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Awesome Node.js

A curated list of delightful Node.js packages and resources.

Inspired by the awesome list thing.

Packages

Functional programming

  • Lo-Dash - A utility library delivering consistency, customization, performance, & extras. A better and faster Underscore.js.
  • Underscore.js - Provides a whole mess of useful functional programming helpers without extending any built-in objects.
  • 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.

Command-line apps

  • npm - A package-manager for Node.js.
  • Bower - A package manager for the web.
  • Yo - Run Yeoman generators.
  • Pageres - Responsive website screenshots.
  • trash - A safer alternative to rm.
  • ESLint - The pluggable linting utility for JavaScript.
  • JSHint - A community-driven tool to detect errors and potential problems in JavaScript code.
  • cpy - Copy files.
  • torrent - Download torrents.
  • David - Tells you when your package npm dependencies are out of date.

HTTP

  • request - Simplified HTTP request client.
  • got - A nicer interface to the built-in http module.
  • superagent - A small progressive HTTP request library.
  • hyperquest - Streaming HTTP requests.

Logging

  • winston - A multi-transport async logging library.
  • Bunyan - A simple and fast JSON logging library.

Web frameworks

  • Koa - 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 - A minimal and flexible web application framework, providing a robust set of features for building single and multi-page, and hybrid web applications.
  • Hapi - A rich framework for building applications and services.
  • Meteor - An ultra-simple, database-everywhere, data-on-the-wire, pure-Javascript web framework.
  • SailsJS - An MVC web framework with a modern twist, supporting WebSockets, streams, and a data-driven API.

Command-line utilities

  • chalk - Terminal string styling done right.
  • minimist - Parse command-line flags
  • Inquirer.js - Interactive command-line prompt.
  • update-notifier - Update notifications for your CLI app.
  • sudo-block - Block users from running your app with root permissions.
  • configstore - Easily load and persist config without having to think about where and how.
  • insight - Helps you understand how your tool is being used by anonymously reporting usage metrics to Google Analytics.
  • blessed - A curses-like library.
  • cli-table - Pretty unicode tables.

Build tools

  • gulp.js - Streaming and fast build system that favors code over config.
  • grunt - Task runner that can perform repetitive tasks like minification, compilation, unit testing, linting, etc.
  • Broccoli - A fast, reliable asset pipeline, supporting constant-time rebuilds and compact build definitions.

Templating

  • handlebars.js - Provides the power necessary to let you build semantic templates effectively with no frustration.
  • Jade - High performance template engine heavily influenced by Haml.
  • nunjucks - A powerful templating engine with inheritance, asynchronous control, and more (jinja2 inspired).

Documentation

  • Docco - A quick-and-dirty documentation generator which produces an HTML document that displays your comments intermingled with your code.
  • JSDoc - API documentation generator similar to JavaDoc or PHPDoc.
  • dox - JavaScript documentation generator for Node.js using Markdown and JSDoc.
  • jsdox - JSDoc3 to Markdown documentation generator.

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.
  • mkdirp - Recursively create directories like mkdir -p.
  • graceful-fs - Drop-in replacement for the fs module with various improvements.
  • fs-extra - Extra methods for the fs module.

Control flow

  • each-async - Async concurrent iterator like forEach.
  • async - Provides straight-forward, powerful functions for working with asynchronousity.
  • co - The ultimate generator based flow-control goodness.
  • Highland.js - Manages synchronous and asynchronous code easily, using nothing more than standard JavaScript and Node-like Streams.
  • native-promise-only - A polyfill for native ES6 Promises.
  • Bluebird - A fully featured promise library with focus on innovative features and performance.
  • Q - A tool for making and composing asynchronous promises.

Streams

  • through2 - Tiny wrapper around Node streams2 Transform to avoid explicit subclassing noise.
  • concat-stream - Concatenates a stream into strings or binary data.
  • simple-bufferstream - Turn a Buffer into a ReadableStream.
  • co-stream - co generator stream.
  • byline - Super-simple line-by-line Stream reader.

Real-time

  • Socket.io - Enables real-time bidirectional event-based communication.
  • Primus - An abstraction layer for real-time frameworks to prevent module lock-in.

Date

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.

Text

Math

  • ndarray - Multidimensional arrays.

Parsing

Humanize

  • pretty-bytes - Convert bytes to a human readable string: 13371.34 kB.
  • pretty-ms - Convert milliseconds to a human readable string: 133700000015d 11h 23m 20s.
  • ms - Tiny milisecond conversion utility.
  • pretty-error - Errors with less clutter.
  • humanize - Data formatter for human readability.

Compression

Network

Static site generators

  • Metalsmith - An extremely simple, pluggable static site generator.
  • Wintersmith - Flexible, minimalistic, multi-platform static site generator.
  • Assemble - Static site generator for Node.js, Grunt.js, and Yeoman.

Content management systems

  • KeystoneJS - CMS and web application platform built on Express and MongoDB.
  • Calipso - A simple content management system, built along similar themes to Drupal and Wordpress, that is designed to be fast, flexible and simple.

Forum

  • nodeBB - A better forum platform for the modern web.

Blogging

  • ghost - Simple, powerful publishing platform that allows you to share your story with the world.
  • Hexo - Fast, simple and powerful blogging framework.

Debugging

  • node-inspector - Debugger based on Blink Developer Tools.
  • Theseus - A new type of JavaScript debugger featuring real-time code coverage, retroactive inspection and asynchronous call tree.
  • longjohn - Long stack traces with configurable call trace length.
  • debug - Tiny debugging utility.

Database

  • LevelUP - LevelDB, Node.js style.
  • Redis - Redis client for Node.js.
  • Sequelize - Multi-dialect ORM. Supports SQLite, MySQL, PostgreSQL.

Testing

  • tape - TAP-producing test harness.
  • Mocha - A feature-rich test framework making asynchronous testing simple and fun.

Minifiers

Authentication

  • Passport - Simple, unobtrusive authentication.

Node.js management

  • n - Node.js version management.
  • nave - Virtual Environments for Node.js.
  • nodeenv - A Node.js virtual environment compatible to Python's virtualenv.

Polyfills

AST

  • Esprima - A high performance, standard-compliant JavaScript parser.
  • Rocambole - Recursively walk and transform JavaScript AST.

Weird

Miscellaneous

  • multiline - Multiline strings in JavaScript.
  • opn - Opens stuff like websites, files, executables.
  • semver - semver parser.
  • cheerio - Fast, flexible, and lean implementation of core jQuery designed specifically for the server.
  • browserify - Browser-side require() the Node.js way.
  • Faker.js - Generate massive amounts of fake data.

Resources

Tutorials

Articles

Videos

Podcasts

Books

Blogs

  • Node.js blog
  • HowToNode - Teaching how to do various tasks in Node.js as well as teach fundamental concepts that are needed to write effective code.

Courses

Tools

  • GitHub Linker - Chrome extension that linkifies dependencies in package.json on GitHub.

Contribute

Contributions welcome! Read the contribution guidelines first.

License

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