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SheetJS/sheetjs

📗 SheetJS Spreadsheet Data Toolkit -- New home https://git.sheetjs.com/SheetJS/sheetjs

Stack

npm

GitHub topics

#angular #bun #csv #data #database #deno

Updated: 2024-04-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-12-03
History: 1 history point
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 133 open

36,345

stars

Forks: 7,909
Commits: 770 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

drizzle-team/drizzle-orm

ORM

Stack

TypeScript React npm pnpm

GitHub topics

#bunjs #mysql #nodejs #orm #postgres #postgresql

Updated: 2026-10-09
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2022-07-11
History: 8 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 2,126 open

36,002

stars

Forks: 1,707
Commits: 2,945 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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koajs/koa

Expressive middleware for node.js using ES2017 async functions

Stack

JavaScript npm

GitHub topics

#koa

Updated: 2026-10-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-08-17
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 40 open

35,678

stars

Forks: 3,234
Commits: 1,312 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

immutable-js/immutable-js

Immutable persistent data collections for Javascript which increase efficiency and simplicity.

Stack

TypeScript Next.js React npm

Updated: 2026-10-06
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2014-05-29
History: 9 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 143 open

33,028

stars

Forks: 1,861
Commits: 2,180 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

gulpjs/gulp

A toolkit to automate & enhance your workflow

Stack

JavaScript npm

Updated: 2026-02-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-07-04
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 35 open

32,921

stars

Forks: 4,132
Commits: 1,213 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

lovell/sharp

High performance Node.js image processing, the fastest module to resize JPEG, PNG, WebP, AVIF and TIFF images. Uses the libvips library.

Stack

JavaScript Astro npm

GitHub topics

#avif #crop #exif #icc #image #image-processing

Updated: 2026-10-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-08-19
History: 1 history point
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 120 open

32,749

stars

Forks: 1,441
Commits: 2,553 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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honojs/hono

Web framework built on Web Standards

Stack

TypeScript Express React Svelte Vite Bun npm pnpm

GitHub topics

#aws-lambda #bun #cloudflare #cloudflare-workers #deno #npm

Updated: 2026-10-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-12-14
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 413 open

32,497

stars

Forks: 1,399
Commits: 2,879 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

ReactiveX/rxjs

A reactive programming library for JavaScript

AI dev

Stack

TypeScript Angular Vite npm pnpm

GitHub topics

#javascript #rxjs

Updated: 2026-08-08
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2015-03-15
History: 2 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 193 open

31,691

stars

Forks: 2,979
Commits: 5,976 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

docsifyjs/docsify

🃏 A magical documentation site generator.

Stack

JavaScript Express Vue npm

GitHub topics

#doc #docs #docsify #documentation #documentation-tool #github-pages

Updated: 2026-10-12
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2016-11-20
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 109 open

31,544

stars

Forks: 5,784
Commits: 2,000 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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webtorrent/webtorrent

⚡️ Streaming torrent client for the web

Stack

JavaScript npm

GitHub topics

#bittorrent #browser #hacktoberfest #javascript #nodejs #p2p

Updated: 2026-10-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-10-15
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 79 open

31,433

stars

Forks: 2,898
Commits: 3,835 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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cheeriojs/cheerio

The fast, flexible, and elegant library for parsing and manipulating HTML and XML.

Stack

TypeScript Astro React Tailwind CSS Vite npm

GitHub topics

#cheerio #dom #hacktoberfest #html #htmlparser #htmlparser2

Updated: 2026-10-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-10-05
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 65 open

30,515

stars

Forks: 1,728
Commits: 4,450 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

sequelize/sequelize

Feature-rich ORM for modern Node.js and TypeScript, it supports PostgreSQL (with JSON and JSONB support), MySQL, MariaDB, SQLite, MS SQL Server, Snowflake, Oracle DB, DB2 and DB2 for IBM i.

AI dev

Stack

TypeScript npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#db2-ibm-i #feature-rich #javascript #mariadb #microsoft-sql-server #mssql

Updated: 2026-10-11
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2010-07-22
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 1,111 open

30,347

stars

Forks: 4,347
Commits: 12,015 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

eslint/eslint

Find and fix problems in your JavaScript code.

AI dev

Stack

JavaScript npm

GitHub topics

#ecmascript #eslint #javascript #linter #static-code-analysis

Updated: 2026-10-10
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2013-06-29
History: 9 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 122 open

27,639

stars

Forks: 5,210
Commits: 11,063 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

Automattic/mongoose

MongoDB object modeling designed to work in an asynchronous environment.

