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Contents
- 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
- Authorization
- Job queues
- Node.js management
- Natural language processing
- Process management
- Automation
- AST
- Static site generators
- Content management systems
- Forum
- Blogging
- Weird
- Serialization
- Miscellaneous
- Resources
- Related lists
Packages
Mad science
- webtorrent - Streaming torrent client for Node.js and the browser.
- 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 - 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.
- NodeOS - The first operating system powered by npm.
- YodaOS - AI operating system.
- Brain.js - Machine-learning framework.
- Cytoscape.js - Graph theory (a.k.a. network) modeling and analysis.
- Kadence - Kademlia distributed hash table.
- seedshot - Temporary P2P screenshot sharing from your browser.
- js-git - JavaScript implementation of Git.
- skale - High performance distributed data processing engine.
- xlsx - Pure JS Excel spreadsheet reader and writer.
- isomorphic-git - Pure JavaScript implementation of Git.
Command-line apps
- np - Better
npm publish
. - npm-name - Check a package name's availability on npm.
- gh-home - Open the GitHub page of the repo in the current directory.
- npm-home - Open the npm page of a package.
- trash - Safer alternative to
rm
. - speed-test - Test your internet connection speed and ping.
- emoj - Find relevant emoji from text on the command-line.
- pageres - Capture website screenshots.
- cpy - Copy files.
- vtop - More better top, with nice charts.
- 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.
- clipboard-cli - Copy & paste on the terminal.
- XO - Enforce strict code style using the JavaScript happiness style.
- Standard - JavaScript Standard Style — One style to rule them all.
- ESLint - The pluggable linting utility for JavaScript.
- dev-time - Get the current local time of a GitHub user.
- David - Tells you when your package npm dependencies are out of date.
- http-server - Simple, zero-config command-line HTTP server.
- Live Server - Development HTTP-server with livereload capability.
- bcat - Pipe command output to web browsers.
- normit - Google Translate with speech synthesis in your terminal.
- fkill - Fabulously kill processes. Cross-platform.
- 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.
- tmpin - Adds stdin support to any CLI app that accepts file input.
- wifi-password - Get the current wifi password.
- wallpaper - Change the desktop wallpaper.
- brightness - Change the screen brightness.
- torrent - Download torrents.
- 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.
- dark-mode - Toggle the macOS Dark Mode.
- iponmap - IP location finder.
- Jsome - Pretty prints JSON with configurable colors and indentation.
- itunes-remote - Interactively control iTunes.
- 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.
- trymodule - Try out npm packages in the terminal.
- jscpd - Copy/paste detector for source code.
- atmo - Server-side API mocking.
- auto-install - Auto installs dependencies as you code.
- lessmd - Markdown in the terminal.
- cost-of-modules - Find out which dependencies are slowing you down.
- localtunnel - Expose your localhost to the world.
- svg-term-cli - Share terminal sessions via SVG.
- gtop - System monitoring dashboard for the terminal.
- themer - Generate themes for your editor, terminal, wallpaper, Slack, and more.
- carbon-now-cli - Beautiful images of your code — from right inside your terminal.
- cash-cli - Convert between 170 currencies.
- taskbook - Tasks, boards & notes for the command-line habitat.
- discharge - Easily deploy static websites to Amazon S3.
- npkill - Easily find and remove old and heavy node_modules folders.
Functional programming
- lodash - Utility library delivering consistency, customization, performance, & extras. A better and faster Underscore.js.
- immutable - Immutable data collections.
- Ramda - Utility library with a focus on flexible functional composition enabled by automatic currying and reversed argument order. Avoids mutating data.
- Folktale - Suite of libraries for generic functional programming in JavaScript that allows you to write elegant, modular applications with fewer bugs, and more reuse.
- 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.
HTTP
- got - Nicer interface to the built-in
http
module. - gh-got - Convenience wrapper for
got
to interact with the GitHub API. - axios - Promise based HTTP client (works in the browser too).
- request - Simplified HTTP request client.
- wreck - HTTP Client Utilities.
- download - Download and extract files effortlessly.
- http-proxy - HTTP proxy.
- superagent - HTTP request library.
- node-fetch -
window.fetch
for Node.js. - flashheart - REST client.
- http-fake-backend - Build a fake backend by providing the content of JSON files or JavaScript objects through configurable routes.
- cacheable-request - Wrap native HTTP requests with RFC compliant cache support.
