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- 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
- Job queues
- Node.js management
- Polyfills
- Natural language processing
- Process management
- Automation
- AST
- Static site generators
- Content management systems
- Forum
- Blogging
- Weird
- Miscellaneous
- Resources
- webtorrent - Streaming torrent client for Node.js and the browser.
- GitTorrent - Peer-to-peer network of Git repositories being shared over BitTorrent.
- 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 - A 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.
- js-git - JavaScript implementation of Git.
- NodeOS - The first operating system powered by npm.
- limdu - Machine-learning framework.
- Cytoscape.js - Graph theory (a.k.a. network) modeling and analysis.
- kad - Kademlia distributed hash table.
- pageres - Capture website screenshots.
- trash - A safer alternative to
rm
. - npm-name - Check whether a package name is available on npm.
- XO - Enforce strict code style using the JavaScript happiness style.
- speed-test - Test your internet connection speed and ping.
- np - A better
npm publish
. - yo - Run Yeoman generators.
- Babel - Use next generation JavaScript, today.
- ESLint - The pluggable linting utility for JavaScript.
- Standard - JavaScript Standard Style — One style to rule them all.
- cpy - Copy files.
- fkill - Fabulously kill processes. Cross-platform.
- vantage - Distributed, realtime CLI for your live app.
- vtop - More better top, with nice charts.
- tmpin - Adds stdin support to any CLI app that accepts file input.
- 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.
- dark-mode - Toggle the macOS Dark Mode.
- ttystudio - Record your terminal and compile it to a GIF or APNG without any external dependencies, bash scripts, gif concatenation, etc.
- David - Tells you when your package npm dependencies are out of date.
- http-server - Simple, zero-config command-line HTTP server.
- Live Server - A simple development HTTP-server with livereload capability.
- bcat - Pipe command output to web browsers.
- normit - Google Translate with speech synthesis in your terminal.
- slap - Sublime-like terminal-based text editor.
- jsinspect - Detect copy-pasted and structurally similar code.
- esformatter - JavaScript code beautifier/formatter.
- 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.
- modhelp - Syntax-highlighted module READMEs in terminal with ANSI-friendly pager.
- wifi-password - Get the current wifi password.
- wallpaper - Change the desktop wallpaper.
- brightness - Change the screen brightness.
- torrent - Download torrents.
- tfa - Two-factor authentication client.
- rtail - Terminal output to the browser in seconds, using UNIX pipes.
- 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.
- iponmap - IP location finder.
- Jsome - Pretty prints JSON with configurable colors and indentation.
- itunes-remote - Interactively control iTunes.
- dev-time - Get the current local time of a GitHub user.
- text-meme - Generate a text meme.
- 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.
- vaca - Get a random ASCII 🐮.
- gh-home - Open the GitHub page of the repo in the current directory.
- npm-home - Open the npm page of a package.
- trymodule - Try out npm packages in the terminal.
- terminal-recorder - Record your terminal usage and export it to interactive HTML.
- jscpd - Copy/paste detector for source code.
- atmo - Server-side API mocking.
- lodash - A utility library delivering consistency, customization, performance, & extras. A better and faster Underscore.js.
- immutable - Immutable data collections.
- mori - A library for using ClojureScript's persistent data structures and supporting API from the comfort of vanilla JavaScript.
- Ramda - A utility library with a focus on flexible functional composition enabled by automatic currying and reversed argument order. Avoids mutating data.
- Folktale - A suite of libraries for generic functional programming in JavaScript that allows you to write elegant, modular applications with fewer bugs, and more reuse.
- underscore-contrib - The brass buckles on Underscore's utility belt.
- 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.
- got - A nicer interface to the built-in
http
module. - gh-got - Convenience wrapper for
got
to interact with the GitHub API. - request - Simplified HTTP request client.
- Nock - A HTTP mocking and expectations library.
- hyperquest - Streaming HTTP requests.
- axios - Promise based HTTP client (works in the browser too).
- spdy - Creates SPDY servers with the same API as the built-in
https
module. - wreck - HTTP Client Utilities.
