js library that opens URLs, files, and executables in the user's default or a specified app.
execa
A modern process-execution library for Node.js with template-string syntax and zero shell-injection risk.
ssh2
Pure-JavaScript SSH2 client and server library for Node.js, with SFTP, exec, shell, and port forwarding support.
cross-spawn
A cross-platform drop-in replacement for Node's spawn and spawnSync that fixes Windows-only child_process bugs.
tinyexec
A tiny, higher-level interface around Node's child_process for running commands without the boilerplate.
gojq
A pure Go implementation of jq for querying and transforming JSON and YAML, usable as a CLI or embedded as a Go library.
is-valid-path
Lightweight utility that checks whether a string is a valid, non-glob file path in Node.js.
abx-dl
A simple all-in-one CLI tool to auto-detect and download everything available from a URL, using the ArchiveBox plugin ecosystem.
promisify-child-process
Drop-in async/await wrappers for Node's spawn, exec, fork, and execFile that stay real ChildProcess instances.