My Awesome List

This is my list of tools, libraries and learning resources I use.

The Web Backend

Code used to make production quality backends.

Web Servers

• Hapi - New to the list but it quickly moved to the top of my list
• Express - The classic and powerhouse, easy to use but no longer my first choice
• Static Cling - Simple to use static file server

Data Access

NoSQL - MongoDB

• MonogJS - MongoJS Driver that in the past was easier to install across platform and get up and running
• MongoDB - My current MongoDB module of choice, the official lib.

SQL Server - Postgress/MySQL/SQLite/MS SQL

• Knex.JS - SQL Query Builder
• Bookshelf.JS - ORM for realtional DB's
• Sequlize - Promised based ORM for node. It has some sharp edges, but all ORMS do

Testing

• tap - A full-featured mature TAP-based test framework for Node.js.
• Jest - My current favorite testing framework, includes coverage and mocking as well as testing.
• Mocha - Mocha JS, the most common testing framework for JavaScript, both node and in the browser.
• NYC - Code instrumentation and coverage tool.
• Leakage - Leakage - Memory leak testing for node.

Utils

Performance

• Nodejs Dashboard - Telemetry dashboard for node.js apps from the terminal! Damn useful
• Node-Clinic - Clinic diagnoses your Node.js performance issues
• 0x - 0x🔥 Flamegraph profiling

Making a command line interfaces

• Commander - Tool for node.js command-line interfaces
• Inquirer - A collection of common interactive command line user interfaces.

Dates and Times

• Date-Math - A library to perform mathematical operations on dates
• Date-Arithmeti - A simple object containing some date math utils
• 1stand15th - Get the 1st and 15th of the month for a year, or the 1st and 15th so far for the current year.
• days-in-a-row - Return an array of dates (strings) based on a start date and a number

The Front End