- download - Download and extract files effortlessly.
- http-proxy - A full-featured HTTP proxy.
- rocky - Featured, middleware-oriented HTTP proxy with traffic replay and intercept.
- superagent - A small progressive HTTP request library.
- node-fetch -
window.fetch
for Node.js.
- ironNode - Node.js debugger supporting ES2015 out of the box.
- node-inspector - Debugger based on Blink Developer Tools.
- devtool - Run Node.js programs through Chrome Dev Tools.
- Theseus - A new type of JavaScript debugger featuring real-time code coverage, retroactive inspection and asynchronous call tree.
- longjohn - Long stack traces with configurable call trace length.
- debug - Tiny debugging utility.
- jstrace - Dynamic tracing for JavaScript, similar to dtrace, ktap etc.
- 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.
- TraceGL - Transforms your JavaScript, injecting monitoring code that produces a log of everything that happens.
- locus - Starts a REPL at runtime that has access to all variables.
- bugger - Provides Chrome Devtools bindings to debug programs in Chrome.
- 0x - Flamegraph profiling.
- ctrace - Well-formatted and improved trace system calls and signals.
- winston - A multi-transport async logging library.
- Bunyan - A simple and fast JSON logging library.
- intel - A comprehensive logging library (handlers, filters, formatters, console injection).
- 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.
- chalk - Terminal string styling done right.
- meow - CLI app helper.
- minimist - Parse command-line flags.
- get-stdin - Easier stdin.
- user-home - Get the path to the user home directory.
- log-update - Log by overwriting the previous output in the terminal. Useful for rendering progress bars, animations, etc.
- Inquirer.js - Interactive command-line prompt.
- update-notifier - Update notifications for your CLI app.
- ansi-escapes - ANSI escape codes for manipulating the terminal.
- sudo-block - Block users from running your app with root permissions.
- configstore - Easily load and persist config without having to think about where and how.
- insight - Helps you understand how your tool is being used by anonymously reporting usage metrics to Google Analytics.
- log-symbols - Colored symbols for various log levels.
- figures - Unicode symbols with Windows CMD fallbacks.
- boxen - Create boxes in the terminal.
- string-width - Get the visual width of a string - the number of columns required to display it.
- first-run - Check if it's the first time the process is run.
- sparkly - Generate sparklines ▁▂▃▅▂▇
- vorpal - A framework for interactive CLI apps.
- blessed - A curses-like library.
- yn - Parse yes/no like values.
- cli-table - Pretty unicode tables.
- drawille - Draw on the terminal with unicode braille characters.
- googleauth - Create and load persistent Google authentication tokens for command-line apps.
- ascii-charts - ASCII bar chart in the terminal.
- progress - Flexible ascii progress bar.
- 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.
- loud-rejection - Make unhandled promise rejections fail loudly instead of the default silent fail.
- ora - Elegant terminal spinner.
- term-img - Display images in your terminal.
- yargs - Command-line parser that automatically generates an elegant user-interface.
- liftoff - Bootstrapping tool for building command-line app.
- listr - Terminal task list.
- gulp - Streaming and fast build system that favors code over config.
- Broccoli - A fast, reliable asset pipeline, supporting constant-time rebuilds and compact build definitions.
- browserify - Browser-side require() the Node.js way.
- webpack - Packs modules and assets for the browser.
- Brunch - Front-end web app build tool with simple declarative config, fast incremental compilation, and an opinionated workflow.
- strong-build - Build a node app package and prepare to deploy it as a package to production or use git to commit to a deploy branch.
- grunt - Task runner that can perform repetitive tasks like minification, compilation, unit testing, linting, etc.
- start - Simple tasks runner powered by composable functions and promise chaining.
- ygor - A promising task runner for when
npm run
isn't enough and everything else is too much. - Fly - Modern build system based in co-routines, generators and promises.
- johnny-five - Firmata based Arduino Framework.
- serialport - Access serial ports for reading and writing.
- usb - USB library.
- cylon.js - Next generation robotics framework with support for 26 different platforms.
