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# Awesome Node.js
> A curated list of delightful Node.js [packages](#packages) and [resources](#resources).
Inspired by the [awesome](https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome) list thing.
## Packages
- [Functional programming](#functional-programming)
- [Command-line apps](#command-line-apps)
- [HTTP](#http)
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- [Debugging / Profiling](#debugging--profiling)
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- [Logging](#logging)
- [Web frameworks](#web-frameworks)
- [Command-line utilities](#command-line-utilities)
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- [Package managers](#package-managers)
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- [Build tools](#build-tools)
- [Templating](#templating)
- [Documentation](#documentation)
- [Filesystem](#filesystem)
- [Control flow](#control-flow)
- [Streams](#streams)
- [Real-time](#real-time)
- [Date](#date)
- [Image](#image)
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- [Text](#text)
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- [Math](#math)
- [Data validation](#data-validation)
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- [Parsing](#parsing)
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- [Humanize](#humanize)
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- [Compression](#compression)
- [Network](#network)
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- [Static site generators](#static-site-generators)
- [Content management systems](#content-management-systems)
- [Forum](#forum)
- [Blogging](#blogging)
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- [Database](#database)
- [Testing](#testing)
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- [Benchmarking](#benchmarking)
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- [Minifiers](#minifiers)
- [Authentication](#authentication)
- [Node.js management](#nodejs-management)
- [Email](#email)
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- [Polyfills](#polyfills)
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- [Natural language processing](#natural-language-processing)
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- [AST](#ast)
- [Weird](#weird)
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- [Miscellaneous](#miscellaneous)
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### Functional programming
- [Lo-Dash](http://lodash.com) - A utility library delivering consistency, customization, performance, & extras. A better and faster Underscore.js.
- [Mout](http://moutjs.com) - 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.
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- [mori](http://swannodette.github.io/mori/) - A library for using ClojureScript's persistent data structures and supporting API from the comfort of vanilla JavaScript.
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- [Folktale](http://folktale.github.io/) - A suite of libraries for generic functional programming in JavaScript that allows you to write elegant modular applications with fewer bugs, and more reuse.
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- [immutable](https://github.com/facebook/immutable-js) - Immutable data collections.
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### Command-line apps
- [Yo](https://github.com/yeoman/yo) - Run Yeoman generators.
- [Pageres](https://github.com/sindresorhus/pageres) - Responsive website screenshots.
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- [PM2](https://github.com/Unitech/pm2) - Advanced Process Manager.
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- [trash](https://github.com/sindresorhus/trash) - A safer alternative to `rm`.
- [ESLint](http://eslint.org) - The pluggable linting utility for JavaScript.
- [JSHint](http://jshint.com) - A community-driven tool to detect errors and potential problems in JavaScript code.
- [cpy](https://github.com/sindresorhus/cpy) - Copy files.
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- [torrent](https://github.com/maxogden/torrent) - Download torrents.
- [David](https://github.com/alanshaw/david) - Tells you when your package npm dependencies are out of date.
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- [vtop](https://github.com/MrRio/vtop) - More better top, with nice charts.
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- [tmpin](https://github.com/sindresorhus/tmpin) - Adds stdin support to any CLI app that accepts file input.
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- [normit](https://github.com/pawurb/normit) - Google Translate with speech synthesis in your terminal.
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- [esformatter](https://github.com/millermedeiros/esformatter) - JavaScript code beautifier/formatter.
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### HTTP
- [request](https://github.com/mikeal/request) - Simplified HTTP request client.
- [got](https://github.com/sindresorhus/got) / [sent](https://github.com/floatdrop/sent) - A nicer interface to the built-in `http` module.
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- [superagent](https://github.com/visionmedia/superagent) - A small progressive HTTP request library.
- [hyperquest](https://github.com/substack/hyperquest) - Streaming HTTP requests.