- gotql - GraphQL request library built on got.
- global-agent - Global HTTP/HTTPS proxy agent that is configurable using environment variables.
Debugging / Profiling
- ndb - Improved debugging experience, enabled by Chrome DevTools.
- ironNode - Node.js debugger supporting ES2015 out of the box.
- node-inspector - Debugger based on Blink Developer Tools.
- debug - Tiny debugging utility.
- 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.
- locus - Starts a REPL at runtime that has access to all variables.
- 0x - Flamegraph profiling.
- ctrace - Well-formatted and improved trace system calls and signals.
- leakage - Write memory leak tests.
- llnode - Post-mortem analysis tool which allows you to inspect objects and get insights from a crashed Node.js process.
- thetool - Capture different CPU, memory, and other profiles for your app in Chrome DevTools friendly format.
- swagger-stats - Trace API calls and monitor API performance, health, and usage metrics.
Logging
- pino - Extremely fast logger inspired by Bunyan.
- winston - Multi-transport async logging library.
- 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.
- signale - Hackable console logger with beautiful output.
Command-line utilities
- chalk - Terminal string styling done right.
- meow - CLI app helper.
- yargs - Command-line parser that automatically generates an elegant user-interface.
- ora - Elegant terminal spinner.
- get-stdin - Easier stdin.
- log-update - Log by overwriting the previous output in the terminal. Useful for rendering progress bars, animations, etc.
- Ink - React for interactive command-line apps.
- listr - Terminal task list.
- conf - Simple config handling for your app or module.
- ansi-escapes - ANSI escape codes for manipulating the terminal.
- log-symbols - Colored symbols for various log levels.
- figures - Unicode symbols with Windows CMD fallbacks.
- boxen - Create boxes in the terminal.
- terminal-link - Create clickable links in the terminal.
- terminal-image - Display images in the terminal.
- string-width - Get the visual width of a string - the number of columns required to display it.
- cli-truncate - Truncate a string to a specific width in the terminal.
- first-run - Check if it's the first time the process is run.
- blessed - Curses-like library.
- Inquirer.js - Interactive command-line prompt.
- yn - Parse yes/no like values.
- cli-table3 - Pretty unicode tables.
- drawille - Draw on the terminal with unicode braille characters.
- update-notifier - Update notifications for your CLI app.
- ascii-charts - ASCII bar chart in the terminal.
- progress - Flexible ascii progress bar.
- insight - Helps you understand how your tool is being used by anonymously reporting usage metrics to Google Analytics.
- 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.
- sudo-block - Block users from running your app with root permissions.
- loud-rejection - Make unhandled promise rejections fail loudly instead of the default silent fail.
- sparkly - Generate sparklines
▁▂▃▅▂▇
. - Bit - Create, maintain, find and use small modules and components across repositories.
- gradient-string - Beautiful color gradients in terminal output.
- oclif - CLI framework complete with parser, automatic documentation, testing, and plugins.
- term-size - Reliably get the terminal window size.
- Cliffy - Framework for interactive CLIs.
Build tools
- parcel - Blazing fast, zero config web app bundler.
- webpack - Packs modules and assets for the browser.
- rollup - Next-generation ES2015 module bundler.
- gulp - Streaming and fast build system that favors code over config.
- Broccoli - Fast, reliable asset pipeline, supporting constant-time rebuilds and compact build definitions.
- Brunch - Front-end web app build tool with simple declarative config, fast incremental compilation, and an opinionated workflow.
- Start - Functional task runner with shareable presets.
- ygor - Promising task runner for when
npm run
isn't enough and everything else is too much. - FuseBox - Fast build system that combines the power of webpack, JSPM and SystemJS, with first-class TypeScript support.
- pkg - Package your Node.js project into an executable.
Hardware
- johnny-five - Firmata based Arduino Framework.
- serialport - Access serial ports for reading and writing.
- usb - USB library.
- i2c-bus - I2C serial bus access.
- onoff - GPIO access and interrupt detection.
- spi-device - SPI serial bus access.
- pigpio - Fast GPIO, PWM, servo control, state change notification, and interrupt handling on the Raspberry Pi.
- gps - NMEA parser for handling GPS receivers.
Templating
- marko - HTML-based templating engine that compiles templates to CommonJS modules and supports streaming, async rendering and custom tags.
