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Contents

• Packages
  • Mad science
  • Command-line apps
  • Functional programming
  • HTTP
  • Debugging / Profiling
  • Logging
  • Command-line utilities
  • Build tools
  • Hardware
  • Templating
  • Web frameworks
  • Documentation
  • Filesystem
  • Control flow
  • Streams
  • Real-time
  • Image
  • Text
  • Number
  • Math
  • Date
  • URL
  • Data validation
  • Parsing
  • Humanize
  • Compression
  • Network
  • Database
  • Testing
  • Security
  • Benchmarking
  • Minifiers
  • Authentication
  • Authorization
  • Email
  • Job queues
  • Node.js management
  • Natural language processing
  • Process management
  • Automation
  • AST
  • Static site generators
  • Content management systems
  • Forum
  • Blogging
  • Weird
  • Serialization
  • Miscellaneous
• Resources
  • Tutorials
  • Discovery
  • Articles
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  • Books
  • Blogs
  • Courses
  • Cheatsheets
  • Tools
  • Community
  • Miscellaneous

Packages

Mad science

• webtorrent - Streaming torrent client for Node.js and the browser.
• peerflix - Streaming torrent client.
• dat - Real-time replication and versioning for data sets.
• ipfs - Distributed file system that seeks to connect all computing devices with the same system of files.
• stackgl - Open software ecosystem for WebGL, built on top of browserify and npm.
• peerwiki - All of Wikipedia on BitTorrent.
• peercast - Stream a torrent video to Chromecast.
• BitcoinJS - Clean, readable, proven Bitcoin library.
• Bitcore - Pure and powerful Bitcoin library.
• PDFKit - PDF generation library.
• turf - Modular geospatial processing and analysis engine.
• webcat - p2p pipe across the web using WebRTC that uses your GitHub private/public key for authentication.
• NodeOS - The first operating system powered by npm.
• YodaOS - AI operating system.
• Brain.js - Machine-learning framework.
• Cytoscape.js - Graph theory (a.k.a. network) modeling and analysis.
• Kadence - Kademlia distributed hash table.
• seedshot - Temporary P2P screenshot sharing from your browser.
• js-git - JavaScript implementation of Git.
• skale - High performance distributed data processing engine.
• xlsx - Pure JS Excel spreadsheet reader and writer.
• isomorphic-git - Pure JavaScript implementation of Git.

Command-line apps

• np - Better npm publish.
• npm-name - Check a package name's availability on npm.
• gh-home - Open the GitHub page of the repo in the current directory.
• npm-home - Open the npm page of a package.
• trash - Safer alternative to rm.
• speed-test - Test your internet connection speed and ping.
• emoj - Find relevant emoji from text on the command-line.
• pageres - Capture website screenshots.
• cpy - Copy files.
• vtop - More better top, with nice charts.
• empty-trash - Empty the trash.
• is-up - Check whether a website is up or down.
• is-online - Check if the internet connection is up.
• public-ip - Get your public IP address.
• clipboard-cli - Copy & paste on the terminal.
• XO - Enforce strict code style using the JavaScript happiness style.
• Standard - JavaScript Standard Style — One style to rule them all.
• ESLint - The pluggable linting utility for JavaScript.
• dev-time - Get the current local time of a GitHub user.
• David - Tells you when your package npm dependencies are out of date.
• http-server - Simple, zero-config command-line HTTP server.
• Live Server - Development HTTP-server with livereload capability.
• bcat - Pipe command output to web browsers.
• normit - Google Translate with speech synthesis in your terminal.
• fkill - Fabulously kill processes. Cross-platform.
• pjs - Pipeable JavaScript. Quickly filter, map, and reduce from the terminal.
• license-checker - Check licenses of your app's dependencies.
• browser-run - Easily run code in a browser environment.
• tmpin - Adds stdin support to any CLI app that accepts file input.
• wifi-password - Get the current wifi password.
• wallpaper - Change the desktop wallpaper.
• brightness - Change the screen brightness.
• torrent - Download torrents.
• kill-tabs - Kill all Chrome tabs to improve performance, decrease battery usage, and save memory.
• alex - Catch insensitive, inconsiderate writing.
• pen - Live Markdown preview in the browser from your favorite editor.
• subdownloader - Subtitle downloader for movies and TV series.
• dark-mode - Toggle the macOS Dark Mode.
• iponmap - IP location finder.
• Jsome - Pretty prints JSON with configurable colors and indentation.
• itunes-remote - Interactively control iTunes.
• mobicon - Mobile app icon generator.
• mobisplash - Mobile app splash screen generator.
• diff2html-cli - Pretty git diff to HTML generator.
• Cash - Cross-platform Unix shell commands in pure JavaScript.
• trymodule - Try out npm packages in the terminal.
• jscpd - Copy/paste detector for source code.
• atmo - Server-side API mocking.
• auto-install - Auto installs dependencies as you code.
• lessmd - Markdown in the terminal.
• cost-of-modules - Find out which dependencies are slowing you down.
• localtunnel - Expose your localhost to the world.
• svg-term-cli - Share terminal sessions via SVG.
• gtop - System monitoring dashboard for the terminal.
• themer - Generate themes for your editor, terminal, wallpaper, Slack, and more.
• carbon-now-cli - Beautiful images of your code — from right inside your terminal.
• cash-cli - Convert between 170 currencies.
• taskbook - Tasks, boards & notes for the command-line habitat.
• discharge - Easily deploy static websites to Amazon S3.

Functional programming

• lodash - Utility library delivering consistency, customization, performance, & extras. A better and faster Underscore.js.
• immutable - Immutable data collections.
• Ramda - Utility library with a focus on flexible functional composition enabled by automatic currying and reversed argument order. Avoids mutating data.
• Folktale - Suite of libraries for generic functional programming in JavaScript that allows you to write elegant, modular applications with fewer bugs, and more reuse.
• Mout - Utility library with the biggest difference between other existing solutions is that you can choose to load only the modules/functions that you need, no extra overhead.
• Bacon.js - Functional reactive programming.
• RxJS - Functional reactive library for transforming, composing, and querying various kinds of data.
• Lazy.js - Utility library similar to lodash/Underscore but with lazy evaluation, which can translate to superior performance in many cases.
• Kefir.js - Reactive library with focus on high performance and low memory usage.

HTTP

• got - Nicer interface to the built-in http module.
• gh-got - Convenience wrapper for got to interact with the GitHub API.
• axios - Promise based HTTP client (works in the browser too).
• request - Simplified HTTP request client.
• wreck - HTTP Client Utilities.
• download - Download and extract files effortlessly.
• http-proxy - HTTP proxy.
• superagent - HTTP request library.
• node-fetch - window.fetch for Node.js.
• flashheart - REST client.
• http-fake-backend - Build a fake backend by providing the content of JSON files or JavaScript objects through configurable routes.
• cacheable-request - Wrap native HTTP requests with RFC compliant cache support.
• gotql - GraphQL request library built on got.
• global-agent – Global HTTP/HTTPS proxy agent that is configurable using environment variables.

Debugging / Profiling

• ndb - Improved debugging experience, enabled by Chrome DevTools.
• ironNode - Node.js debugger supporting ES2015 out of the box.
• node-inspector - Debugger based on Blink Developer Tools.
• debug - Tiny debugging utility.
• why-is-node-running - Node.js is running but you don't know why?
• njsTrace - Instrument and trace your code, see all function calls, arguments, return values, as well as the time spent in each function.
• vstream - Instrumentable streams mix-ins to inspect a pipeline of streams.
• stackman - Enhance an error stacktrace with code excerpts and other goodies.
• locus - Starts a REPL at runtime that has access to all variables.
• 0x - Flamegraph profiling.
• ctrace - Well-formatted and improved trace system calls and signals.
• leakage - Write memory leak tests.
• llnode - Post-mortem analysis tool which allows you to inspect objects and get insights from a crashed Node.js process.
• thetool - Capture different CPU, memory, and other profiles for your app in Chrome DevTools friendly format.

Logging

• pino - Extremely fast logger inspired by Bunyan.
• winston - Multi-transport async logging library.
• console-log-level - The most simple logger imaginable with support for log levels and custom prefixes.
• storyboard - End-to-end, hierarchical, real-time, colorful logs and stories.
• signale - Hackable console logger with beautiful output.

Command-line utilities

• chalk - Terminal string styling done right.
• meow - CLI app helper.
• yargs - Command-line parser that automatically generates an elegant user-interface.
• ora - Elegant terminal spinner.
• get-stdin - Easier stdin.
• log-update - Log by overwriting the previous output in the terminal. Useful for rendering progress bars, animations, etc.
• Ink - React for interactive command-line apps.
• listr - Terminal task list.
• conf - Simple config handling for your app or module.
• ansi-escapes - ANSI escape codes for manipulating the terminal.
• log-symbols - Colored symbols for various log levels.
• figures - Unicode symbols with Windows CMD fallbacks.
• boxen - Create boxes in the terminal.
• terminal-link - Create clickable links in the terminal.
• terminal-image - Display images in the terminal.
• string-width - Get the visual width of a string - the number of columns required to display it.
• cli-truncate - Truncate a string to a specific width in the terminal.
• first-run - Check if it's the first time the process is run.
• blessed - Curses-like library.
• Inquirer.js - Interactive command-line prompt.
• yn - Parse yes/no like values.
• cli-table3 - Pretty unicode tables.
• drawille - Draw on the terminal with unicode braille characters.
• update-notifier - Update notifications for your CLI app.
• ascii-charts - ASCII bar chart in the terminal.
• progress - Flexible ascii progress bar.
• insight - Helps you understand how your tool is being used by anonymously reporting usage metrics to Google Analytics.
• cli-cursor - Toggle the CLI cursor.
• columnify - Create text-based columns suitable for console output. Supports cell wrapping.
• cli-columns - Columnated unicode and ansi-safe text lists.
• cfonts - Sexy ASCII fonts for the console.
• multispinner - Multiple, simultaneous, individually controllable CLI spinners.
• omelette - Shell autocompletion helper.
• cross-env - Set environment variables cross-platform.
• shelljs - Portable Unix shell commands.
• sudo-block - Block users from running your app with root permissions.
• loud-rejection - Make unhandled promise rejections fail loudly instead of the default silent fail.
• sparkly - Generate sparklines ▁▂▃▅▂▇.
• Bit - Create, maintain, find and use small modules and components across repositories.
• gradient-string - Beautiful color gradients in terminal output.
• oclif - CLI framework complete with parser, automatic documentation, testing, and plugins.
• term-size - Reliably get the terminal window size.
• Cliffy - Framework for interactive CLIs.

Build tools

• parcel - Blazing fast, zero config web app bundler.
• webpack - Packs modules and assets for the browser.
• rollup - Next-generation ES2015 module bundler.
• gulp - Streaming and fast build system that favors code over config.
• Broccoli - Fast, reliable asset pipeline, supporting constant-time rebuilds and compact build definitions.
• Brunch - Front-end web app build tool with simple declarative config, fast incremental compilation, and an opinionated workflow.
• Start - Functional task runner with shareable presets.
• ygor - Promising task runner for when npm run isn't enough and everything else is too much.
• FuseBox - Fast build system that combines the power of webpack, JSPM and SystemJS, with first-class TypeScript support.
• pkg - Package your Node.js project into an executable.

Hardware

• johnny-five - Firmata based Arduino Framework.
• serialport - Access serial ports for reading and writing.
• usb - USB library.
• i2c-bus - I2C serial bus access.
• onoff - GPIO access and interrupt detection.
• spi-device - SPI serial bus access.
• pigpio - Fast GPIO, PWM, servo control, state change notification, and interrupt handling on the Raspberry Pi.
• gps - NMEA parser for handling GPS receivers.

Templating

• marko - HTML-based templating engine that compiles templates to CommonJS modules and supports streaming, async rendering and custom tags.
• nunjucks - Templating engine with inheritance, asynchronous control, and more (jinja2 inspired).
• handlebars.js - Superset of Mustache templates which adds powerful features like helpers and more advanced blocks.
• EJS - Simple unopinionated templating language.
• Pug - High-performance template engine heavily influenced by Haml.

Web frameworks

• Hapi - Framework for building applications and services.
• Koa - Framework designed by the team behind Express, which aims to be a smaller, more expressive, and more robust foundation for web applications and APIs.
• Express - Web application framework, providing a robust set of features for building single and multi-page, and hybrid web applications.
• Feathers - Microservice framework built in the spirit of Express.
• LoopBack - Powerful framework for creating REST APIs and easily connecting to backend data sources.
• Meteor - An ultra-simple, database-everywhere, data-on-the-wire, pure-Javascript web framework. (You might like awesome-meteor)
• Restify - Enables you to build correct REST web services.
• ThinkJS - Framework with ES2015+ support, WebSockets, REST API.
• ActionHero - Framework for making reusable & scalable APIs for TCP sockets, WebSockets, and HTTP clients.
• MERN - Easily build production-ready universal apps with MongoDB, Express, React, and webpack.
• Next.js - Minimalistic framework for server-rendered universal JavaScript web apps.
• Nuxt.js - Minimalistic framework for server-rendered Vue.js apps.
• seneca - Toolkit for writing microservices.
• AdonisJs - A true MVC framework for Node.js built on solid foundations of Dependency Injection and IoC container.
• Hemera - Write reliable and fault-tolerant microservices with NATS.
• Micro - Minimalistic microservice framework with an async approach.
• Moleculer - Fast & powerful microservices framework.
• Fastify - Fast and low overhead web framework.
• Nest - Angular-inspired framework for building efficient and scalable server-side apps.
• Zeronode - Minimal building block for reliable and fault-tolerant microservices.
• TypeGraphQL - Modern framework for creating GraphQL APIs with TypeScript, using classes and decorators.

Documentation

• documentation.js - API documentation generator with support for ES2015+ and flow annotation.
• ESDoc - Documentation generator targeting ES2015, attaching test code and measuring documentation coverage.
• Docco - Documentation generator which produces an HTML document that displays your comments intermingled with your code.
• JSDoc - API documentation generator similar to JavaDoc or PHPDoc.

Filesystem

• del - Delete files/folders using globs.
• globby - Glob files with support for multiple patterns.
• cpy - Copy files.
• rimraf - Recursively delete files like rm -rf.
• make-dir - Recursively create directories like mkdir -p.
• graceful-fs - Drop-in replacement for the fs module with various improvements.
• chokidar - Filesystem watcher which stabilizes events from fs.watch and fs.watchFile as well as using native fsevents on macOS.
• find-up - Find a file by walking up parent directories.
• proper-lockfile - Inter-process and inter-machine lockfile utility.
• load-json-file - Read and parse a JSON file.
• write-json-file - Stringify and write JSON to a file atomically.
• fs-write-stream-atomic - Like fs.createWriteStream(), but atomic.
• filenamify - Convert a string to a valid filename.
• lnfs - Force create symlinks like ln -fs.
• istextorbinary - Check if a file is text or binary.
• fs-jetpack - Completely redesigned file system API for convenience in everyday use.
• fs-extra - Extra methods for the fs module.
• pkg-dir - Find the root directory of an npm package.
• filehound - Flexible and fluent interface for searching the file system.
• move-file - Move a file, even works across devices.
• tempy - Get a random temporary file or directory path.

Control flow

• Promises
  • Bluebird - Promise library with focus on innovative features and performance.
  • pify - Promisify a callback-style function.
  • delay - Delay a promise a specified amount of time.
  • promise-memoize - Memoize promise-returning functions, with expire and prefetch.
  • valvelet - Limit the execution rate of a promise-returning function.
  • p-map - Map over promises concurrently.
  • More…
• Observables
  • zen-observable - Implementation of Observables.
  • RxJS - Reactive programming.
  • observable-to-promise - Convert an Observable to a Promise.
  • More…
• Streams
  • Highland.js - Manages synchronous and asynchronous code easily, using nothing more than standard JavaScript and Node-like Streams.
• Callbacks
  • each-async - Async concurrent iterator like forEach.
  • async - Provides straight-forward, powerful functions for working with asynchronicity.
• Channels
  • js-csp - Communicating sequential processes for JavaScript (like Clojurescript core.async, or Go).

Streams

• through2 - Tiny wrapper around streams2 Transform to avoid explicit subclassing noise.
• from2 - Convenience wrapper for ReadableStream, inspired by through2.
• get-stream - Get a stream as a string or buffer.
• into-stream - Convert a buffer/string/array/object into a stream.
• duplexify - Turn a writeable and readable stream into a single streams2 duplex stream.
• pumpify - Combine an array of streams into a single duplex stream.
• peek-stream - Transform stream that lets you peek the first line before deciding how to parse it.
• binary-split - Newline (or any delimiter) splitter stream.
• byline - Super-simple line-by-line Stream reader.
• first-chunk-stream - Transform the first chunk in a stream.
• pad-stream - Pad each line in a stream.
• multistream - Combine multiple streams into a single stream.
• stream-combiner2 - Turn a pipeline into a single stream.
• readable-stream - Mirror of Streams2 and Streams3 implementations in core.
• through2-concurrent - Transform object streams concurrently.

Real-time

• µWebSockets - Highly scalable WebSocket server & client library.
• Socket.io - Enables real-time bidirectional event-based communication.
• Faye - Real-time client-server message bus, based on Bayeux protocol.
• SocketCluster - Scalable HTTP + WebSocket engine which can run on multiple CPU cores.
• Primus - An abstraction layer for real-time frameworks to prevent module lock-in.
• deepstream.io - Scalable real-time microservice framework.
• Kalm - Low-level socket router and middleware framework.
• MQTT.js - Client for MQTT - Pub-sub based messaging protocol for use on top of TCP/IP.
• rpc-websockets - JSON-RPC 2.0 implementation over WebSockets.
• Aedes - Barebone MQTT server that can run on any stream server.

Image

• sharp - The fastest module for resizing JPEG, PNG, WebP and TIFF images.
• image-type - Detect the image type of a Buffer/Uint8Array.
• gm - GraphicsMagick and ImageMagick wrapper.
• lwip - Lightweight image processor which does not require ImageMagick.
• pica - High quality & fast resize (lanczos3) in pure JS. Alternative to canvas drawImage(), when no pixelation allowed.
• jimp - Image processing in pure JavaScript.
• probe-image-size - Get the size of most image formats without a full download.
• qrcode - QR code and bar code generator.

Text

• iconv-lite - Convert character encodings.
• string-length - Get the real length of a string - by correctly counting astral symbols and ignoring ansi escape codes.
• camelcase - Convert a dash/dot/underscore/space separated string to camelCase: foo-bar → fooBar.
• escape-string-regexp - Escape RegExp special characters.
• execall - Find multiple RegExp matches in a string.
• splice-string - Remove or replace part of a string like Array#splice.
• indent-string - Indent each line in a string.
• strip-indent - Strip leading whitespace from every line in a string.
• detect-indent - Detect the indentation of code.
• he - HTML entity encoder/decoder.
• i18n-node - Simple translation module with dynamic JSON storage.
• babelfish - i18n with very easy syntax for plurals.
• matcher - Simple wildcard matching.
• unhomoglyph - Normalize visually similar unicode characters.
• i18next - Internationalization framework.

Number

• random-int - Generate a random integer.
• random-float - Generate a random float.
• unique-random - Generate random numbers that are consecutively unique.
• round-to - Round a number to a specific number of decimal places: 1.234 → 1.2.

Math

• ndarray - Multidimensional arrays.
• mathjs - An extensive math library.
• math-clamp - Clamp a number.
• algebra - Algebraic structures.
• multimath - Core to create fast image math in WebAssembly and JS.

Date

• Luxon - Library for working with dates and times.
• date-fns - Modern date utility.
• Moment.js - Parse, validate, manipulate, and display dates.
• Day.js - Immutable date library alternative to Moment.js.
• dateformat - Date formatting.
• tz-format - Format a date with timezone: 2015-11-30T10:40:35+01:00.
• cctz - Fast parsing, formatting, and timezone conversation for dates.

URL

• normalize-url - Normalize a URL.
• humanize-url - Humanize a URL: http://sindresorhus.com → sindresorhus.com.
• url-unshort - Expand shortened URLs.
• speakingurl - Generate a slug from a string with transliteration.
• linkify-it - Link patterns detector with full unicode support.
• url-pattern - Easier than regex string matching patterns for URLs and other strings.
• embedza - Create HTML snippets/embeds from URLs using info from oEmbed, Open Graph, meta tags.

Data validation

• joi - Object schema description language and validator for JavaScript objects.
• is-my-json-valid - JSON Schema validator that uses code generation to be extremely fast.
• property-validator - Easy property validation for Express.
• schema-inspector - JSON API sanitization and validation.
• ajv - The fastest JSON Schema validator. Supports v5, v6 and v7 proposals.

