Awesome Node.js

A curated list of astonishing Node.js frameworks, libraries and resources. Inspired by awesome-php and awesome-python.

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• Awesome Node.js
  • Environment Management
  • Integrated Development Enviroments
  • Documentation
  • Package Management
  • Build Tools
  • Communication
  • Database Drivers
  • Debugging Tools
  • Logging
  • ORM
  • Web Frameworks
  • Application Servers
  • Content Management System
  • RESTful API
  • Files and MIME Type Manipulation
  • Authentication and OAuth
  • Template Engine
  • Tools for building CLIs
  • Async Controll Flow
  • Testing
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Environment Management

Libraries for Node version and environment management.

• nodeenv - Virtual environment for Node.js & integrator with virtualenv.
• nave - Virtual Environments for Node.
• n - Node version management.
• nvm - Node Version Manager (does not require prior installation of node).

Integrated Development Enviroments

IDEs and Editors for development

• Enide - Node Eclipse IDE with Nodeclipse plugin.
• InteliJIDEA - Fast Node plugin for InteliJ.
• Webstorm - "Create great websites and applications in a great IDE. The best JavaScript IDE and HTML editor is at your service."
• Visual Studio - With Node.js Tools for Visual Studio (Supports editing, IntelliSense, profiling, npm, TypeScript, debugging locally and remotely on Windows/MacOS/Linux)
• Atom - The hackable editor by GitHub
• Brackets - An open source code editor for the web, written in JavaScript, HTML and CSS.
• Cloud9 - Web editor with collaboration tools.
• Notepad++ - Notepad++ is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages.
• CmdEr - Not really and IDE, but a great "lovely console emulator package for Windows"
• Cloud Commander - Web file manager. Has editor and console. Allows you to develop web applications, sites etc.

Documentation

Libraries for generating project documentation.

• Docco - Docco is a quick-and-dirty documentation generator, written in Literate CoffeeScript.
• Groc - Documentation generation, in the spirit of literate programming.
• dox - JavaScript documentation generator for node using markdown and jsdoc.

Package Management

Libraries for package and dependency management.

• npm - Default package manager. Installs, publishes and manages node programs.

Build Tools

Libraries for building and task running

• Gulp.js - A streaming build system which use of streams and code-over-configuration.
• Grunt.js - A task runner to ease epetitive tasks like unit testing, compilation and so on.
• Nodemon - A dev utility that monitor any changes in source and automatically restart server.

Communication

• Socket.IO - Websocket framework for Node and Javascript.
• SockJS - Websocket emulation.
• Primus - An abstraction layer for real-time frameworks to prevent module lock-in.

Database Drivers

Libraries for connecting and operating databases

• Node-mysql - A pure node.js JavaScript Client implementing the MySql protocol.
• Node-mongodb-native - Mongo DB Native NodeJS Driver.
• Node-redis - Redis Driver, use hideredis for native parser, and checkout then-redis for a Promise-based API.

Debugging Tools

Tools for debugging Node applications

• node-inspector - Node.js debugger based on Blink Developer Tools.
• longjohn - Longer stack traces for Node.
• TypesJs - Easy type checking, for Node & browsers.
• Nodev - Tool for easier debugging based on nodemon and node-inspector.
• cf-node-debug - Proxy to aid in debugging node running on a PaaS.

Logging

Tools for generating and working with log files.

• caterpillar - A logging system that can log and pipe the output off to different locations.
• tracer - A powerful and customizable logging library for node.js.
• Log.io - Real time logging facility on the browser.
• Bunyan - A simple and fast JSON logging module for node.js services.

ORM

Libraries that implement Object-Relational Mapping or datamapping techniques.

• Sequelize - Sequelize library provides easy access to MySQL, MariaDB, SQLite or PostgreSQL databases.
• Node-orm2 - Another Relational Object Mapper.
• Mongoose - Almost an ORM for mongodb.

Web Frameworks

Web development frameworks.

• Express - A minimal and flexible node.js web application framework.
• Flatiron - An adaptable framework for building modern web applications.
• Koa - A framework which aims to be a smaller, more expressive, and more robust foundation for web applications.
• Totaljs - Friendly responsive design web application framework for node.
• Meteor - A platform that has strong features such as live page update, sync and hopt code pushes.
• Hapi - A rich framework for building applications and services.

Application Servers

Application Server is an environment to run and manage multiple applications.

• Impress - Impressive multipurpose scalable Application Server optimized for high load API and web applications.

Content Management System

• Calipso - Calipso is a simple CMS, built along similar themes to Drupal and Wordpress.

RESTful API

Libraries for developing RESTful APIs.

• Sails - MVC framework which generates a RESTful JSON API.
• Node-restify - A node.js module built specifically to build correct REST web services.
• Heimdall - REST API Guardian for Express.

Files and MIME Type Manipulation

• PDFKit - A JavaScript PDF generation library for Node and browser.

Authentication and OAuth

Libraries for implementing authentications schemes.

• PassportJS - Simple authentication middleware framework.
• ldapjs - Pure JavaScript, from-scratch framework for implementing LDAP clients and servers.

Template Engine

Libraries and tools for templating and lexing.

• ECT - "Fastest JavaScript template engine with embedded CoffeeScript syntax" as they say (benchmark proof).
• Jade - Handful node template engine.
• Swig - A simple, powerful, and extendable JavaScript Template Engine.

Tools for building CLIs

Libraries and tools which support you by building Command-Line Interfaces.

• Inquirer - A collection of common interactive command line user interfaces. Ask questions, parsing, validating answers, managing hierarchical prompts and providing error feedback.
• commander.js - The complete solution for node.js command-line interfaces, inspired by Ruby's commander.
• cli - Rapidly build command line apps with node.
• cli-table - Pretty unicode tables for the CLI with Node.JS
• blessed - A curses-like library for node.js.
• chalk - Terminal string styling done right
• minimist - Simple module for command line arguments parsing.
• read - For reading user input from stdin.
• colors.js - get colors in your node.js console like what.
• configstore - Easily load and persist config without having to think about where and how.
• blessed - A curses-like library for node.js.
• log-symbols - Colored symbols for various log levels.https://github.com/sindresorhus/log-symbols
• terminal-menu - retro ansi terminal menus for serious 80s technicolor business.
• cli-spinner - A simple spinner for node cli.
• text-table - generate borderless text table strings suitable for printing to stdout.

Async Control Flow

Libraries, that help you manage asyncronous control flow and avoid callback hell.

• Callback-based:
  • Async - Utility module which provides straight-forward, powerful functions for working with asynchronous JavaScript.
• Promise-based (Promises/A+):
  • Q - Full-featured promise library with large API covering any situation you may encounter.
  • RSVP.js - Lightweight, but still compliant, promise library.
  • when.js - Rock solid, battle tested promise library.
  • Bluebird - Bluebird is a fully featured promise library with focus on innovative features and performance.
• Fibers-base (node-fibers):
  • asyncawait - Inspired by C# async/await feature, implementation of the same patter using fibers.
• Generator-based:
  • Co - Generator based flow-control goodness for nodejs and the browser.

Testing

Testing frameworks.

• mocha - Mocha is a feature-rich JavaScript test framework running on node.js and the browser, making asynchronous testing simple and fun.
• tape - tap-producing test harness for node and browsers.
• should.js - BDD style assertions for node.js -- test framework agnostic.
• chai - BDD / TDD assertion framework for node.js and the browser that can be paired with any testing framework.
• sinon - Standalone test spies, stubs and mocks for JavaScript.

Other Awesome Lists

Other amazingly awesome lists can be found in the awesome-awesome and awesome-awesomeness projects.

Contributing

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