- nunjucks - Templating engine with inheritance, asynchronous control, and more (jinja2 inspired).
- handlebars.js - Superset of Mustache templates which adds powerful features like helpers and more advanced blocks.
- EJS - Simple unopinionated templating language.
- Pug - High-performance template engine heavily influenced by Haml.
Web frameworks
- Hapi - Framework for building applications and services.
- Koa - 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 - Web application framework, providing a robust set of features for building single and multi-page, and hybrid web applications.
- Feathers - Microservice framework built in the spirit of Express.
- 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)
- Restify - Enables you to build correct REST web services.
- ThinkJS - Framework with ES2015+ support, WebSockets, REST API.
- ActionHero - Framework for making reusable & scalable APIs for TCP sockets, WebSockets, and HTTP clients.
- Next.js - Minimalistic framework for server-rendered universal JavaScript web apps.
- Nuxt.js - Minimalistic framework for server-rendered Vue.js apps.
- seneca - Toolkit for writing microservices.
- AdonisJs - A true MVC framework for Node.js built on solid foundations of Dependency Injection and IoC container.
- Hemera - Write reliable and fault-tolerant microservices with NATS.
- Micro - Minimalistic microservice framework with an async approach.
- Moleculer - Fast & powerful microservices framework.
- Fastify - Fast and low overhead web framework.
- Nest - Angular-inspired framework for building efficient and scalable server-side apps.
- Zeronode - Minimal building block for reliable and fault-tolerant microservices.
- TypeGraphQL - Modern framework for creating GraphQL APIs with TypeScript, using classes and decorators.
Documentation
- documentation.js - API documentation generator with support for ES2015+ and flow annotation.
- ESDoc - Documentation generator targeting ES2015, attaching test code and measuring documentation coverage.
- Docco - Documentation generator which produces an HTML document that displays your comments intermingled with your code.
- JSDoc - API documentation generator similar to JavaDoc or PHPDoc.
Filesystem
- del - Delete files/folders using globs.
- globby - Glob files with support for multiple patterns.
- cpy - Copy files.
- rimraf - Recursively delete files like
rm -rf
. - make-dir - 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.
- proper-lockfile - Inter-process and inter-machine lockfile utility.
- 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.
- filehound - Flexible and fluent interface for searching the file system.
- move-file - Move a file, even works across devices.
- tempy - Get a random temporary file or directory path.
Control flow
- Promises
- Bluebird - Promise library with focus on innovative features and performance.
- pify - Promisify a callback-style function.
- delay - Delay a promise a specified amount of time.
- promise-memoize - Memoize promise-returning functions, with expire and prefetch.
- valvelet - Limit the execution rate of a promise-returning function.
- p-map - Map over promises concurrently.
- More…
- Observables
- zen-observable - Implementation of Observables.
- RxJS - Reactive programming.
- observable-to-promise - Convert an Observable to a Promise.
- More…
- Streams
- Highland.js - Manages synchronous and asynchronous code easily, using nothing more than standard JavaScript and Node-like Streams.
- Callbacks
- each-async - Async concurrent iterator like forEach.
- async - Provides straight-forward, powerful functions for working with asynchronicity.
- Channels
- js-csp - Communicating sequential processes for JavaScript (like Clojurescript core.async, or Go).
Streams
- 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.
- 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 - 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.
Real-time
- µWebSockets - Highly scalable WebSocket server & client library.
- Socket.io - Enables real-time bidirectional event-based communication.
- 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.
- deepstream.io - Scalable real-time microservice framework.
- Kalm - Low-level socket router and middleware framework.
- MQTT.js - Client for MQTT - Pub-sub based messaging protocol for use on top of TCP/IP.
- rpc-websockets - JSON-RPC 2.0 implementation over WebSockets.
- Aedes - Barebone MQTT server that can run on any stream server.
Image
- 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.
- probe-image-size - Get the size of most image formats without a full download.
- qrcode - QR code and bar code generator.
Text
- iconv-lite - Convert character encodings.
- 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 - HTML entity encoder/decoder.
- i18n-node - Simple translation module with dynamic JSON storage.
- babelfish - i18n with very easy syntax for plurals.
- matcher - Simple wildcard matching.
- unhomoglyph - Normalize visually similar unicode characters.
- i18next - Internationalization framework.
- nanoid - Tiny, secure, URL-friendly, unique string ID generator.
Number
- 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
.
Math
- ndarray - Multidimensional arrays.