Parsing

• remark - Markdown processor powered by plugins.
• markdown-it - Markdown parser with 100% CommonMark support, extensions and syntax plugins.
• parse5 - Fast full-featured spec compliant HTML parser.
• strip-json-comments - Strip comments from JSON.
• strip-css-comments - Strip comments from CSS.
• parse-json - Parse JSON with more helpful errors.
• URI.js - URL mutation.
• PostCSS - CSS parser / stringifier.
• JSONStream - Streaming JSON.parse and stringify.
• neat-csv - Fast CSV parser. Callback interface for the above.
• csv-parser - Streaming CSV parser that aims to be faster than everyone else.
• PEG.js - Simple parser generator that produces fast parsers with excellent error reporting.
• x-ray - Web scraping utility.
• nearley - Simple, fast, powerful parsing for JavaScript.
• binary-extract - Extract a value from a buffer of JSON without parsing the whole thing.
• Stylecow - Parse, manipulate and convert modern CSS to make it compatible with all browsers. Extensible with plugins.
• js-yaml - Very fast YAML parser.
• xml2js - XML to JavaScript object converter.
• Jison - Friendly JavaScript parser generator. It shares genes with Bison, Yacc and family.
• google-libphonenumber - Parse, format, store and validate phone numbers.
• ref - Read/write structured binary data in Buffers.
• xlsx-populate - Read/write Excel XLSX.
• Chevrotain - Very fast and feature rich parser building toolkit for JavaScript.
• fast-xml-parser - Validate and parse XML.

Humanize

• pretty-bytes - Convert bytes to a human readable string: 1337 → 1.34 kB.
• pretty-ms - Convert milliseconds to a human readable string: 1337000000 → 15d 11h 23m 20s.
• ms - Tiny millisecond conversion utility.
• pretty-error - Errors with less clutter.
• read-art - Extract readable content from any page.

Compression

• yazl - Zip.
• yauzl - Unzip.
• Archiver - Streaming interface for archive generation, supporting ZIP and TAR.
• pako - High speed zlib port to pure js (deflate, inflate, gzip).
• tar-stream - Streaming tar parser and generator. Also see tar-fs.
• decompress - Decompression module with support for tar, tar.gz and zip files out of the box.

Network

• get-port - Get an available port.
• ipify - Get your public IP address.
• getmac - Get the computer MAC address.
• DHCP - DHCP client and server.
• netcat - Netcat port in pure JS.

Database

• Drivers
  • PostgreSQL - PostgreSQL client. Pure JavaScript and native libpq bindings.
  • Redis - Redis client.
  • LevelUP - LevelDB.
  • MySQL - MySQL client.
  • couchdb-nano - CouchDB client.
  • Aerospike - Aerospike client.
  • Couchbase - Couchbase client.
  • MongoDB - MongoDB driver.
• ODM / ORM
  • Sequelize - Multi-dialect ORM. Supports PostgreSQL, SQLite, MySQL.
  • Bookshelf - ORM for PostgreSQL, MySQL and SQLite3 in the style of Backbone.js.
  • Massive - PostgreSQL data access tool.
  • Mongoose - Elegant MongoDB object modeling.
  • Waterline - Datastore-agnostic tool that dramatically simplifies interaction with one or more databases.
  • OpenRecord - ORM for PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite3 and RESTful datastores. Similar to ActiveRecord.
  • pg-promise - PostgreSQL framework for native SQL using promises.
  • slonik - PostgreSQL client with strict types, detailed logging and assertions.
  • Objection.js - Lightweight ORM built on the SQL query builder Knex.
  • TypeORM - ORM for PostgreSQL, MariaDB, MySQL, SQLite, and more.
• Query builder
  • Knex - Query builder for PostgreSQL, MySQL and SQLite3, designed to be flexible, portable, and fun to use.
• Other
  • NeDB - Embedded persistent database written in JavaScript.
  • Lowdb - Small JavaScript database powered by Lodash.
  • Keyv - Simple key-value storage with support for multiple backends.
  • Finale - RESTful endpoint generator for your Sequelize models.
  • database-js - Wrapper for multiple databases with a JDBC-like connection.
  • Mongo Seeding - Populate MongoDB databases with JavaScript and JSON files.

Testing

• AVA - Futuristic test runner.
• Mocha - Feature-rich test framework making asynchronous testing simple and fun.
• nyc - Code coverage tool built on istanbul that works with subprocesses.
• tap - TAP test framework.
• tape - TAP-producing test harness.
• power-assert - Provides descriptive assertion messages through the standard assert interface.
• Mochify - TDD with Browserify, Mocha, PhantomJS and WebDriver.
• trevor - Run tests against multiple versions of Node.js without switching versions manually or pushing to Travis CI.
• loadtest - Run load tests for your web application, with an API for automation.
• Sinon.JS - Test spies, stubs and mocks.
• navit - PhantomJS / SlimerJS wrapper to simplify browser test scripting.
• Nock - HTTP mocking and expectations.
• intern - Code testing stack.
• toxy - Hackable HTTP proxy to simulate failure scenarios and network conditions.
• hook-std - Hook and modify stdout/stderr.
• testen - Run tests for multiple versions of Node.js locally with NVM.
• Nightwatch - Automated UI testing framework based on Selenium WebDriver.
• WebdriverIO - Automated testing based on the WebDriver protocol.
• Jest - Painless JavaScript testing.
• TestCafe - Automated browser testing.
• abstruse - Continuous Integration server.
• CodeceptJS - End-to-end testing.

Security

• upash - Unified API for all password hashing algorithms.
• themis - Multilanguage framework for making typical encryption schemes easy to use: data at rest, authenticated data exchange, transport protection, authentication, and so on.
• GuardRails - GitHub app that provides security feedback in pull requests.
• rate-limiter-flexible - Brute-force and DDoS attack protection.
• crypto-hash - Async non-blocking hashing.

Benchmarking

• Benchmark.js - Benchmarking library that supports high-resolution timers and returns statistically significant results.
• matcha - Simplistic approach to benchmarking.

Minifiers

• babili - ES2015+ aware minifier based on the Babel toolchain.
• UglifyJS2 - JavaScript minifier.
• clean-css - CSS minifier.
• minimize - HTML minifier.
• imagemin - Image minifier.

Authentication

• Passport - Simple, unobtrusive authentication.
• Grant - OAuth middleware for Express, Koa, and Hapi.
• CloudRail - Unified API for social authentication (Facebook, Twitter, Slack, Instagram, …).

Authorization

• CASL - Isomorphic authorization for UI and API.
• node-casbin - Authorization library that supports access control models like ACL, RBAC and ABAC.

Email

• Nodemailer - The fastest way to handle email.
• emailjs - Send text/HTML emails with attachments to any SMTP server.
• email-templates - Create, preview, and send custom email templates.

Job queues

• bull - Persistent job and message queue.
• agenda - MongoDB-backed job scheduling.
• idoit - Redis-backed job queue engine with advanced job control.
• node-resque - Redis-backed job queue.
• rsmq - Redis-backed message queue.
• bee-queue - High-performance Redis-backed job queue.
• RedisSMQ - Simple high-performance Redis message queue with real-time monitoring.
• sqs-consumer - Build Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) based apps without the boilerplate.
• better-queue - Simple and efficient job queue when you cannot use Redis.

Node.js management

• n - Node.js version management.
• nave - Virtual Environments for Node.js.
• nodeenv - Node.js virtual environment compatible to Python's virtualenv.
• nvm for Windows - Version management for Windows.
• nodenv - Version manager that is similar to Ruby's rbenv. It supports auto version switching.

Natural language processing

• retext - An extensible natural language system.
• franc - Detect the language of text.
• leven - Measure the difference between two strings using the Levenshtein distance algorithm.
• natural - Natural language facility.
• nlp.js - Building bots, with entity extraction, sentiment analysis, automatic language identify, and more.

Process management

• PM2 - Advanced Process Manager.
• nodemon - Monitor for changes in your app and automatically restart the server.
• node-mac - Run scripts as a native Mac daemon and log to the console app.
• node-linux - Run scripts as native system service and log to syslog.
• node-windows - Run scripts as a native Windows service and log to the Event viewer.
• supervisor - Restart scripts when they crash or restart when a *.js file changes.
• Phusion Passenger - Friendly process manager that integrates directly into Nginx.

Automation

• robotjs - Desktop Automation: control the mouse, keyboard and read the screen.

AST

• Acorn - Tiny, fast JavaScript parser.
• babel-parser - JavaScript parser used in Babel.
• cherow - JavaScript parser with focus on performance and stability.

Static site generators

• Wintersmith - Flexible, minimalistic, multi-platform static site generator.
• Assemble - Static site generator for Node.js, Grunt.js, and Yeoman.
• DocPad - Static site generator with dynamic abilities and huge plugin ecosystem.
• Phenomic - Modern static website generator based on the React and Webpack ecosystem.
• docsify - Markdown documentation site generator with no statically built HTML files.

Content management systems

• KeystoneJS - CMS and web application platform built on Express and MongoDB.
• ApostropheCMS - Content management system with an emphasis on intuitive front end content editing and administration built on Express and MongoDB.
• Strapi - Content Management Framework (headless-CMS) to build powerful APIs.
• Tipe - Developer-first content management system with GraphQL and REST API from a schema file.

Forum

• nodeBB - Forum platform for the modern web.

Blogging

• Ghost - Simple, powerful publishing platform.
• Hexo - Fast, simple and powerful blogging framework.

Weird

• cows - ASCII cows.
• superb - Get superb like words.
• cat-names - Get popular cat names.
• dog-names - Get popular dog names.
• superheroes - Get superhero names.
• supervillains - Get supervillain names.
• cool-ascii-faces - Get some cool ascii faces.
• cat-ascii-faces - ₍˄·͈༝·͈˄₎◞ ̑̑ෆ⃛ (=ↀωↀ=)✧ (^･o･^)ﾉ”.
• nerds - Get data from nerdy topics like Harry Potter, Star Wars, and Pokémon.

Serialization

• snappy - Native bindings for Google's Snappy compression library.
• protobuf - Implementation of Protocol Buffers.
• compactr - Implementation of the Compactr protocol.

Miscellaneous

• execa - Better child_process.
• cheerio - Fast, flexible, and lean implementation of core jQuery designed specifically for the server.
• Electron - Build cross platform desktop apps with web technologies. (You might like awesome-electron)
• open - Opens stuff like websites, files, executables.
• hasha - Hashing made simple. Get the hash of a buffer/string/stream/file.
• dot-prop - Get a property from a nested object using a dot path.
• onetime - Only run a function once.
• mem - Memoize functions - an optimization technique used to speed up consecutive function calls by caching the result of calls with identical input.
• import-fresh - Import a module while bypassing the cache.
• strip-bom - Strip UTF-8 byte order mark (BOM) from a string/buffer/stream.
• os-locale - Get the system locale.
• ssh2 - SSH2 client and server module.
• adit - SSH tunneling made simple.
• import-lazy - Import a module lazily.
• file-type - Detect the file type of a Buffer.
• Bottleneck - Rate limiter that makes throttling easy.
• ow - Function argument validation for humans.
• webworker-threads - Lightweight Web Worker API implementation with native threads.
• clipboardy - Access the system clipboard (copy/paste).
• node-pre-gyp - Makes it easy to publish and install Node.js C++ addons from binaries.
• opencv - Bindings for OpenCV. The defacto computer vision library.
• dotenv - Load environment variables from .env file.
• remote-git-tags - Get tags from a remote git repo.
• semver - Semantic version parser.
• Faker.js - Generate massive amounts of fake data.
• nodegit - Native bindings to Git.
• json-strictify - Safely serialize a value to JSON without data loss or going into an infinite loop.
• resolve-from - Resolve the path of a module like require.resolve() but from a given path.
• simplecrawler - Event driven web crawler.
• jsdom - JavaScript implementation of HTML and the DOM.
• hypernova - Server-side rendering your JavaScript views.
• @sindresorhus/is - Type check values.
• env-dot-prop - Get, set, or delete nested properties of process.env using a dot path.
• emittery - Simple and modern async event emitter.
• node-video-lib - Pure JavaScript library for working with MP4 and FLV video files and creating MPEG-TS chunks for HLS streaming.
• basic-ftp – FTP/FTPS client.

Resources

Tutorials

• Node.js Best Practices - Summary and curation of the top-ranked content on Node.js best practices, available in multiple languages.
• Nodeschool - Learn Node.js with interactive lessons.
• The Art of Node - An introduction to Node.js.
• stream-handbook - How to write Node.js programs with streams.
• module-best-practices - Some good practices when writing new npm modules.
• The Node Way - An entire philosophy of Node.js best practices and guiding principles exists for writing maintainable modules, scalable applications, and code that is actually pleasant to read.
• You Don't Know Node.js - Introduction to Node.js core features and asynchronous JavaScript.
• Portable Node.js guide - Practical guide on how to write portable/cross-platform Node.js code.

Discovery

• npms - Superb package search with deep analysis of package quality using a myriad of metrics.
• npm addict - Your daily injection of npm packages.
• npmcompare.com - Compare and discover npm packages.

Articles

• Error Handling in Node.js
• Teach Yourself Node.js in 10 Steps
• Mastering the filesystem in Node.js
• Semver: A Primer
• Semver: Tilde and Caret
• Why Asynchronous?
• Understanding the Node.js Event Loop
• Understanding Object Streams
• Art of README - Learn the art of writing quality READMEs.
• Using Express to Quickly Build a GraphQL Server

Newsletters

• Node Weekly - Weekly e-mail round-up of Node.js news and articles.
• Node Module Of The Week! - Weekly dose of hand picked node modules.

Videos

• Introduction to Node.js with Ryan Dahl
• Hands on with Node.js
• Nodetuts - Series of talks, including TCP & HTTP API servers, async programming, and more.
• V8 Garbage Collector - Trash talk about the V8 garbage collector.

Books

• Node.js in Action
• Node.js in Practice
• Mastering Node
• Node.js 8 the Right Way
• Professional Node.js: Building Javascript Based Scalable Software
• Practical Node.js: Building Real-World Scalable Web Apps
• Mixu's Node book
• Web Development with Node and Express
• Pro Express.js
• Secure Your Node.js Web Application
• Express in Action
• Practical Modern JavaScript
• Mastering Modular JavaScript
• Get Programming with Node.js

Blogs

• Node.js blog
• webapplog.com - Blog posts on Node.js and JavaScript from the author of Practical Node.js and Pro Express.js Azat Mardan.

Courses

• Learn to build apps and APIs with Node.js - Video course by Wes Bos.
• Real Time Web with Node.js
• Learn and Understand Node.js

Cheatsheets

• Express.js
• Stream FAQs - Answering common questions about streams, covering pagination, events, and more.
• Strong Node.js - Checklist for source code security analysis of a Node.js web service.

Tools

• OctoLinker - Chrome extension that linkifies dependencies in package.json, .js, .jsx, .coffee and .md files on GitHub.
• npm-hub - Chrome extension to display npm dependencies at the bottom of a repo's readme.
• RunKit - Embed a Node.js environment on any website.
• RequireBin - Shareable JavaScript programs powered by npm and browserify.
• github-npm-stats - Chrome extension that displays npm download stats on GitHub.
• npm semver calculator - Visually explore what versions of a package a semver range matches.

Community

• Gitter
• #node.js on Freenode
• Stack Overflow
• Reddit
• Twitter
• Hashnode
• Discord

Miscellaneous

• nodebots - Robots powered by JavaScript.
• node-module-boilerplate - Boilerplate to kickstart creating a node module.
• generator-nm - Scaffold out a node module.
• Microsoft Node.js Guidelines - Tips, tricks, and resources for working with Node.js on Microsoft platforms.
• Module Requests & Ideas - Request a JavaScript module you wish existed or get ideas for modules.

Related lists

• awesome-npm - Resources and tips for using npm.
• awesome-cross-platform-nodejs - Resources for writing and testing cross-platform code.

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A curated list of amazingly awesome PHP libraries, resources and shiny things.

Contributing and Collaborating

Please see CONTRIBUTING, CODE-OF-CONDUCT and COLLABORATING for details.

Table of Contents

• Awesome PHP
  • Composer Repositories
  • Dependency Management
  • Dependency Management Extras
  • Frameworks
  • Framework Extras
  • Content Management Systems
  • Components
  • Micro Frameworks
  • Micro Framework Extras
  • Routers
  • Templating
  • Static Site Generators
  • HTTP
  • Middlewares
  • URL
  • Email
  • Files
  • Streams
  • Dependency Injection
  • Imagery
  • Testing
  • Continuous Integration
  • Documentation
  • Security
  • Passwords
  • Code Analysis
  • Code Quality
  • Static Analysis
  • Architectural
  • Debugging and Profiling
  • Build Tools
  • Task Runners
  • Navigation
  • Asset Management
  • Geolocation
  • Date and Time
  • Event
  • Logging
  • E-commerce
  • PDF
  • Office
  • Database
  • Migrations
  • NoSQL
  • Queue
  • Search
  • Command Line
  • Authentication and Authorization
  • Markup
  • Strings
  • Numbers
  • Filtering and Validation
  • API
  • Caching
  • Data Structure and Storage
  • Notifications
  • Deployment
  • Internationalisation and Localisation
  • Serverless
  • Configuration
  • Third Party APIs
  • Extensions
  • Miscellaneous
• Software
  • PHP Installation
  • Development Environment
  • Virtual Machines
  • Text Editors and IDEs
  • Web Applications
  • Infrastructure
• Resources
  • PHP Websites
  • Other Websites
  • PHP Books
  • PHP Videos
  • PHP Podcasts
  • PHP Reading
  • PHP Internals Reading

Composer Repositories

Composer Repositories.

• Firegento - Magento Module Composer Repository.
• Packagist - The PHP Package Repository.
• Private Packagist - Composer package archive as a service for PHP.
• WordPress Packagist - Manage your plugins with Composer.
• Zend Framework Packages - Zend Framework Composer Repository.

Dependency Management

Libraries for dependency and package management.

• Composer Installers - A multi framework Composer library installer.
• Composer - A package and dependency manager.
• Melody - A tool to build one file Composer scripts.
• Pickle - A PHP extension installer.

Dependency Management Extras

Extras related to dependency management.

• Composed - A library to parse your project's Composer environment at runtime.
• Composer Merge Plugin - A composer plugin to merge several composer.json files.
• Prestissimo - A composer plugin which enables parallel install process.
• Satis - A static Composer repository generator.
• tooly - A library to manage PHAR files in project using Composer.
• Toran Proxy - A static Composer repository and proxy.

Frameworks

Web development frameworks.

• Aura Framework - A framework built from independent components.
• CakePHP - A rapid application development framework (CP).
• Laravel 5 - Another PHP framework (L5).
• Nette - Another framework comprised of individual components.
• Phalcon - A framework implemented as a C extension.
• PPI Framework 2 - An interoperability framework.
• Symfony - A framework comprised of individual components (SF).
• Yii2 - Another PHP framework.
• Zend Framework 3 - A framework comprised of individual components (ZF3).
• Ice - Another simple and fast PHP framework delivered as C-extension.

Framework Extras

Extras related to web development frameworks.

• CakePHP CRUD - A Rapid Application Development (RAD) plugin for CakePHP.
• Knp RAD Components - A set of Rapid Application Development (RAD) components for Symfony.
• Symfony CMF - A Content Management Framework to create custom CMS.

Content Management Systems (CMS)

Tools for managing digital content.

• Backdrop - A CMS targeting small-to-medium sized business and non-profits (a fork of Drupal).
• Concrete5 - A CMS targering users with a minimum of technical skills.
• Drupal - An enterprise level CMS.
• Grav - A modern flat-file CMS.
• Joomla - Another leading CMS.
• WordPress A blogging platform and CMS.

Components

Standalone components from web development frameworks and development groups.

• Aura - Independent components, fully decoupled from each other and from any framework.
• CakePHP Plugins - A directory of CakePHP plugins.
• Hoa Project - Another package of PHP components.
• League of Extraordinary Packages - A PHP package development group.
• Symfony Components - The components that make Symfony.
• Zend Framework Components - The components that make Zend Framework.

Micro Frameworks

Micro frameworks and routers.

• Bullet PHP - A micro framework for building REST APIs.
• Lumen - A micro-framework by Laravel.
• Radar - An Action-Domain-Responder implementation for PHP.
• Slim - Another simple micro framework.
• Expressive - A micro-framework by Zend.

Micro Framework Extras

Extras related to micro frameworks and routers.

• Silex Skeleton - A project skeleton for Silex.
• Silex Web Profiler - A web debug toolbar for Silex.
• Slim Skeleton - A skeleton for Slim.
• Slim Twig View - Integrate Twig into Slim.
• Slim PHP View - A simple PHP renderer for Slim.

Routers

Libraries for handling application routing.

• Aura.Router - A full-featured routing library.
• Fast Route - A fast routing library.
• Klein - A flexible router.
• Pux - Another fast routing library.
• Route - A routing library built on top of Fast Route.

Templating

Libraries and tools for templating and lexing.

• Aura.View - Provides TemplateView and TwoStepView using PHP as the tempting language, with support for partials, sections, and helpers.
• Foil - Another native PHP templating library.
• MtHaml - A PHP implementation of the HAML template language.
• Mustache - A PHP implementation of the Mustache template language.
• PHPTAL - A PHP implementation of the TAL templating language.
• Plates - A native PHP templating library.
• Smarty - A template engine to complement PHP.
• Twig - A comprehensive templating language.
• Tale Jade - A PHP implementation of the Jade template language.

Static Site Generators

Tools for pre-processing content to generate web pages.

• Couscous - Couscous turns Markdown documentation into beautiful websites. It's GitHub Pages on steroids.
• Sculpin - A tool that converts Markdown and Twig into static HTML.
• Spress - An extensible tool that converts Markdown and Twig into HTML.

HTTP

Libraries for working with HTTP.

