NodeJS

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• Contents

• Official

• 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

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  • Image

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  • Math

  • Date

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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.

• Pipcook - Front-end algorithm framework to create a machine learning pipeline.

• 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).

• 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.

• smoke - File-based HTTP mock server with recording abilities.

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.

• NiM - Manages DevTools debugging workflow.

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 - Console logger.

• consola - Console logger.

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.

• Tinyhttp - Modern and fast Express-like web framework.

• Marble.js - Functional reactive framework for building server-side apps, based on TypeScript and RxJS.

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.

• Docusaurus - Documentation website generator that leverages React and Markdown, and comes with translation and versioning features.

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 and fs.watchFile as well as using native fsevents 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.

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• Observables

  • zen-observable - Implementation of Observables.

  • RxJS - Reactive programming.

  • observable-to-promise - Convert an Observable to a Promise.

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• 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.

• StegCloak - Conceal secrets within strings, in plain sight.

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.

• Superstruct - Simple and composable way to validate data in JavaScript (and TypeScript).

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 and zip 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, and more.

  • 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.

  • Prisma - Modern database access (ORM alternative). Auto-generated and type-safe query builder in TypeScript. Supports PostgreSQL, MySQL & 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.

  • @databases - Query PostgreSQL, MySQL and SQLite3 with plain SQL without risking SQL injection.

  • pg-mem - In-memory PostgreSQL instance for your tests.

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.

• Playwright - Headless Chromium, WebKit, and Firefox with a single API.

• nve - Run any command on multiple versions of Node.js locally.

• axe-core - Accessibility engine for automated Web UI testing.

• testcontainers-node - Provides lightweight, throwaway instances of common databases, Selenium web browsers, or anything else that can run in a Docker container.

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

• Passport - Simple, unobtrusive authentication.

• Grant - OAuth providers for Express, Koa, Hapi, Fastify, AWS Lambda, Azure, Google Cloud, Vercel, and many more.

Authorization

• CASL - Isomorphic authorization for UI and API.

• node-casbin - Authorization library that supports access control models like ACL, RBAC and ABAC.

Email

• 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.

• fnm - Cross-platform Node.js version manager built in Rust.

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.

• nut.js - Cross-platform native GUI automation / testing framework with image matching capabilities which integrates with Jest.

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.

• Factor - Vue.js dashboard framework and headless CMS.

• AdminBro - Auto-generated admin panel with CRUD for all your resources.

Forum

• nodeBB - Forum platform for the modern web.

Blogging

• Ghost - Simple, powerful publishing platform.

• Hexo - Fast, simple and powerful blogging framework.

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.

• cashify - Currency conversion.

• genepi - Automatically generate a native Node.js addon from C++ code.

• husky - Create Git hook scripts.

• patch-package - Make and preserve fixes to npm dependencies.

• editly - Declarative video editing API.

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.

• Mastering REST APIs in Node.js: Zero-To-Hero - Video course on how to make REST APIs using Node.js.

• Make a vanilla Node.js REST API - Building a REST API without using a framework like Express.

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.

• 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.

• CodeSandbox - Online IDE and prototyping.

Community

• Gitter

• #node.js on Freenode

• Stack Overflow

• Reddit

• Twitter

• Hashnode

• Discord

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.