AI dev

Stack

JavaScript Express npm

GitHub topics

#mongo #mongodb #nodejs #odm #orm

Updated: 2026-10-11
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2010-04-06
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 177 open

27,461

stars

Forks: 4,055
Commits: 25,298 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

ai/nanoid

A tiny (118 bytes), secure, URL-friendly, unique string ID generator for JavaScript

Stack

JavaScript Vite npm pnpm

Updated: 2026-10-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-08-05
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 2 open

27,100

stars

Forks: 892
Commits: 1,289 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

Schniz/fnm

🚀 Fast and simple Node.js version manager, built in Rust

AI dev

Stack

Rust React Cargo npm pnpm

GitHub topics

#hacktoberfest #javascript #nodejs #nvm #reasonml #version

Updated: 2026-07-24
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2019-01-13
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 248 open

27,085

stars

Forks: 650
Commits: 738 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

rollup/rollup

Next-generation ES module bundler

AI dev

Stack

JavaScript Vite Vue Cargo npm

Updated: 2026-10-12
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2015-05-14
History: 1 history point
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 605 open

26,301

stars

Forks: 1,785
Commits: 6,422 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

jquense/yup

Dead simple Object schema validation

Stack

TypeScript Yarn

Updated: 2026-10-11
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2014-09-22
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 259 open

23,655

stars

Forks: 951
Commits: 805 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

jaredhanson/passport

Simple, unobtrusive authentication for Node.js.

Stack

JavaScript npm

GitHub topics

#express #nodejs #oauth #oauth2 #openid #openid-connect

Updated: 2024-08-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-10-08
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 397 open

23,521

stars

Forks: 1,249
Commits: 645 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

chalk/chalk

🖍 Terminal string styling done right

Stack

JavaScript npm

GitHub topics

#ansi #ansi-escape-codes #chalk #cli #color #commandline

Updated: 2026-09-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-08-03
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 1 open

23,323

stars

Forks: 3,404
Commits: 380 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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mochajs/mocha

☕️ Classic, reliable, trusted test framework for Node.js and the browser

AI dev

Stack

JavaScript Astro Vite npm

GitHub topics

#bdd #browser #javascript #mocha #mochajs #node

Updated: 2026-10-12
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2011-08-29
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 228 open

22,891

stars

Forks: 3,163
Commits: 4,222 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

typicode/lowdb

Simple and fast JSON database

Stack

JavaScript npm

GitHub topics

#database #electron #embeddable #embedded-database #javascript #json

Updated: 2026-03-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-04-02
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 17 open

22,580

stars

Forks: 963
Commits: 547 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

localtunnel/localtunnel

expose yourself

Stack

JavaScript npm Yarn

Updated: 2025-08-29
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2012-06-18
History: 11 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 167 open

22,492

stars

Forks: 1,568
Commits: 169 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

markdown-it/markdown-it

Markdown parser, done right. 100% CommonMark support, extensions, syntax plugins & high speed

Stack

TypeScript Vite npm

GitHub topics

#commonmark #javascript #markdown

Updated: 2026-09-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-09-02
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 14 open

21,974

stars

Forks: 1,853
Commits: 1,256 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

pugjs/pug

Pug – robust, elegant, feature rich template engine for Node.js

Stack

JavaScript npm Yarn

Updated: 2026-03-13
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2010-06-16
History: 1 history point
License: Unknown
Issues: 334 open

21,829

stars

Forks: 1,932
Commits: 2,575 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

jsdom/jsdom

A JavaScript implementation of various web standards, for use with Node.js

AI dev

Stack

JavaScript npm

GitHub topics

#dom-apis #html #javascript #jsdom #nodejs

Updated: 2026-10-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-01-17
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 298 open

21,703

stars

Forks: 1,809
Commits: 4,093 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

SBoudrias/Inquirer.js

A collection of common interactive command line user interfaces.

AI dev

Stack

TypeScript Vite npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#cli #command-line #javascript #javascript-library #node-js #nodejs

Updated: 2026-10-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-05-17
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 15 open

21,633

stars

Forks: 1,365
Commits: 2,303 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

avajs/ava

Node.js test runner that lets you develop with confidence 🚀

Stack

JavaScript npm

GitHub topics

#assert #async #async-functions #ava #cli #cli-app

Updated: 2026-10-08
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2014-11-18
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 76 open

20,822

stars

Forks: 1,466
Commits: 2,092 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

motdotla/dotenv

Loads environment variables from .env for nodejs projects.

Stack

JavaScript npm

GitHub topics

#configuration-file #dotenv #env #environment-variables #javascript #node

Updated: 2026-10-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-07-05
History: 1 history point
License: BSD-2-Clause
Issues: 4 open

20,545

stars

Forks: 974
Commits: 1,129 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

knex/knex

A query builder for PostgreSQL, MySQL, CockroachDB, SQL Server, SQLite3 and Oracle, designed to be flexible, portable, and fun to use.

Stack

JavaScript Vite Vue npm

GitHub topics

#javascript #knex #mysql #postgresql #sql #sqlite3

Updated: 2026-06-26
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2012-12-29
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 755 open

20,337

stars

Forks: 2,220
Commits: 3,212 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

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