• Buzz - Another HTTP client.
• Guzzle - A comprehensive HTTP client.
• HTTPlug - An HTTP client abstraction without binding to a specific implementation.
• PHP VCR - A library for recording and replaying HTTP requests.
• Requests - A simple HTTP library.
• Retrofit - A library to ease creation of REST API clients.
• Symfony HTTP Client - A component to fetch HTTP resources synchronously or asynchronously.
• zend-diactoros - PSR-7 HTTP Message implementation.

Scraping

Libraries for scraping websites.

• Embed - An information extractor from any web service or page.
• Goutte - A simple web scraper.
• Symfony Panther - A browser testing and web crawling library for PHP and Symfony.
• PHP Spider - A configurable and extensible PHP web spider.

Middlewares

Libraries for building application using middlewares.

• Expressive - PSR-7 Middleware framework from Zend.
• PSR7-Middlewares - Inspiring collection of handy middlewares.
• Relay - A PHP 5.5 PSR-7 middleware dispatcher.
• Stack - A library of stackable middleware for Silex/Symfony.
• zend-stratigility - Middleware for PHP built on top of PSR-7.

URL

Libraries for parsing URLs.

• PHP Domain Parser - A domain suffix parser library.
• Purl - A URL manipulation library.
• sabre/uri - A functional URI manipulation library.
• Uri - Another URL manipulation library.

Email

Libraries for sending and parsing email.

• CssToInlineStyles - A library to inline CSS in email templates.
• Email Reply Parser - An email reply parser library.
• Email Validator - A small email address validation library.
• Fetch - An IMAP library.
• Mautic - Email marketing automation
• PHPMailer - Another mailer solution.
• Stampie - A library for email services such as SendGrid, PostMark, MailGun and Mandrill.
• SwiftMailer - A mailer solution.

Files

Libraries for file manipulation and MIME type detection.

• CSV - A CSV data manipulation library.
• Flysystem - Another filesystem abstraction layer.
• Gaufrette - A filesystem abstraction layer.
• Hoa Mime - Another MIME detection library.
• PHP FFmpeg - A wrapper for the FFmpeg video library.
• UnifiedArchive - A unified reader and writer of compressed archives.

Streams

Libraries for working with streams.

• Streamer - A simple object-orientated stream wrapper library.

Dependency Injection

Libraries that implement the dependency injection design pattern.

• Aura.Di - A serializable dependency injection container with constructor and setter injection, interface and trait awareness, configuration inheritance, and much more.
• Acclimate - A common interface to dependency injection containers and service locators.
• Auryn - A recursive dependency injector.
• Container - Another flexible dependency injection container.
• Disco - A PSR-11 compatible, annotation-based dependency injection container.
• PHP-DI - A dependency injection container that supports autowiring.
• Pimple - A tiny dependency injection container.
• Symfony DI - A dependency injection container component (SF).

Imagery

Libraries for manipulating images.

• Color Extractor - A library for extracting colours from images.
• Glide - An on-demand image manipulation library.
• Image Hash - A library for generating perceptual image hashes.
• Image Optimizer - A library for optimizing images.
• Imagine - An image manipulation library.
• Intervention Image - Another image manipulation library.
• PHP Image Workshop - Another image manipulation library.

Testing

Libraries for testing codebases and generating test data.

• Alice - An expressive fixture generation library.
• AspectMock - A mocking framework for PHPUnit/Codeception.
• Atoum - A simple testing library.
• Behat - A behaviour driven development (BDD) testing framework.
• Codeception - A full stack testing framework.
• Faker - A fake data generator library.
• HTTP Mock - A library for mocking HTTP requests in unit tests.
• Kahlan - Full stack Unit/BDD testing framework with built-in stub, mock and code-coverage support.
• Mink - Web acceptance testing.
• Mockery - A mock object library for testing.
• ParaTest - A parallel testing library for PHPUnit.
• Peridot - An event driven test framework.
• Phake - Another mock object library for testing.
• Pho - Another behaviour driven development testing framework.
• PHP-Mock - A mock library for built-in PHP functions (e.g. time()).
• PHPSpec - A design by specification unit testing library.
• PHPT - A test tool used by PHP itself.
• PHPUnit - A unit testing framework.
• Prophecy - A highly opinionated mocking framework.
• VFS Stream - A virtual filesystem stream wrapper for testing.

Continuous Integration

Libraries and applications for continuous integration.

• CircleCI - A continuous integration platform.
• GitlabCi - Let GitLab CI test, build, deploy your code. TravisCi like.
• Jenkins - A continuous integration platform with PHP support.
• JoliCi - A continuous integration client written in PHP and powered by Docker.
• PHPCI - An open source continuous integration platform for PHP.
• SemaphoreCI - A continuous integration platform for open source and private projects.
• Shippable - A Docker based continious integration platform for open source and private projects.
• Travis CI - A continuous integration platform.

Documentation

Libraries for generating project documentation.

• APIGen - Another API documentation generator.
• daux.io - A documentation generator which uses Markdown files.
• PHP Documentor 2 - A documentation generator.
• phpDox - A documentation generator for PHP projects (that is not limited to API documentation).
• Sami - An API documentation generator.

Security

Libraries for generating secure random numbers, encrypting data and scanning for vulnerabilities.

• Halite - A simple library for encryption using libsodium.
• HTML Purifier - A standards compliant HTML filter.
• IniScan - A tool that scans PHP INI files for security.
• Optimus - Id obfuscation based on Knuth's multiplicative hashing method.
• PHP Encryption - Secure PHP Encryption Library.
• PHP SSH - An experimental object orientated SSH wrapper library.
• PHPSecLib - A pure PHP secure communications library.
• random_compat - PHP 5.x support for random_bytes() and random_int()
• RandomLib - A library for generating random numbers and strings.
• Symfony Security Monitoring - A web tool to check your Composer dependencies for security advisories, previously known as "SensioLabs Security Check".
• TCrypto - A simple encrypted key-value storage library.
• VAddy - A continuous security testing platform for web applications.
• Zed - An integrated penetration testing tool for web applications.

Passwords

Libraries and tools for working with and storing passwords.

• GenPhrase - A library for generating secure random passphrases.
• Password Compat - A compatibility library for the new PHP 5.5 password functions.
• Password Policy - A password policy library for PHP and JavaScript.
• Password Validator - A library for validating and upgrading password hashes.
• Password-Generator - PHP library to generate random passwords.
• PHP Password Lib - A library for generating and validating passwords.
• phpass - A portable password hashing framework.
• Zxcvbn PHP - A realistic PHP password strength estimate library based on Zxcvbn JS.

Code Analysis

Libraries and tools for analysing, parsing and manipulating codebases.

• Better Reflection - AST-based reflection library that allows analysis and manipulation of code
• Code Climate - An automated code review.
• PHP Parser - A PHP parser written in PHP.
• PHP Semantic Versioning Checker - A command line utility that compares two source sets and determines the appropriate semantic versioning to apply.
• PHPLOC - A tool for quickly measuring the size of a PHP project.
• PHPQA - A tool for running QA tools (phploc, phpcpd, phpcs, pdepend, phpmd, phpmetrics).
• Qafoo Quality Analyzer - A tool to visualize metrics and source code.
• Scrutinizer - A web tool to scrutinise PHP code.
• UBench - A simple micro benchmark library.

Code Quality

Libraries for managing code quality, formatting and linting.

• PHP CodeSniffer - A library that detects PHP, CSS and JS coding standard violations.
• PHP CS Fixer - A coding standards fixer library.
• PHP Mess Detector - A library that scans code for bugs, sub-optimal code, unused parameters and more.
• PHPCheckstyle - A tool to help adhere to certain coding conventions.
• PHPCPD - A library that detects copied and pasted code.

Static Analysis

Libraries for performing static analysis of PHP code.

• Exakat - A static analysis engine for PHP.
• Mondrian - A code analysis tool using Graph Theory.
• phan - A static analyzer based on PHP 7+ and the php-ast extension.
• PHPCompatibility - A PHP compatibility checker for PHP CodeSniffer.
• PhpDependencyAnalysis - A tool to create customisable dependency graphs.
• PHP Metrics - A static metric library.
• PHP Migration - A static analyzer for PHP version migration.
• PHPStan - A PHP Static Analysis Tool.
• Psalm - A static analysis tool for finding errors in PHP applications.

Architectural

Libraries related to design patterns, programming approaches and ways to organize code.

• Design Patterns PHP - A repository of software patterns implemented in PHP.
• Finite - A simple PHP finite state machine.
• Functional PHP - A functional programming library.
• Iter - A library that provides iteration primitives using generators.
• Patchwork - A library for redefining userland functions.
• Pipeline - A pipeline pattern implementation.
• RulerZ - A powerful rule engine and implementation of the Specification pattern.

Debugging and Profiling

Libraries and tools for debugging and profiling code.

• APM - Monitoring extension collecting errors and statistics into SQLite/MySQL/StatsD.
• Barbushin PHP Console - Another web debugging console using Google Chrome.
• Blackfire.io - A low-overhead code profiler.
• Kint - A debugging and profiling tool.
• PHP Console - A web debugging console.
• PHP Debug Bar - A debugging toolbar.
• PHPBench - A benchmarking Framework.
• PHPSpy - A low-overhead sampling profiler.
• Tideways.io - Monitoring and profiling tool.
• Tracy - A simple error detection, logging and time measuring library.
• xDebug - A debug and profile tool for PHP.
• XHProf - A profiling tool originally developed by Facebook.
• Z-Ray - A debug and profile tool for Zend Server.

Build Tools

Project build and automation tools.

• Box - A utility to build PHAR files.
• Construct - A PHP project/micro-package generator.
• Phing - A PHP project build system inspired by Apache Ant.

Task Runners

Libraries for automating and running tasks.

• Bldr - A PHP Task runner built on Symfony components.
• Jobby - A PHP cron job manager without modifying crontab.
• Robo - A PHP Task runner with object-orientated configurations.
• Task - A pure PHP task runner inspired by Grunt and Gulp.

Navigation

Tools for building navigation structures.

• KnpMenu - A menu library.

Asset Management

Tools for managing, compressing and minifying website assets.

• JShrink - A JavaScript minifier library.
• Munee - An asset optimiser library.
• Puli - A library for determining assets absolute paths.
• BowerPHP - A PHP implementation of Bower. A package manager for the web

Geolocation

Libraries for geocoding addresses and working with latitudes and longitudes.

• GeoCoder - A geocoding library.
• GeoJSON - A GeoJSON implementation.
• GeoTools - A library of geo-related tools.
• PHPGeo - A simple geo library.

Date and Time

Libraries for working with dates and times.

• CalendR - A calendar management library.
• Carbon - A simple DateTime API extension.
• Chronos - A DateTime API extension supporting both mutable and immutable date/time.
• Moment.php - Moment.js inspired PHP DateTime handler with i18n support.
• Yasumi - An library to help you calculate the dates and names of holidays.

Event

Libraries that are event-driven or implement non-blocking event loops.

• Amp - An event driven non-blocking I/O library.
• Broadway - An event source and CQRS library.
• Cake Event - An event dispatcher library (CP).
• Elephant.io - Yet another web socket library.
• Evenement - An event dispatcher library.
• Event - An event library with a focus on domain events.
• Hoa EventSource - An event source library.
• Hoa WebSocket - Another web socket library.
• Prooph Event Store - An event source component to persist event messages
• Ratchet - A web socket library.
• React - An event driven non-blocking I/O library.
• RxPHP - A reactive extension library.
• Swoole - An event-driven asynchronous and concurrent networking communication framework with high performance for PHP written in C.
• Workerman - An event driven non-blocking I/O library.

Logging

Libraries for generating and working with log files.

• Monolog - A comprehensive logger.

E-commerce

Libraries and applications for taking payments and building online e-commerce stores.

• Money - A PHP implementation of Fowler's money pattern.
• OmniPay - A framework agnostic multi-gateway payment processing library.
• Payum - A payment abstraction library.
• Shopware - Highly customizable e-commerce software
• Swap - An exchange rates library.
• Sylius - An open source e-commerce solution.

PDF

Libraries and software for working with PDF files.

• Dompdf - A HTML to PDF converter.
• PHPPdf - A library for generating PDFs and images from XML.
• Snappy - A PDF and image generation library.
• WKHTMLToPDF - A tool to convert HTML to PDF.

Office

Libraries for working with office suite documents.

• PHPPowerPoint - A library for working with Microsoft PowerPoint Presentations.
• PHPWord - A library for working with Microsoft Word documents.
• PHPSpreadsheet - A pure PHP library for reading and writing spreadsheet files (successor of PHPExcel).
• Spout - Read and write spreadsheet files (CSV, XLSX and ODS), in a fast and scalable way .

Database

Libraries for interacting with databases using object-relational mapping (ORM) or datamapping techniques.

• Atlas.Orm - A data mapper implementation for your persistence model in PHP.
• Aura.Sql - Provides an extension to the native PDO along with a profiler and connection locator.
• Aura.SqlQuery - Independent query builders for MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, and Microsoft SQL Server.
• Baum - A nested set implementation for Eloquent.
• Cake ORM - Object-Relational Mapper, implemented using the DataMapper pattern (CP).
• Doctrine Extensions - A collection of Doctrine behavioural extensions.
• Doctrine - A comprehensive DBAL and ORM.
• Eloquent - A simple ORM (L5).
• Pomm - An Object Model Manager for PostgreSQL.
• ProxyManager - A set of utilities to generate proxy objects for data mappers.
• RedBean - A lightweight, configuration-less ORM.
• Spot2 - A MySQL datamapper ORM.

Migrations

Libraries to help manage database schemas and migrations.

• Doctrine Migrations - A migration library for Doctrine.
• Migrations - A migration management library.
• Phinx - Another database migration library.
• PHPMig - Another migration management library.
• Ruckusing - Database migrations for PHP ala ActiveRecord Migrations with support for MySQL, Postgres, SQLite.

NoSQL

Libraries for working with "NoSQL" backends.

• PHPMongo - A MongoDB ORM.
• Predis - A feature complete Redis library.

Queue

Libraries for working with event and task queues.

• Bernard - A multibackend abstraction library.
• BunnyPHP - A performant pure-PHP AMQP (RabbitMQ) sync and also async (ReactPHP) library.
• Pheanstalk - A Beanstalkd client library.
• PHP AMQP - A pure PHP AMQP library.
• Tarantool Queue - PHP bindings for Tarantool Queue.
• Thumper - A RabbitMQ pattern library.

Search

Libraries and software for indexing and performing search queries on data.

• Elastica - A client library for ElasticSearch.
• ElasticSearch PHP - The official client library for ElasticSearch.
• Solarium - A client library for Solr.
• Sphinx Search - Sphinx Search library provides SphinxQL indexing and searching features
• SphinxQL query builder - A query library for the Sphinx search engine.

Command Line

Libraries related to the command line.

• Aura.Cli - Provides the equivalent of request ( Context ) and response ( Stdio ) objects for the command line interface, including Getopt support, and an independent Help object for describing commands.
• Boris - A tiny PHP REPL.
• Cilex - A micro framework for building command line tools.
• CLI Menu - A library for building CLI menus.
• CLIFramework - A command-line framework supports zsh/bash completion generation, subcommands and option constraints. It also powers phpbrew.
• CLImate - A library for outputting colours and special formatting.
• Commando - Another simple command line opt parser.
• Cron Expression - A library to calculate cron run dates.
• GetOpt - A command line opt parser.
• GetOptionKit - Another command line opt parser.
• Hoa Console - Another command line library.
• PsySH - Another PHP REPL.
• ShellWrap - A simple command line wrapper library.

Authentication and Authorization

Libraries for implementing user authentication and authorization.

• Aura.Auth - Provides authentication functionality and session tracking using various adapters.
• SocialConnect Auth - An open source social sign (OAuth1\OAuth2\OpenID\OpenIDConnect).
• Json Web Token - Json Tokens to authenticate and transmit information.
• OAuth 1.0 Client - An OAuth 1.0 client library.
• OAuth 2.0 Client - An OAuth 2.0 client library.
• OAuth2 Server - Another OAuth2 server implementation.
• OAuth2 Server - An OAuth2 authentication server, resource server and client library.
• Opauth - A multi-provider authentication framework.
• PHP oAuthLib - Another OAuth library.
• Sentinel Social - A library for social network authentication.
• Sentinel - A framework agnostic authentication & authorisation library.
• TwitterOAuth - A Twitter OAuth library.

Markup

Libraries for working with markup.

• Cebe Markdown - An fast and extensible Markdown parser.
• CommonMark PHP - A Markdown parser which supports the full CommonMark spec.
• Decoda - A lightweight markup parser library.
• Emoji - A library that converts unicode characters and names into emoji images.
• HTML to Markdown - Converts HTML into Markdown.
• HTML5 PHP - An HTML5 parser and serializer library.
• Parsedown - Another Markdown parser.
• PHP Markdown - A Markdown parser.

Strings

Libraries for parsing and manipulating strings.

• Agent - A PHP desktop/mobile user agent parser, based on Mobiledetect.
• ANSI to HTML5 - An ANSI to HTML5 converter library.
• Color Jizz - A library for manipulating and converting colours.
• Device Detector - Another library for parsing user agent strings.
• Hoa String - Another UTF-8 string library.
• Jieba-PHP - A PHP port of Python's jieba. Chinese text segmentation for natural language processing.
• Mobile-Detect - A lightweight PHP class for detecting mobile devices (including tablets).
• Patchwork UTF-8 - A portable library for working with UTF-8 strings.
• Slugify - A library to convert strings to slugs.
• SQL Formatter - A library for formatting SQL statements.
• Stringy - A string manipulation library with multibyte support.
• UA Parser - A library for parsing user agent strings.
• URLify - A PHP port of Django's URLify.js.
• UUID - A library for generating UUIDs.

Numbers

Libraries for working with numbers.

• ByteUnits - A library to parse, format and convert byte units in binary and metric systems.
• LibPhoneNumber for PHP - A PHP implementation of Google's phone number handling library.
• PHP Conversion - Another library for converting between units of measure.
• PHP Units of Measure - A library for converting between units of measure.

Filtering and Validation

Libraries for filtering and validating data.

• Assert - A validation library with a rich set of assertions. Supports assertion chaining and lazy assertions.
• Aura.Filter - Provides tools to validate and sanitize objects and arrays.
• Cake Validation - Another validation library (CP).
• Filterus - A simple PHP filtering library.
• ISO-codes - A library for validating inputs according standards from ISO, International Finance, Public Administrations, GS1, Book Industry, Phone numbers & Zipcodes for many countries.
• JSON Schema - A JSON Schema validation library.
• MetaYaml - A schema validation library that supports YAML, JSON and XML.
• Respect Validation - A simple validation library.
• Upload - A library for handling file uploads and validation.
• Valitron - Another validation library.
• Volan - Another simplified validation library.

API

Libraries and web tools for developing APIs.

• API Platform - Expose in minutes an hypermedia REST API that embraces JSON-LD, Hydra format.
• Apigility - An API builder built with Zend Framework 2.
• Drest - A library for exposing Doctrine entities as REST resource endpoints.
• HAL - A Hypertext Application Language (HAL) builder library.
• Hateoas - A HATEOAS REST web service library.
• Negotiation - A content negotiation library.
• Restler - A lightweight framework to expose PHP methods as RESTful web API.
• wsdl2phpgenerator - A tool to generate PHP classes from SOAP WSDL files.

Caching

Libraries for caching data.

• Alternative PHP Cache (APC) - Open opcode cache for PHP.
• APIx Cache - A thin PSR-6 cache wrapper to various caching backends emphasising cache tagging and indexing.
• CacheTool - A tool to clear APC/opcode caches from the command line.
• Cake Cache - A caching library (CP).
• Doctrine Cache - A caching library.
• Metaphore - Cache slam defense using a semaphore to prevent dogpile effect.
• Stash - Another library for caching.
• Zend Cache - Another caching library (ZF2).

Data Structure and Storage

Libraries that implement data structure or storage techniques.

• Cake Collection - A simple collections library (CP).
• Fractal - A library for converting complex data structures to JSON output.
• Ginq - Another PHP library based on .NET's LINQ.
• JsonMapper - A library that maps nested JSON structures onto PHP classes.
• Knapsack - Collection library inspired by Clojure's sequences.
• msgpack.php - A pure PHP implementation of the MessagePack serialization format.
• PINQ - A PHP library based on .NET's LINQ (Language Integrated Query).
• Porter - Data import abstraction framework.
• Serializer - A library for serialising and de-serialising data.
• YaLinqo - Yet Another LINQ to Objects for PHP.
• Zend Serializer - Another library for serialising and de-serialising data (ZF2).

Notifications

Libraries for working with notification software.

• JoliNotif - A cross-platform library for desktop notification (support for Growl, notify-send, toaster, etc)
• Notification Pusher - A standalone library for device push notifications.
• Notificato - A library for handling push notifications.
• Notificator - A lightweight notification library.
• Php-pushwoosh - A PHP Library to easily send push notifications with the Pushwoosh REST Web Services.

Deployment

Libraries for project deployment.

• Deployer - A deployment tool.
• Envoy - A tool to run SSH tasks with PHP.
• Rocketeer - A fast and easy deployer for the PHP world.

Internationalisation and Localisation

Libraries for Internationalization (I18n) and Localization (L10n).

• Aura.Intl - Provides internationalization (I18N) tools, specifically package-oriented per-locale message translation.
• Cake I18n - Message translation and localization for dates and numbers (CP)

Serverless

Libraries and tools to help build serverless web applications.