- i2c-bus - I2C serial bus access.
- marko - A fast and lightweight HTML-based templating engine that compiles templates to CommonJS modules and supports streaming, async rendering and custom tags.
- nunjucks - A powerful templating engine with inheritance, asynchronous control, and more (jinja2 inspired).
- handlebars.js - A superset of Mustache templates which adds powerful features like helpers and more advanced blocks.
- hogan.js - Twitter's small, fast, phase-separated compiler for Mustache templates.
- EJS - Simple unopinionated templating language.
- Pug - High-performance template engine heavily influenced by Haml.
- Koa - A new web 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 - A minimal and flexible web application framework, providing a robust set of features for building single and multi-page, and hybrid web applications.
- Feathers - A minimal and flexible microservice framework built in the spirit of Express.
- Hapi - A rich framework for building applications and services.
- 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)
- SailsJS - An MVC web framework with a modern twist, supporting WebSockets, streams, and a data-driven API.
- Restify - A node framework built specifically to enable you to build correct REST web services.
- Interfake - Rapid prototyping framework for making mock HTTP APIs, with a Node.js, command-line and HTTP interface.
- Derby - MVC framework, making it easy to write realtime, collaborative applications that run in both Node.js and browsers.
- Restberry - Framework for setting up RESTful JSON APIs, applied to your database models without needing to write any code.
- Catberry - Framework with Flux architecture, isomorphic web-components, and progressive rendering.
- ThinkJS - Framework with ES2015+ support, WebSockets, REST API.
- Docco - A quick-and-dirty documentation generator which produces an HTML document that displays your comments intermingled with your code.
- JSDoc - API documentation generator similar to JavaDoc or PHPDoc.
- dox - JavaScript documentation generator using Markdown and JSDoc.
- jsdox - JSDoc3 to Markdown documentation generator.
- apiDoc - Inline documentation for RESTful web APIs.
- documentation.js - API documentation generator with support for ES2015+ and flow annotation.
- YUIDoc - Generates API documentation from comments in source.
- ESDoc - Documentation generator targeting ES2015, attaching test code and measuring documentation coverage.
- del - Delete files/folders using globs.
- globby - Glob files with support for multiple patterns.
- cpy - Copy files.
- rimraf - Recursively delete files like
rm -rf
. - mkdirp - 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
andfs.watchFile
as well as using nativefsevents
on macOS. - find-up - Find a file by walking up parent directories.
- 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.
- sander - Promise-based replacement for the
fs
module.
- Promises
- Bluebird - A fully featured promise library with focus on innovative features and performance.
- pinkie-promise - Promise ponyfill.
- pify - Promisify a callback-style function.
- rfpify - Promisify a result-first callback-style function.
- delay - Delay a promise a specified amount of time.
- Callbacks
- each-async - Async concurrent iterator like forEach.
- async - Provides straight-forward, powerful functions for working with asynchronicity.
- async-chainable - Chainable, pluggable async functionality.
- after-all-results - Bundle results of async functions calls into one callback with all the results.
- Generators
- co - The ultimate generator based flow-control goodness.
- suspend - Generator-based control flow that plays nice with callbacks, promises, and thunks.
- bluebird-co - A set of high performance yield handlers for Bluebird coroutines.
- iterum - Build generator pipelines using Array-like methods.
- Streams
- Highland.js - Manages synchronous and asynchronous code easily, using nothing more than standard JavaScript and Node-like Streams.
- Channels
- js-csp - Communicating sequential processes for JavaScript (like Clojurescript core.async, or Go).
- Other
- zone - Provides a way to group and track resources and errors across asynchronous operations.
- 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.
- concat-stream - Concatenates a stream into strings or binary data.
- 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 - A fast 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.
- graphicsmagick-stream - Fast conversion/scaling of images using a pool of long lived GraphicsMagick processes.
- Socket.io - Enables real-time bidirectional event-based communication.
- SockJS - Low latency, full duplex, cross-domain channel browser-server, with WebSockets or without.
- 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.
- Straw - Real-time dataflow framework.