- mathjs - An extensive math library.
- math-clamp - Clamp a number.
- algebra - Algebraic structures.
- multimath - Core to create fast image math in WebAssembly and JS.
Date
- Luxon - Library for working with dates and times.
- date-fns - Modern date utility.
- Moment.js - Parse, validate, manipulate, and display dates.
- Day.js - Immutable date library alternative to Moment.js.
- dateformat - Date formatting.
- tz-format - Format a date with timezone:
2015-11-30T10:40:35+01:00
. - cctz - Fast parsing, formatting, and timezone conversation for dates.
URL
- 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.
Data validation
- 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.
- ajv - The fastest JSON Schema validator. Supports v5, v6 and v7 proposals.
Parsing
- remark - Markdown processor powered by plugins.
- markdown-it - 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.
- neat-csv - Fast CSV parser. Callback interface for the above.
- csv-parser - Streaming CSV parser that aims to be faster than everyone else.
- PEG.js - Simple parser generator that produces fast parsers with excellent error reporting.
- x-ray - Web scraping utility.
- nearley - Simple, fast, powerful parsing for JavaScript.
- binary-extract - Extract a value from a buffer of JSON without parsing the whole thing.
- Stylecow - Parse, manipulate and convert modern CSS to make it compatible with all browsers. Extensible with plugins.
- js-yaml - Very fast YAML 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.
- ref - Read/write structured binary data in Buffers.
- xlsx-populate - Read/write Excel XLSX.
- Chevrotain - Very fast and feature rich parser building toolkit for JavaScript.
- fast-xml-parser - Validate and parse XML.
Humanize
- 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.
- read-art - Extract readable content from any page.
Compression
- yazl - Zip.
- yauzl - Unzip.
- Archiver - Streaming interface for archive generation, supporting ZIP and TAR.
- pako - High speed zlib port to pure js (deflate, inflate, gzip).
- tar-stream - Streaming tar parser and generator. Also see tar-fs.
- decompress - Decompression module with support for
tar
,tar.gz
andzip
files out of the box.
Network
- get-port - Get an available port.
- ipify - Get your public IP address.
- getmac - Get the computer MAC address.
- DHCP - DHCP client and server.
- netcat - Netcat port in pure JS.
Database
- Drivers
- PostgreSQL - PostgreSQL client. Pure JavaScript and native libpq bindings.
- Redis - Redis client.
- LevelUP - LevelDB.
- MySQL - MySQL client.
- couchdb-nano - CouchDB client.
- Aerospike - Aerospike client.
- Couchbase - Couchbase client.
- MongoDB - MongoDB driver.
- ODM / ORM
- Sequelize - Multi-dialect ORM. Supports PostgreSQL, SQLite, MySQL.
- Bookshelf - ORM for PostgreSQL, MySQL and SQLite3 in the style of Backbone.js.
- Massive - PostgreSQL data access tool.
- Mongoose - Elegant MongoDB object modeling.
- Waterline - Datastore-agnostic tool that dramatically simplifies interaction with one or more databases.
- OpenRecord - ORM for PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite3 and RESTful datastores. Similar to ActiveRecord.
- pg-promise - PostgreSQL framework for native SQL using promises.
- slonik - PostgreSQL client with strict types, detailed logging and assertions.
- Objection.js - Lightweight ORM built on the SQL query builder Knex.
- TypeORM - ORM for PostgreSQL, MariaDB, MySQL, SQLite, and more.
- MikroORM - TypeScript ORM based on Data Mapper, Unit of Work and Identity Map patterns. Supports MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL and SQLite.
- Query builder
- Knex - Query builder for PostgreSQL, MySQL and SQLite3, designed to be flexible, portable, and fun to use.
- Other
- NeDB - Embedded persistent database written in JavaScript.
- Lowdb - Small JavaScript database powered by Lodash.
- Keyv - Simple key-value storage with support for multiple backends.
- Finale - RESTful endpoint generator for your Sequelize models.
- database-js - Wrapper for multiple databases with a JDBC-like connection.
- Mongo Seeding - Populate MongoDB databases with JavaScript and JSON files.
Testing
- AVA - Futuristic test runner.
- Mocha - Feature-rich test framework making asynchronous testing simple and fun.
- nyc - Code coverage tool built on istanbul that works with subprocesses.
- tap - TAP test framework.