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- [spdy](https://github.com/indutny/node-spdy) - Creates SPDY servers with the same API as the built-in `https` module.
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- [Nock](https://github.com/pgte/nock) - A HTTP mocking and expectations library.
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- [download](https://github.com/kevva/download) - Download and extract files effortlessly.
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### Debugging / Profiling
- [node-inspector](https://github.com/node-inspector/node-inspector) - Debugger based on Blink Developer Tools.
- [Theseus](https://github.com/adobe-research/theseus) - A new type of JavaScript debugger featuring real-time code coverage, retroactive inspection and asynchronous call tree.
- [longjohn](https://github.com/mattinsler/longjohn) - Long stack traces with configurable call trace length.
- [debug](https://github.com/visionmedia/debug) - Tiny debugging utility.
- [jstrace](https://github.com/jstrace/jstrace) - Dynamic tracing for JavaScript, similar to dtrace, ktap etc.
- [TraceGL](https://github.com/traceglMPL/tracegl) - Transforms your JavaScript, injecting monitoring code that produces a log of everything that happens.
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- [spy-js](https://github.com/spy-js/spy-js#installation) - Tracing tool for JavaScript, featuring configurable event capturing, searchable call stack, code coverage, recorded object values inspection, multi process and node cluster tracing support.
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- [njsTrace](https://github.com/valyouw/njstrace) - Instrument and trace you code, see all function calls, arguments, return values, as well as the time spent in each function.
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- [vstream](https://github.com/joyent/node-vstream) - Instrumentable streams mix-ins to inspect a pipeline of streams.
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### Logging
- [winston](https://github.com/flatiron/winston) - A multi-transport async logging library.
- [Bunyan](https://github.com/trentm/node-bunyan) - A simple and fast JSON logging library.
### Web frameworks
- [Koa](http://koajs.com) - 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](http://expressjs.com) - A minimal and flexible web application framework, providing a robust set of features for building single and multi-page, and hybrid web applications.
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- [Hapi](http://hapijs.com) - A rich framework for building applications and services.
- [Meteor](https://www.meteor.com) - An ultra-simple, database-everywhere, data-on-the-wire, pure-Javascript web framework.
- [SailsJS](http://sailsjs.org) - An MVC web framework with a modern twist, supporting WebSockets, streams, and a data-driven API.
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- [Restify](http://mcavage.me/node-restify/) - A node framework built specifically to enable you to build correct REST web services.
- [Derby](https://github.com/derbyjs/derby) - MVC framework making it easy to write realtime, collaborative applications that run in both Node.js and browsers.
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### Command-line utilities
- [chalk](https://github.com/sindresorhus/chalk) - Terminal string styling done right.
- [minimist](https://github.com/substack/minimist) - Parse command-line flags
- [Inquirer.js](https://github.com/SBoudrias/Inquirer.js) - Interactive command-line prompt.
- [update-notifier](https://github.com/yeoman/update-notifier) - Update notifications for your CLI app.
- [sudo-block](https://github.com/sindresorhus/sudo-block) - Block users from running your app with root permissions.
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- [configstore](https://github.com/yeoman/configstore) - Easily load and persist config without having to think about where and how.
- [insight](https://github.com/yeoman/insight) - Helps you understand how your tool is being used by anonymously reporting usage metrics to Google Analytics.
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- [blessed](https://github.com/chjj/blessed) - A curses-like library.
- [cli-table](https://github.com/LearnBoost/cli-table) - Pretty unicode tables.
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- [drawille](https://github.com/madbence/node-drawille) - Draw on the terminal with unicode braille characters.
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- [progress](https://github.com/visionmedia/node-progress) - Flexible ascii progress bar.
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- [log-symbols](https://github.com/sindresorhus/log-symbols) - Colored symbols for various log levels.
- [columnify](https://github.com/timoxley/columnify) - Create text-based columns suitable for console output. Supports cell wrapping.
