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Contents

Packages

Mad science

  • webtorrent14k 1k - Streaming torrent client for Node.js and the browser.
  • peerflix5k 697 - Streaming torrent client.
  • dat - Real-time replication and versioning for data sets.
  • ipfs2k 293 - Distributed file system that seeks to connect all computing devices with the same system of files.
  • GitTorrent4k 242 - Peer-to-peer network of Git repositories being shared over BitTorrent.
  • stackgl - Open software ecosystem for WebGL, built on top of browserify and npm.
  • peerwiki64 5 - All of Wikipedia on BitTorrent.
  • peercast108 5 - Stream a torrent video to Chromecast.
  • BitcoinJS - Clean, readable, proven Bitcoin library.
  • Bitcore - Pure and powerful Bitcoin library.
  • PDFKit - PDF generation library.
  • turf4k 399 - Modular geospatial processing and analysis engine.
  • webcat362 14 - p2p pipe across the web using WebRTC that uses your GitHub private/public key for authentication.
  • NodeOS - The first operating system powered by npm.
  • limdu570 60 - Machine-learning framework.
  • Cytoscape.js - Graph theory (a.k.a. network) modeling and analysis.
  • kad185 50 - Kademlia distributed hash table.
  • seedshot88 7 - Temporary P2P screenshot sharing from your browser.
  • js-git3k 261 - JavaScript implementation of Git.
  • skale183 24 - High performance distributed data processing engine.

Command-line apps

  • np3k 144 - Better npm publish.
  • trash1k 36 - Safer alternative to rm.
  • npm-name48 8 - Check whether a package name is available on npm.
  • speed-test2k 101 - Test your internet connection speed and ping.
  • emoj1k 43 - Find relevant emoji from text on the command-line.
  • pageres8k 859 - Capture website screenshots.
  • cpy141 27 - Copy files.
  • vtop2k 118 - More better top, with nice charts.
  • empty-trash84 6 - Empty the trash.
  • is-up279 8 - Check whether a website is up or down.
  • is-online320 39 - Check if the internet connection is up.
  • public-ip240 18 - Get your public IP address.
  • clipboard-cli103 4 - Copy & paste on the terminal.
  • ttystudio3k 95 - Record your terminal and compile it to a GIF or APNG without any external dependencies, bash scripts, gif concatenation, etc.
  • XO - Enforce strict code style using the JavaScript happiness style.
  • Standard13k 1k - 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.
  • David796 104 - Tells you when your package npm dependencies are out of date.
  • http-server4k 603 - Simple, zero-config command-line HTTP server.
  • Live Server1k 217 - Development HTTP-server with livereload capability.
  • bcat179 8 - Pipe command output to web browsers.
  • normit172 11 - Google Translate with speech synthesis in your terminal.
  • slap4k 185 - Sublime-like terminal-based text editor.
  • jsinspect2k 69 - Detect copy-pasted and structurally similar code.
  • esformatter949 135 - JavaScript code beautifier/formatter.
  • fkill2k 37 - Fabulously kill processes. Cross-platform.
  • pjs328 13 - Pipeable JavaScript. Quickly filter, map, and reduce from the terminal.
  • license-checker520 97 - Check licenses of your app's dependencies.
  • browser-run302 34 - Easily run code in a browser environment.
  • tmpin40 0 - Adds stdin support to any CLI app that accepts file input.
  • modhelp18 2 - Syntax-highlighted module READMEs in terminal with ANSI-friendly pager.
  • wifi-password51 1 - Get the current wifi password.
  • wallpaper430 34 - Change the desktop wallpaper.
  • brightness97 5 - Change the screen brightness.
  • torrent504 61 - Download torrents.
  • tfa - Two-factor authentication client.
  • rtail1k 77 - Terminal output to the browser in seconds, using UNIX pipes.
  • kill-tabs214 10 - Kill all Chrome tabs to improve performance, decrease battery usage, and save memory.
  • alex2k 127 - Catch insensitive, inconsiderate writing.
  • vantage4k 110 - Distributed, realtime CLI for your live app.
  • pen138 8 - Live Markdown preview in the browser from your favorite editor.
  • subdownloader78 12 - Subtitle downloader for movies and TV series.
  • dark-mode190 19 - Toggle the macOS Dark Mode.
  • iponmap115 6 - IP location finder.
  • Jsome73 14 - Pretty prints JSON with configurable colors and indentation.
  • itunes-remote269 20 - Interactively control iTunes.
  • text-meme51 3 - Generate a text meme.
  • mobicon - Mobile app icon generator.
  • mobisplash - Mobile app splash screen generator.
  • diff2html-cli55 9 - Pretty git diff to HTML generator.
  • Cash8k 238 - Cross-platform Unix shell commands in pure JavaScript.
  • vaca81 5 - Get a random ASCII 🐮.
  • gh-home61 6 - Open the GitHub page of the repo in the current directory.
  • npm-home119 10 - Open the npm page of a package.
  • trymodule1k 41 - Try out npm packages in the terminal.
  • terminal-recorder52 5 - Record your terminal usage and export it to interactive HTML.
  • jscpd642 63 - Copy/paste detector for source code.
  • atmo430 15 - Server-side API mocking.
  • auto-install731 26 - Auto installs dependencies as you code.
  • lessmd60 1 - Markdown in the terminal.
  • cost-of-modules2k 39 - Find out which dependencies are slowing you down.
  • localtunnel3k 243 - Expose your localhost to the world.
  • svg-term-cli260 13 - Share terminal sessions via SVG.
  • gtop5k 170 - System monitoring dashboard for the terminal.