- tape - TAP-producing test harness.
- 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.
- Sinon.JS - Test spies, stubs and mocks.
- navit - PhantomJS / SlimerJS wrapper to simplify browser test scripting.
- Nock - HTTP mocking and expectations.
- intern - Code testing stack.
- 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.
- Jest - Painless JavaScript testing.
- TestCafe - Automated browser testing.
- abstruse - Continuous Integration server.
- CodeceptJS - End-to-end testing.
- Puppeteer - Headless Chrome.
- nve - Run any command on multiple versions of Node.js locally.
Security
- upash - Unified API for all password hashing algorithms.
- themis - Multilanguage framework for making typical encryption schemes easy to use: data at rest, authenticated data exchange, transport protection, authentication, and so on.
- GuardRails - GitHub app that provides security feedback in pull requests.
- rate-limiter-flexible - Brute-force and DDoS attack protection.
- crypto-hash - Async non-blocking hashing.
- jose-simple - Encryption and decryption of data using the JOSE (JSON Object Signing and Encryption) standard.
Benchmarking
- Benchmark.js - Benchmarking library that supports high-resolution timers and returns statistically significant results.
- matcha - Simplistic approach to benchmarking.
Minifiers
- babili - ES2015+ aware minifier based on the Babel toolchain.
- UglifyJS2 - JavaScript minifier.
- clean-css - CSS minifier.
- minimize - HTML minifier.
- imagemin - Image minifier.
Authentication
Authorization
- CASL - Isomorphic authorization for UI and API.
- node-casbin - Authorization library that supports access control models like ACL, RBAC and ABAC.
- Nodemailer - The fastest way to handle email.
- emailjs - Send text/HTML emails with attachments to any SMTP server.
- email-templates - Create, preview, and send custom email templates.
- MJML - Markup language designed to reduce the pain of creating responsive emails.
Job queues
- bull - Persistent job and message queue.
- agenda - MongoDB-backed job scheduling.
- idoit - Redis-backed job queue engine with advanced job control.
- node-resque - Redis-backed job queue.
- rsmq - Redis-backed message queue.
- bee-queue - High-performance Redis-backed job queue.
- RedisSMQ - Simple high-performance Redis message queue with real-time monitoring.
- sqs-consumer - Build Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) based apps without the boilerplate.
- better-queue - Simple and efficient job queue when you cannot use Redis.
Node.js management
- n - Node.js version management.
- nave - Virtual Environments for Node.js.
- nodeenv - Node.js virtual environment compatible to Python's virtualenv.
- nvm for Windows - Version management for Windows.
- nodenv - Version manager that is similar to Ruby's rbenv. It supports auto version switching.
Natural language processing
- 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 - Natural language facility.
- nlp.js - Building bots, with entity extraction, sentiment analysis, automatic language identify, and more.
Process management
- PM2 - Advanced Process Manager.
- nodemon - Monitor for changes in your app and automatically restart the server.
- 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.
- node-windows - Run scripts as a native Windows service and log to the Event viewer.
- supervisor - Restart scripts when they crash or restart when a
*.js
file changes. - Phusion Passenger - Friendly process manager that integrates directly into Nginx.
Automation
- robotjs - Desktop Automation: control the mouse, keyboard and read the screen.
AST
- Acorn - Tiny, fast JavaScript parser.
- babel-parser - JavaScript parser used in Babel.
- cherow - JavaScript parser with focus on performance and stability.
Static site generators
- 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.
- Phenomic - Modern static website generator based on the React and Webpack ecosystem.
- docsify - Markdown documentation site generator with no statically built HTML files.
- Charge - Opinionated, zero-config static site generator using JSX and MDX.
Content management systems
- KeystoneJS - CMS and web application platform built on Express and MongoDB.
- ApostropheCMS - Content management system with an emphasis on intuitive front end content editing and administration built on Express and MongoDB.
- Strapi - Content Management Framework (headless-CMS) to build powerful APIs.
- Tipe - Developer-first content management system with GraphQL and REST API from a schema file.
Forum
- nodeBB - Forum platform for the modern web.
Blogging
Weird
- cows - ASCII cows.
- 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”
. - nerds - Get data from nerdy topics like Harry Potter, Star Wars, and Pokémon.
Serialization
- snappy - Native bindings for Google's Snappy compression library.
- protobuf - Implementation of Protocol Buffers.
- compactr - Implementation of the Compactr protocol.
