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Appendix 1 - Third Party Modules

There are many third party modules for Node. At the time of writing, August 2010, the master repository of modules is the wiki page.

This appendix is intended as a SMALL guide to new-comers to help them quickly find what are considered to be quality modules. It is not intended to be a complete list. There may be better more complete modules found elsewhere.

• Module Installer: npm

• HTTP Middleware: Connect

• Web Framework: Express

• Web Sockets: Socket.IO

• HTML Parsing: HTML5

• mDNS/Zeroconf/Bonjour

• RabbitMQ, AMQP

• mysql

• Serialization: msgpack

• Scraping: Apricot

• Debugger: ndb is a CLI debugger inspector is a web based tool.

• pcap binding

• ncurses

• Testing/TDD/BDD: vows, expresso, mjsunit.runner

Patches to this list are welcome.