Functional programming

  • lodash - Utility library delivering consistency, customization, performance, & extras. A better and faster Underscore.js.
  • immutable21k 1k - Immutable data collections.
  • mori - Library for using ClojureScript's persistent data structures and supporting API from the comfort of vanilla JavaScript.
  • 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.
  • underscore-contrib - The brass buckles on Underscore's utility belt.
  • 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.js4k 301 - Utility library similar to lodash/Underscore but with lazy evaluation, which can translate to superior performance in many cases.
  • Kefir.js841 66 - Reactive library with focus on high performance and low memory usage.

HTTP

  • got2k 176 - Nicer interface to the built-in http module.
  • gh-got86 26 - Convenience wrapper for got to interact with the GitHub API.
  • axios23k 2k - Promise based HTTP client (works in the browser too).
  • request17k 2k - Simplified HTTP request client.
  • Nock3k 285 - HTTP mocking and expectations library.
  • spdy2k 171 - Creates SPDY servers with the same API as the built-in https module.
  • wreck291 87 - HTTP Client Utilities.
  • download575 92 - Download and extract files effortlessly.
  • http-proxy7k 1k - HTTP proxy.
  • rocky285 29 - Featured, middleware-oriented HTTP proxy with traffic replay and intercept.
  • superagent13k 1k - HTTP request library.
  • node-fetch2k 271 - window.fetch for Node.js.
  • flashheart81 18 - REST client.
  • http-fake-backend91 3 - Build a fake backend by providing the content of JSON files or JavaScript objects through configurable routes.
  • cacheable-request25 3 - Wrap native HTTP requests with RFC compliant cache support.

Debugging / Profiling

  • ironNode3k 87 - Node.js debugger supporting ES2015 out of the box.
  • node-inspector12k 865 - Debugger based on Blink Developer Tools.
  • devtool4k 162 - Run Node.js programs through Chrome Dev Tools.
  • Theseus1k 46 - JavaScript debugger featuring real-time code coverage, retroactive inspection and asynchronous call tree.
  • debug5k 584 - Tiny debugging utility.
  • jstrace312 16 - Dynamic tracing for JavaScript, similar to dtrace, ktap etc.
  • why-is-node-running546 15 - 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.
  • vstream43 1 - Instrumentable streams mix-ins to inspect a pipeline of streams.
  • stackman129 2 - Enhance an error stacktrace with code excerpts and other goodies.
  • locus207 9 - Starts a REPL at runtime that has access to all variables.
  • bugger75 4 - Provides Chrome Devtools bindings to debug programs in Chrome.
  • 0x633 38 - Flamegraph profiling.
  • ctrace86 3 - Well-formatted and improved trace system calls and signals.
  • leakage1k 23 - Write memory leak tests.

Logging

  • pino2k 141 - Extremely fast logger inspired by Bunyan.
  • winston5k 567 - Multi-transport async logging library.
  • Bunyan5k 431 - JSON logging library.
  • intel - Logging library (handlers, filters, formatters, console injection).
  • console-log-level14 5 - The most simple logger imaginable with support for log levels and custom prefixes.
  • storyboard328 15 - End-to-end, hierarchical, real-time, colorful logs and stories.