• Bref - Serverless PHP on AWS Lambda.
• OpenWhisk - An open source serverless cloud platform.
• Serverless Framework - An open source framework for building serverless applications.

Configuration

Libraries and tools for configuration.*

• PHP Dotenv - Parse and load environment variables from .env files.
• Symfony Dotenv- Parse and load environment variables from .env files.

Third Party APIs

Libraries for accessing third party APIs.

• Amazon Web Service SDK - The official PHP AWS SDK library.
• Campaign Monitor - The official Campaign Monitor PHP library.
• Dropbox SDK - The official PHP Dropbox SDK library.
• Github - A library to interface with the Github API.
• Mailgun The official Mailgun PHP API.
• Stripe - The official Stripe PHP library.
• Twilio - The official Twilio PHP REST API.

Extensions

Libraries to help build PHP extensions.

• PHP CPP - A C++ library for developing PHP extensions.
• Zephir - A compiled language between PHP and C++ for developing PHP extensions.

Miscellaneous

Useful libraries or tools that don't fit in the categories above.

• Annotations - An annotations library (part of Doctrine).
• BotMan - A framework agnostic PHP library to build cross-platform chat bots.
• Cake Utility - Utility classes such as Inflector, String, Hash, Security and Xml (CP).
• Chief - A command bus library.
• ClassPreloader - A library for optimising autoloading.
• Country List - A list of all countries with names and ISO 3166-1 codes.
• Embera - An Oembed consumer library.
• Essence - A library for extracting web media.
• Graphviz - A Graphviz library.
• Hprose-PHP - A very newbility RPC Library, support 25+ languages now.
• JSON Lint - A JSON lint utility.
• JSONPCallbackValidator - A library for validating JSONP callbacks.
• Metrics - A simple metrics API library.
• noCAPTCHA - Helper for Google's noCAPTCHA (reCAPTCHA).
• Nmap - A PHP wrapper around Nmap.
• Pagerfanta - A pagination library.
• PHP PassBook - A PHP library for iOS PassBook.
• PHP-ML - A library for Machine Learning in PHP.
• PHPCR - A PHP port of the Java Content Repository (JCR).
• PHPStack - A TCP/IP stack proof of concept written in PHP.
• print_o - An object graph visualizer.
• Procrastinator - A library for running time consuming tasks.
• Prooph Service Bus - Lightweight message bus supporting CQRS and Micro Services
• RMT - A library for versioning and releasing software.
• sabre/vobject - A library for parsing VCard and iCalendar objects.
• Slimdump - An easy dumper tool for MySQL.
• Spork - A process forking library.
• SuperClosure - A library that allows Closures to be serialized.
• Symfony VarDumper - A variable dumper component (SF).
• Underscore - A PHP port of the Underscore JS library.
• Whoops - A pretty error handling library.

Software

Software for creating a development environment.

PHP Installation

Tools to help install and manage PHP on your computer.

• HomeBrew - A package manager for OSX.
• Brew PHP Switcher - Brew PHP switcher.
• PHP Brew - A PHP version manager and installer.
• PHP Build - Another PHP version installer.
• PHP OSX - A PHP installer for OSX.
• VirtPHP - A tool for creating and managing isolated PHP environments.

Development Environment

Software and tools for creating a sandboxed development environment.

• Ansible - A radically simple orchestration framework.
• Phansible - A web tool for building PHP development virtual machines with Ansible.
• Protobox - Another web tool for building PHP development virtual machines.
• PuPHPet - A web tool for building PHP development virtual machines.
• Puppet - A server automation framework and application.
• Vagrant - A portable development environment utility.
• Docker - A containerization platform.

Virtual Machines

Alternative PHP virtual machines.

• Hack - A programming language for HHVM.
• HHVM - A Virtual Machine, Runtime and JIT for PHP by Facebook.

Text Editors and IDEs

Text Editors and Integrated Development Environments (IDE) with support for PHP.

• Atom - A hackable text editor.
• Atom IDE - An IDE extension for Atom.
• Eclipse for PHP Developers - A PHP IDE based on the Eclipse platform.
• Netbeans - An IDE with support for PHP and HTML5.
• PhpStorm - A commercial PHP IDE.
• VS Code - An open source code editor.

Web Applications

Web-based applications and tools.

• 3V4L - An online PHP & HHVM shell.
• DBV - A database version control application.
• PHP Queue - An application for managing queueing backends.
• MailCatcher - A web tool for capturing and viewing emails.
• Cachet - The open source status page system.
• phpRedisAdmin - A simple web interface to manage Redis databases.
• phpMyAdmin - A web interface for MySQL/MariaDB.
• Adminer - Database management in a single PHP file.
• Lychee - An easy to use and great looking photo-management-system.

Infrastructure

Infrastructure for providing PHP applications and services.

• appserver.io - A multithreaded application server for PHP, written in PHP.
• php-pm - A process manager, supercharger and load balancer for PHP applications.

Resources

Various resources, such as books, websites and articles, for improving your PHP development skills and knowledge.

PHP Websites

Useful PHP-related websites.

• libs.garden: PHP - An overview of fastest growing PHP libraries.
• Nomad PHP - A online PHP learning resource.
• PHP Best Practices - A PHP best practice guide.
• PHP FIG - The PHP Framework Interoperability Group.
• PHP Mentoring - Peer to peer PHP mentorship organization.
• PHP Package Development Standards - Package development standards for PHP.
• PHP School - Open Source Learning for PHP.
• PHP Security - A guide to PHP security.
• PHP The Right Way - A PHP best practice quick reference guide.
• PHP UG - A website to help people locate their nearest PHP user group (UG).
• PHP Versions - Lists which versions of PHP are available on several popular web hosts.
• PHP Weekly - A weekly PHP newsletter.
• Securing PHP - A newsletter about PHP security and library recommendations.
• Seven PHP - A website that interviews members of the PHP community.
• PHP Annotated Monthly - A monthly digest of PHP news.

Other Websites

Useful websites related to web development.

• Atlassian Git Tutorials - A series of Git tutorials.
• Learning Linux - A website for learning Linux.
• Semantic Versioning - A website explaining semantic versioning.
• Servers for Hackers - A newsletter about server management.
• The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) - An open software security community.
• WebSec IO - A web security community resource.

PHP Books

Fantastic PHP-related books.

• Functional Programming in PHP - This book will show you how to leverage these new PHP5.3+ features by understanding functional programming principles
• Grumpy PHPUnit - A book about unit testing with PHPUnit by Chris Hartjes.
• Mastering Object-Orientated PHP - A book about object-orientated PHP by Brandon Savage.
• Modern PHP New Features and Good Practices - A book about new PHP features and best practices by Josh Lockhart.
• Modernizing Legacy Applications in PHP - A book about modernizing legacy PHP applications by Paul M. Jones.
• PHP 7 Upgrade Guide - An ebook covering all of the features and changes in PHP 7 by Colin O'Dell.
• PHP Pandas - A book about learning to write PHP by Dayle Rees.
• Scaling PHP Applications - An ebook about scaling PHP applications by Steve Corona.
• Securing PHP: Core Concepts - A book about common security terms and practices for PHP by Chris Cornutt.
• Signaling PHP - A book about catching PCNTL signals in CLI scripts by Cal Evans.
• The Grumpy Programmer's Guide to Building Testable PHP Applications - A book about building testing PHP applications by Chris Hartjes.
• XML Parsing with PHP - This book covers parsing and validating XML documents, leveraging XPath expressions, and working with namespaces as well as how to create and modify XML files programmatically.
• Domain-Driven Design in PHP - Real examples written in PHP showcasing DDD Architectural Styles.

Other Books

Books related to general computing and web development.

• Elasticsearch: The Definitive Guide - A guide to working with Elasticsearch by Clinton Gormley and Zachary Tong.
• Eloquent JavaScript - A book about JavaScript programming by Marijn Haverbeke.
• Head First Design Patterns - A book that expains software design patterns.
• Pro Git - A book about Git by Scott Chacon and Ben Straub.
• The Linux Command Line - A book about the Linux command line by William Shotts.
• The Tangled Web — Securing Web Applications - A book about securing web applications by Michal Zalewski.
• Understanding Computation - A book about computation theory by Tom Stuart.
• Vagrant Cookbook - A book about creating Vagrant environments by Erika Heidi.

PHP Videos

Fantastic PHP-related videos.

• Nomad PHP Lightning Talks - 10 to 15 minute Lightning Talks by PHP community members.
• PHP UK Conference - A collection of videos from the PHP UK Conference.
• Programming with Anthony - A video series by Anthony Ferrara.
• Taking PHP Seriously - A talk outlining PHP's strengths by Keith Adams of Facebook.

PHP Podcasts

Podcasts with a focus on PHP topics.

• PHP Town Hall - A casual PHP podcast by Ben Edmunds and Phil Sturgeon.
• Voices of the ElePHPant Interviews with the people that make the PHP community special.
• PHP Roundtable - The PHP Roundtable is a casual gathering of developers discussing topics that PHP nerds care about.

PHP Reading

PHP-releated reading materials.

• Composer Primer - A Composer primer.
• Composer Stability Flags - An article about Composer stability flags.
• Composer Versioning - An article about Composer versioning.
• Create Your Own PHP Framework - A series of articles on how to make your own PHP framework by Fabien Potencier.
• Don't Worry About BREACH - An article about the BREACH hack and CSRF tokens.
• On PHP 5.3, Lambda Functions and Closures - An article about lambda functions and closures.
• PHP Is Much Better Than You Think - An article about the PHP language and ecosystem.
• PHP Package Checklist - A checklist for successful PHP package development.
• PHP Sucks! But I Like It! - An article about the pros and cons of PHP.
• Preventing CSRF Attacks - An article on preventing CSRF attacks.
• Seven Ways to Screw Up BCrypt - An article about correct BCrypt implementation.
• The 2018 Guide to Building Secure PHP Software - A guide to building secure PHP software.
• Use Env - An article about using the unix environment helper.

PHP Internals Reading

Reading materials related to the PHP internals or performance.

• Disproving the Single Quotes Myth - An article about performance of single and double quoted strings.
• How Big Are PHP Arrays (And Values) Really? - An article about array internals.
• How Foreach Works - A detailed StackOverflow answer about foreach.
• How Long is a Piece of String - An article about string internals.
• PHP Evaluation Order - An article about evaluation order in PHP.
• PHP Internals Book - An online book about PHP internals, written by three core developers.
• PHP RFCs - The home of PHP RFCs (Request for Comments).
• Print vs Echo, Which One is Faster? - An article about print and echo performance.
• The PHP Ternary Operator. Fast or Not? - An article ternary performance.
• Understanding OpCodes - An article about opcodes.
• When Does Foreach Copy? - An article about the internals of foreach.
• Why Objects (Usually) Use Less Memory Than Arrays - An article about object and array internals.
• You're Being Lied To - An article about internal ZVALs.
• Collecting Garbage: 1 2 3 - A series about the PHP garbage collection internals.
• PHP Source Code for Developers: 1 2 3 4 - A series about the PHP source code.

PHP Magazines

Fantastic PHP-related magazines.

• php[architect] - A monthly magazine dedicated to PHP.

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Getting Started

Courses, tutorials and guides

• Apple- Start Developing with iOS - Apple Guide.
• Apple - Object-Oriented Programming with Objective-C
• Apple - Programming with Objective-C
• CodeProject - Getting Started with iPhone and iOS Development.
• Lifehacker - I Want to Write iOS Apps. Where Do I Start?
• Ray Wenderlich - Learn to code iOS Apps.
• Stanford - Developing iOS 7 Apps for iPhone and iPad
• Stanford - Developing iOS 10 Apps with Swift - Stanford's 2017 iTunes U course.
• Stanford - Developing iOS 11 Apps with Swift - Stanford's 2017 iTunes U course updated for iOS 11 and Swift.
• Swifteducation - Teaching App Development with Swift
• Udacity - Intro to iOS App Development with Swift
• Udemy - ARKit - Beginner to Professional in Swift 4 and iOS 11
• ARStarter - Get started with ARKit - A little exercise for beginners.

Accessibility

Frameworks that help to support accessibility features and enable people with disabilities to use your app

• Capable - Track accessibility features to improve your app for people with certain disabilities.

Alexa

Frameworks that help to support writing custom alexa skills in swift

• AlexaSkillsKit - Swift library to develop custom Alexa Skills.

Analytics

Analytics platforms, SDK's, error tracking and real-time answers about your app

• Instabug - In-app feedback, Bug and Crash reporting, Fix Bugs Faster through user-steps, video recordings, screen annotation, network requests logging.
• Mixpanel - Advanced analytics platform.
• Localytics - Brings app marketing and analytics together.
• Answers by Fabric - Answers gives you real-time insight into people’s experience in your app.
• GTrack - Lightweight Objective-C wrapper around the Google Analytics for iOS SDK with some extra goodies.
• ARAnalytics - Analytics abstraction library offering a sane API for tracking events and user data.
• Segment - The hassle-free way to integrate analytics into any iOS application.
• MOCA Analytics - Paid cross-platform analytics backend.
• Countly - Open source, mobile & web analytics, crash reports and push notifications platform for iOS & Android.
• Abbi - A Simple SDK for developers to manage and maximise conversions of all in-app promotions.
• devtodev - Comprehensive analytics service that improves your project and saves time for product development.
• Bugsnag - Error tracking with a free tier. Error reports include data on device, release, user, and allows arbitrary data.
• Inapptics - Helps analyze and visualize user behavior in mobile apps. Provides visual user journeys, heatmaps and crash replays.
• Matomo - The MatomoTracker is an iOS, tvOS and macOS SDK for sending app analytics to a Matomo server.

App Routing

Elegant URL routing, navigation frameworks, deep links and more

• WAAppRouting - iOS routing done right. Handles both URL recognition and controller displaying with parsed parameters. All in one line, controller stack preserved automatically!
• DeepLinkKit - A splendid route-matching, block-based way to handle your deep links.
• IntentKit - An easier way to handle third-party URL schemes in iOS apps.
• JLRoutes - URL routing library for iOS with a simple block-based API.
• IKRouter - URLScheme router than supports auto creation of UIViewControllers for associated url parameters to allow creation of navigation stacks
• Appz - Easily launch and deeplink into external applications, falling back to web if not installed.
• URLNavigator - ⛵️ Elegant URL Routing for Swift
• Marshroute - Marshroute is an iOS Library for making your Routers simple but extremely powerful.
• SwiftRouter - A URL Router for iOS.
• Router - ? Simple Navigation for iOS.
• ApplicationCoordinator - Coordinator is an object that handles navigation flow and shares flow’s handling for the next coordinator after switching on the next chain.
• RxFlow - Navigation framework for iOS applications based on a Reactive Flow Coordinator pattern.
• Linker - Lightweight way to handle internal and external deeplinks for iOS.
• CoreNavigation - ?? Navigate between view controllers with ease.
• DZURLRoute - Universal route engine for iOS app, it can handle URLScheme between applications and page route between UIViewController.
• Crossroad - Crossroad is an URL router focused on handling Custom URL Schemes. Using this, you can route multiple URL schemes and fetch arguments and parameters easily.
• ZIKRouter - An interface-oriented router for discovering modules and injecting dependencies with protocol in OC & Swift, iOS & macOS. Handles route in a type safe way.
• RouteComposer - Library that helps to handle view controllers composition, routing and deeplinking tasks.
• LightRoute - Easy transition between VIPER modules, implemented on pure Swift.

Apple TV

tvOS view controllers, wrappers, template managers and video players.

• Voucher - A simple library to make authenticating tvOS apps easy via their iOS counterparts.
• XCDYouTubeKit - YouTube video player for iOS, tvOS and macOS
• TVMLKitchen - Swifty TVML template manager with or without client-server
• BrowserTV - Turn your TV into a dashboard displaying any webpage!
• Swift-GA-Tracker-for-Apple-tvOS - Google Analytics tracker for Apple tvOS provides an easy integration of Google Analytics’ measurement protocol for Apple TV.
• ParallaxView - iOS controls and extensions that add parallax effect to your application.
• TvOSTextViewer - Light and scrollable view controller for tvOS to present blocks of text
• FocusTvButton - Light wrapper of UIButton that allows extra customization for tvOS
• TvOSMoreButton - A basic tvOS button which truncates long text with '... More'.
• TvOSPinKeyboard - PIN keyboard for tvOS
• TvOSScribble - Handwriting numbers recognizer for Siri Remote
• TvOSCustomizableTableViewCell - Light wrapper of UITableViewCell that allows extra customization for tvOS
• TvOSSlider - TvOSSlider is an implementation of UISlider for tvOS

Architecture Patterns

Clean architecture, Viper, MVVM, Reactive... choose your weapon.

• SwiftyVIPER - Makes implementing VIPER architecture much easier and cleaner.
• CleanArchitectureRxSwift - Example of Clean Architecture of iOS app using RxSwift.
• Viperit - Viper Framework for iOS. Develop an app following VIPER architecture in an easy way. Written and tested in Swift.
• Reactant - Reactant is a reactive architecture for iOS
• YARCH - More clean alternative to VIPER with unidirectional data flow (flux-like).
• iOS-Viper-Architecture - This repository contains a detailed sample app that implements VIPER architecture in iOS using libraries and frameworks like Alamofire, AlamofireImage, PKHUD, CoreData etc.
• Tempura - A holistic approach to iOS development, inspired by Redux and MVVM.
• VIPER Module Generator - A Clean VIPER Modules Generator with comments and predfined functions.
• MMVMi - A Validation Model for MVC and MVVM Design Patterns in iOS Applications.
• ios-architecture - A collection of iOS architectures - MVC, MVVM, MVVM+RxSwift, VIPER, RIBs and many others

ARKit

Library and tools to help you build unparalleled augmented reality experiences

• ARKit-CoreLocation -Combines the high accuracy of AR with the scale of GPS data.
• Virtual Objects - Placing Virtual Objects in Augmented Reality.
• ARVideoKit - Record and capture ARKit videos ?, photos ?, Live Photos ?, and GIFs ?.
• ARKitEnvironmentMapper - A library that allows you to generate and update environment maps in real-time using the camera feed and ARKit's tracking capabilities.
• SmileToUnlock - This library uses ARKit Face Tracking in order to catch a user's smile.
• Placenote - A library that makes ARKit sessions persistent to a location using advanced computer vision
• Poly - Unofficial Google Poly SDK – search and display 3D models
• ARKit Emperor - The Emperor give you the most practical ARKit samples ever.

Authentication

Oauth and Oauth2 libraries, social logins and captcha tools.

• Heimdallr.swift - Easy to use OAuth 2 library for iOS, written in Swift.
• OhMyAuth - Simple OAuth2 library with a support of multiple services.
• AuthenticationViewController - A simple to use, standard interface for authenticating to oauth 2.0 protected endpoints via SFSafariViewController.
• OAuth2 - OAuth2 framework for macOS and iOS, written in Swift.
• OAuthSwift - Swift based OAuth library for iOS
• SimpleAuth - Simple social authentication for iOS.
• AlamofireOauth2 - A swift implementation of OAuth2
• SwiftyOAuth - A simple OAuth library for iOS with a built-in set of providers
• Simplicity - A simple way to implement Facebook and Google login in your iOS and macOS apps.
• InstagramAuthViewController - A ViewController for Instagram authentication.
• InstagramSimpleOAuth - A quick and simple way to authenticate an Instagram user in your iPhone or iPad app.
• DropboxSimpleOAuth - A quick and simple way to authenticate a Dropbox user in your iPhone or iPad app.
• BoxSimpleOAuth - A quick and simple way to authenticate a Box user in your iPhone or iPad app.
• InstagramLogin - A simple way to authenticate Instagram accounts on iOS.
• ReCaptcha - [In]visible ReCaptcha for iOS.
• LinkedInSignIn - Simple view controller to login and retrieve access token from LinkedIn.

Blockchain

Tool for smart contract interactions. Bitcoin protocol implementations and Frameworks for interacting with cryptocurrencies.

• Web3.swift - Web3 library for interacting with the Ethereum blockchain.
• web3swift - Elegant Web3js functionality in Swift. Native ABI parsing and smart contract interactions.
• EthereumKit - EthereumKit is a free, open-source Swift framework for easily interacting with the Ethereum.
• BitcoinKit - Bitcoin protocol toolkit for Swift, BitcoinKit implements Bitcoin protocol in Swift. It is an implementation of the Bitcoin SPV protocol written (almost) entirely in swift.
• EtherWalletKit - Ethereum Wallet Toolkit for iOS - You can implement Ethereum wallet without a server and blockchain knowledge.
• CoinpaprikaAPI - Coinpaprika API client with free & frequently updated market data from the world of crypto: coin prices, volumes, market caps, ATHs, return rates and more.
• Bitcoin-Swift-Kit - Full Bitcoin library written on Swift. Complete SPV wallet implementation for Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash and Dash blockchains.

Bridging

Sharing code between Objective-C and Swift, iOS and macOS, Javascript and Objective-C.

• RubyMotion - RubyMotion is a revolutionary toolchain that lets you quickly develop and test native iOS and macOS applications for iPhone, iPad and Mac, all using the Ruby language.
• JSPatch - JSPatch bridge Objective-C and Javascript using the Objective-C runtime. You can call any Objective-C class and method in JavaScript by just including a small engine. JSPatch is generally use for hotfix iOS App.
• WebViewJavascriptBridge - An iOS/macOS bridge for sending messages between Obj-C and JavaScript in UIWebViews/WebViews.
• MAIKit - A framework for sharing code between iOS and macOS.