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- [googleauth](https://github.com/maxogden/googleauth) - Create and load persistent Google authentication tokens for command-line apps.
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- [figures](https://github.com/sindresorhus/figures) - Unicode symbols with Windows CMD fallbacks.
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### Package managers
- [npm](https://github.com/npm/npm/) - A package manager for Node.js and the web.
- [Bower](http://bower.io) - A package manager for the web.
- [Component](https://github.com/component/component) - A package manager for building better web apps.
- [Duo](https://www.npmjs.org/package/duo) - The next `Component`.
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### Build tools
- [gulp.js](http://gulpjs.com) - Streaming and fast build system that favors code over config.
- [grunt](http://gruntjs.com) - Task runner that can perform repetitive tasks like minification, compilation, unit testing, linting, etc.
- [Broccoli](https://github.com/broccolijs/broccoli) - A fast, reliable asset pipeline, supporting constant-time rebuilds and compact build definitions.
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- [browserify](https://github.com/substack/node-browserify) - Browser-side require() the Node.js way.
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### Templating
- [handlebars.js](https://github.com/wycats/handlebars.js/) - A superset of Mustache templates which adds powerful features like helpers and more advanced blocks.
- [hogan.js](http://twitter.github.io/hogan.js/) - Twitter's small, fast, phase-separated compiler for Mustache templates.
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- [Jade](https://github.com/visionmedia/jade) - High performance template engine heavily influenced by Haml.
- [nunjucks](https://github.com/mozilla/nunjucks) - A powerful templating engine with inheritance, asynchronous control, and more (jinja2 inspired).
### Documentation
- [Docco](http://jashkenas.github.io/docco/) - A quick-and-dirty documentation generator which produces an HTML document that displays your comments intermingled with your code.
- [JSDoc](http://usejsdoc.org) - API documentation generator similar to JavaDoc or PHPDoc.
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- [dox](https://github.com/visionmedia/dox) - JavaScript documentation generator using Markdown and JSDoc.
- [jsdox](https://github.com/sutoiku/jsdox) - JSDoc3 to Markdown documentation generator.
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### Filesystem
- [del](https://github.com/sindresorhus/del) - Delete files/folders using globs.
- [globby](https://github.com/sindresorhus/globby) - Glob files with support for multiple patterns.
- [cpy](https://github.com/sindresorhus/cpy) - Copy files.
- [rimraf](https://github.com/isaacs/rimraf) - Recursively delete files like `rm -rf`.
- [mkdirp](https://github.com/substack/node-mkdirp) - Recursively create directories like `mkdir -p`.
- [graceful-fs](https://github.com/isaacs/node-graceful-fs) - Drop-in replacement for the `fs` module with various improvements.
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- [fs-extra](https://github.com/jprichardson/node-fs-extra) - Extra methods for the `fs` module.
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### Control flow
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- Callbacks
- [each-async](https://github.com/sindresorhus/each-async) - Async concurrent iterator like forEach.
- [async](https://github.com/caolan/async) - Provides straight-forward, powerful functions for working with asynchronousity.
- Generators
- [co](https://github.com/visionmedia/co) - The ultimate generator based flow-control goodness.
- Promises
- [native-promise-only](https://www.npmjs.org/package/native-promise-only) - A polyfill for native ES6 Promises.
- [Bluebird](https://github.com/petkaantonov/bluebird) - A fully featured promise library with focus on innovative features and performance.
- [Q](https://github.com/kriskowal/q) - A tool for making and composing asynchronous promises.
- Streams
- [Highland.js](http://highlandjs.org) - Manages synchronous and asynchronous code easily, using nothing more than standard JavaScript and Node-like Streams.
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### Streams
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- [through2](https://github.com/rvagg/through2) - Tiny wrapper around streams2 Transform to avoid explicit subclassing noise.
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- [concat-stream](https://github.com/maxogden/concat-stream) - Concatenates a stream into strings or binary data.