- deepstream.io - Scalable real-time microservice framework.
- Kalm - Modular socket wrapper and optimizer.
- 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.
- is-progressive - Check if a JPEG image is progressive.
- probe-image-size - Get the size of most image formats without a full download.
- Underscore.string - Collection of string manipulation utilities.
- iconv-lite - Convert character encodings.
- repeating - Repeat a string.
- 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 - A robust HTML entity encoder/decoder.
- i18n-node - Simple translation module with dynamic JSON storage.
- babelfish - i18n with very easy syntax for plurals.
- parse-columns - Parse text columns, like the output of Unix commands.
- hanging-indent - Format a string into a hanging-indented paragraph.
- matcher - Simple wildcard matching.
- 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
.
- ndarray - Multidimensional arrays.
- mathjs - An extensive math library.
- math-sum - Sum numbers.
- math-clamp - Clamp a number.
- algebra - Algebraic structures.
- Moment.js - Parse, validate, manipulate, and display dates.
- Moment Timezone - IANA Time Zone Database + Moment.js.
- dateformat - Date formatting.
- tz-format - Format a date with timezone:
2015-11-30T10:40:35+01:00
.
- 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.
- 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.
- remark - Markdown processor powered by plugins.
- markdown-it - A very fast 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.
- csv-parser - Streaming CSV parser that aims to be faster than everyone else.
- neat-csv - Fast CSV parser. Callback interface for the above.
- PEG.js - Simple parser generator that produces fast parsers with excellent error reporting.
- x-ray - A web scraping utility to see through the
<html>
noise. - nearley - Simple, fast, powerful parsing for JavaScript.
- binary-extract - Extract a value from a buffer of JSON without parsing the whole thing.
- json-mask - Tiny language and engine for selecting parts of an object, hiding/masking the rest.
- Stylecow - Parse, manipulate and convert modern CSS to make it compatible with all browsers. Extensible with plugins.
- js-yaml - Very fast YAML parser.
- excel-stream - Streaming Excel spreadsheet to JSON 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.
- 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.
- humanize - Data formatter for human readability.
- read-art - Extract readable content from any page.
- Archiver - Streaming interface for archive generation, supporting ZIP and TAR.
- decompress-zip - Unzip.
- pako - High speed zlib port to pure js (deflate, inflate, gzip).
- tar-stream - Streaming tar parser and generator. Also see tar-fs.
- decompress - A pluggable decompression module with support for
tar
,tar.gz
andzip
files out of the box.
- get-port - Get an available port.
- ipify - Get your public IP address.
- getmac - Get the computer MAC address.
- polo - Zero-config service discovery.
- Drivers
- ODM / ORM
- Bookshelf - ORM for PostgreSQL, MySQL and SQLite3 in the style of Backbone.js.
- Massive - PostgreSQL data access tool.
- Mongoose - Elegant MongoDB object modeling.
- Sequelize - Multi-dialect ORM. Supports PostgreSQL, SQLite, MySQL.
- Waterline - Datastore-agnostic tool that dramatically simplifies interaction with one or more databases.
- Iridium - A high performance MongoDB ORM with support for promises, distributed caching, preprocessing, validation and plugins.
- OpenRecord - ORM for PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite3 and RESTful datastores. Similar to ActiveRecord.
- orm2 - ORM for PostgreSQL, MariaDB, MySQL, Amazon Redshift, SQLite, MongoDB.
- firenze - Adapter-based ORM for MySQL, Memory, Redis, localStorage and more.
- pg-promise - PostgreSQL framework for native SQL using promises.
- Objection.js - Lightweight ORM built on the SQL query builder Knex.
- Query builder
- Knex - A query builder for PostgreSQL, MySQL and SQLite3, designed to be flexible, portable, and fun to use.
- Other
- NeDB - Embedded persistent database written in JavaScript.
- AVA - Futuristic test runner.
- tap - A TAP test framework.
- tape - TAP-producing test harness.
- Mocha - A feature-rich test framework making asynchronous testing simple and fun.
- 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.