Cache

Thread safe, offline and high performance cache libs and frameworks.

• Awesome Cache - Delightful on-disk cache (written in Swift)
• mattress - iOS Offline Caching for Web Content
• Carlos - A simple but flexible cache
• HanekeSwift - A lightweight generic cache for iOS written in Swift with extra love for images.
• YYCache - High performance cache framework for iOS.
• Cache - Nothing but Cache.
• MGCacheManager - A delightful iOS Networking Cache Managing Class.
• SPTPersistentCache - Everyone tries to implement a cache at some point in their iOS app’s lifecycle, and this is ours. By Spotify
• Track - Track is a thread safe cache write by Swift. Composed of DiskCache and MemoryCache which support LRU.
• UITableView Cache - UITableView cell cache that cures scroll-lags on a cell instantiating.
• RocketData - A caching and consistency solution for immutable models.
• PINCache - Fast, non-deadlocking parallel object cache for iOS and macOS
• Johnny - Melodic Caching for Swift
• Disk - Delightful framework for iOS to easily persist structs, images, and data.
• Cachyr - A small key-value data cache for iOS, macOS and tvOS, written in Swift
• Cache - Swift caching library.
• MemoryCache - MemoryCache is type-safe memory cache.

Charts

Beautiful, Easy and Fully customized charts

• Charts - A powerful chart / graph framework, the iOS equivalent to MPAndroidChart.
• PNChart - A simple and beautiful chart lib used in Piner and CoinsMan for iOS
• XJYChart - A Beautiful chart for iOS. Support animation, click, slide, area highlight.
• BEMSimpleLineGraph - Elegant Line Graphs for iOS (charting library).
• JBChartView - iOS-based charting library for both line and bar graphs.
• XYPieChart - A simple and animated Pie Chart for your iOS app.
• TEAChart - Simple and intuitive iOS chart library. Contribution graph, clock chart, and bar chart.
• EChart - iOS/iPhone/iPad Chart, Graph. Event handling and animation supported.
• FSLineChart - A line chart library for iOS.
• chartee - a charting library for mobile platforms.
• ANDLineChartView - ANDLineChartView is easy to use view-based class for displaying animated line chart.
• TWRCharts - An iOS wrapper for ChartJS. Easily build animated charts by leveraging the power of native Obj-C code.
• SwiftCharts - Easy to use and highly customizable charts library for iOS.
• FlowerChart - Flower-shaped chart with custom appearance animation, fully vector.
• Scrollable-GraphView - An adaptive scrollable graph view for iOS to visualise simple discrete datasets. Written in Swift.
• Dr-Charts - Dr-Charts is a highly customisable, easy to use and interactive chart / graph framework in Objective-C.
• Graphs - Light weight charts view generator for iOS.
• FSInteractiveMap - A charting library to visualize and interact with a vector map on iOS. It's like Geochart but for iOS!
• JYRadarChart - An iOS open source Radar Chart implementation.
• TKRadarChart - A customizable radar chart in Swift
• MagicPie - Awesome layer based pie chart. Fantastically fast and fully customizable. Amazing animations available with MagicPie!!1 ? ✨✨✨✨✨
• PieCharts - Easy to use and highly customizable pie charts library for iOS.
• CSPieChart - iOS PieChart Opensource. This is very easy to use and customizable.
• DDSpiderChart - Easy to use and customizable Spider (Radar) Chart library for iOS written in Swift.
• core-plot - a 2D plotting lib which is highly customizable and capable of drawing many types of plots.
• ChartProgressBar - Draw a chart with progress bar style.
• SMDiagramViewSwift - Meet cute and very flexibility library for iOS application for different data view in one circle diagram.
• Swift LineChart - Line Chart library for iOS written in Swift.
• SwiftChart - Line and area chart library for iOS.
• EatFit - Eat fit is a component for attractive data representation inspired by Google Fit.
• CoreCharts - CoreCharts is a simple powerful yet Charts library for apple products.

Code Quality

Quality always matters. Code checkers, memory vigilants, syntastic sugars and more.

• Bootstrap - iOS project bootstrap aimed at high quality coding.
• KZAsserts - Set of custom assertions that automatically generate NSError's, allow for both Assertions in Debug and Error handling in Release builds, with beautiful DSL.
• PSPDFUIKitMainThreadGuard - Simple snippet generating assertions when UIKit is used on background threads.
• ocstyle - Objective-C style checker.
• spacecommander - Commit fully-formatted Objective-C code as a team without even trying.
• DWURecyclingAlert - Optimizing UITableViewCell For Fast Scrolling.
• Tailor - Cross-platform static analyzer for Swift that helps you to write cleaner code and avoid bugs.
• SwiftCop - SwiftCop is a validation library fully written in Swift and inspired by the clarity of Ruby On Rails Active Record validations.
• Trackable - Trackable is a simple analytics integration helper library. It’s especially designed for easy and comfortable integration with existing projects.
• MLeaksFinder - Find memory leaks in your iOS app at develop time.
• HeapInspector-for-iOS - Find memory issues & leaks in your iOS app without instruments
• FBMemoryProfiler - iOS tool that helps with profiling iOS Memory usage.
• FBRetainCycleDetector - iOS library to help detecting retain cycles in runtime.
• Buglife - Awesome bug reporting for iOS apps
• Warnings-xcconfig - An xcconfig (Xcode configuration) file for easily turning on a boatload of warnings in your project or its targets.
• Aardvark - Aardvark is a library that makes it dead simple to create actionable bug reports.
• Stats - In-app memory usage monitoring.
• GlueKit - A type-safe observer framework for Swift.
• SwiftFormat - A code library and command-line formatting tool for reformatting Swift code.
• PSTModernizer - Makes it easier to support older versions of iOS by fixing things and adding missing methods.
• Bugsee - In-app bug and crash reporting with video, logs, network traffic and traces.
• Fallback - Syntactic sugar for nested do-try-catch.
• ODUIThreadGuard - A guard to help you check if you make UI changes not in main thread.
• IBAnalyzer - Find common xib and storyboard-related problems without running your app or writing unit tests.
• DecouplingKit - decoupling between modules in your iOS Project.
• Clue - Flexible bug report framework for iOS with screencast, networking, interactions and view structure.
• WeakableSelf - A Swift micro-framework to encapsulate [weak self] and guard statements within closures.

Linter

Static code analyzers to enforce style and conventions.

• OCLint - Static code analysis tool for improving quality and reducing defects.
• Taylor - Measure Swift code metrics and get reports in Xcode, Jenkins and other CI platforms.
• Swiftlint - A tool to enforce Swift style and conventions.
• IBLinter - A linter tool for Interface Builder.
• SwiftLinter - Share lint rules between projects and lint changed files with SwiftLint.

Color

Hex color extensions, theming, color pickers and other awesome color tools.

• DynamicColor - Yet another extension to manipulate colors easily in Swift. [e]
• SwiftHEXColors - HEX color handling as an extension for UIColor. [e]
• Colours - A beautiful set of predefined colors and a set of color methods to make your iOS/macOS development life easier.
• UIColor-Hex-Swift - Convenience method for creating autoreleased color using RGBA hex string.
• Hue - Hue is the all-in-one coloring utility that you'll ever need.
• FlatUIColors - Flat UI color palette helpers written in Swift.
• RandomColorSwift - An attractive color generator for Swift. Ported from randomColor.js.
• PFColorHash - Generate color based on the given string.
• BCColor - A lightweight but powerful color kit (Swift)
• DKNightVersion - Manage Colors, Integrate Night/Multiple Themes
• PrettyColors - PrettyColors is a Swift library for styling and coloring text in the Terminal. The library outputs ANSI escape codes and conforms to ECMA Standard 48.
• TFTColor - Simple Extension for RGB and CMKY Hex Strings and Hex Values (ObjC & Swift).
• CostumeKit - Base types for theming an app.
• CSS3ColorsSwift - A UIColor extension with CSS3 Colors name.
• Colorify - Simple, yet powerful color library that includes latest and most trendy colors from 2017.
• ChromaColorPicker - An intuitive iOS color picker built in Swift.
• Lorikeet - A lightweight Swift framework for aesthetically pleasing color-scheme generation and CIE color-difference calculation.
• Gestalt - An unintrusive & light-weight iOS app-theming library with support for animated theme switching.

Command Line

Smart, beauftil and elegant tools to help you create command line applications.

• Swiftline - Swiftline is a set of tools to help you create command line applications.
• Commander - Compose beautiful command line interfaces in Swift
• ColorizeSwift - Terminal string styling for Swift.
• Guaka - The smartest and most beautiful (POSIX compliant) Command line framework for Swift
• Marathon - Marathon makes it easy to write, run and manage your Swift scripts
• CommandCougar - An elegant pure Swift library for building command line applications.
• Crayon - Terminal string styling with expressive api and 256/TrueColor support.
• SwiftShell - A Swift framework for shell scripting and running shell commands.
• SourceDocs - Command Line Tool that generates Markdown documentation from inline source code comments.

Concurrency

Job schedulers, Coroutines, Asynchronous and Type safe threads libs and frameworks written in Swift

• Venice - CSP (Coroutines, Channels, Select) for Swift.
• Concurrent - Functional Concurrency Primitives.
• Flow - Operation Oriented Programming in Swift.
• Brisk - A Swift DSL that allows concise and effective concurrency manipulation.
• Aojet - An actor model library for swift.
• Overdrive - Fast async task based Swift framework with focus on type safety, concurrency and multi threading.
• AsyncNinja - A complete set of concurrency and reactive programming primitives.
• Kommander - Kommander is a Swift library to manage the task execution in different threads. Through the definition a simple but powerful concept, Kommand.
• Threadly - Type-safe thread-local storage in Swift
• Flow-iOS - Make your logic flow and data flow clean and human readable
• Queuer - A queue manager, built on top of OperationQueue and Dispatch (aka GCD).
• SwiftQueue - Job Scheduler with Concurrent run, failure/retry, persistence, repeat, delay and more.
• GroupWork - Easy concurrent, asynchronous tasks in Swift.
• StickyLocking - A general purpose embedded hierarchical lock manager used to build highly concurrent applications of all types. Built with Swift and runs on iOS, OSX, and Linux.

Core Data

Core data Frameworks, wrappers, generators and boilerplates.

• Ensembles - A synchronization framework for Core Data.
• Mogenerator - Automatic Core Data code generation.
• MagicalRecord - Super Awesome Easy Fetching for Core Data.
• CoreStore - Powerful Core Data framework for Incremental Migrations, Fetching, Observering, etc.
• Core Data Query Interface A type-safe, fluent query framework for Core Data.
• Graph - An elegant data-driven framework for CoreData in Swift.
• CoreDataDandy - A feature-light wrapper around Core Data that simplifies common database operations.
• Sync - ? Modern Swift JSON synchronization to Core Data
• AlecrimCoreData - A powerful and simple Core Data wrapper framework written in Swift.
• AERecord - Super awesome Core Data wrapper in Swift.
• CoreDataStack - The Big Nerd Ranch Core Data Stack
• JSQCoreDataKit - A swifter Core Data stack
• Skopelos - A minimalistic, thread safe, non-boilerplate and super easy to use version of Active Record on Core Data. Simply all you need for doing Core Data. Swift flavour.
• Cadmium - A complete swift framework that wraps CoreData and helps facilitate best practices.
• DataKernel - Simple CoreData wrapper to ease operations.
• DATAStack - 100% Swift Simple Boilerplate Free Core Data Stack. NSPersistentContainer.
• JustPersist - JustPersist is the easiest and safest way to do persistence on iOS with Core Data support out of the box.
• PrediKit - An NSPredicate DSL for iOS, macOS, tvOS, & watchOS. Inspired by SnapKit and lovingly written in Swift.
• Records - In just a few minutes, setup a fully functioning CoreData implementation that embraces the static, type-safe nature of Swift.
• PredicateFlow - Write amazing, strong-typed and easy-to-read NSPredicate, allowing you to write flowable NSPredicate, without guessing attribution names, predicate operation or writing wrong arguments type.

Database

Wrappers, clients, Parse alternatives and safe tools to deal with ephemeral and persistent data.

• Realm - The alternative to CoreData and SQLite: Simple, modern and fast.
• YapDatabase - YapDatabase is an extensible database for iOS & Mac.
• Couchbase Mobile - Couchbase document store for mobile with cloud sync.
• FMDB - A Cocoa / Objective-C wrapper around SQLite.
• FCModel - An alternative to Core Data for people who like having direct SQL access.
• Zephyr - Effortlessly synchronize NSUserDefaults over iCloud.
• Prephirences - Prephirences is a Swift library that provides useful protocols and convenience methods to manage application preferences, configurations and app-state.
• Storez - Safe, statically-typed, store-agnostic key-value storage (with namespace support).
• SwiftyUserDefaults - Statically-typed NSUserDefaults.
• SugarRecord - Data persistence management library.
• SQLite.swift - A type-safe, Swift-language layer over SQLite3.
• GRDB.swift - A versatile SQLite toolkit for Swift, with WAL mode support
• Fluent - Simple ActiveRecord implementation for working with your database in Swift.
• ParseAlternatives - A collaborative list of Parse alternative backend service providers.
• TypedDefaults - TypedDefaults is a utility library to type-safely use NSUserDefaults.
• realm-cocoa-converter - A library that provides the ability to import/export Realm files from a variety of data container formats.
• YapDatabaseExtensions - YapDatabase extensions for use with Swift
• RealmGeoQueries - RealmGeoQueries simplifies spatial queries with Realm Cocoa. In the absence of and official functions, this library provide the possibility to do proximity search. [e]
• SwiftMongoDB - A MongoDB interface for Swift
• ObjectiveRocks - An Objective-C wrapper of Facebook's RocksDB - A Persistent Key-Value Store for Flash and RAM Storage.
• OHMySQL - An Objective-C wrapper of MySQL C API.
• SwiftStore - Key-Value store for Swift backed by LevelDB
• OneStore - A single value proxy for NSUserDefaults, with clean API.
• MongoDB - A Swift wrapper around the mongo-c client library, enabling access to MongoDB servers.
• MySQL - A Swift wrapper around the MySQL client library, enabling access to MySQL servers.
• Redis - A Swift wrapper around the Redis client library, enabling access to Redis.
• PostgreSQL - A Swift wrapper around the libpq client library, enabling access to PostgreSQL servers.
• FileMaker - A Swift wrapper around the FileMaker XML Web publishing interface, enabling access to FileMaker servers.
• Nora - Nora is a Firebase abstraction layer for working with FirebaseDatabase and FirebaseStorage.
• PersistentStorageSerializable - Swift library that makes easier to serialize the user's preferences (app's settings) with system User Defaults or Property List file on disk.
• WCDB - WCDB is an efficient, complete, easy-to-use mobile database framework for iOS, macOS.
• StorageKit - Your Data Storage Troubleshooter ?
• UserDefaults - Simple, Strongly Typed UserDefaults for iOS, macOS and tvOS
• Default - Modern interface to UserDefaults + Codable support
• IceCream - Sync Realm Database with CloudKit
• FirebaseHelper - Safe and easy wrappers for common Firebase Realtime Database functions.
• Shallows - Your lightweight persistence toolbox.
• StorageManager - Safe and easy way to use FileManager as Database.
• RealmWrapper - Safe and easy wrappers for RealmSwift.
• UserDefaultsStore - An easy and very light way to store and retrieve -reasonable amount- of Codable objects, in a couple lines of code!
• PropertyKit - Protocol-First, Type and Key-Safe Swift Property for iOS, macOS and tvOS
• PersistenceKit - Store and retrieve Codable objects to various persistence layers, in a couple lines of code!
• ModelAssistant - Elegant library to manage the interactions between view and model in Swift.
• MMKV - An efficient, small mobile key-value storage framework developed by WeChat. Works on iOS, Android, macOS and Windows.
• Defaults - Swifty and modern UserDefaults.
• MongoKitten - A pure Swift MongoDB client implementation with support for embedded databases.
• SecureDefaults - A lightweight wrapper over UserDefaults/NSUserDefaults with an extra AES-256 encryption layer.
• Unrealm - Unrealm enables you to easily store Swift native Classes, Structs and Enums into Realm

Data Structures / Algorithms

Diffs, keypaths, sorted lists and other amazing data structures wrappers and libraries.

• Changeset - Minimal edits from one collection to another
• BTree - Fast ordered collections for Swift using in-memory B-trees
• SwiftStructures - Examples of commonly used data structures and algorithms in Swift.
• diff - Simple diff library in pure Swift
• Brick - ? A generic view model for both basic and complex scenarios
• Algorithm - Algorithm is a collection of data structures that are empowered by a probability toolset.
• AnyObjectConvertible - Convert your own struct/enum to AnyObject easily.
• Dollar - A functional tool-belt for Swift Language similar to Lo-Dash or Underscore.js in Javascript https://www.dollarswift.org/.
• Result - Swift type modeling the success/failure of arbitrary operations.
• EKAlgorithms - Some well known CS algorithms & data structures in Objective-C.
• Monaka - Convert custom struct and fundamental values to NSData.
• Buffer - Swift μ-framework for efficient array diffs, collection observation and cell configuration.
• SwiftGraph - Graph data structure and utility functions in pure Swift.
• SwiftPriorityQueue - A priority queue with a classic binary heap implementation in pure Swift.
• Pencil - Write values to file and read it more easily.
• HeckelDiff - A fast Swift diffing library.
• Dekoter - NSCoding's counterpart for Swift structs.
• swift-algorithm-club - Algorithms and data structures in Swift, with explanations!
• Impeller - A Distributed Value Store in Swift
• Dispatch - Multi-store Flux implementation in Swift
• DeepDiff - Diff in Swift
• Differ - Swift library to generate differences and patches between collections.
• Probably - A Swift probability and statistics library.
• RandMyMod - RandMyMod base on your own struct or class create one or a set of randomized instance.
• KeyPathKit - KeyPathKit provides a seamless syntax to manipulate data using typed keypaths.
• Differific - A fast and convenient diffing framework.
• OneWaySynchronizer - The simplest abstraction to synchronize local data with remote source.
• DifferenceKit - ? A fast and flexible O(n) difference algorithm framework for Swift collection.

Date & Time

Time and NSCalendar libraries. Also contains Sunrise and Sunset time generators, time pickers and NSTimer interfaces.

• Timepiece - Intuitive NSDate extensions in Swift
• SwiftDate - The best way to manage Dates and Timezones in Swift.
• SwiftMoment - A time and calendar manipulation library.
• DateTools - Dates and times made easy in Objective-C
• SwiftyTimer - Swifty API for NSTimer
• DateHelper - Convenience extension for NSDate in Swift
• iso-8601-date-formatter - A Cocoa NSFormatter subclass to convert dates to and from ISO-8601-formatted strings. Supports calendar, week, and ordinal formats.
• EmojiTimeFormatter - Format your dates/times as emojis.
• Kronos - Elegant NTP date library in Swift
• TrueTime - Get the true current time impervious to device clock time changes. (NTP library for Swift) .
• 10Clock - This Control is a beautiful time-of-day picker heavily inspired by the iOS 10 "Bedtime" timer.
• NSDate-TimeAgo - A "time ago", "time since", "relative date", or "fuzzy date" category for NSDate and iOS, Objective-C, Cocoa Touch, iPhone, iPad.
• AnyDate - Swifty Date & Time API inspired from Java 8 DateTime API.
• TimeZonePicker - A TimeZonePicker UIViewController similar to the iOS Settings app.
• Time - Type-safe time calculations in Swift, powered by generics. [e]
• Chronology - Building a better date/time library
• Solar - A Swift micro library for generating Sunrise and Sunset times.
• TimePicker - Configurable time picker component based on a pan gesture and its velocity.
• LFTimePicker - Custom Time Picker ViewController with Selection of start and end times in Swift
• NVDate - Swift4 Date extension library
• Schedule - ⏳ A missing lightweight task scheduler for Swift with an incredibly human-friendly syntax.

Debugging

Debugging tools, crash reports, logs and console UI's.

• Xniffer - A swift network profiler built on top of URLSession.
• Netfox - A lightweight, one line setup, iOS / macOS network debugging library!
• PonyDebugger - Remote network and data debugging for your native iOS app using Chrome Developer Tools.
• DBDebugToolkit - Set of easy to use debugging tools for iOS developers & QA engineers.
• Flex - An in-app debugging and exploration tool for iOS.
• chisel - Collection of LLDB commands to assist debugging iOS apps.
• Alpha - Next generation debugging framework for iOS.
• AEConsole - Customizable Console UI overlay with debug log on top of your iOS App.
• GodEye - Automatically display Log,Crash,Network,ANR,Leak,CPU,RAM,FPS,NetFlow,Folder and etc with one line of code based on Swift.
• NetworkEye - a iOS network debug library, It can monitor HTTP requests within the App and displays information related to the request.
• Dotzu - iOS app debugger while using the app. Crash report, logs, network.
• Hyperion - In-app design review tool to inspect measurements, attributes, and animations.
• Httper-iOS - App for developers to test REST API.
• Droar - Droar is a modular, single-line installation debugging window
• Wormholy - iOS network debugging, like a wizard
• AppSpector - Remote iOS and Android debugging and data collection service. You can debug networking, logs, CoreData, SQLite, NSNotificationCenter and mock device's geo location.
• Woodpecker - View sandbox files, UserDefaults, network request from Mac.
• LayoutInspector - Debug app layouts directly on iOS device: inspect layers in 3D and debug each visible view attributes
• MTHawkeye - Profiling / Debugging assist tools for iOS, include tools: UITimeProfiler, Memory Allocations, Living ObjC Objects Sniffer, Network Transaction Waterfall, etc.

