Awesome Node.js

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

Inspired by the awesome list thing.

Packages

• Functional programming
• Command-line apps
• HTTP
• Logging
• Web frameworks
• Command-line utilities
• Build tools
• Templating
• Documentation
• Filesystem
• Control flow
• Streams
• Real-time
• Date
• Image
• Parsing
• Humanize
• Compression
• Network
• Static site generators
• Content management systems
• Forum
• Blogging
• Debugging
• Database
• Testing
• Minifiers
• Authentication
• Node.js management
• Polyfills
• AST
• Weird
• Miscellaneous

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• David - Tells you when your package npm dependencies are out of date.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

• Moment.js - Parse, validate, manipulate, and display dates.
• dateformat - Date formatting.

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

• Underscore.string - Collection of string manipulation utilities.
• he - A robust HTML entity encoder/decoder.
• iconv-lite - Convert character encodings.
• escape-string-regexp - Escape RegExp special characters.
• indent-string - Indent each line in a string.
• strip-indent - Strip leading whitespace from every line in a string.

Math

• ndarray - Multidimensional arrays.

Parsing

• css - CSS parser / stringifier.
• strip-json-comments - Strip comments from JSON.
• marked - A markdown parser and compiler built for speed.
• js-yaml - Very fast YAML parser.
• URI.js - URL mutation.

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 milisecond conversion utility.
• pretty-error - Errors with less clutter.
• humanize - Data formatter for human readability.

Compression

• Archiver - A streaming interface for archive generation, supporting ZIP and TAR.
• decompress-zip - Unzip.

Network

• get-port - Get an available port.

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

• UglifyJS2 - JavaScript minifier.
• clean-css - CSS minifier.
• minimize - HTML minifier.
• imagemin - Image minifier.

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

• object-assign - ES6 Object.assign() polyfill.
• harmony-reflect - ES6 Reflect and Proxy polyfill.
• es6-shim - Collection of ES6 polyfills.
• More ES6 polyfills at es6-tools.

AST

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

Weird

• superb - Get superb like words.
• cool-ascii-faces - Get some cool ascii faces.

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

• 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.

Articles

• Error Handling in Node.js

Videos

• Introduction to Node.js with Ryan Dahl

Podcasts

• NodeUp

Books

• Node.js in Action
• Mastering Node.

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

• Real Time Web with Node.js

Tools

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

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License

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