Command-line utilities

  • chalk4k 257 - Terminal string styling done right.
  • meow947 54 - CLI app helper.
  • minimist2k 168 - Parse command-line flags.
  • get-stdin109 14 - Easier stdin.
  • ora2k 65 - Elegant terminal spinner.
  • log-update388 18 - Log by overwriting the previous output in the terminal. Useful for rendering progress bars, animations, etc.
  • Inquirer.js7k 571 - Interactive command-line prompt.
  • listr - Terminal task list.
  • conf183 27 - Simple config handling for your app or module.
  • update-notifier755 68 - Update notifications for your CLI app.
  • ansi-escapes116 9 - ANSI escape codes for manipulating the terminal.
  • log-symbols224 13 - Colored symbols for various log levels.
  • figures168 11 - Unicode symbols with Windows CMD fallbacks.
  • boxen267 25 - Create boxes in the terminal.
  • string-width67 7 - Get the visual width of a string - the number of columns required to display it.
  • cli-truncate22 2 - Truncate a string to a specific width in the terminal.
  • first-run32 2 - Check if it's the first time the process is run.
  • vorpal4k 182 - Interactive CLI apps.
  • blessed6k 241 - Curses-like library.
  • yn76 10 - Parse yes/no like values.
  • cli-table590 48 - Pretty unicode tables.
  • drawille658 25 - Draw on the terminal with unicode braille characters.
  • sudo-block48 6 - Block users from running your app with root permissions.
  • googleauth27 4 - Create and load persistent Google authentication tokens for command-line apps.
  • ascii-charts202 18 - ASCII bar chart in the terminal.
  • progress520 53 - Flexible ascii progress bar.
  • insight370 41 - Helps you understand how your tool is being used by anonymously reporting usage metrics to Google Analytics.
  • cli-cursor54 10 - Toggle the CLI cursor.
  • columnify231 21 - Create text-based columns suitable for console output. Supports cell wrapping.
  • cli-columns6 2 - Columnated unicode and ansi-safe text lists.
  • cfonts216 8 - Sexy ASCII fonts for the console.
  • multispinner186 7 - Multiple, simultaneous, individually controllable CLI spinners.
  • omelette587 21 - Shell autocompletion helper.
  • cross-env2k 105 - Set environment variables cross-platform.
  • shelljs4k 283 - Portable Unix shell commands.
  • loud-rejection162 15 - Make unhandled promise rejections fail loudly instead of the default silent fail.
  • sparkly257 8 - Generate sparklines ▁▂▃▅▂▇
  • term-img168 9 - Display images in your terminal.
  • yargs3k 335 - Command-line parser that automatically generates an elegant user-interface.
  • DraftLog768 21 - Create multiple updatable log lines. Works just like console.log.
  • Bit991 62 - Create, maintain, find and use small modules and components across repositories.
  • gradient-string190 4 - Beautiful color gradients in terminal output.

Build tools

  • webpack42k 6k - Packs modules and assets for the browser.
  • rollup12k 627 - Next-generation ES2015 module bundler.
  • gulp - Streaming and fast build system that favors code over config.
  • browserify12k 1k - Browser-side require() the Node.js way.
  • Broccoli3k 219 - Fast, reliable asset pipeline, supporting constant-time rebuilds and compact build definitions.
  • Brunch6k 542 - Front-end web app build tool with simple declarative config, fast incremental compilation, and an opinionated workflow.
  • strong-build41 10 - Build a node app package and prepare to deploy it as a package to production or use git to commit to a deploy branch.
  • start186 2 - Simple tasks runner powered by composable functions and promise chaining.
  • ygor - Promising task runner for when npm run isn't enough and everything else is too much.
  • grunt - Task runner that can perform repetitive tasks like minification, compilation, unit testing, linting, etc.
  • Fly368 25 - Modern build system based in co-routines, generators and promises.
  • FuseBox3k 251 - Fast build system that combines the power of webpack, JSPM and SystemJS, with first-class TypeScript support.
  • pkg7k 245 - Package your Node.js project into an executable.

Hardware

  • johnny-five9k 1k - Firmata based Arduino Framework.
  • serialport2k 521 - Access serial ports for reading and writing.
  • usb401 77 - USB library.
  • cylon.js - Next generation robotics framework with support for 26 different platforms.
  • i2c-bus90 15 - I2C serial bus access.
  • onoff585 94 - GPIO access and interrupt detection.
  • spi-device16 3 - SPI serial bus access.
  • pigpio219 18 - Fast GPIO, PWM, servo control, state change notification, and interrupt handling on the Raspberry Pi.