EventBus

Promises and Futures libraries to help you write better async code in Swift.

• SwiftEventBus - A publish/subscribe event bus optimized for iOS.
• PromiseKit - Promises for iOS and macOS.
• Bolts - Bolts is a collection of low-level libraries designed to make developing mobile apps easier, including tasks (promises) and app links (deep links).
• SwiftTask - Promise + progress + pause + cancel + retry for Swift.
• When - A lightweight implementation of Promises in Swift.
• then? - Elegant Async code in Swift.
• Bolts-Swift - Bolts is a collection of low-level libraries designed to make developing mobile apps easier.
• RWPromiseKit - A light-weighted Promise library for Objective-C
• FutureLib - FutureLib is a pure Swift 2 library implementing Futures & Promises inspired by Scala.
• SwiftNotificationCenter - A Protocol-Oriented NotificationCenter which is type safe, thread safe and with memory safety
• FutureKit - A Swift based Future/Promises Library for iOS and macOS.
• signals-ios - Typeful eventing
• BrightFutures - Write great asynchronous code in Swift using futures and promises.
• NoticeObserveKit - NoticeObserveKit is type-safe NotificationCenter wrapper that associates notice type with info type.
• Hydra - Promises & Await - Write better async code in Swift
• Promis - The easiest Future and Promises framework in Swift. No magic. No boilerplate.
• Bluebird.swift - Promise/A+, Bluebird inspired, implementation in Swift 4.
• Promise - A Promise library for Swift, based partially on Javascript's A+ spec.
• promises - Google provides a synchronization construct for Objective-C and Swift to facilitate writing asynchronous code.
• Continuum - NotificationCenter based Lightweight UI / AnyObject binder.
• Futures - Lightweight promises for iOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS, and server-side Swift.
• EasyFutures - ? Swift Futures & Promises. Easy to use. Highly combinable.
• TopicEventBus - Publish–subscribe design pattern implementation framework, with ability to publish events by topic. (NotificationCenter extended alternative)

Files

File management, file browser, zip handling and file observers.

• FileKit - Simple and expressive file management in Swift.
• Zip - Swift framework for zipping and unzipping files.
• FileBrowser - Powerful Swift file browser for iOS.
• Ares - Zero-setup P2P file transfer between Macs and iOS devices
• FileProvider - FileManager replacement for Local, iCloud and Remote (WebDAV/FTP/Dropbox/OneDrive/SMB2) files on iOS/tvOS and macOS.
• KZFileWatchers - A micro-framework for observing file changes, both local and remote. Helpful in building developer tools.
• ZipArchive - ZipArchive is a simple utility class for zipping and unzipping files on iOS and Mac.
• FileExplorer - Powerful file browser for iOS that allows its users to choose and remove files and/or directories.
• ZIPFoundation - Effortless ZIP Handling in Swift
• AppFolder - AppFolder is a lightweight framework that lets you design a friendly, strongly-typed representation of a directories inside your app's container.
• ZipZap - zip file I/O library for iOS, macOS and tvOS.
• AMSMB2 - Swift framework to connect SMB 2/3 shares for iOS.

Functional Programming

Collection of Swift functional programming tools.

• Forbind - Functional chaining and promises in Swift.
• Funky - Functional programming tools and experiments in Swift.
• LlamaKit - Collection of must-have functional Swift tools.
• Oriole - A functional utility belt implemented as Swift protocol extensions. [e]
• Prelude - Swift µframework of simple functional programming tools.
• Swiftx - Functional data types and functions for any project.
• Swiftz - Functional programming in Swift.
• OptionalExtensions - Swift µframework with extensions for the Optional Type. [e]
• Argo - Functional JSON parsing library for Swift
• Runes - Infix operators for monadic functions in Swift.
• Bow - Typed Functional Programming companion library for Swift.

Games

• Sage - A cross-platform chess library for Swift.
• ShogibanKit - ShogibanKit is a framework for implementing complex Japanese Chess (Shogii) in Swift. No UI, nor AI.
• SKTiled - Swift framework for working with Tiled assets in SpriteKit
• CollectionNode - A swift framework for a collectionView in SpriteKit
• AssetImportKit - Swifty cross platform library (macOS, iOS) that converts Assimp supported models to SceneKit scenes.
• glide engine - SpriteKit and GameplayKit based engine for making 2d games, with practical examples and tutorials.

GCD

Grand Central Dispatch syntax sugars, tools and timers.

• GCDKit - Grand Central Dispatch simplified with Swift.
• Async - Syntactic sugar in Swift for asynchronous dispatches in Grand Central Dispatch
• SwiftSafe - Thread synchronization made easy
• YYDispatchQueuePool - iOS utility class to manage global dispatch queue.
• AlecrimAsyncKit - Bringing async and await to Swift world with some flavouring.
• GrandSugarDispatch - Syntactic sugar for Grand Central Dispatch (GCD)
• Threader - Pretty GCD calls and easier code execution.
• Dispatch - Just a tiny library to make using GCD easier and intuitive
• GCDTimer - Well tested Grand Central Dispatch (GCD) Timer in Swift.
• Chronos-Swift - ⌛️ Grand Central Dispatch Utilities
• Me - A super slim solution to the nested asynchronous computations.
• SwiftyTask - An extreme queuing system with high performance for managing all task in app with closure.

Gesture

Libraries and tools to handle gestures.

• Tactile - A better way to handle gestures on iOS
• SwiftyGestureRecognition - Aids with prototyping UIGestureRecognizers in Xcode Playgrounds
• DBPathRecognizer - Gesture recognizer tool [Swift / iOS]
• Sensitive - Fresh look at work with gestures in Swift.
• SplitViewDragAndDrop - Easily add drag and drop to pass data between your apps in split view mode.
• FDFullscreenPopGesture - An UINavigationController's category to enable fullscreen pop gesture in an iOS7+ system style with AOP.

Graphics

CoreGraphics, CoreAnimation, SVG, CGContext libraries, helpers and tools.

• Graphicz - Light-weight, operator-overloading-free complements to CoreGraphics!
• PKCoreTechniques - The code for my CoreGraphics+CoreAnimation talk, held during the 2012 iOS Game Design Seminar at the Technical University Munich.
• MPWDrawingContext - An Objective-C wrapper for CoreGraphics CGContext
• DePict - A simple, declarative, functional drawing framework, in Swift!
• SwiftSVG - A single pass SVG parser with multiple interface options (String, NS/UIBezierPath, CAShapeLayer, and NS/UIView).
• InkKit - Write-Once, Draw-Everywhere for iOS and macOS -- Now in Swift!
• YYAsyncLayer - iOS utility classes for asynchronous rendering and display.
• NXDrawKit - NXDrawKit is a simple and easy but useful drawing kit for iPhone
• jot - An iOS framework for easily adding drawings and text to images.
• SVGKit - Display and interact with SVG Images on iOS / macOS, using native rendering (CoreAnimation) (currently only supported for iOS - macOS code needs updating).
• Snowflake - ❄️ SVG in Swift.
• HxSTLParser - Basic STL loader for SceneKit
• ProcessingKit - Visual designing library for iOS & OSX
• EZYGradientView - Create gradients and blur gradients without a single line of code
• AEConicalGradient - Conical (angular) gradient layer written in Swift.
• MKGradientView - Core Graphics based gradient view capable of producing Linear (Axial), Radial (Circular), Conical (Angular), Bilinear (Four Point) gradients, written in Swift.
• EPShapes - Design shapes in Interface Builder.
• Macaw - Powerful and easy-to-use vector graphics library with SVG support written in Swift.
• BlockiesSwift - Unique blocky identicons/profile picture generator.
• Rough - lets you draw in a sketchy, hand-drawn-like, style.
• GraphLayout - UI controls for graph visualization. It is powered by Graphviz.
• Drawsana - iOS framework for building raster drawing and image markup views, written in Swift and maintained by Asana

Hardware

Bluetooth

Libraries to deal with nearby devices, BLE tools and MultipeerConnectivity wrappers.

• Discovery - A very simple library to discover and retrieve data from nearby devices (even if the peer app works at background).
• LGBluetooth - Simple, block-based, lightweight library over CoreBluetooth. Will clean up your Core Bluetooth related code.
• PeerKit An open-source Swift framework for building event-driven, zero-config Multipeer Connectivity apps.
• BluetoothKit - Easily communicate between iOS/macOS devices using BLE.
• Bluetonium - Bluetooth mapping in Swift
• BlueCap - iOS Bluetooth LE framework
• Apple Family - Quickly connect Apple devices together with Bluetooth, wifi, and USB.
• Bleu - BLE (Bluetooth LE) for U
• Bluejay - A simple Swift framework for building reliable Bluetooth LE apps.
• BabyBluetooth - The easiest way to use Bluetooth (BLE) in iOS/MacOS.
• ExtendaBLE - Simple Blocks-Based BLE Client for iOS/tvOS/watchOS/OSX/Android. Quickly configuration for centrals/peripherals, perform packet based read/write operations, and callbacks for characteristic updates.
• PeerConnectivity - Functional wrapper for Apple's MultipeerConnectivity framework.
• AZPeerToPeerConnection - AZPeerToPeerConnectivity is a wrapper on top of Apple iOS Multipeer Connectivity framework. It provides an easier way to create and manage sessions. Easy to integrate.
• MultiPeer - Multipeer is a wrapper for Apple's MultipeerConnectivity framework for offline data transmission between Apple devices. It makes easy to automatically connect to multiple nearby devices and share information using either bluetooth or wifi.

Camera

Mocks, ImagePickers, and multiple options of customizable camera implementation

• TGCameraViewController - Custom camera with AVFoundation. Beautiful, light and easy to integrate with iOS projects.
• PBJVision - iOS camera engine, features touch-to-record video, slow motion video, and photo capture.
• Cool-iOS-Camera - A fully customisable and modern camera implementation for iOS made with AVFoundation.
• SCRecorder - Camera engine with Vine-like tap to record, animatable filters, slow motion, segments editing.
• ALCameraViewController - A camera view controller with custom image picker and image cropping. Written in Swift.
• CameraManager - Simple Swift class to provide all the configurations you need to create custom camera view in your app.
• RSBarcodes_Swift - 1D and 2D barcodes reader and generators for iOS 8 with delightful controls. Now Swift.
• LLSimpleCamera - A simple, customizable camera control - video recorder for iOS.
• Fusuma - Instagram-like photo browser and a camera feature with a few line of code in Swift.
• BarcodeScanner - ? Simple and beautiful barcode scanner.
• HorizonSDK-iOS - State of the art real-time video recording / photo shooting iOS library.
• FastttCamera - Fasttt and easy camera framework for iOS with customizable filters
• DKCamera - A lightweight & simple camera framework for iOS. Written in Swift.
• NextLevel - Next Level is a media capture camera library for iOS.
• CameraEngine - ?? Camera engine for iOS, written in Swift, above AVFoundation. ?
• SwiftyCam - A Snapchat Inspired iOS Camera Framework written in Swift.
• CameraBackground - Show camera layer as a background to any UIView.
• Lumina - Full service camera that takes photos, videos, streams frames, detects metadata, and streams CoreML predictions :largeorangediamond:
• RAImagePicker - RAImagePicker is a protocol-oriented framework that provides custom features from the built-in Image Picker Edit.
• FDTake - Easily take a photo or video or choose from library.
• YPImagePicker - Instagram-like image picker & filters for iOS
• MockImagePicker - Mock UIImagePickerController for testing camera based UI in simulator.
• iOS-Depth-Sampler - A collection of code examples for Depth APIs.
• TakeASelfie - An iOS framework that uses the front camera, detects your face and takes a selfie.
• HybridCamera - Video and photo camera for iOS, similar to the SnapChat camera.
• CameraKit-iOS - Massively increase camera performance and ease of use in your next iOS project.

Force Touch

Quick actions and peek and pop interactions

• QuickActions - Swift wrapper for iOS Home Screen Quick Actions (App Icon Shortcuts)
• JustPeek - JustPeek is an iOS Library that adds support for Force Touch-like Peek and Pop interactions on devices that do not natively support this kind of interaction.
• PeekView - PeekView supports peek, pop and preview actions for iOS devices without 3D Touch capibility.

iBeacon

Device detect libraries and iBeacon helpers

• Proxitee - Allows developers to create proximity aware applications utilizing iBeacons & geo fences.
• OWUProximityManager - iBeacons + CoreBluetooth.
• Vicinity - Vicinity replicates iBeacons (by analyzing RSSI) and supports broadcasting and detecting low-energy Bluetooth devices in the background.
• BeaconEmitter - Turn your Mac as an iBeacon.
• MOCA Proximity - Paid proximity marketing platform that lets you add amazing proximity experiences to your app.
• JMCBeaconManager - An iBeacon Manager class that is responsible for detecting beacons nearby.

Location

Location monitoring, detect motion and geofencing libraries

• IngeoSDK - Always-On Location monitoring framework for iOS.
• LocationManager - Provides a block-based asynchronous API to request the current location, either once or continuously.
• SwiftLocation - Location & Beacon Monitoring in Swift
• SOMotionDetector - Simple library to detect motion. Based on location updates and acceleration.
• LocationPicker - A ready for use and fully customizable location picker for your app
• BBLocationManager - A Location Manager for easily implementing location services & geofencing in iOS.
• set-simulator-location - CLI for setting location in the iOS simulator.
• NominatimKit - A Swift wrapper for (reverse) geocoding of OpenStreetMap data.

Other Hardware

• MotionKit - Get the data from Accelerometer, Gyroscope and Magnetometer in only Two or a few lines of code. CoreMotion now made insanely simple.
• DarkLightning - Simply the fastest way to transmit data between iOS/tvOS and macOS.
• Deviice - Simply library to detect the device on which the app is running (and some properties)
• DeviceKit - DeviceKit is a value-type replacement of UIDevice.
• Luminous - Luminous is a big framework which can give you a lot of information (more than 50) about the current system.
• Device - Light weight tool for detecting the current device and screen size written in swift.
• WatchShaker - WatchShaker is a watchOS helper to get your ⌚️ shake movement written in swift.
• WatchCon - WatchCon is a tool which enables creating easy connectivity between iOS and WatchOS. ⌚️
• TapticEngine - TapticEngine generates iOS Device vibrations.
• UIDeviceComplete - UIDevice extensions that fill in the missing pieces.
• NFCNDEFParse - NFC Forum Well Known Type Data Parser for iOS11 and Core NFC.
• Device.swift - Super-lightweight library to detect used device.
• SDVersion - ? Lightweight Cocoa library for detecting the running device's model and screen size.
• Haptico - ? Easy to use haptic feedback generator with pattern-play support.

Layout

Auto Layout, UI frameworks and a gorgeous list of tools to simplify layout constructions

• Masonry - Harness the power of AutoLayout NSLayoutConstraints with a simplified, chainable and expressive syntax.
• FLKAutoLayout - UIView category which makes it easy to create layout constraints in code.
• Façade - Programmatic view layout for the rest of us - an autolayout alternative.
• PureLayout - The ultimate API for iOS & macOS Auto Layout — impressively simple, immensely powerful. Objective-C and Swift compatible.
• SnapKit - A Swift Autolayout DSL for iOS & macOS.
• Cartography - A declarative Auto Layout DSL for Swift ??
• AutoLayoutPlus - A bit of steroids for AutoLayout, powered by Swift.
• Neon - A powerful Swift programmatic UI layout framework.
• MisterFusion - A Swift DSL for AutoLayout. It is the extremely clear, but concise syntax, in addition, can be used in both Swift and Objective-C.
• SwiftBox - Flexbox in Swift, using Facebook's css-layout.
• ManualLayout - Easy to use and flexible library for manually laying out views and layers for iOS and tvOS. Supports AsyncDisplayKit. [e]
• Stevia - Elegant view layout for iOS.
• Manuscript - AutoLayoutKit in pure Swift.
• FDTemplateLayoutCell - Template auto layout cell for automatically UITableViewCell height calculating
• SwiftAutoLayout - Tiny Swift DSL for Autolayout
• FormationLayout - Work with auto layout and size classes easily.
• SwiftyLayout - Lightweight declarative auto-layout framework for Swift
• Swiftstraints - Auto Layout In Swift Made Easy
• SwiftBond - Bond is a Swift binding framework that takes binding concepts to a whole new level. It's simple, powerful, type-safe and multi-paradigm.
• Restraint - Minimal Auto Layout in Swift
• EasyPeasy - Auto Layout made easy
• Auto Layout Magic - Build 1 scene, let Auto Layout Magic generate the constraints for you! Scenes look great across all devices!
• Anchorman - An autolayout library for the damn fine citizens of San Diego.
• LayoutKit - LayoutKit is a fast view layout library for iOS.
• Relayout - Swift microframework for declaring Auto Layout constraints functionally
• Anchorage - A collection of operators and utilities that simplify iOS layout code.
• Compose - Compose is a library that helps you compose complex and dynamic views.
• BrickKit - With BrickKit, you can create complex and responsive layouts in a simple way. It's easy to use and easy to extend. Create your own reusable bricks and behaviors.
• Framezilla - Elegant library which wraps working with frames with a nice chaining syntax.
• TinyConstraints - The syntactic sugar that makes Auto Layout sweeter for human use.
• MyLinearLayout - MyLayout is a powerful iOS UI framework implemented by Objective-C. It integrates the functions with Android Layout,iOS AutoLayout,SizeClass, HTML CSS float and flexbox and bootstrap.
• SugarAnchor - Same native NSLayoutAnchor & NSLayoutConstraints; but with more natural and easy to read syntactic sugar. Typesafe, concise & readable.
• Anchors - Declarative, extensible, powerful Auto Layout for iOS 8+ and macOS 10.10+
• PinLayout - Fast Swift Views layouting without auto layout. No magic, pure code, full control and blazing fast. Concise syntax, intuitive, readable & chainable. [iOS/macOS/tvOS] ?
• SnapLayout - Concise Auto Layout API to chain programmatic constraints while easily updating existing constraints. [e]
• Cupcake - An easy way to create and layout UI components for iOS.
• MiniLayout - Minimal AutoLayout convenience layer. Program constraints succinctly.
• Bamboo - Bamboo makes Auto Layout (and manual layout) elegant and concise.
• FlexLayout - FlexLayout gently wraps the highly optimized facebook/yoga flexbox implementation in a concise, intuitive & chainable syntax.
• Layout - A declarative UI framework for iOS
• CGLayout - Powerful autolayout framework based on constraints, that can manage UIView(NSView), CALayer and not rendered views. Not Apple Autolayout wrapper.
• YogaKit - Powerful layout engine which implements Flexbox. Developed and maintained by Facebook.
• FlightLayout - Balanced medium between manual layout and auto-layout. Great for calculating frames for complex animations.
• QLayout - AutoLayout Utility for iOS.
• Layoutless - Minimalistic declarative layout and styling framework built on top of Auto Layout.
• Yalta - An intuitive and powerful Auto Layout library.
• SuperLayout - Simplify Auto Layout with super syntactic sugar.
• QuickLayout - QuickLayout offers a simple way, to easily manage Auto Layout in code.
• EEStackLayout - A structured vertical stack layout.
• RKAutoLayout - Simple wrapper over AutoLayout. [iOS] ?

Localization

Tools to manage strings files, translate and enable localization in your apps.

• Hodor - Simple solution to localize your iOS App.
• Swifternalization - Localize iOS apps in a smarter way using JSON files. Swift framework.
• Rubustrings - Check the format and consistency of Localizable.strings files
• BartyCrouch - Incrementally update/translate your Strings files from Code and Storyboards/XIBs.
• LocalizationKit - Localization management in realtime from a web portal. Easily manage your texts and translations without redeploy and resubmission.
• Localize-Swift - Swift 2.0 friendly localization and i18n with in-app language switching
• LocalizedView - Setting up application specific localized string within Xib file.
• transai - command line tool help you manage localization string files.
• Strsync - Automatically translate and synchronize .strings files from base language.
• IBLocalizable - Localize your views directly in Interface Builder with IBLocalizable
• nslocalizer - A tool for finding missing and unused NSLocalizedStrings
• L10n-swift - Localization of an application with ability to change language "on the fly" and support for plural forms in any language.
• Localize - Easy tool to localize apps using JSON or Strings and of course IBDesignables with extensions for UI components.

Logging

Debugging lives here. Logging tools, frameworks, integrations and more.

