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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
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
68Health
Library npm

proxy-agent

Maps HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS, and PAC proxy protocols to the correct Node.js http.Agent implementation automatically.

1,161
MIT
Used by 47
90Health
Library npm

Prisma Client

Auto-generated, type-safe database client for Node.js and TypeScript.

47,610
Apache 2.0
Used by 46
92Health
SDK npm

@clickhouse/client

The official TypeScript client for connecting Node.js applications to ClickHouse over HTTP.

331
Apache 2.0
Used by 38
84Health
Library npm

http-proxy-middleware

The one-liner Node.js proxy middleware for connect, express, next.js, hono, and more.

11,126
MIT
Used by 20
69Health
Library npm

globby

User-friendly glob matching for Node.js, built on fast-glob with negation, directory expansion, and gitignore support.

2,649
MIT
Used by 19
48Health
Library npm

forge

A native, pure-JavaScript implementation of TLS and PKI cryptography for building crypto-based Node.js and browser apps.

5,331
Other
Used by 17
84Health
Library npm

got

Human-friendly and powerful HTTP request library for Node.js, with retries, streams, pagination, and RFC 7234 caching built in.

14,940
MIT
Used by 15
51Health
Library npm

JSON-Patch

Lean, high-performance RFC 6902 JSON Patch and JSON Pointer implementation for applying, generating, validating, and observing diffs between JSON documents.

1,982
MIT
Used by 14
91Health
Framework Go

Echo

A minimalist, high-performance Go web framework with a radix-tree router, built-in middleware chain, and first-class HTTP/2 support.

32,705
MIT
Used by 13
44Health
Library npm

node-cache

A simple, fast in-memory caching module for Node.js with TTL expiration, similar to memcached.

2,374
MIT
Used by 12
42Health
Library npm

GSAP

The industry-standard JavaScript animation library for tweening CSS, SVG, canvas, and UI with rock-solid cross-browser reliability.

28,405
Other
Used by 11
81Health
Tool npm

@rushstack/eslint-patch

A runtime monkey-patch that gives ESLint monorepo-friendly module resolution, custom shareable-config naming, and bulk suppression tooling for legacy lint violations.

6,494
MIT
Used by 9
66Health
Library Cargo

similar

A dependency-free Rust diffing library with Myers, Patience, Histogram, and LCS algorithms

1,323
Apache 2.0
Used by 8
55Health
SDK npm

msgraph-sdk-javascript

Official Microsoft Graph JavaScript SDK for calling the Graph API from Node.js and the browser.

833
MIT
Used by 8
69Health
Tool npm

@vitejs/plugin-basic-ssl

A Vite plugin that generates a self-signed certificate so your dev and preview servers can run over HTTPS with zero setup.

516
MIT
Used by 8
55Health
Library npm

superagent

A small, progressive HTTP request library for Node.js and browsers with a single fluent, chainable API on both platforms.

16,637
MIT
Used by 7
94Health
Library npm

gridstack.js

A dependency-free TypeScript library for building draggable, resizable, responsive dashboard grid layouts in the browser.

9,115
MIT
Used by 7
72Health
Library Cargo

ureq

A simple, safe, blocking HTTP client for Rust with minimal dependencies.

2,190
Apache 2.0
Used by 7
50Health
Library npm

follow-redirects

A drop-in replacement for Node's http and https modules that transparently follows redirects with zero runtime dependencies.

580
MIT
Used by 7
74Health
Library Go

certmagic

Automatic HTTPS for Go programs — the production-grade ACME client library that powers Caddy, obtaining and renewing TLS certificates with zero manual cert management.

5,598
Apache 2.0
Used by 6
50Health
Library npm

jsondiffpatch

Diff and patch JavaScript objects with compact deltas, smart array diffing, and pluggable output formatters.

5,339
MIT
Used by 5

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