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npm89Excellenthealth index
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Go★ 1,187Sep 12, 2026
npm62Moderatehealth index
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micromatch/micromatchHighly optimized wildcard and glob matching library. Faster, drop-in replacement to minimatch and multimatch. Used by square, webpack, babel core, yarn, jest, ract-native, taro, bulma, browser-sync, stylelint, nyc, ava, and many others! Follow micromatch's author: https://github.com/jonschlinkert
JavaScript★ 3,039↓ 602M/moSep 16, 2026
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npm53Moderatehealth index

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JavaScript★ 250↓ 630M/moSep 16, 2026