Templating

  • marko6k 338 - HTML-based templating engine that compiles templates to CommonJS modules and supports streaming, async rendering and custom tags.
  • nunjucks5k 472 - Templating engine with inheritance, asynchronous control, and more (jinja2 inspired).
  • handlebars.js13k 2k - Superset of Mustache templates which adds powerful features like helpers and more advanced blocks.
  • hogan.js - Twitter's small, fast, phase-separated compiler for Mustache templates.
  • EJS2k 253 - Simple unopinionated templating language.
  • Pug6k 515 - 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-meteor1k 128 )
  • SailsJS - An MVC web framework with a modern twist, supporting WebSockets, streams, and a data-driven API.
  • Restify - Enables you to build correct REST web services.
  • Interfake830 48 - Rapid prototyping framework for making mock HTTP APIs, with a Node.js, command-line and HTTP interface.
  • Catberry - Framework with Flux architecture, isomorphic web-components, and progressive rendering.
  • ThinkJS - Framework with ES2015+ support, WebSockets, REST API.
  • ActionHero - Framework for making reusable & scalable APIs for TCP sockets, WebSockets, and HTTP clients.
  • MERN - Easily build production-ready universal apps with MongoDB, Express, React, and webpack.
  • Next.js - Minimalistic framework for server-rendered universal JavaScript web apps.
  • Nuxt.js - Minimalistic framework for server-rendered Vue.js apps.
  • seneca2k 186 - Toolkit for writing microservices.
  • AdonisJs - A true MVC framework for Node.js built on solid foundations of Dependency Injection and IoC container.
  • Hemera482 72 - Write reliable and fault-tolerant microservices with NATS.
  • Micro5k 262 - Minimalistic microservice framework with an async approach.

Documentation

  • 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.
  • dox2k 215 - JavaScript documentation generator using Markdown and JSDoc.
  • jsdox202 65 - JSDoc3 to Markdown documentation generator.
  • apiDoc5k 989 - Inline documentation for RESTful web APIs.
  • documentation.js - API documentation generator with support for ES2015+ and flow annotation.
  • YUIDoc - Generates API documentation from comments in source.
  • ESDoc - Documentation generator targeting ES2015, attaching test code and measuring documentation coverage.

Filesystem

  • del666 37 - Delete files/folders using globs.
  • globby370 38 - Glob files with support for multiple patterns.
  • cpy141 27 - Copy files.
  • rimraf2k 143 - Recursively delete files like rm -rf.
  • make-dir186 5 - Recursively create directories like mkdir -p.
  • graceful-fs645 82 - Drop-in replacement for the fs module with various improvements.
  • chokidar3k 304 - Filesystem watcher which stabilizes events from fs.watch and fs.watchFile as well as using native fsevents on macOS.
  • find-up99 7 - Find a file by walking up parent directories.
  • proper-lockfile41 13 - Inter-process and inter-machine lockfile utility.
  • load-json-file73 14 - Read and parse a JSON file.
  • write-json-file65 11 - Stringify and write JSON to a file atomically.
  • fs-write-stream-atomic39 7 - Like fs.createWriteStream(), but atomic.
  • filenamify77 4 - Convert a string to a valid filename.
  • lnfs9 1 - Force create symlinks like ln -fs.
  • istextorbinary31 7 - Check if a file is text or binary.
  • fs-jetpack310 33 - Completely redesigned file system API for convenience in everyday use.
  • fs-extra4k 452 - Extra methods for the fs module.
  • pkg-dir46 5 - Find the root directory of an npm package.
  • sander - Promise-based replacement for the fs module.
  • filehound60 8 - Flexible and fluent interface for searching the file system.

Control flow

  • Promises
    • Bluebird16k 3k - Promise library with focus on innovative features and performance.
    • pify600 47 - Promisify a callback-style function.
    • delay130 13 - Delay a promise a specified amount of time.
    • promise-memoize8 4 - Memoize promise-returning functions, with expire and prefetch.
    • valvelet8 3 - Limit the execution rate of a promise-returning function.
    • p-map90 3 - Map over promises concurrently.
    • More…952 87
  • Observables
  • Generators
    • co9k 685 - The ultimate generator based flow-control goodness.
    • bluebird-co84 5 - High performance yield handlers for Bluebird coroutines.
    • iterum - Build generator pipelines using Array-like methods.
  • Streams
    • Highland.js - Manages synchronous and asynchronous code easily, using nothing more than standard JavaScript and Node-like Streams.
  • Callbacks
    • each-async62 3 - Async concurrent iterator like forEach.
    • async25k 3k - Provides straight-forward, powerful functions for working with asynchronicity.
  • Channels
    • js-csp2k 123 - Communicating sequential processes for JavaScript (like Clojurescript core.async, or Go).
  • Other
    • zone304 10 - Provides a way to group and track resources and errors across asynchronous operations.

