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    gaxios

    gaxios

    An HTTP request client that provides an axios like interface over top

    gaxios is a lightweight HTTP client for Node.js and the browser, developed by Google. It provides an efficient way to make HTTP requests with built-in support for retries, caching, and authentication.
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    moe

    moe

    A command line based editor inspired by Vim. Written in Nim

    Moe is a lightweight, modern text editor written in Nim, designed for simplicity and efficiency while providing a minimal yet functional editing environment.
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    Laravel Flash

    Laravel Flash

    A lightweight package to flash messages

    This is a lightweight package to send flash messages in Laravel apps. A flash message is a message that is carried over to the next request by storing it in the session. This package only supports one single flash message at a time.
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    EventEmitter3

    EventEmitter3

    Because there's also a number 2. And we're faster

    EventEmitter3 is a high-performance event emitter for Node.js and the browser, providing a lightweight and efficient solution for managing events and event listeners in JavaScript applications.
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    Clace

    Clace

    AppServer for containerized web app development and deployment

    Easy, lightweight application server for development and deployment of containerized web apps. Supports all languages/frameworks, and runs on Linux, Windows, and OSX. Idle apps scale down to zero. Clace™ is an Apache-2.0 licensed application server for web apps. Clace enables easy and secure hosting and management of multiple web apps written in any language/framework.
    Downloads: 6 This Week
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    Bdash

    Bdash

    Simple SQL Client for lightweight data analysis

    Simple SQL Client for lightweight data analysis. You can share the result with gist. Supports MySQL, PostgreSQL (Amazon Redshift), SQLite3, Google BigQuery, Treasure Data, Amazon Athena. You can download and install from Web Site or Releases.
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    Orbiton

    Orbiton

    Snappy and configuration-free text editor/IDE for the terminal

    Orbiton is a terminal-based text editor that incorporates AI-assisted capabilities directly into a lightweight and efficient command-line environment. It is designed for developers who prefer minimal interfaces but still want access to modern AI features such as code generation, editing assistance, and contextual suggestions. The editor emphasizes speed and simplicity, maintaining a small footprint while integrating with external language model providers. It allows users to interact with AI...
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    LiteBox

    LiteBox

    A security-focused library OS supporting kernel execution

    LiteBox is a security-focused “library OS” sandboxing project that aims to shrink the interface between an application and its host environment to reduce attack surface. Instead of relying solely on broad OS-level permissions, it focuses on isolating workloads by tightly controlling the boundary where code interacts with host services and system resources. The design emphasizes interoperability across different integration layers, describing a separation between “North” shims (how apps or...
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    sftp

    sftp

    SFTP support for the go.crypto/ssh package

    The sftp package provides support for file system operations on remote ssh servers using the SFTP subsystem. It also implements an SFTP server for serving files from the filesystem. The basic operation of the package mirrors the facilities of the os package. The Walker interface for directory traversal is heavily inspired by Keith Rarick's fs package.
    Downloads: 5 This Week
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    Riley's Graphics library FrameWork

    Riley's Graphics library FrameWork

    A cross platform lightweight single-header simple-to-use library

    RGFW (Really Good Framework) is a lightweight, C-based windowing and input library designed to be a minimal alternative to frameworks like GLFW or SDL. It supports OpenGL context creation, input handling, and simple file dialogs while staying highly portable and dependency-free. RGFW is ideal for developers who want tight control over their environment or want to build cross-platform applications with a tiny footprint. It’s particularly suited to educational, experimental, or embedded...
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    Hoverfly

    Hoverfly

    Lightweight service virtualization/ API simulation / API mocking tool

    Hoverfly is a lightweight, open source API simulation tool. Using Hoverfly, you can create realistic simulations of the APIs your application depends on. Replace unreliable test systems and restrictive API sandboxes with high-performance simulations in seconds. Run on MacOS, Windows or Linux, or use native Java or Python language bindings to get started quickly.
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    fswatch

    fswatch

    A cross-platform file change monitor with multiple backends

    A cross-platform file change monitor with multiple backends: Apple OS X File System Events API, BSD kqueue, Solaris/Illumos File Events Notification, Linux inotify and a stat()-based backend. fswatch is a file change monitor that receives notifications when the contents of the specified files or directories are modified. fswatch implements four kinds of monitors. A monitor based on the File System Events API of Apple OS X.
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    Husky

    Git hooks made easy

    Husky is a tool that makes handling Git hooks a lot easier, and lets you run the scripts you want at those stages. It works by including an object right within your package.json file. This then configures Husky so that it runs the scripts you specify. After that, it's Husky's responsibility to manage at which point in the Git lifecycle your scripts will run. Husky helps to improve your commits, lets you run tests, lint code and more when you commit or push. It is very lightweight, with...
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    Cloudflare Worker JWT