- [simple-bufferstream](https://github.com/rvagg/node-simple-bufferstream) - Turn a Buffer into a ReadableStream.
- [co-stream](https://github.com/juliangruber/co-stream) - [co](https://github.com/visionmedia/co) generator stream.
- [byline](https://www.npmjs.org/package/byline) - Super-simple line-by-line Stream reader.
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- [first-chunk-stream](https://github.com/sindresorhus/first-chunk-stream) - Transform the first chunk in a stream.
- [duplexify](https://github.com/mafintosh/duplexify) - Turn a writeable and readable stream into a single streams2 duplex stream.
- [pumpify](https://github.com/mafintosh/pumpify) - Combine an array of streams into a single duplex stream.
- [from2](https://github.com/hughsk/from2) - Convenience wrapper for ReadableStream, inspired by `through2`.
- [from2-array](https://github.com/binocarlos/from2-array) - Create a `from2` stream based on an array of source values.
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- [peek-stream](https://github.com/mafintosh/peek-stream) - Transform stream that lets you peek the first line before deciding how to parse it.
- [binary-split](https://github.com/maxogden/binary-split) - A fast newline (or any delimiter) splitter stream.
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- [multistream](https://github.com/feross/multistream) - Combine multiple streams into a single stream.
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- [graphicsmagick-stream](https://github.com/e-conomic/graphicsmagick-stream/) - Fast convertion/scaling of images using a pool of long lived graphicsmagick processes.
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### Real-time
- [Socket.io](http://socket.io) - Enables real-time bidirectional event-based communication.
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- [SocketCluster](https://github.com/topcloud/socketcluster) - Scalable HTTP + WebSocket engine which can run on multiple CPU cores.
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- [Primus](https://github.com/primus/primus) - An abstraction layer for real-time frameworks to prevent module lock-in.
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### Date
- [Moment.js](http://momentjs.com) - Parse, validate, manipulate, and display dates.
- [dateformat](https://github.com/felixge/node-dateformat) - Date formatting.
### Image
- [sharp](https://github.com/lovell/sharp) - The fastest module for resizing JPEG, PNG, WebP and TIFF images.
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- [image-type](https://github.com/sindresorhus/image-type) - Detect the image type of a Buffer/Uint8Array.
- [gm](https://github.com/aheckmann/gm) - GraphicsMagick and ImageMagick wrapper.
### Text
- [Underscore.string](https://github.com/epeli/underscore.string) - Collection of string manipulation utilities.
- [he](https://github.com/mathiasbynens/he) - A robust HTML entity encoder/decoder.
- [iconv-lite](https://github.com/ashtuchkin/iconv-lite) - Convert character encodings.
- [escape-string-regexp](https://github.com/sindresorhus/escape-string-regexp) - Escape RegExp special characters.
- [indent-string](https://github.com/sindresorhus/indent-string) - Indent each line in a string.
- [strip-indent](https://github.com/sindresorhus/strip-indent) - Strip leading whitespace from every line in a string.
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- [detect-indent](https://github.com/sindresorhus/detect-indent) - Detect the indentation of code.
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- [i18n-node](https://github.com/mashpie/i18n-node) - Simple translation module with dynamic JSON storage.
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- [string-length](https://github.com/sindresorhus/string-length) - Get the real length of a string - by correctly counting astral symbols and ignoring ansi escape codes.
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### Math
- [ndarray](https://github.com/mikolalysenko/ndarray) - Multidimensional arrays.
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- [mathjs](https://github.com/josdejong/mathjs) - An extensive math library.
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### Data validation
- [joi](https://github.com/spumko/joi) - Object schema description language and validator for JavaScript objects.
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### Parsing
- [css](https://github.com/reworkcss/css) - CSS parser / stringifier.
- [strip-json-comments](https://github.com/sindresorhus/strip-json-comments) - Strip comments from JSON.