Streams

  • through21k 92 - Tiny wrapper around streams2 Transform to avoid explicit subclassing noise.
  • from284 13 - Convenience wrapper for ReadableStream, inspired by through2.
  • get-stream71 6 - Get a stream as a string or buffer.
  • into-stream40 3 - Convert a buffer/string/array/object into a stream.
  • duplexify116 14 - Turn a writeable and readable stream into a single streams2 duplex stream.
  • pumpify104 11 - Combine an array of streams into a single duplex stream.
  • peek-stream27 4 - Transform stream that lets you peek the first line before deciding how to parse it.
  • binary-split48 12 - Newline (or any delimiter) splitter stream.
  • byline232 44 - Super-simple line-by-line Stream reader.
  • first-chunk-stream13 1 - Transform the first chunk in a stream.
  • pad-stream10 2 - Pad each line in a stream.
  • multistream122 15 - Combine multiple streams into a single stream.
  • stream-combiner267 20 - Turn a pipeline into a single stream.
  • readable-stream299 95 - Mirror of Streams2 and Streams3 implementations in core.
  • through2-concurrent13 1 - Transform object streams concurrently.
  • graphicsmagick-stream60 11 - Fast conversion/scaling of images using a pool of long lived GraphicsMagick processes.

Real-time

  • µWebSockets6k 456 - Highly scalable WebSocket server & client library.
  • Socket.io - Enables real-time bidirectional event-based communication.
  • SockJS2k 275 - Low latency, full duplex, cross-domain channel browser-server, with WebSockets or without.
  • Faye - Real-time client-server message bus, based on Bayeux protocol.
  • SocketCluster3k 198 - Scalable HTTP + WebSocket engine which can run on multiple CPU cores.
  • Primus4k 303 - An abstraction layer for real-time frameworks to prevent module lock-in.
  • Straw255 20 - Real-time dataflow framework.
  • deepstream.io - Scalable real-time microservice framework.
  • Kalm21 8 - Low-level socket router and middleware framework.
  • MQTT.js3k 553 - Client for MQTT - Pub-sub based messaging protocol for use on top of TCP/IP.

Image

  • sharp7k 484 - The fastest module for resizing JPEG, PNG, WebP and TIFF images.
  • image-type119 11 - Detect the image type of a Buffer/Uint8Array.
  • gm4k 500 - GraphicsMagick and ImageMagick wrapper.
  • lwip2k 189 - Lightweight image processor which does not require ImageMagick.
  • pica953 136 - High quality & fast resize (lanczos3) in pure JS. Alternative to canvas drawImage(), when no pixelation allowed.
  • jimp4k 273 - Image processing in pure JavaScript.
  • is-progressive181 8 - Check if a JPEG image is progressive.
  • probe-image-size88 13 - Get the size of most image formats without a full download.

Text

  • Underscore.string3k 468 - Collection of string manipulation utilities.
  • iconv-lite1k 196 - Convert character encodings.
  • string-length32 4 - Get the real length of a string - by correctly counting astral symbols and ignoring ansi escape codes.
  • camelcase129 27 - Convert a dash/dot/underscore/space separated string to camelCase: foo-bar → fooBar.
  • escape-string-regexp139 19 - Escape RegExp special characters.
  • execall59 2 - Find multiple RegExp matches in a string.
  • splice-string12 2 - Remove or replace part of a string like Array#splice.
  • indent-string37 8 - Indent each line in a string.
  • strip-indent45 7 - Strip leading whitespace from every line in a string.
  • detect-indent95 16 - Detect the indentation of code.
  • he1k 87 - HTML entity encoder/decoder.
  • i18n-node2k 301 - Simple translation module with dynamic JSON storage.
  • babelfish171 12 - i18n with very easy syntax for plurals.
  • hanging-indent - Format a string into a hanging-indented paragraph.
  • matcher284 10 - Simple wildcard matching.
  • unhomoglyph - Normalize visually similar unicode characters.

Number

  • random-int23 2 - Generate a random integer.
  • random-float12 2 - Generate a random float.
  • unique-random10 0 - Generate random numbers that are consecutively unique.
  • round-to74 7 - Round a number to a specific number of decimal places: 1.234 → 1.2.

Math

Date

  • date-fns8k 335 - Modern date utility.
  • Moment.js - Parse, validate, manipulate, and display dates.
  • Moment Timezone - IANA Time Zone Database + Moment.js.
  • dateformat672 98 - Date formatting.
  • tz-format - Format a date with timezone: 2015-11-30T10:40:35+01:00.
  • cctz43 1 - Fast parsing, formatting, and timezone conversation for dates.

URL

Data validation

  • joi7k 829 - Object schema description language and validator for JavaScript objects.
  • is-my-json-valid753 102 - JSON Schema validator that uses code generation to be extremely fast.
  • property-validator162 10 - Easy property validation for Express.
  • schema-inspector415 44 - JSON API sanitization and validation.
  • ajv3k 310 - The fastest JSON Schema validator. Supports v5 proposals.

