Modules

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Modules

Web frameworks

Routers

• node-router — Simple Sinatra-like http server based on fu.js from the original node-chat demo.
• node.routes.js — A simple url router
• journey — liberal JSON-only HTTP request router
• sherpa — HTTP router/generator with support for regex and parameters

Static file servers

• antinode — A simple static web server
• node-paperboy — A node.js module for delivering static files
• oui — Web service server with great static files support

Microframeworks

• (fab) — A modular and concise async web framework for node.js
• Nerve — Microframework with simple array-based syntax for defining an app on top of node. (node.JS 0.1.30)
• rowan — A hierarchical microframework of reusable controllers and modular app logic.
• scylla — Create simple one object applications by doubling up method names as URL-matching patterns (node.JS 0.1.95)
• vroom — A simple resource oriented web framework built on top of Node.js (November 2009, node.JS 0.1.16)
• Picard
• simplex (October 2009, node.JS 0.1.14)

Frameworks

• chain — An evented convention for building Node Applications (Stopped Development, for ejsgi)
• coltrane — A try at a higher level library/framework for node.js web development (July 2009, node.JS 0.1.1)
• djangode — A framework that borrows some useful concepts from Django. (March 2010, node.JS 0.1.30)
• express — A robust feature rich web development framework inspired by Sinatra
• Geddy — A small, hackable Web-app development framework
• js.io — Javascript Networking Library for building real-time web applications. Also see JS.io
• MVC.js — A simple MVC framework for REST-ful applications, with integrated dependency-injection support.
• nodemachine — A port of WebMachine to Node.js
• pintura — REST-based web framework/middleware stack built for Ajax-style JSON-driven applications.
• jimi — Building upon djangode, this framework adds a modular app structure.

Other

• node-elf-logger — Configurable HTTP logging library following the W3C Extended Log File Format specification
• JSGI-Node — Asynchronous JSGI 0.3 Adapter for Node
• node-mime — Utility module for mime-type lookups
• node-cgi — CGI adapter kludge (replaces Node’s fast and famous event-based HTTP library)

Database

• awesome — a Redis clone in node.js
• cradle — a high-level, caching, CouchDB client
• JSLINQ — Clean and simple port of Microsoft’s LINQ to node.js (and the browser)
• node-couch — a CouchDB connector
• node-couchdb — A full API implementation
• node-couchdb-min — Light-weight client with low level of abstraction and connection pooling.
• node-dirty — A key value store for node.js that is simple, fast & dirty.
• node-fleet — a FleetDB Client
• node-memcache — a memcache client base on libmemcached
• node-mongodb — Basic MongoDB client implementation in JS/C++
• node-mongodb-native — A pure javascript driver for MongoDB
• mongoose — Mongoose is a javascript library that makes working with MongoDB a breeze.
• node-poormansmysql — Asynchronous MySQL driver for node.js using the mysql command-line tool
• node-mysql — Pure Javascript MySQL async driver
• node-mysql-libmysqlclient — MySQL synchronous bindings based on libmysqlclient
• node-riak — Riak client library
• node-sqlite — Bindings for SQLite3. Interface conforms to the HTML5 Web SQL API.
• NoSQLite – A zero-config SQLite wrapper written in CoffeeScript
• node-sqlite — Fast asynchronous driver: New evented Node.js look, same great SQLite3 taste
• node-tyrant — An implementation of the Tokyo Tyrant network protocol for the Node.js
• node.dbslayer.js – Interface to DBSlayer (MySQL)
• node_postgres — Beginning of bindings to libpg
• noodb — A simple and small file backed javascript key-value store
• persistence — Multi-backend database/nosql system. Backends: Sqlite3, Postgres and Memory.
• perstore — JavaScript persistence/object store with pluggable storage based on the W3C DB API
• postgres-js — Postgres protocol implemented in pure JS
• redis-node-client — Redis Client by Fictorial
• riak-js — Riak Javascript client (works on node v0.1.30+)
• node-tokyocabinet — Tokyo Cabinet binding
• node-migrate — Migrate – A database agnostic migration system for Node.js