- istanbul - A code coverage tool that computes statement, line, function and branch coverage with module loader hooks to transparently add coverage when running tests.
- nyc - Code coverage tool built on istanbul that works with subprocesses.
- Sinon.JS - Test spies, stubs and mocks.
- navit - PhantomJS / SlimerJS wrapper to simplify browser test scripting.
- nock - HTTP mocking and expectations.
- intern - A next-generation code testing stack for JavaScript.
- 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.
- snyk - CLI and build-time tool to find & fix vulnerable npm dependencies.
- nsp - CLI tool to identify known vulnerabilities in your project.
- RegEx-DoS - CLI tool to identify possible regex denial of service (ReDos) vulnerabilities in your project.
- Benchmark.js - A robust benchmarking library that works on nearly all JavaScript platforms, supports high-resolution timers, and returns statistically significant results.
- matcha - A caffeine-driven, simplistic approach to benchmarking.
- UglifyJS2 - JavaScript minifier.
- clean-css - CSS minifier.
- minimize - HTML minifier.
- imagemin - Image minifier.
- Passport - Simple, unobtrusive authentication.
- everyauth - Authentication and authorization (password, Facebook, etc) for your Connect and Express apps.
- passwordless - Token-based authentication middleware for Express allowing authentication without passwords.
- Lockit - Full featured authentication solution for Express. Supports a variety of databases, predefined routes, email and two-factor authentication.
- Grant - OAuth middleware for Express, Koa, and Hapi.
- Nodemailer - The fastest way to handle email.
- emailjs - Send text/HTML emails with attachments to any SMTP server.
- kue - Priority job queue backed by Redis.
- bull - Persistent job and message queue.
- agenda - Lightweight job scheduling on MongoDB.
- n - Node.js version management.
- nave - Virtual Environments for Node.js.
- nodeenv - A Node.js virtual environment compatible to Python's virtualenv.
- nvm for Windows - Version management for Windows.
- Node.js
- set-immediate-shim - Simple
setImmediate()
ponyfill. - path-is-absolute - Node.js 0.12
path.isAbsolute()
ponyfill. - os-tmpdir - Node.js
os.tmpdir()
ponyfill. - os-homedir - Node.js 4
os.homedir()
ponyfill. - user-info - Node.js 6
os.userInfo()
ponyfill. - debug-log - Node.js 0.12
util.debuglog()
ponyfill. - buffer-equals - Node.js 0.12
buffer.equals()
ponyfill. - buffer-includes - Node.js 5.3
buffer.includes()
ponyfill. - buf-indexof - Node.js 4
buffer.indexOf()
ponyfill. - buf-compare - Node.js 0.12
Buffer.compare()
ponyfill. - fs-access - Node.js 0.12
fs.access()
&fs.accessSync()
ponyfill. - exec-file-sync - Node.js 0.12
childProcess.execFileSync()
ponyfill. - child-process-ctor - Node.js 4
childProcess.ChildProcess
ponyfill. - node-status-codes - Node.js
http.STATUS_CODES
ponyfill. - exit-code - Node.js 0.12
process.exitCode
polyfill. - core-assert - Node.js
assert
as a standalone module. - deep-strict-equal - Test for deep equality - Node.js
assert.deepStrictEqual()
algorithm as a standalone module.
- set-immediate-shim - Simple
- JavaScript
- object-assign - ES2015
Object.assign()
ponyfill. - pinkie-promise - ES2015
Promise
ponyfill. - harmony-reflect - ES2015
Reflect
andProxy
polyfill. - es6-shim - Collection of ES2015 polyfills.
- More ES2015 polyfills at es6-tools.
- object-assign - ES2015
- 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 - A general natural language facility.
- PM2 - Advanced Process Manager.
- node-windows - Run scripts as a native Windows service and log to the Event viewer.
- 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.
- forever - A simple CLI tool for ensuring that a given script runs continuously (i.e. forever).
- nodemon - Monitor for changes in your app and automatically restart the server.
- supervisor - Restart scripts when they crash or restart when a
*.js
file changes. - Phusion Passenger - Friendly process manager that integrates directly into Nginx.