Parsing

  • remark563 70 - Markdown processor powered by plugins.
  • markdown-it4k 389 - Markdown parser with 100% CommonMark support, extensions and syntax plugins.
  • parse52k 114 - Fast full-featured spec compliant HTML parser.
  • strip-json-comments294 32 - Strip comments from JSON.
  • strip-css-comments76 8 - Strip comments from CSS.
  • parse-json191 25 - Parse JSON with more helpful errors.
  • URI.js5k 456 - URL mutation.
  • PostCSS19k 1k - CSS parser / stringifier.
  • JSONStream1k 119 - Streaming JSON.parse and stringify.
  • neat-csv55 4 - Fast CSV parser. Callback interface for the above.
  • csv-parser303 45 - Streaming CSV parser that aims to be faster than everyone else.
  • PEG.js3k 352 - Simple parser generator that produces fast parsers with excellent error reporting.
  • x-ray4k 316 - Web scraping utility.
  • nearley2k 95 - Simple, fast, powerful parsing for JavaScript.
  • binary-extract138 5 - Extract a value from a buffer of JSON without parsing the whole thing.
  • json-mask476 27 - Tiny language and engine for selecting parts of an object, hiding/masking the rest.
  • Stylecow126 8 - Parse, manipulate and convert modern CSS to make it compatible with all browsers. Extensible with plugins.
  • js-yaml2k 376 - Very fast YAML parser.
  • excel-stream56 4 - Streaming Excel spreadsheet to JSON parser.
  • xml2js3k 335 - XML to JavaScript object converter.
  • Jison - Friendly JavaScript parser generator. It shares genes with Bison, Yacc and family.
  • google-libphonenumber319 49 - Parse, format, store and validate phone numbers.
  • ref241 53 - Read/write structured binary data in Buffers.
  • xlsx-populate98 18 - Read/write Excel XLSX.

Humanize

  • pretty-bytes302 28 - Convert bytes to a human readable string: 1337 → 1.34 kB.
  • pretty-ms262 20 - Convert milliseconds to a human readable string: 1337000000 → 15d 11h 23m 20s.
  • ms380 34 - Tiny millisecond conversion utility.
  • pretty-error808 26 - Errors with less clutter.
  • humanize248 20 - Data formatter for human readability.
  • read-art228 22 - Extract readable content from any page.

Compression

  • yazl91 15 - Zip.
  • yauzl197 24 - Unzip.
  • Archiver684 101 - Streaming interface for archive generation, supporting ZIP and TAR.
  • pako1k 173 - High speed zlib port to pure js (deflate, inflate, gzip).
  • tar-stream177 48 - Streaming tar parser and generator. Also see tar-fs173 35 .
  • decompress130 21 - Decompression module with support for tar, tar.gz and zip files out of the box.

Network

  • get-port135 13 - Get an available port.
  • ipify124 5 - Get your public IP address.
  • getmac112 35 - Get the computer MAC address.
  • polo193 28 - Zero-config service discovery.
  • DHCP20 2 - DHCP client and server.

Database

  • Drivers
    • PostgreSQL9k 1k - PostgreSQL client. Pure JavaScript and native libpq bindings.
    • Redis4k 396 - Redis client.
    • LevelUP2k 164 - LevelDB.
    • MySQL4k 710 - MySQL client.
    • nano1k 199 - CouchDB client.
    • Aerospike153 81 - Aerospike client.
    • Couchbase391 188 - Couchbase client.
    • MongoDB7k 2k - MongoDB driver.
  • ODM / ORM
    • Sequelize14k 3k - Multi-dialect ORM. Supports PostgreSQL, SQLite, MySQL.
    • Bookshelf - ORM for PostgreSQL, MySQL and SQLite3 in the style of Backbone.js.
    • Massive2k 160 - PostgreSQL data access tool.
    • Mongoose - Elegant MongoDB object modeling.
    • Waterline5k 625 - Datastore-agnostic tool that dramatically simplifies interaction with one or more databases.
    • Iridium438 29 - MongoDB ORM with support for promises, distributed caching, preprocessing, validation and plugins.
    • OpenRecord116 14 - ORM for PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite3 and RESTful datastores. Similar to ActiveRecord.
    • orm23k 436 - ORM for PostgreSQL, MariaDB, MySQL, Amazon Redshift, SQLite, MongoDB.
    • firenze139 9 - Adapter-based ORM for MySQL, Memory, Redis, localStorage and more.
    • pg-promise2k 151 - PostgreSQL framework for native SQL using promises.
    • Objection.js1k 145 - Lightweight ORM built on the SQL query builder Knex.
  • Query builder
    • Knex - Query builder for PostgreSQL, MySQL and SQLite3, designed to be flexible, portable, and fun to use.
  • Other
    • NeDB7k 509 - Embedded persistent database written in JavaScript.
    • Lowdb7k 346 - Small JavaScript database powered by Lodash.
    • Keyv424 17 - Simple key-value storage with support for multiple backends.