Templating

• asyncEJS — Asynchronous implementation of embedded JavaScript
• haml.js — Faster / more compliant implementation of Haml
• haml-js — Server side html generation using javascript. Parses haml templates and renders html.
• jazz — A readable template language for node.
• JSON Template — Minimal but powerful template language with multiple implementations. This is the CommonJS version, tested on Node
• xmlbuilder.js — An xml builder in Javascript inspired by Ruby’s Builder, Markaby, and Erector.
• less.js — official port of Less to javascript/node.
• Mu — A Mustache engine that compiles templates into very fast rendering functions. Also streams the rendering process.
• node-template — Fast and light cached templates.
• sass.js — Parses Sass templates and renders css.
• template.node.js — A light, fast, cached template module for node.
• tmpl-node — a feature-rich template module for node.js
• jsdom — pure js implementation of the dom level 1 with some browser augmentation. Level 2 and 3 are being considered.
• bind-js — a simple templating engine for node.js that smiles back.
• normal-template — Normal templates are simple, yet powerful. They are safe, usable in non XML/HTML contexts and portable to any programming language.
• nun — Totally asynchronous non-blocking template engine for node.js
• node.magic_dom — A DSL for building HTML in node.js, similar to Python’s Stan
• strobe-templates — An asynchronous templating engine with syntax like Django’s

Package Management Systems

• kiwi — Feature rich, fast, node.js package management system — server sponsored by Slicehost
• npm — A node package manager that uses CommonJS-compatible package.json files, written in asynchronous javascript.
• mode — Distributed Node module repository. Uses a github repository to contain info about installable modules.
• seed — Universal package manager for CommonJS. Includes command line tools and async server

OpenSSL / Crypto / Hashing

• hashlib — Fast hashing module, written in C/C++, supports: md4, md5, md6, sha, sha1, sha256, sha512
• node-base64 — C++ base64 lib
• node.bcrypt.js — C/C++ bcrypt lib
• node-crypto — OpenSSL based Hashing, Signing and Verifying
• node-oauth — OAuth client (1 and 2)
• sasljs — Gsasl wrapper to performs server-side SASL authentication.

TCP / IP

• node-httpclient — Node HTTP Client (gzip, https, cookies etc.)
• node-protocol — A framework for implementing protocols.
• node-smtp — Implementation of the SMTP protocol in Node
• NodeFTPd — Node FTP Server
• xmpp.js — Library for implementing XMPP server components with Node
• node-http-digest — Node HTTP Client with support for Digest Authentication
• request — Simple HTTP client library.

RPC

• bertrpc
• jsonrpc
• xmlrpc-c — Simple XMLRPC Client

Web Sockets & Ajax

• Comet LongPollingBuffer — A Library to simplify the server side of Comet AJAX long polling
• Faye — Bayeux protocol Comet client and server for Node.js and Rack
• Socket.io — WebSocket-compatible server and client with fallback for legacy browsers
• node-XMLHttpRequest
• node.websocket.js — WebSocket-compatible server.
• node.ws.js — A basic Web Socket server with interface similar to tcp.createServer(…)
• nodejs-http-websocket — A websocket server on top of the http server.
• node-websocket-server — Another websocket server on top of the http server.
• Restler — Simplified REST client for Node.js

Testing / Spec Frameworks

• espionage — A mock/stub framework using the test spy pattern.
• exemplor.js — A port of exemplor with Node goodness.
• jasmine-node — integration with Pivotal’s Jasmine Spec framework
• jspec — Feature Rich BDD Testing Framework
• minitest.js — Light-weight & simple testing framework designed specially for testing asynchronous code.
• mjsunit.runner — Command line mjsunit runner which provides an easy way to hook into mjsunit and start running tests immediately.
• node-assert-extras — Additional high level asserts
• node-async-testing — Simple testing (hopefully)
• node-stories — Given/When/Then integration awesomeness for Node.
• nodeunit — Quick and easy unit testing, based on a simplified version of the QUnit API
• ntest — another unit testing framework
• spectacular — for testing
• Speks — A specification framework for your node-code
• Vows — asynchronous behaviour-driven development for node.js
• Willful — a simple spec’ing library for Node.

Wrappers

• hxNode — haXe wrappers for node

Parsers

XML

• libxmljs — Bindings to libxml2
• node-xml — An xml parser for node.js
• node-xml2object — Converts XML to a JS object, using the node-xml module
• sax-js — SAX-like parser in pure JS

Command Line Option Parsers

• optparse-js — Option Parser in JS
• trollopjs — Another option parser
• js-opts — Another simple command line option parser

Other

• node-discount — C markdown parser “discount” bindings
• node-csv — Efficient Evented CSV Parsing.
• querystring.node.js — Robust query string parsing for node.
• yajl-js — SAX-like evented JSON parsing using yajl
• node-htmlparser — Forgiving HTML Parser in JS for both Node and Browsers

Debugging / Console Utilities

• colours.js — Give your CLI programs some colours!
• colored.js — Colorize terminal output.
• consolelog.js — stylized console logging for node.js
• Eclipse debugger plugin — Using Eclipse as Node Applications Debugger
• eyes.js — A better, customizable value inspector for node.js
• log4js-node — a port of log4js framework for node.js
• node-streamlogger — Extensively customizable logging, with support for rotation
• node_debug — HTTP based console and object explorer
• ndb — traditional command line debugger