- [marked](https://github.com/chjj/marked) - A markdown parser and compiler built for speed.
- [js-yaml](https://github.com/nodeca/js-yaml) - Very fast YAML parser.
- [URI.js](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js) - URL mutation.
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- [JSONStream](https://github.com/dominictarr/JSONStream) - Streaming JSON.parse and stringify.
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- [csv-parser](https://github.com/mafintosh/csv-parser) - Streaming CSV parser that aims to be faster than everyone else.
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- [excel-stream](https://github.com/dominictarr/excel-stream) - Streaming Excel spreadsheet to JSON parser.
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- [parse5](https://github.com/inikulin/parse5) - Fast full-featured spec compliant HTML parser.
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- [htmlparser2](https://github.com/fb55/htmlparser2/) - Forgiving HTML/XML parser.
- [PostCSS](https://github.com/postcss/postcss) - Framework for CSS postprocessors, to modify CSS.
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### Humanize
- [pretty-bytes](https://github.com/sindresorhus/pretty-bytes) - Convert bytes to a human readable string: `1337``1.34 kB`.
- [pretty-ms](https://github.com/sindresorhus/pretty-ms) - Convert milliseconds to a human readable string: `1337000000``15d 11h 23m 20s`.
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- [ms](https://github.com/guille/ms.js) - Tiny milisecond conversion utility.
- [pretty-error](https://github.com/AriaMinaei/pretty-error) - Errors with less clutter.
- [humanize](https://github.com/taijinlee/humanize) - Data formatter for human readability.
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- [node-read](https://github.com/bndr/node-read) - Extract readable content from any page.
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### Compression
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- [Archiver](https://github.com/ctalkington/node-archiver) - Streaming interface for archive generation, supporting ZIP and TAR.
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- [decompress-zip](https://github.com/bower/decompress-zip) - Unzip.
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- [tar-stream](https://github.com/mafintosh/tar-stream) - Streaming tar parser and generator. Also see [tar-fs](https://github.com/mafintosh/tar-fs).
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- [decompress](https://github.com/kevva/decompress) - A pluggable decompression module with support for `tar`, `tar.gz` and `zip` files out of the box.
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### Network
- [get-port](https://github.com/sindresorhus/get-port) - Get an available port.
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- [ipify](https://github.com/sindresorhus/ipify) - Get your public IP address.
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### Static site generators
- [Metalsmith](http://www.metalsmith.io) - An extremely simple, pluggable static site generator.
- [Wintersmith](http://wintersmith.io) - Flexible, minimalistic, multi-platform static site generator.
- [Assemble](http://assemble.io) - Static site generator for Node.js, Grunt.js, and Yeoman.
### Content management systems
- [KeystoneJS](http://keystonejs.com) - CMS and web application platform built on Express and MongoDB.
- [Calipso](http://calip.so) - A simple content management system, built along similar themes to Drupal and Wordpress, that is designed to be fast, flexible and simple.
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- [Apostrophe2](http://apostrophenow.org/) - A content management system with an emphasis on intuitive front end content editing and administration built on Express and MongoDB.
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### Forum
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- [nodeBB](https://nodebb.org) - A better forum platform for the modern web.
### Blogging
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- [ghost](https://ghost.org) - Simple, powerful publishing platform that allows you to share your story with the world.
- [Hexo](http://hexo.io) - Fast, simple and powerful blogging framework.
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### Database
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- Drivers
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- [LevelUP](https://github.com/rvagg/node-levelup) - LevelDB.
- [MongoDB](https://github.com/mongodb/node-mongodb-native) - MongoDB driver.
- [PostgreSQL](https://github.com/brianc/node-postgres) - PostgreSQL client. Pure JavaScript and native libpq bindings.
- [MySQL](https://github.com/felixge/node-mysql) - MySQL client.
- [Redis](https://github.com/mranney/node_redis) - Redis client.