• CleanroomLogger - A configurable and extensible Swift-based logging API that is simple, lightweight and performant.
• CocoaLumberjack - A fast & simple, yet powerful & flexible logging framework for Mac and iOS.
• NSLogger - a high performance logging utility which displays traces emitted by client applications running on macOS, iOS and Android.
• QorumLogs — Swift Logging Utility for Xcode & Google Docs.
• Log - A logging tool with built-in themes, formatters, and a nice API to define your owns.
• Rainbow - Delightful console output for Swift developers.
• SwiftyBeaver - Convenient logging during development & release in Swift 2 & 3
• SwiftyTextTable - A lightweight tool for generating text tables.
• Watchdog - Class for logging excessive blocking on the main thread
• XCGLogger - A debug log framework for use in Swift projects. Allows you to log details to the console (and optionally a file), just like you would have with NSLog or println, but with additional information, such as the date, function name, filename and line number.
• puree - A log collector for iOS
• Colors - A pure Swift library for using ANSI codes. Basically makes command-line coloring and styling very easy! [e]
• Loggerithm - A lightweight Swift logger, uses print in development and NSLog in production. Support colourful and formatted output.
• AELog - Simple, lightweight and flexible debug logging framework written in Swift.
• ReflectedStringConvertible - A protocol that allows any class to be printed as if it were a struct.
• Evergreen - Most natural Swift logging
• SwiftTrace - Trace Swift and Objective-C method invocations
• Willow - Willow is a powerful, yet lightweight logging library written in Swift.
• Bugfender - Cloud storage for your app logs. Track user behaviour to find problems in your mobile apps.
• LxDBAnything - Automate box any value! Print log without any format control symbol! Change debug habit thoroughly!
• XLTestLog - Styling and coloring your XCTest logs on Xcode Console
• XLFacility - Elegant and extensive logging facility for macOS & iOS (includes database, Telnet and HTTP servers)
• Atlantis - A powerful input-agnostic swift logging framework made to speed up development with maximum readability.
• StoryTeller - Taking a completely different approach to logging, Story Teller replacing fixed logging levels in It then uses dynamic expressions to control the logging so you only see what is important.
• LumberMill - Stupidly simple logging for iOS 10 and Swift 3.0
• TinyConsole - A tiny log console to display information while using your iOS app. Written in Swift 3.
• Lighty - Easy to use and lightweight logger for iOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS and Linux with Swift 3.
• JustLog - Console, file and remote Logstash logging via TCP socket.
• Twitter Logging Service - Twitter Logging Service is a robust and performant logging framework for iOS clients.
• Reqres - Network request and response body logger with Alamofire support
• TraceLog - Dead Simple: logging the way it's meant to be! Runs on ios, osx, and Linux.
• OkLog - A network logger for iOS and macOS projects.

Machine Learning

A collection of ML Models, deep learning and neural networking libraries

• Swift-Brain - Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning data structures and Swift algorithms for future iOS development. Bayes theorem, Neural Networks, and more AI.
• AIToolbox - A toolbox of AI modules written in Swift: Graphs/Trees, Linear Regression, Support Vector Machines, Neural Networks, PCA, KMeans, Genetic Algorithms, MDP, Mixture of Gaussians.
• Tensorflow-iOS - The official Google-built powerful neural network library port for iOS.
• Bender - Easily craft fast Neural Networks. Use TensorFlow models. Metal under the hood.
• CoreML-samples - Sample code for Core ML using ResNet50 provided by Apple and a custom model generated by coremltools.
• Revolver - A framework for building fast genetic algorithms in Swift. Comes with modular architecture, pre-implemented operators and loads of examples.
• CoreML-Models - A collection of unique Core ML Models.
• Serrano - A deep learning library for iOS and macOS.
• Swift-AI - The Swift machine learning library.
• TensorSwift - A lightweight library to calculate tensors in Swift, which has similar APIs to TensorFlow's.

Maps

• Mapbox GL - An OpenGL renderer for Mapbox Vector Tiles with SDK bindings for iOS.
• GEOSwift - The Swift Geographic Engine.
• PXGoogleDirections - Google Directions API helper for iOS, written in Swift
• Cluster - Easy Map Annotation Clustering.
• JDSwiftHeatMap - JDSwiftMap is an IOS Native MapKit Library. You can easily make a highly customized HeatMap.
• ClusterKit - An iOS map clustering framework targeting MapKit, Google Maps and Mapbox.
• FlyoverKit - FlyoverKit enables you to present stunning 360° flyover views on your MKMapView with zero effort while maintaining full configuration possibilities.
• MapViewPlus - Use any custom view as custom callout view of your MKMapView with cool animations. Also, easily use any image as annotation view.
• MSFlightMapView - Add and animate geodesic flights on Google map.

Math

Math frameworks, functions and libraries to custom operations, statistical calculations and more.

• Euler - Swift Custom Operators for Mathematical Notation
• SwiftMath - ? A math framework for Swift. Includes: vectors, matrices, complex numbers, quaternions and polynomials.
• Arithmosophi - A set of protocols for Arithmetic and Logical operations
• Surge - A Swift library that uses the Accelerate framework to provide high-performance functions for matrix math, digital signal processing, and image manipulation.
• Upsurge - Swift math
• Swift-MathEagle - A general math framework to make using math easy. Currently supports function solving and optimisation, matrix and vector algebra, complex numbers, big int and big frac and general handy extensions and functions.
• iosMath - A library for displaying beautifully rendered math equations. Enables typesetting LaTeX math formulae in iOS.
• BigInt - Arbitrary-precision arithmetic in pure Swift
• SigmaSwiftStatistics - A collection of functions for statistical calculation.
• VectorMath - A Swift library for Mac and iOS that implements common 2D and 3D vector and matrix functions, useful for games or vector-based graphics
• Expression - A Mac and iOS library for evaluating numeric expressions at runtime
• Metron - Metron is a comprehensive collection of geometric functions and types that extend the 2D geometric primitives provided by CoreGraphics.
• NumericAnnex - NumericAnnex supplements the numeric facilities provided in the Swift standard library.

Media

Audio

• AudioBus - Add Next Generation Live App-to-App Audio Routing.
• AudioKit - A powerful toolkit for synthesizing, processing, and analyzing sounds.
• EZAudio - An iOS/macOS audio visualization framework built upon Core Audio useful for anyone doing real-time, low-latency audio processing and visualizations.
• novocaine - Painless high-performance audio on iOS and macOS.
• QHSpeechSynthesizerQueue - Queue management system for AVSpeechSynthesizer (iOS Text to Speech).
• Cephalopod - A sound fader for AVAudioPlayer written in Swift.
• Chirp - The easiest way to prepare, play, and remove sounds in your Swift app!
• Beethoven - An audio processing Swift library for pitch detection of musical signals.
• AudioPlayerSwift - AudioPlayer is a simple class for playing audio in iOS, macOS and tvOS apps.
• AudioPlayer - AudioPlayer is syntax and feature sugar over AVPlayer. It plays your audio files (local & remote).
• TuningFork - ? Simple Tuner for iOS
• MusicKit - A framework for composing and transforming music in Swift
• SubtleVolume - Replace the system volume popup with a more subtle indicator.
• NVDSP - iOS/macOS DSP for audio (with Novocaine)
• SRGMediaPlayer-iOS - The SRG Media Player library for iOS provides a simple way to add a universal audio / video player to any iOS application.
• IQAudioRecorderController - A drop-in universal library allows to record audio within the app with a nice User Interface.
• TheAmazingAudioEngine2 - The Amazing Audio Engine is a sophisticated framework for iOS audio applications, built so you don't have to.
• InteractivePlayerView - Custom iOS music player view
• ESTMusicIndicator - Cool Animated music indicator view written in Swift
• QuietModemKit - iOS framework for the Quiet Modem (data over sound)
• SwiftySound - Super simple library that lets you play sounds with a single line of code (and much more). Written in Swift 3, supports iOS, macOS and tvOS. CocoaPods and Carthage compatible.
• BPMAnalyser - Fast and simple instrument to get the BPM rate from your audio-files.
• PandoraPlayer - A lightweight music player for iOS, based on AudioKit and completely written in Swift
• SonogramView - Audio visualisation of song
• AudioIndicatorBars - AIB indicates for your app users which audio is playing. Just like the Podcasts app.
• Porcupine - On-device wake word detection engine for macOS, iOS, and watchOS, powered by deep learning.
• Voice Overlay - An overlay that gets your user’s voice permission and input as text in a customizable UI.
• ModernAVPlayer - Persistence player to resume playback after bad network connection even in background mode, manage headphone interactions, system interruptions, now playing informations and remote commands.

GIF

• YLGIFImage - Async GIF image decoder and Image viewer supporting play GIF images. It just use very less memory.
• FLAnimatedImage - Performant animated GIF engine for iOS
• gifu - Highly performant animated GIF support for iOS in Swift
• AnimatedGIFImageSerialization - Complete Animated GIF Support for iOS, with Functions, NSJSONSerialization-style Class, and (Optional) UIImage Swizzling
• XAnimatedImage - XAnimatedImage is a performant animated GIF engine for iOS written in Swift based on FLAnimatedImage
• SwiftGif - ✨ A small UIImage extension with gif support
• APNGKit - High performance and delightful way to play with APNG format in iOS.
• YYImage - Image framework for iOS to display/encode/decode animated WebP, APNG, GIF, and more.
• AImage - A animated GIF&APNG engine for iOS in Swift with low memory & cpu usage.Optimized for Multi-Image case.
• NSGIF2 - Simplify creation of a GIF from the provided video file url.
• SwiftyGif - High performance GIF engine

Image

• GPU Image - An open source iOS framework for GPU-based image and video processing.
• UIImage DSP - iOS UIImage processing functions using the vDSP/Accelerate framework for speed.
• AsyncImageView - Simple extension of UIImageView for loading and displaying images asynchronously without lock up the UI.
• SDWebImage - Asynchronous image downloader with cache support with an UIImageView category.
• DFImageManager - Modern framework for fetching images from various sources. Zero config yet immense customization and extensibility. Uses NSURLSession.
• MapleBacon - An image download and caching library for iOS written in Swift.
• NYTPhotoViewer - Slideshow and image viewer.
• IDMPhotoBrowser - Photo Browser / Viewer.
• Concorde - Download and decode progressive JPEGs.
• TOCropViewController - A view controller that allows users to crop UIImage objects.
• YXTMotionView - A custom image view that implements device motion scrolling.
• PINRemoteImage - A thread safe, performant, feature rich image fetcher.
• SABlurImageView - Easily Adding Animated Blur/Unblur Effects To An Image.
• FastImageCache - iOS library for quickly displaying images while scrolling.
• BKAsciiImage - Convert UIImage to ASCII art
• AlamofireImage - An image component library for Alamofire.
• Nuke - Image loading, processing, caching and preheating
• FlagKit - Beautiful flag icons for usage in apps and on the web.
• YYWebImage - Asynchronous image loading framework (supports WebP, APNG, GIF).
• RSKImageCropper - An image cropper for iOS like in the Contacts app with support for landscape orientation.
• Silo - Image loading framework with loaders.
• Ody - Ody is an easy to use random image generator built with Swift, Perfect for placeholders.
• Banana - Image slider with very simple interface.
• JDSwiftAvatarProgress - Easy customizable avatar image asynchronously with progress bar animated
• Kingfisher - A lightweight and pure Swift implemented library for downloading and caching image from the web.
• EBPhotoPages - A photo gallery for iOS with a modern feature set. Similar features as the Facebook photo browser.
• UIImageView-BetterFace-Swift - The Swift version of https://github.com/croath/UIImageView-BetterFace
• KFSwiftImageLoader - An extremely high-performance, lightweight, and energy-efficient pure Swift async web image loader with memory and disk caching for iOS and  Watch.
• Toucan - Fabulous Image Processing in Swift
• ImageLoaderSwift - A lightweight and fast image loader for iOS written in Swift.
• ImageScout - A Swift implementation of fastimage. Supports PNG, GIF, and JPEG.
• JLStickerTextView - A UIImageView allow you to add multiple Label (multiple line text support) on it, you can edit, rotate, resize the Label as you want with one finger ,then render the text on Image.
• Agrume - A lemony fresh iOS image viewer written in Swift.
• PASImageView - Rounded async imageview downloader lightly cached and written in Swift
• Navi - Focus on avatar caching.
• SwiftPhotoGallery - Simple, fullscreen image gallery with tap, swipe, and pinch gestures.
• MetalAcc - GPU-based Media processing library using Metal written in Swift.
• MWPhotoBrowser - A simple iOS photo and video browser with grid view, captions and selections.
• UIImageColors - iTunes style color fetcher for UIImage. [e]
• CDFlipView - A view that takes a set of images, make transition from one to another by using flipping effects.
• GPUImage2 - GPUImage 2 is a BSD-licensed Swift framework for GPU-accelerated video and image processing.
• TGLParallaxCarousel - A lightweight 3D Linear Carousel with parallax effect
• ImageButter - Makes dealing with images buttery smooth
• SKPhotoBrowser - Simple PhotoBrowser/Viewer inspired by Facebook, Twitter photo browsers written by swift
• YUCIHighPassSkinSmoothing - An implementation of High Pass Skin Smoothing using Apple's Core Image Framework
• CLImageViewPopup - A simple Image full screen pop up
• APKenBurnsView - Ken Burns effect with face recognition!
• Moa - An image download extension of the image view for iOS, tvOS and macOS. [e]
• JMCMarchingAnts - Library that lets you add marching ants (animated) selection to the edges of the images.
• ImageViewer - An image viewer à la Twitter
• FaceAware - An extension that gives UIImageView the ability to focus on faces within an image when using AspectFill.
• SwiftyAvatar - A UiimageView class for creating circular avatar images, IBDesignable to make all changes via storyboard
• ShinpuruImage - Syntactic Sugar for Accelerate/vImage and Core Image Filters
• ImagePickerSheetController - ImagePickerSheetController is like the custom photo action sheet in iMessage just without the glitches.
• ComplimentaryGradientView - Create complementary gradients generated from dominant and prominent colors in supplied image. Inspired by Grade.js.
• ImageSlideshow - Swift image slideshow with circular scrolling, timer and full screen viewer.
• Imaginary - ? Remote images, as easy as one, two, three.
• PPAssetsActionController - Highly customizable Action Sheet Controller with Assets Preview.
• Vulcan - Multi image downloader with priority in Swift.
• FacebookImagePicker - Facebook album photo picker written in Swift.
• Lightbox - A convenient and easy to use image viewer for your iOS app.
• Ebblink - An iOS SDK for sharing photos that automatically expire and can be deleted at any time.
• Sharaku - Instagram-like image filter ViewController.
• CTPanoramaView - Displays spherical or cylindrical panoramas or 360-photos with touch or motion based control options.
• Twitter Image Pipline - streamlined framework for fetching and storing images in an application.
• TinyCrayon - A smart and easy-to-use image masking and cutout SDK for mobile apps.
• FlexibleImage - A simple way to play with image!
• TLPhotoPicker - Multiple phassets picker for iOS lib. like a facebook.
• YapImageManager - A high-performance image downloader written in Swift, powered by YapDatabase.
• PhotoEditorSDK - A fully customizable photo editor for your app.
• SimpleImageViewer - A snappy image viewer with zoom and interactive dismissal transition.
• AZImagePreview - A framework that makes image viewing easy.
• FaceCropper - Crop faces, inside of your image, with iOS 11 Vision api
• Paparazzo - Custom iOS camera and photo picker with editing capabilities
• ZImageCropper - A Swift project to crop image in any shape.
• InitialsImageView - An UIImageView extension that generates letter initials as a placeholder for user profile images, with a randomized background color.
• DTPhotoViewerController - A fully customizable photo viewer ViewController, inspired by Facebook photo viewer.
• LetterAvatarKit - A UIImage extension that generates letter-based avatars written in Swift.
• AXPhotoViewer - An iPhone/iPad photo gallery viewer, useful for viewing a large (or small!) number of photos
• TJProfileImage - Live rendering of componet’s properties in Interface Builder.
• Viewer - Image viewer (or Lightbox) with support for local and remote videos and images
• OverlayComposite - An asynchronous, multithreaded, image compositing framework written in Swift.
• MCScratchImageView - A custom ImageView that is used to cover the surface of other view like a scratch card, user can swipe the mulch to see the view below
• MetalPetal - A GPU-accelerated image/video processing framework based on Metal.
• ShadowImageView - ShadowImageView is a iOS 10 Apple Music style image view, help you create elegent image with shadow.
• Avatar - Generate random user Avatar images using CoreGraphics and QuartzCore.
• Serrata - Slide image viewer library similar to Twitter and LINE.
• StyleArt - Style Art library process images using COREML with a set of pre trained machine learning models and convert them to Art style.
• greedo-layout-for-ios - Full aspect ratio grid layout for iOS
• ImageDetect - Detect and crop faces, barcodes and texts inside of your image, with iOS 11 Vision api.
• THTiledImageView - Provide ultra-high-quality images through tiling techniques
• GPUImage3 - GPUImage 3 is a BSD-licensed Swift framework for GPU-accelerated video and image processing using Metal.
• Gallery - Your next favorite image and video picker.
• ATGMediaBrowser - Image slide-show viewer with multiple predefined transition styles, and ability to create new transitions with ease.
• Pixel - An image editor and engine using CoreImage.
• OnlyPictures - A simple and flexible way to add source of overlapping circular pictures.
• SFSafeSymbols - Safely access Apple's SF Symbols using static typing.

Media Processing

• SwiftOCR - Fast and simple OCR library written in Swift
• QR Code Scanner - QR Code implementation.
• QRCode - A QRCode generator written in Swift.
• EFQRCode - A better way to operate two-dimensional code in Swift.
• NSFWDetector - A NSFW (aka porn) detector with CoreML

PDF

• Reader - PDF Reader Core for iOS.
• UIView 2 PDF - PDF generator using UIViews or UIViews with an associated XIB
• FolioReaderKit - A Swift ePub reader and parser framework for iOS.
• PDFGenerator - A simple Generator of PDF in Swift. Generate PDF from view(s) or image(s).
• SimplePDF - Create a simple PDF effortlessly.
• SwiftPDFGenerator - PDF generator using UIViews; Swift Version of 'UIView 2 PDF'.
• PSPDFKit - Render PDF, add/edit annotations, fill forms, add/edit pages, view/create digital signatures.
• TPPDF - Generate PDF using commands and automatic layout.
• FastPdfKit - A Static Library to be embedded on iOS applications to display pdf documents derived from Fast PDF.
• UIImagePlusPDF - UIImage extensions to simply use PDF files.

Streaming

• HaishinKit.swift - Camera and Microphone streaming library via RTMP, HLS for iOS, macOS.
• StreamingKit - A fast and extensible gapless AudioPlayer/AudioStreamer for macOS and iOS.
• Jukebox - Player for streaming local and remote audio files. Written in Swift.
• LFLiveKit - H264 and AAC Hard coding，support GPUImage Beauty， rtmp transmission，weak network lost frame，Dynamic switching rate
• Airstream - A framework for streaming audio between Apple devices using AirPlay.
• OTAcceleratorCore - A painless way to integrate audio/video(screen sharing) to any iOS applications via Tokbox.
• webrtc - Provides browsers and mobile applications with Real-Time Communications (RTC) capabilities via simple APIs.

Video

• VIMVideoPlayer - A simple wrapper around the AVPlayer and AVPlayerLayer classes.
• MobilePlayer - A powerful and completely customizable media player for iOS.
• XCDYouTubeKit - YouTube video player for iOS, tvOS and macOS
• AVAnimator - An open source iOS native library that makes it easy to implement non-trivial video/audio enabled apps.
• Periscope VideoViewController - Video view controller with Periscope fast rewind control
• MHVideoPhotoGallery - A Photo and Video Gallery
• PlayerView - Player View is a delegated view using AVPlayer of Swift
• SRGMediaPlayer-iOS - The SRG Media Player library for iOS provides a simple way to add a universal audio / video player to any iOS application.
• AVPlayerViewController-Subtitles - AVPlayerViewController-Subtitles is a library to display subtitles on iOS. It's built as a Swift extension and it's very easy to integrate. [e]
• MPMoviePlayerController-Subtitles - MPMoviePlayerController-Subtitles is a library to display subtitles on iOS. It's built as a Swift extension and it's very easy to integrate. [e]
• ZFPlayer - Based on AVPlayer, support for the horizontal screen, vertical screen (full screen playback can also lock the screen direction), the upper and lower slide to adjust the volume, the screen brightness, or so slide to adjust the playback progress.
• Player - ▶️ video player in Swift, simple way to play and stream media in your iOS or tvOS app
• BMPlayer - video player in swift3 and swift2 for iOS, based on AVPlayer, support the horizontal, vertical screen. support adjust volume, brigtness and seek by slide.
• VideoPager - Paging Video UI, and some control components is available.
• ios-360-videos - NYT360Video plays 360-degree video streamed from an AVPlayer.
• swift-360-videos - Pure swift (no SceneKit) 3D library with focus on video and 360.
• ABMediaView - UIImageView subclass for drop-in image, video, GIF, and audio display, with functionality for fullscreen and minimization to the bottom-right corner.
• PryntTrimmerView - A set of UI elements to trim, crop and select frames inside a video.
• VGPlayer - A simple iOS video player in Swift,Support play local and network,Background playback mode.
• YoutubeKit - A video player that fully supports Youtube IFrame API and YoutubeDataAPI for easily create a Youtube app.
• Swift-YouTube-Player - Swift library for embedding and controlling YouTube videos in your iOS applications!
• JDVideoKit - You can easily transfer your video into Three common video type via this framework.
• VersaPlayer - Versatile AVPlayer implementation for iOS, macOS, and tvOS

Messaging

Also see push notifications

• LayerKit - iOS SDK for Layer, the easiest way to add in-app messaging (text, photos, videos, data) to any mobile or web application.
• XMPPFramework - An XMPP Framework in Objective-C for Mac and iOS.
• Chatto - A lightweight framework to build chat applications, made in Swift
• MessageKit - Eventually, a Swift re-write of JSQMessagesViewController
• Atlas - A library of native iOS messaging user interface components for Layer.
• Messenger - This is a native iOS Messenger app, making realtime chat conversations and audio calls with full offline support.
• OTTextChatAccelerator - OpenTok Text Chat Accelerator Pack enables text messages between mobile or browser-based devices.
• chat-sdk-ios - Chat SDK iOS - Open Source Mobile Messenger.
• AsyncMessagesViewController - A smooth, responsive and flexible messages UI library for iOS.
• MessageViewController - A SlackTextViewController replacement written in Swift for the iPhone X.
• SwiftyMessenger - Swift toolkit for passing messages between iOS apps and extensions.
• Messenger Chat with Firebase - Swift messaging chat app with Firebase Firestore integration.