Compression

• node-compress — streaming compression / gzip library

Graphics

• node-gd — GD graphic library bindings
• magickal-node — GraphicsMagick wrapper for node.js
• node-imagemagick — ImageMagick module
• node-png — Convert an RGBA buffer to PNG fast
• node-jpeg — Convert an RGBA or RGB buffer to JPEG fast

Other

• behaviors — A simple way to check a module’s exports, useful for 3rd party plugins and extensions
• class.js — High performance and lightweight class implementation (10-ish SLOC)
• cookie-node — signed cookie functionality for node.js
• daemon.node — Unix/Linux Daemons with node.js
• dust — OO way to fill your database with not totally random content
• ext — High quality / performance JavaScript extensions specifically for node.js
• flickrnode — A library to enable use of the flickr api (not as complete as node-flickr, but supports auth)
• Faker.js — generate massive amounts of fake data in Node.js and the browser
• flow-js — Continuation-esque contruct for expressing multi-step asynchronous logic
• hub.js — in-memory and in progress PubSubHubBub server
• Jefe — Jefe is a safe sandbox for running user scripts in Node.js
• Jerk — A fun little IRC bot library for node.js.
• koala — Code syntax highlighting library
• limestone — Sphinx search server connector
• node-discount — C markdown parser “discount” bindings
• monit — Process monitoring system
• node-amqp — Basic AMQP client
• node-bittorrent — A library for handling the bittorrent protocol
• node-chat — A simple web-based chat server
• node-continuables — A library making dealing with asynchronous code easier
• node-email — A simple wrapper around sendmail
• node-Daemon — Restart node script after each change in main script or its dependencies
• node_mailer — send emails from node.js to an smtp server, simple as cake
• node-flickr — A simple library to enable easy use of the flickr api
• node-geoip — geoip city lookup module (uses libgeoip)
• node-growl — unobtrusive notification system (growlnotify “bindings”)
• node-maxmind — maxmind/geoip module (using libgeoip)
• node-promise — Robust promises for node.js, includes promise utilities and promise-based I/O library
• node-prowl — A module that allows you to send push notifications to your iPhone through the Prowl API
• node-resque — Resque redis-backed job queue workers in node.js
• node-sandbox — A rudimentary javascript sandbox for use with node.js
• node-s3 — App for basic Amazon Web Services S3 administration (upload files, bucket admin, etc.)
• node-solr — Solr module for Node
• nodestalker — A beanstalkd client for node
• node-stomp — A basic STOMP client.
• node-taglib — Beginnings of bindings to taglib
• node-ugly — Allows to run PHP code from within node.js
• node-uneval — Adds uneval() support to node.js
• node-worker — An implementation of the WebWorker API for node.js
• node-yui3 — Use the YUI 3 JS library from node.js
• node-yql — A YQL (Yahoo Query Language) module for Node.js
• nshtools — a high level shell scripting library for file and operating system chores
• soda.js — Asynchonous JavaScript module loader for client-side and Node.js
• Step — Tool for grouping and chaining asynchronous callbacks, based on flow-js
• Task.node Simple task manager similar to Rake, Scons and others.
• tasks.js Tasks for Node (like Rake!) with a very JavaScripty API.
• TwitScript — A port of Twython to Node.js (Twitter API Library)
• user-agent — user agent string parser
• uuid — Efficient bulk UUID generation and caching via command-line OSSP uuid.
• uuid-2 — Fork of above, works on OS X and fixes bug.
• uuidjs — Simple UUID generation binding to libuuid.
• vargs — practical variable argument handling.
• Wheres Waldo — track locations of users in redis
• Wrench-JS — Useful Node.js operations (recursive directory operations, etc)
• yaml — CommonJS YAML parser
• node-ncurses — An ncurses binding for node.js
• node-terminal — A simple terminal module for ansi control codes.
• swirl-node — A simple EC2 client

CommonJS compatible modules that can be used with node.

• commonjs-utils — JSON Schema, AOP, XML-RPC, lazy arrays, and other utilities
• datatypes-js — Byte encoding/decoding for typical datatypes in JS.
• Dojo Toolkit — The Dojo library for Node
• email.js — Email generation and parsing in Javascript.
• match-js — Simple pattern matching (functional style) in JS.
• qxoo — port of the qooxdoo OO system to commonJS
• underscore — Unobtrusive functional programming utility library.
• abbrev-js — Like Ruby’s Abbrev module.