    Cloudflare Worker JWT

    Lightweight JWT implementation with no dependencies for Cloudflare

    cloudflare-worker-jwt is a JavaScript library for handling JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) inside Cloudflare Workers. It enables authentication, token validation, and signature verification for serverless applications.
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    Axe

    Axe

    Logger-agnostic wrapper that normalizes logs regardless of arg style

    Logger-agnostic wrapper that normalizes logs regardless of arg style. Great for large dev teams, old/new projects, and works w/Pino, Bunyan, Winston, console, and more. It is lightweight, performant, highly-configurable, and automatically adds OS, CPU, and Git information to your logs. Hooks, dot-notation remap, omit, and pick of metadata. Axe was built to provide consistency among development teams when it comes to logging. You not only have to worry about your development team using the same approach to writing logs and debugging applications, but you also have to consider that open-source maintainers implement logging differently in their packages. ...
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    JerryScript

    JerryScript

    Ultra-lightweight JavaScript engine for the Internet of Things

    JerryScript is a lightweight JavaScript engine for resource-constrained devices such as microcontrollers. It can run on devices with less than 64 KB of RAM and less than 200 KB of flash memory.
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    Pidgin

    Pidgin

    A lightweight and fast parsing library for C#

    Pidgin is a lightweight and fast parser combinator library for C#. It allows developers to construct parsers using a declarative approach, facilitating the creation of complex parsers without external tools.​
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    MinoriEditorShell

    MinoriEditorShell

    An implementation of a cross-platform dockable window system

    A lightweight WPF framework for creating modular desktop applications with MVVM architecture, offering a customizable editing environment.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    nixos-shell

    nixos-shell

    Spawns lightweight nixos vms in a shell

    Spawns lightweight nixos vms in a shell.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    HFS (HTTP File Server)

    HFS (HTTP File Server)

    HFS is a web file server to run on your computer

    HFS is a lightweight HTTP file server for Windows that allows users to share files over the web easily, turning their local machine into a file server.
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    GLAuth

    GLAuth

    A lightweight LDAP server for development, home use

    Go-lang LDAP Authentication (GLAuth) is a secure, easy-to-use, LDAP server w/ configurable backends. Centrally manage accounts across your infrastructure. Centrally manage SSH keys, Linux accounts, and passwords for cloud servers. Lightweight alternative to OpenLDAP and Active Directory for development, or a homelab. Store your user directory in a file, local or in S3; SQL database; or proxy to existing LDAP servers. Two Factor Authentication (transparent to applications) Multiple backends can be chained to inject features. ...
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    Ch

    Ch

    Lightweight powerful CLI tool for terminal-based AI interaction

    Ch is a lightweight Go-based CLI tool for interacting with AI models directly from the terminal. It is the actively developed successor to Cha and focuses on faster startup, lower overhead, and better performance. The project is built for developers who want rapid AI assistance without opening a browser or using a heavy desktop app. It emphasizes transparent operations and user control, making it suitable for terminal-first workflows. Ch aims to preserve Cha’s core functionality while...
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    Light-4J

    Light-4J

    A fast, lightweight and more productive microservices framework

    Light means lightweight, lightning-fast and shedding light on how to program with modern Java SE for cloud-native deployment. I had been working on the Java EE platforms since early 2000 and suffered performance and productivity issues. In 2014, I realized that the IT industry was moving from Monolithic to Microservices and from on-premise data centers to the public clouds. To reduce the production cost for my applications, I need to find a lightweight platform that has a small memory...
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    K3s

    K3s

    Lightweight Kubernetes

    Lightweight Kubernetes. Production-ready, easy to install, half the memory, all in a binary less than 100 MB. K3s is a highly available, certified Kubernetes distribution designed for production workloads in unattended, resource-constrained, remote locations or inside IoT appliances. K3s is packaged as a single <70MB binary that reduces the dependencies and steps needed to install, run and auto-update a production Kubernetes cluster. Both ARM64 and ARMv7 are supported with binaries and...
    Downloads: 9 This Week
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    Oat UI

    Oat UI

    Ultra-lightweight, zero dependency, semantic HTML, CSS, JS UI library

    Oat is an ultra-lightweight front-end UI library designed to automatically style semantic HTML using minimal CSS and JavaScript with zero external dependencies. The project focuses on simplicity and performance, allowing developers to create clean, modern interfaces without relying on heavy frameworks or complex build systems. Oat works by applying sensible default styling directly to standard HTML elements, meaning developers can achieve polished layouts with little to no custom classes....
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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