Testing

  • AVA - Futuristic test runner.
  • Mocha - Feature-rich test framework making asynchronous testing simple and fun.
  • nyc661 41 - Code coverage tool built on istanbul that works with subprocesses.
  • tap652 89 - TAP test framework.
  • tape4k 281 - TAP-producing test harness.
  • power-assert1k 36 - Provides descriptive assertion messages through the standard assert interface.
  • Mochify327 64 - TDD with Browserify, Mocha, PhantomJS and WebDriver.
  • trevor629 28 - Run tests against multiple versions of Node.js without switching versions manually or pushing to Travis CI.
  • loadtest220 25 - Run load tests for your web application, with an API for automation.
  • Sinon.JS3k 364 - Test spies, stubs and mocks.
  • navit43 14 - PhantomJS / SlimerJS wrapper to simplify browser test scripting.
  • nock3k 285 - HTTP mocking and expectations.
  • intern4k 354 - Code testing stack.
  • toxy3k 90 - Hackable HTTP proxy to simulate failure scenarios and network conditions.
  • hook-std20 4 - Hook and modify stdout/stderr.
  • testen160 4 - Run tests for multiple versions of Node.js locally with NVM.
  • Nightwatch4k 493 - Automated UI testing framework based on Selenium WebDriver.
  • WebdriverIO - Automated testing based on the WebDriver protocol.
  • Jest16k 3k - Painless JavaScript testing.
  • TestCafe4k 229 - Automated browser testing.
  • abstruse95 16 - Continuous Integration server.

Security

  • snyk444 36 - CLI and build-time tool to find & fix vulnerable npm dependencies.
  • nsp1k 120 - CLI tool to identify known vulnerabilities in your project.
  • RegEx-DoS - CLI tool to identify possible regex denial of service (ReDos) vulnerabilities in your project.
  • credential-plus1 1 - Password hashing and verification made easy.

Benchmarking

  • Benchmark.js - Benchmarking library that supports high-resolution timers and returns statistically significant results.
  • matcha467 30 - Simplistic approach to benchmarking.

Minifiers

Authentication

  • Passport - Simple, unobtrusive authentication.
  • everyauth3k 432 - Authentication and authorization (password, Facebook, etc) for your Connect and Express apps.
  • passwordless - Token-based authentication middleware for Express allowing authentication without passwords.
  • Lockit468 66 - Full featured authentication solution for Express. Supports a variety of databases, predefined routes, email and two-factor authentication.
  • Grant1k 95 - OAuth middleware for Express, Koa, and Hapi.
  • CloudRail267 29 - Unified API for social authentication (Facebook, Twitter, Slack, Instagram, …).

Email

  • Nodemailer5k 546 - The fastest way to handle email.
  • emailjs831 95 - Send text/HTML emails with attachments to any SMTP server.
  • email-templates182 19 - Create, preview, and send custom email templates.

Job queues

  • kue4k 445 - Priority job queue backed by Redis.
  • bull2k 356 - Persistent job and message queue.
  • agenda3k 406 - Lightweight job scheduling on MongoDB.
  • idoit3 3 - Redis-backed job queue engine with advanced job control.
  • node-resque768 180 - Redis-backed job queue.

Node.js management

  • n8k 542 - Node.js version management.
  • nave1k 99 - Virtual Environments for Node.js.
  • nodeenv769 107 - Node.js virtual environment compatible to Python's virtualenv.
  • nvm for Windows4k 423 - Version management for Windows.

Polyfills

  • Node.js
    • user-info36 1 - Node.js 6 os.userInfo() ponyfill.
    • buffer-includes - Node.js 5.3 buffer.includes() ponyfill.
    • deep-strict-equal24 2 - Test for deep equality - Node.js assert.deepStrictEqual() algorithm as a standalone module.
  • JavaScript

Natural language processing

  • retext1k 78 - An extensible natural language system.
  • franc2k 127 - Detect the language of text.
  • leven277 15 - Measure the difference between two strings using the Levenshtein distance algorithm.
  • natural7k 714 - Natural language facility.

Process management

  • PM219k 2k - Advanced Process Manager.
  • nodemon12k 978 - Monitor for changes in your app and automatically restart the server.
  • node-mac245 15 - Run scripts as a native Mac daemon and log to the console app.
  • node-linux322 49 - Run scripts as native system service and log to syslog.
  • node-windows1k 188 - Run scripts as a native Windows service and log to the Event viewer.
  • forever10k 857 - Ensures that a given script runs continuously.
  • supervisor945 87 - Restart scripts when they crash or restart when a *.js file changes.
  • Phusion Passenger - Friendly process manager that integrates directly into Nginx.
  • naught713 58 - Process manager with zero downtime deployment.