- naught - Process manager with zero downtime deployment.
- robotjs - Desktop Automation: control the mouse, keyboard and read the screen.
- Metalsmith - An extremely simple, pluggable static site generator.
- 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.
- KeystoneJS - CMS and web application platform built on Express and MongoDB.
- Calipso - A simple content management system, built along similar themes to Drupal and Wordpress, that is designed to be fast, flexible and simple.
- Apostrophe2 - A content management system with an emphasis on intuitive front end content editing and administration built on Express and MongoDB.
- nodeBB - A better forum platform for the modern web.
- ghost - Simple, powerful publishing platform that allows you to share your story with the world.
- Hexo - Fast, simple and powerful blogging framework.
- 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”
- cows - ASCII cows.
- nerds - Get data from nerdy topics like Harry Potter, Star Wars, and Pokémon.
- execa - A 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)
- opn - 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.
- require-uncached - Require a module bypassing the cache.
- stringify-object - Stringify an object/array like JSON.stringify just without all the double-quotes.
- strip-bom - Strip UTF-8 byte order mark (BOM) from a string/buffer/stream.
- deep-assign - Recursive
Object.assign()
. - os-locale - Get the system locale.
- nan - A header file filled with macro and utility goodness for making add-on development for across Node.js versions easier.
- multiline - Multiline strings in JavaScript.
- ssh2 - An SSH2 client and server module.
- adit - SSH tunneling made simple.
- lazy-req - Require modules lazily.
- file-type - Detect the file type of a Buffer.
- Bottleneck - A powerful rate limiter that makes throttling easy.
- webworker-threads - Lightweight Web Worker API implementation with native threads.
- 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.
- common-errors - Common error classes and utility functions.
- dotenv - Load environment variables from .env file.
- remote-git-tags - Get tags from a remote git repo.
- semver - semver parser.
- nar - Create self-contained executable binaries.
- banshee - Real-time anomalies detection for periodic time series.
- 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.
- parent-module - Get the path of the parent module.
- 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 - A service for server-side rendering your JavaScript views.
- 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.
- browserify-handbook - The definitive guide for browserify.
- 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.
- npms - Superb package search with deep analysis of package quality using a myriad of metrics.
- node-modules.com - An alternative npm search engine with a more intelligent and personal results ranking.
- npm addict - Your daily injection of npm packages.
- npmcompare.com - Compare and discover npm packages.
- 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
- node weekly - Weekly e-mail round-up of Node.js news and articles.
- nmotw - Node Module Of The Week, weekly dose of hand picked node modules.
- Introduction to Node.js with Ryan Dahl
- LearnAllTheNodes - Series of useful tips, tricks, and packages.
- Introduction to Node.js Fundamentals
- Hands on with Node.js
- Full Streams Ahead - Introduction to streams.
- StrongLoop Talks - Series of talks.
- thenewboston's Node.js for Beginners
- Nodetuts - Series of talks, including TCP & HTTP API servers, async programming, and more.
- Node Interactive 2015 - List of talks, keynotes and panels from the 2015 Node Interactive conference.
- Node.js in Action
- Node.js in Practice
- Mastering Node
- 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
- Node.js blog
- HowToNode - Teaching how to do various tasks in Node.js as well as teach fundamental concepts that are needed to write effective code.
- webapplog.com — Blog posts on Node.js and JavaScript from the author of Practical Node.js and Pro Express.js Azat Mardan.
- Express.js
- Stream FAQs - Answering common questions about streams, covering pagination, events, and more.
- GitHub Linker - 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.
- RequireBin - Shareable JavaScript programs powered by npm and browserify.
- Tonic - Embed a Node.js environment on any website.
- nodebots - Robots powered by JavaScript.
- node-module-boilerplate - Boilerplate to kickstart creating a node module.
- generator-nm - Scaffold out a node module.
- awesome-cross-platform-nodejs - Resources for writing and testing cross-platform code.
- Microsoft Node.js Guidelines - Tips, tricks, and resources for working with Node.js on Microsoft platforms.
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