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- ODM / ORM
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- [Bookshelf](http://bookshelfjs.org/) - ORM for PostgreSQL, MySQL and SQLite3 in the style of Backbone.js.
- [JugglingDB](https://github.com/1602/jugglingdb) - Multi-database ORM with a common API. Supports Redis, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MySQL, SQLite, Neo4j, memory, and more.
- [Mongoose](http://mongoosejs.com/) - Elegant MongoDB object modeling.
- [Sequelize](https://github.com/sequelize/sequelize) - Multi-dialect ORM. Supports PostgreSQL, SQLite, MySQL.
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- Query builder
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- [Knex](http://knexjs.org/) - A query builder for PostgreSQL, MySQL and SQLite3, designed to be flexible, portable, and fun to use.
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### Testing
- [tape](https://github.com/substack/tape) - [TAP](http://testanything.org)-producing test harness.
- [Mocha](http://visionmedia.github.io/mocha/) - A feature-rich test framework making asynchronous testing simple and fun.
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- [loadtest](https://github.com/alexfernandez/loadtest) - Run load tests for your web application, with an API for automation.
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- [istanbul](https://github.com/gotwarlost/istanbul) - A code coverage tool that computes statement, line, function and branch coverage with module loader hooks to transparently add coverage when running tests.
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### Benchmarking
- [Benchmark.js](http://benchmarkjs.com/) - A robust benchmarking library that works on nearly all JavaScript platforms, supports high-resolution timers, and returns statistically significant results.
- [matcha](https://github.com/logicalparadox/matcha) - A caffeine driven, simplistic approach to benchmarking.
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### Minifiers
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- [UglifyJS2](http://lisperator.net/uglifyjs/) - JavaScript minifier.
- [clean-css](https://github.com/GoalSmashers/clean-css) - CSS minifier.
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- [minimize](https://github.com/Moveo/minimize) - HTML minifier.
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- [imagemin](https://github.com/kevva/imagemin) - Image minifier.
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### Authentication
- [Passport](http://passportjs.org) - Simple, unobtrusive authentication.
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- [everyauth](https://github.com/bnoguchi/everyauth) - Authentication and authorization (password, facebook, & more) for your Connect and Express apps.
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### Node.js management
- [n](https://github.com/visionmedia/n) - Node.js version management.
- [nave](https://github.com/isaacs/nave) - Virtual Environments for Node.js.
- [nodeenv](https://github.com/ekalinin/nodeenv) - A Node.js virtual environment compatible to Python's virtualenv.
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### Email
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- [Nodemailer](https://github.com/andris9/Nodemailer) - The fastest way to handle email.
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### Polyfills
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- [object-assign](https://github.com/sindresorhus/object-assign) - ES6 Object.assign() polyfill.
- [harmony-reflect](https://github.com/tvcutsem/harmony-reflect) - ES6 Reflect and Proxy polyfill.
- [es6-shim](https://github.com/paulmillr/es6-shim) - Collection of ES6 polyfills.
- More ES6 polyfills at [es6-tools](https://github.com/addyosmani/es6-tools#polyfills).
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### Natural language processing
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- [natural](https://github.com/NaturalNode/natural) - A general natural language facility.
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- [retext](https://github.com/wooorm/retext) - An extensible natural language system.
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- [leven](https://github.com/sindresorhus/leven) - Measure the difference between two strings using the Levenshtein distance algorithm.
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### Process management
- [node-windows](https://github.com/coreybutler/node-windows) - Run scripts as a native Windows service and log to the Event viewer.
- [node-mac](https://github.com/coreybutler/node-mac) - Run scripts as a native Mac daemon and log to the console app.
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- [node-linux](https://github.com/coreybutler/node-linux) - Run scripts as native system service and log to syslog.
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- [forever](https://github.com/nodejitsu/forever) - A simple CLI tool for ensuring that a given script runs continuously (i.e. forever).