Miscellaneous
- execa - 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)
- open - 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.
- import-fresh - Import a module while bypassing the cache.
- strip-bom - Strip UTF-8 byte order mark (BOM) from a string/buffer/stream.
- os-locale - Get the system locale.
- ssh2 - SSH2 client and server module.
- adit - SSH tunneling made simple.
- import-lazy - Import a module lazily.
- file-type - Detect the file type of a Buffer.
- Bottleneck - Rate limiter that makes throttling easy.
- ow - Function argument validation for humans.
- webworker-threads - Lightweight Web Worker API implementation with native threads.
- clipboardy - Access the system clipboard (copy/paste).
- 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.
- dotenv - Load environment variables from .env file.
- remote-git-tags - Get tags from a remote git repo.
- semver - Semantic version parser.
- 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.
- 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 - Server-side rendering your JavaScript views.
- @sindresorhus/is - Type check values.
- env-dot-prop - Get, set, or delete nested properties of process.env using a dot path.
- emittery - Simple and modern async event emitter.
- node-video-lib - Pure JavaScript library for working with MP4 and FLV video files and creating MPEG-TS chunks for HLS streaming.
- basic-ftp - FTP/FTPS client.
Resources
Tutorials
- Node.js Best Practices - Summary and curation of the top-ranked content on Node.js best practices, available in multiple languages.
- 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.
- 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.
- Portable Node.js guide - Practical guide on how to write portable/cross-platform Node.js code.
- Build a real web app with no frameworks - A set of video tutorials/livestreams to help you build and deploy a real, live web app using a handful of simple libraries and the core Node.js modules.
Discovery
- npms - Superb package search with deep analysis of package quality using a myriad of metrics.
- npm addict - Your daily injection of npm packages.
- npmcompare.com - Compare and discover npm packages.
Articles
- 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
- Art of README - Learn the art of writing quality READMEs.
- Using Express to Quickly Build a GraphQL Server
Newsletters
- Node Weekly - Weekly e-mail round-up of Node.js news and articles.
- Node Module Of The Week! - Weekly dose of hand picked node modules.
Videos
- Introduction to Node.js with Ryan Dahl
- Hands on with Node.js
- Nodetuts - Series of talks, including TCP & HTTP API servers, async programming, and more.
- V8 Garbage Collector - Trash talk about the V8 garbage collector.
- 10 Things I Regret About Node.js by Ryan Dahl - Insightful talk by the creator of Node.js about some of its limitions.
Books
- Node.js in Action
- Node.js in Practice
- Mastering Node
- Node.js 8 the Right Way
- Professional Node.js: Building JavaScript Based Scalable Software
- Practical Node.js: Building Real-World Scalable Web Apps
- Mixu's Node book
- Pro Express.js
- Secure Your Node.js Web Application
- Express in Action
- Practical Modern JavaScript
- Mastering Modular JavaScript
- Get Programming with Node.js
Blogs
- Node.js blog
- webapplog.com - Blog posts on Node.js and JavaScript from the author of Practical Node.js and Pro Express.js Azat Mardan.
Courses
- Learn to build apps and APIs with Node.js - Video course by Wes Bos.
- Real Time Web with Node.js
- Learn and Understand Node.js
Cheatsheets
- Express.js
- Stream FAQs - Answering common questions about streams, covering pagination, events, and more.
- Strong Node.js - Checklist for source code security analysis of a Node.js web service.
Tools
- OctoLinker - 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.
- RunKit - Embed a Node.js environment on any website.
- RequireBin - Shareable JavaScript programs powered by npm and browserify.
- github-npm-stats - Chrome extension that displays npm download stats on GitHub.
- npm semver calculator - Visually explore what versions of a package a semver range matches.
Community
Miscellaneous
- nodebots - Robots powered by JavaScript.
- node-module-boilerplate - Boilerplate to kickstart creating a node module.
- modern-node - Toolkit for creating node modules with Jest, Prettier, ESLint, and Standard.
- generator-nm - Scaffold out a node module.
- Microsoft Node.js Guidelines - Tips, tricks, and resources for working with Node.js on Microsoft platforms.
- Module Requests & Ideas - Request a JavaScript module you wish existed or get ideas for modules.
Related lists
- awesome-npm - Resources and tips for using npm.
- awesome-cross-platform-nodejs - Resources for writing and testing cross-platform code.