Networking

• AFNetworking - A delightful iOS and macOS networking framework.
• RestKit - RestKit is an Objective-C framework for iOS that aims to make interacting with RESTful web services simple, fast and fun.
• FSNetworking - Foursquare iOS networking library.
• ASIHTTPRequest - Easy to use CFNetwork wrapper for HTTP requests, Objective-C, macOS and iPhone.
• Overcoat - Small but powerful library that makes creating REST clients simple and fun.
• ROADFramework - Attributed-oriented approach for interacting with web services. The framework has built-in json and xml serialization for requests and responses and can be easily extensible.
• Alamofire - Alamofire is an HTTP networking library written in Swift, from the creator of AFNetworking.
• Transporter - A tiny library makes uploading and downloading easier.
• CDZPinger - Easy-to-use ICMP Ping.
• NSRails - iOS/Mac OS framework for Rails.
• NKMultipeer - A testable abstraction over multipeer connectivity.
• CocoaAsyncSocket - Asynchronous socket networking library for Mac and iOS.
• Siesta - Elegant abstraction for RESTful resources that untangles stateful messes. An alternative to callback- and delegate-based networking.
• Reachability.swift - Replacement for Apple's Reachability re-written in Swift with closures
• OctopusKit - A simplicity but graceful solution for invoke RESTful web service APIs.
• Moya - Network abstraction layer written in Swift.
• TWRDownloadManager - A modern download manager based on NSURLSession to deal with asynchronous downloading, management and persistence of multiple files.
• HappyDns - A Dns library, support custom dns server, dnspod httpdns. Only support A record.
• Bridge - A simple extensible typed networking library. Intercept and process/alter requests and responses easily.
• TRON - Lightweight network abstraction layer, written on top of Alamofire
• EVCloudKitDao - Simplified access to Apple's CloudKit
• EVURLCache - a NSURLCache subclass for handling all web requests that use NSURLRequest
• ResponseDetective - Sherlock Holmes of the networking layer.
• Pitaya - A Swift HTTP / HTTPS networking library just incidentally execute on machines
• Just - Swift HTTP for Humans
• agent - Minimalistic Swift HTTP request agent for iOS and macOS
• Reach - A simple class to check for internet connection availability in Swift.
• SwiftHTTP - Thin wrapper around NSURLSession in swift. Simplifies HTTP requests.
• Netdiag - A network diagnosis library. Support Ping/TcpPing/Rtmp/TraceRoute/DNS/external IP/external DNS.
• AFNetworkingHelper - A custom wrapper over AFNetworking library that we use inside RC extensively
• NetKit - A Concise HTTP Framework in Swift.
• RealReachability - We need to observe the REAL reachability of network. That's what RealReachability do.
• MonkeyKing - MonkeyKing helps you post messages to Chinese Social Networks.
• NetworkKit - Lightweight Networking and Parsing framework made for iOS, Mac, WatchOS and tvOS.
• APIKit - A networking library for building type safe web API client in Swift.
• ws ☁️ - Elegant JSON WebService in Swift.
• SPTDataLoader - The HTTP library used by the Spotify iOS client.
• SWNetworking - Powerful high-level iOS, macOS and tvOS networking library.
• Networking - Simple HTTP Networking in Swift a NSURLSession wrapper with image caching support
• SOAPEngine - This generic SOAP client allows you to access web services using a your iOS app, macOS app and AppleTV app.
• Swish - Nothing but Net(working)
• Malibu - ? Malibu is a networking library built on promises
• YTKNetwork - YTKNetwork is a high level request util based on AFNetworking.
• UnboxedAlamofire - Alamofire + Unbox: the easiest way to download and decode JSON into swift objects.
• MMLanScan - An iOS LAN Network Scanner library
• Domainer - Manage multi-domain url auto mapping ip address table
• Restofire - Restofire is a protocol oriented network abstraction layer in swift that is built on top of Alamofire to use services in a declartive way
• AFNetworking+RetryPolicy - An objective-c category that adds the ability to set the retry logic for requests made with AFNetworking.
• SwiftyZeroMQ - ZeroMQ Swift Bindings for iOS, macOS, tvOS and watchOS.
• Nikka - A super simple Networking wrapper that supports many JSON libraries, Futures and Rx
• XMNetworking - A lightweight but powerful network library with simplified and expressive syntax based on AFNetworking.
• Merhaba - Bonjour networking for discovery and connection between iOS, macOS and tvOS devices.
• DBNetworkStack - Resource-oritented networking which is typesafe, extendable, composeable and makes testing a lot easier.
• EFInternetIndicator - A little swift Internet error status indicator using ReachabilitySwift.
• AFNetworking-Synchronous - Synchronous requests for AFNetworking 1.x, 2.x, and 3.x.
• QwikHttp - a robust, yet lightweight and simple to use HTTP networking library designed for RESTful APIs.
• NetClient - Versatile HTTP networking library written in Swift 3.
• WANetworkRouting - An iOS library to route API paths to objects on client side with request, mapping, routing and auth layers
• Reactor - Powering your RAC architecture
• SWNetworking - Powerful high-level iOS, macOS and tvOS networking library. from the creator of SWNetworking
• Digger - Digger is a lightweight download framework that requires only one line of code to complete the file download task.
• Ciao - Publish and discover services using mDNS(Bonjour, Zeroconf).
• PerfectAPIClient - An API Client based on a network abstraction layer for the Perfect Server-Side Swift Framework
• Bamboots - Bamboots is a network request framework based on Alamofire, aiming at making network request easier for business development
• SolarNetwork - Elegant network abstraction layer in Swift.
• FGRoute - An easy-to-use library that helps developers to get wifi ssid, router and device ip addresses.
• RxRestClient - Simple REST Client based on RxSwift and Alamofire.
• TermiNetwork - A networking library written with Swift 4.0 that supports multi-environment configuration, routing and automatic deserialization
• Dots - Lightweight Concurrent Networking Framework.
• Gem - An extreme light weight system with high performance for managing all http request with automated parser with modal.
• RMHttp - Lightweight REST library for iOS and watchOS.
• AlamoRecord - An elegant yet powerful iOS networking layer inspired by ActiveRecord.
• MHNetwork - Protocol Oriented Network Layer Aim to avoid having bloated singleton NetworkManager
• ThunderRequest - A simple URLSession wrapper with a generic protocol based request body approach and easy deserialisation of responses.
• ReactiveAPI - Write clean, concise and declarative network code relying on URLSession, with the power of RxSwift. Inspired by Retrofit.

Email

• Mail Core 2 - MailCore 2 provide a simple and asynchronous API to work with e-mail protocols IMAP, POP and SMTP.
• Postal - A swift framework providing simple access to common email providers.

Representations

• apollo-ios - A GraphQL client for iOS, written in Swift
• JSONRPCKit - A JSON-RPC 2.0 library purely written in Swift
• protobuf-swift - Google ProtocolBuffers for Apple Swift
• swift-protobuf - Plugin and runtime library for using protobuf with Swift.

Notifications

Push Notifications

• Orbiter - Push Notification Registration for iOS.
• PEM - Automatically generate and renew your push notification profiles.
• Knuff - The debug application for Apple Push Notification Service (APNS).
• FBNotifications - Facebook Analytics In-App Notifications Framework.
• NWPusher - macOS and iOS application and framework to play with the Apple Push Notification service (APNs)
• SimulatorRemoteNotifications - Library to send mock remote notifications to the iOS simulator
• APNSUtil - Library makes code simple settings and landing for apple push notification service

Push Notification Providers

Most of these are paid services, some have free tiers.

• Urban Airship
• Growth Push - Popular in Japan.
• Braze
• Batch
• Boxcar
• Carnival
• Catapush
• Netmera
• OneSignal - Free.
• PushBots
• Pushwoosh
• Pushkin - Free and open-source.
• Pusher - Free and unlimited.
• Swrve

Local Notifications

• DLLocalNotifications - Easily create Local Notifications in swift - Wrapper of UserNotifications Framework.

Objective-C Runtime

Objective-C Runtime wrappers, libraries and tools.

• Lumos - A light Swift wrapper around Objective-C Runtime.
• Swizzlean - An Objective-C Swizzle Helper Class.

Optimization

• Unreachable - Unreachable code path optimization hint for Swift.

Parsing

CSV

• CSwiftV - A csv parser written in swift conforming to rfc4180
• CSV.swift - CSV reading and writing library written in Swift.

JSON

• JSON-Framework - This framework implements a strict JSON parser and generator in Objective-C.
• Mantle - Model framework for Cocoa and Cocoa Touch.
• Groot - Convert JSON dictionaries and arrays to and from Core Data managed objects.
• PropertyMapper - Data mapping and validation with minimal amount of code.
• JSONModel - Magical Data Modeling Framework for JSON. Create rapidly powerful, atomic and smart data model classes.
• SwiftyJSON - The better way to deal with JSON data in Swift.
• FastEasyMapping - Serialize & deserialize JSON fast.
• ObjectMapper - A framework written in Swift that makes it easy for you to convert your Model objects (Classes and Structs) to and from JSON.
• JASON - JSON parsing with outstanding performances and convenient operators.
• Gloss - A shiny JSON parsing library in Swift.
• Cereal - Swift object serialization
• SwiftyJSONAccelerator - Generate Swift 5 model files from JSON with Codeable support.
• JSONCodable - Hassle-free JSON encoding and decoding in Swift
• Tailor - A super fast & convenient object mapper tailored for your needs.
• alexander - An extremely simple JSON helper written in Swift.
• Freddy - A reusable framework for parsing JSON in Swift.
• mapper - A JSON deserialization library for Swift
• AlamofireJsonToObjects - An Alamofire extension which converts JSON response data into swift objects using EVReflection
• Jay - Pure-Swift JSON parser & formatter. Linux & macOS ready.
• YYModel - High performance model framework for iOS/macOS.
• Alembic - Functional JSON parsing, mapping to objects, and serialize to JSON
• Wrap - The easy to use Swift JSON encoder
• Arrow ? - Elegant JSON Parsing in Swift.
• Decodable - Swift 2/3 JSON parsing done (more) right
• Genome - A simple, type safe, failure driven mapping library for serializing JSON to models in Swift 3.0 (Supports Linux)
• Unbox - The easy to use Swift JSON decoder
• JSONJoy-Swift - Convert JSON to Swift objects.
• LazyObject - Lazily deserialize JSON into strongly typed Swift objects
• JSONExport - JSONExport is a desktop application for macOS which enables you to export JSON objects as model classes with their associated constructors, utility methods, setters and getters in your favorite language.
• Elevate - Elevate is a JSON parsing framework that leverages Swift to make parsing simple, reliable and composable.
• MJExtension - A fast, convenient and nonintrusive conversion between JSON and model. Your model class don't need to extend another base class. You don't need to modify any model file.
• AlamofireObjectMapper - An Alamofire extension which converts JSON response data into swift objects using ObjectMapper
• GuardedSwiftyJSON - An add-on to SwiftyJSON to make it easier to create failable initializers for data models.
• JAYSON - Strict and Scalable JSON library.
• HandyJSON - A handy swift JSON-object serialization/deserialization library for swift 2.x/3.x.
• Marshal - Marshaling the typeless wild west of [String: Any] (Protocol based).
• Motis - Easy JSON to NSObject mapping using Cocoa's key value coding (KVC).
• NSTEasyJSON - The easiest way to deal with JSON data in Objective-C (similar to SwiftyJSON).
• Serpent - A protocol to serialize Swift structs and classes for encoding and decoding.
• MagicMapper - ? Super light and easy automatic JSON to model mapper.
• FlatBuffersSwift - This project brings FlatBuffers (an efficient cross platform serialization library) to Swift.
• CodableAlamofire - An extension for Alamofire that converts JSON data into Decodable objects (Swift 4).
• WAMapping - A library to turn dictionary into object and vice versa for iOS. Designed for speed!
• json-swift - A basic library for working with JSON in Swift.
• Himotoki - A type-safe JSON decoding library purely written in Swift.
• PMHTTP - Swift/Obj-C HTTP framework with a focus on REST and JSON.
• NativeJSONMapper - Simple Swift 4 encoding & decoding.
• PMJSON - Pure Swift JSON encoding/decoding library.
• jsoncafe.com - Online Template driven Model Class Generator from JSON.
• Mappable - lightweight and powerful JSON object mapping library, specially optimized for immutable properties.

XML & HTML

• AEXML - Simple and lightweight XML parser written in Swift.
• Ji - XML/HTML parser for Swift.
• Ono - A sensible way to deal with XML & HTML for iOS & macOS
• AlamofireXmlToObjects - Fetch a XML feed and parse it into objects
• Fuzi - A fast & lightweight XML & HTML parser in Swift with XPath & CSS support
• Kanna - Kanna(鉋) is an XML/HTML parser for macOS/iOS.
• SwiftyXMLParser - Simple XML Parser implemented in Swift
• HTMLKit - An Objective-C framework for your everyday HTML needs.
• SWXMLHash - Simple XML parsing in Swift
• SwiftyXML - The most swifty way to deal with XML data in swift 4
• XMLCoder - Encoder & Decoder for XML using Swift's Codable protocols.

Other Parsing

• WKZombie - WKZombie is a Swift framework for iOS/macOS to navigate within websites and collect data without the need of User Interface or API, also known as Headless browser. It can be used to run automated tests or manipulate websites using Javascript.
• URLPreview - An NSURL extension for showing preview info of webpages
• FeedKit - An RSS and Atom feed parser written in Swift
• Erik - Erik is an headless browser based on WebKit. An headless browser allow to run functional tests, to access and manipulate webpages using javascript.
• URLEmbeddedView - Automatically caches the object that is confirmed the Open Graph Protocol, and displays it as URL embedded card.
• SwiftyConfiguration - Modern Swift API for Plist.
• JSONFeed - Swift parser for JSON Feed, a format similar to RSS and Atom but in JSON.
• SwiftCssParser - A Powerful , Extensible CSS Parser written in pure Swift.
• RLPSwift - Recursive Length Prefix encoding written in Swift.
• AcknowledgementsPlist - AcknowledgementsPlist manages the licenses of libraries that depend on your iOS app.
• CoreXLSX - Excel spreadsheet (XLSX) format support in pure Swift.

Passbook

• passbook - Passbook gem let's you create pkpass for passbook iOS 6+.
• Dubai - Generate and Preview Passbook Passes.
• Passkit - Design, Create and validate Passbook Passes.

Payments

• Caishen - A Payment Card UI & Validator for iOS.
• Stripe - Payment integration on your app with PAY. Suitable for people with low knowledge on Backend.
• Braintree - Free payment processing on your first $50k. Requires Backend.
• Venmo Make and accept payments in your iOS app via Venmo.
• Moltin - Add eCommerce to your app with a simple SDK, so you can create a store and sell physical products, no backend required.
• PatronKit - A framework to add patronage to your apps.
• SwiftyStoreKit - Lightweight In App Purchases Swift framework for iOS 8.0+ and macOS 9.0+
• InAppFramework - In App Purchase Manager framework for iOS
• SwiftInAppPurchase - Simply code In App Purchases with this Swift Framework
• monza - Ruby Gem for Rails - Easy iTunes In-App Purchase Receipt validation, including auto-renewable subscriptions
• PayPal - Accept payments in your iOS app via PayPal.
• card.io-iOS-SDK - card.io provides fast, easy credit card scanning in mobile apps
• SwiftLuhn - Debit/Credit card validation port of the Luhn Algorithm in Swift
• ObjectiveLuhn - Luhn Credit Card Validation Algorithm
• RMStore - A lightweight iOS library for In-App Purchases
• MFCard - Easily integrate Credit Card payments in iOS App / Customisable Card UI
• TPInAppReceipt - Reading and Validating In App Store Receipt
• iCard - Bank Card Generator with Swift using SnapKit DSL
• CreditCardForm-iOS - CreditCardForm is iOS framework that allows developers to create the UI which replicates an actual Credit Card.
• merchantkit - A modern In-App Purchases management framework for iOS.
• TipJarViewController - Easy, drop-in tip jar for iOS apps.
• FramesIos - Payment Form UI and Utilities in Swift.
• YRPayment - Better payment user experience library with cool animation in Swift.

Permissions

• Proposer - Make permission request easier (Supports Camera, Photos, Microphone, Contacts, Location).
• ICanHas - Simplifies iOS user permission requests (Supports location, push notifications, camera, contacts, calendar, photos).
• VWWPermissionKit - A visual permission manager for iOS.
• ISHPermissionKit - A unified way for iOS apps to request user permissions.
• JLPermissions - An iOS pre-permissions utility that lets developers ask users on their own dialog for calendar, contacts, location, photos, reminders, twitter, push notifications and more, before making the system-based permission request.
• ClusterPrePermissions - Reusable pre-permissions utility that lets developers ask users for access in their own dialog, before making the system-based request.
• Permission - A unified API to ask for permissions on iOS
• STLocationRequest - A simple and elegant 3D-Flyover location request screen written Swift.
• PAPermissions - A unified API to ask for permissions on iOS
• AREK - AREK is a clean and easy to use wrapper over any kind of iOS permission.
• SPPermission - Request permissions with dialog. Check state any permissions.

Products

• Import.io - Instantly Turn Web Pages into Data.
• Tapglue - Build social products and a activity feed with a few lines of code.
• OpenShop.io - mobile e-commerce solution connected to Facebook Ads and Google.

Reactive Programming

• RxSwift - Reactive Programming in Swift
• RxOptional - RxSwift extensions for Swift optionals and "Occupiable" types
• ReactiveTask - Flexible, stream-based abstraction for launching processes
• ReactiveCocoa - Streams of values over time.
• RxMediaPicker - A reactive wrapper built around UIImagePickerController.
• ReactiveCoreData - ReactiveCoreData (RCD) is an attempt to bring Core Data into the ReactiveCocoa (RAC) world.
• ReSwift - Unidirectional Data Flow in Swift - Inspired by Redux
• ReactiveKit - ReactiveKit is a collection of Swift frameworks for reactive and functional reactive programming.
• RxPermission - RxSwift bindings for Permissions API in iOS.
• RxAlamofire - RxSwift wrapper around the elegant HTTP networking in Swift Alamofire
• RxRealm - Rx wrapper for Realm's collection types
• RxMultipeer - A testable RxSwift wrapper around MultipeerConnectivity
• RxBluetoothKit - iOS & macOS Bluetooth library for RxSwift
• RxGesture - RxSwift reactive wrapper for view gestures
• NSObject-Rx - Handy RxSwift extensions on NSObject, including rx_disposeBag.
• RxCoreData - RxSwift extensions for Core Data
• RxAutomaton - RxSwift + State Machine, inspired by Redux and Elm.
• ReactiveArray - An array class implemented in Swift that can be observed using ReactiveCocoa's Signals.
• Interstellar - Simple and lightweight Functional Reactive Coding in Swift for the rest of us.
• ReduxSwift - Predictable state container for Swift apps too.
• Aftermath - Stateless message-driven micro-framework in Swift.
• RxKeyboard - Reactive Keyboard in iOS.
• JASONETTE-iOS - Native App over HTTP. Create your own native iOS app with nothing but JSON.
• ReactiveSwift - Streams of values over time by ReactiveCocoa group
• Listenable - Swift object that provides an observable platform.
• Reactor - ? Unidirectional Data Flow using idiomatic Swift—inspired by Elm and Redux .
• Snail - An observables framework for Swift
• RxWebSocket - Reactive extension over Starscream for websockets
• ACKReactiveExtensions - Useful extensions for ReactiveCocoa
• ReactiveLocation - CoreLocation made reactive
• Hanson - Lightweight observations and bindings in Swift, with support for KVO and NotificationCenter.
• Observable - The easiest way to observe values in Swift.
• SimpleApiClient - A configurable api client based on Alamofire4 and RxSwift4 for iOS.
• VueFlux - Unidirectional Data Flow State Management Architecture for Swift - Inspired by Vuex and Flux
• RxAnimated - Animated RxCocoa bindings
• BindKit - Two-way data binding framework for iOS. Only one API to learn.
• STDevRxExt - STDevRxExt contains some extension functions for RxSwift and RxCocoa which makes our live easy.
• RxReduce - Lightweight framework that ease the implementation of a state container pattern in a Reactive Programming compliant way.
• RxCoordinator - Powerful navigation library for iOS based on the coordinator pattern.
• RxAlamoRecord Combines the power of the AlamoRecord and RxSwift libraries to create a networking layer that makes interacting with API's easier than ever reactively.
• CwlSignal A Swift framework for reactive programming.
• LightweightObservable - A lightweight implementation of an observable sequence that you can subscribe to.
• Bindy - Simple, lightweight swift bindings with KVO support and easy to read syntax.