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Libraries, frameworks, tools, and SDKs used by the apps in this directory — scored the same way as the apps themselves.

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95Health
Library npm

Axios

Promise-based HTTP client for the browser and Node.js with interceptors, automatic transforms, and cancellation

109,212
MIT
Used by 190
86Health
Framework npm

Express

The fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework for Node.js

69,454
MIT
Used by 158
96Health
Library npm

OpenTelemetry JavaScript (@opentelemetry/api)

Vendor-neutral tracing, metrics, and context API that libraries and apps instrument once, so any OpenTelemetry-compatible backend can consume it.

3,467
Apache 2.0
Used by 91
95Health
SDK npm

Stripe Node.js Library

The official Node.js and TypeScript library for the Stripe API, giving developers a fully typed client for payments, billing, and Connect.

4,504
MIT
Used by 80
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
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
74Health
Library npm

Drizzle ORM

A lightweight, zero-dependency TypeScript ORM with full SQL-like query flexibility

35,767
Apache 2.0
Used by 57
79Health
Library npm

MSW (Mock Service Worker)

Seamless REST and GraphQL API mocking for browser and Node.js

18,203
MIT
Used by 57
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
81Health
Library npm

better-sqlite3

The fastest and simplest SQLite3 library for Node.js, with a synchronous API and full transaction support.

7,484
MIT
Used by 40
96Health
SDK npm

@slack/web-api

Slack's official Node.js HTTP client for calling any of the 270+ Web API methods, with built-in queuing, retries, pagination, and rate-limit handling.

3,378
MIT
Used by 38
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
94Health
Library PyPI

SQLAlchemy

The Python SQL toolkit and Object Relational Mapper that gives developers the full power and flexibility of SQL.

12,156
MIT
Used by 37
90Health
Framework npm

tRPC Server

Build end-to-end typesafe APIs in TypeScript with no schemas, no code generation, and zero runtime bloat.

40,607
MIT
Used by 35
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.

15,282
MPL-2.0
Used by 33
97Health
SDK npm

google-api-nodejs-client

Google's officially supported Node.js client library for calling hundreds of Google APIs with built-in OAuth 2.0, API key, and service-account auth.

12,249
Apache 2.0
Used by 33
90Health
Library npm

Pinia

Intuitive, type-safe, and flexible state management store for Vue applications.

14,720
MIT
Used by 31
66Health
Library npm

postgres

Postgres.js is a zero-dependency PostgreSQL client for Node.js, Deno, Bun, and Cloudflare Workers built on ES6 tagged template literals.

8,725
Other
Used by 31
85Health
Library npm

express-rate-limit

Basic IP rate-limiting middleware for Express to throttle repeated requests and protect public APIs and sensitive endpoints.

3,305
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.

1,252
Other
Used by 30
66Health
Library npm

knex

A flexible, portable SQL query builder for Node.js supporting PostgreSQL, MySQL, CockroachDB, SQL Server, SQLite3, and Oracle.

20,341
MIT
Used by 29
89Health
Tool PyPI

Alembic

Database migrations tool for SQLAlchemy with autogenerate and transactional DDL

4,393
MIT
Used by 26

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