- [supervisor](https://github.com/isaacs/node-supervisor) - Restart scripts when they crash or restart when a `*.js` file changes.
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### AST
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- [Acorn](https://github.com/marijnh/acorn/) - A tiny, fast JavaScript parser.
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- [Rocambole](https://github.com/millermedeiros/rocambole) - Recursively walk and transform JavaScript AST.
### Weird
- [superb](https://github.com/sindresorhus/superb) - Get superb like words.
- [cool-ascii-faces](https://github.com/maxogden/cool-ascii-faces) - Get some cool ascii faces.
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### Miscellaneous
- [multiline](https://github.com/sindresorhus/multiline) - Multiline strings in JavaScript.
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- [opn](https://github.com/sindresorhus/opn) - Opens stuff like websites, files, executables.
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- [semver](https://github.com/isaacs/node-semver) - [semver](http://semver.org) parser.
- [cheerio](https://github.com/cheeriojs/cheerio) - Fast, flexible, and lean implementation of core jQuery designed specifically for the server.
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- [require-uncached](https://github.com/sindresorhus/require-uncached) - Require a module bypassing the cache.
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- [Faker.js](https://github.com/Marak/Faker.js) - Generate massive amounts of fake data.
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- [peerflix](https://github.com/mafintosh/peerflix) - Streaming torrent client.
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- [BitcoinJS](http://bitcoinjs.org/) - The clean, readable, proven library for Bitcoin JavaScript development.
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- [Bottleneck](https://github.com/SGrondin/bottleneck) - A powerful rate limiter that makes throttling easy.
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- [PDFKit](http://pdfkit.org/) - A JavaScript PDF generation library.
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- [stringify-object](https://github.com/yeoman/stringify-object) - Stringify an object/array like JSON.stringify just without all the double-quotes.
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- [strip-bom](https://github.com/sindresorhus/strip-bom) - Strip UTF-8 byte order mark (BOM) from a string/buffer/stream.
- [shelljs](https://github.com/arturadib/shelljs) - Portable Unix shell commands.
- [he](https://github.com/mathiasbynens/he) - A robust HTML entity encoder/decoder.
- [nan](https://github.com/rvagg/nan) - A header file filled with macro and utility goodness for making add-on development for across Node.js versions easier.
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- [ssh2](https://github.com/mscdex/ssh2) - An SSH2 client module.
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## Resources
### Tutorials
- [Nodeschool](http://nodeschool.io) - Learn Node.js with interactive lessons.
- [The Art of Node](https://github.com/maxogden/art-of-node/#the-art-of-node) - An introduction to Node.js.
- [stream-handbook](https://github.com/substack/stream-handbook) - How to write Node.js programs with streams.
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- [browserify-handbook](https://github.com/substack/browserify-handbook) - The definitive guide for browserify.
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### Articles
- [Error Handling in Node.js](http://www.joyent.com/developers/node/design/errors)
### Videos
- [Introduction to Node.js with Ryan Dahl](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo_B4LTHi3I)
### Podcasts
- [NodeUp](http://nodeup.com)
### Books
- [Node.js in Action](http://www.amazon.com/Node-js-Action-Mike-Cantelon/dp/1617290572)
- [Mastering Node](http://visionmedia.github.io/masteringnode/)
- [Professional Node.js: Building Javascript Based Scalable Software](http://www.amazon.com/Professional-Node-js-Building-Javascript-Scalable-ebook/dp/B009L7QETY/)
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### Blogs
- [Node.js blog](http://blog.nodejs.org)
- [HowToNode](http://howtonode.org) - Teaching how to do various tasks in Node.js as well as teach fundamental concepts that are needed to write effective code.
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### Courses
- [Real Time Web with Node.js](http://node.codeschool.com)
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### Tools
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- [GitHub Linker](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/github-linker/jlmafbaeoofdegohdhinkhilhclaklkp) - Chrome extension that linkifies dependencies in package.json on GitHub.
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