Accounting for 80-90 percent of all software, Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) ecosystem is booming with high dependency usage by all sector companies.
Accordingly, The Linux Foundation’s Core Infrastructure Initiative (CII) in collaboration with Harvard’s Lab for Innovation Science hasreleaseda census report titled “Vulnerabilities in the Core, a Preliminary Report and Census II of Open Source Software.”
Concluding the survey, the latest census report focusses on the health and security of foss usage. The result is based on data provided by partner Software Composition Analysis (SCA) companies and other application security companies.
Also, arecent reportpublished by Red Hat reveals how enterprise users are relying more on the open source software rather than proprietary software. About 52% of respondents mentioned security tools as the most used open-source tools by enterprises.
Now, let’s take a look at the list of most used open source packages.
10 Most Popular Open Source Software In Enterprise
The given list is the takeaways from the census II report and present in alphabetical order.
For processing the multiple requests at the same time,asyncis a widely used tool in the backend development for handling asynchronous calls.
You can install the package using npm.
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2. inherits
For deriving the functionality of a class,inheritsis used for performing inheritance mechanisms mostly in node.js.
3. isarray
isarrayis an excellent npm package that helps to provide better handling of the arrays on the older browser and deprecated Node.js versions.
4. kind-of
kind-ofis a fast and better type-checking module that helps to determine the data type of native javascript value.
lodashis a utility program that simplifies the work with arrays, numbers, objects, and strings.
You can install the package using npm or you can also download the library to use it in the browser.
For browser:
6. minimist
minimistprovides an easy parsing method to handle the arguments.
7. natives
nativesare used for performing creative action with native Javascript codes. However, the natives module has been deprecated.
qsstands query string. qs helps to parse the string query using the nested objects.
9. readable-stream
readable-streamis the core library of Node.js that helps to work with streaming data.
10. string_decoder
string_decoderis also the core module of Node.js that mainly focuses on decoding buffer objects into strings while maintaining encoded multi-byte UTF-8 and UTF-16 characters.