Automation

  • robotjs6k 347 - Desktop Automation: control the mouse, keyboard and read the screen.

AST

  • Acorn2k 202 - Tiny, fast JavaScript parser.
  • Rocambole145 14 - Recursively walk and transform JavaScript AST.

Static site generators

  • Metalsmith - Pluggable static site generator.
  • Wintersmith - Flexible, minimalistic, multi-platform static site generator.
  • Assemble - Static site generator for Node.js, Grunt.js, and Yeoman.
  • DocPad3k 294 - 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.

Content management systems

  • KeystoneJS - CMS and web application platform built on Express and MongoDB.
  • Apostrophe2 - Content management system with an emphasis on intuitive front end content editing and administration built on Express and MongoDB.

Forum

  • nodeBB - Forum platform for the modern web.

Blogging

  • ghost - Simple, powerful publishing platform.
  • Hexo - Fast, simple and powerful blogging framework.

Weird

  • cows172 26 - ASCII cows.
  • superb240 39 - Get superb like words.
  • cat-names182 29 - Get popular cat names.
  • dog-names71 6 - Get popular dog names.
  • superheroes123 13 - Get superhero names.
  • supervillains65 6 - Get supervillain names.
  • cool-ascii-faces924 56 - Get some cool ascii faces.
  • cat-ascii-faces164 12 - ₍˄·͈༝·͈˄₎◞ ̑̑ෆ⃛ (=ↀωↀ=)✧ (^･o･^)ﾉ”
  • nerds - Get data from nerdy topics like Harry Potter, Star Wars, and Pokémon.

Miscellaneous

  • execa913 48 - Better child_process.
  • cheerio16k 1k - Fast, flexible, and lean implementation of core jQuery designed specifically for the server.
  • Electron22k 3k - Build cross platform desktop apps with web technologies. (You might like awesome-electron12k 1k )
  • opn574 39 - Opens stuff like websites, files, executables.
  • hasha549 26 - Hashing made simple. Get the hash of a buffer/string/stream/file.
  • dot-prop175 28 - Get a property from a nested object using a dot path.
  • onetime68 5 - Only run a function once.
  • mem301 14 - 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-bom50 12 - Strip UTF-8 byte order mark (BOM) from a string/buffer/stream.
  • os-locale168 44 - Get the system locale.
  • nan1k 283 - Makes native add-on development for across Node.js versions easier.
  • ssh23k 312 - SSH2 client and server module.
  • adit11 1 - SSH tunneling made simple.
  • import-lazy42 3 - Import a module lazily.
  • file-type584 115 - Detect the file type of a Buffer.
  • Bottleneck294 19 - Rate limiter that makes throttling easy.
  • webworker-threads1k 118 - Lightweight Web Worker API implementation with native threads.
  • clipboardy289 19 - Access the system clipboard (copy/paste).
  • node-pre-gyp448 130 - Makes it easy to publish and install Node.js C++ addons from binaries.
  • opencv3k 639 - Bindings for OpenCV. The defacto computer vision library.
  • dotenv4k 226 - Load environment variables from .env file.
  • remote-git-tags14 0 - Get tags from a remote git repo.
  • semver2k 230 - semver parser.
  • Faker.js3k 227 - Generate massive amounts of fake data.
  • nodegit3k 519 - Native bindings to Git.
  • json-strictify - Safely serialize a value to JSON without data loss or going into an infinite loop.
  • parent-module14 1 - Get the path of the parent module.
  • resolve-from34 7 - Resolve the path of a module like require.resolve() but from a given path.
  • simplecrawler2k 352 - Event driven web crawler.
  • jsdom9k 1k - JavaScript implementation of HTML and the DOM.
  • hypernova4k 157 - Server-side rendering your JavaScript views.

Resources

Tutorials

  • Nodeschool - Learn Node.js with interactive lessons.
  • The Art of Node7k 701 - An introduction to Node.js.
  • stream-handbook5k 285 - How to write Node.js programs with streams.
  • browserify-handbook4k 326 - The definitive guide for browserify.
  • module-best-practices935 47 - 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.js631 72 - Introduction to Node.js core features and asynchronous JavaScript.

Discovery

Articles

Newsletters

  • node weekly - Weekly e-mail round-up of Node.js news and articles.
  • nmotw - Node Module Of The Week, weekly dose of hand picked node modules.

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.
  • webapplog.com - Blog posts on Node.js and JavaScript from the author of Practical Node.js and Pro Express.js Azat Mardan.

Courses

Cheatsheets

  • Express.js73 7
  • Stream FAQs154 4 - Answering common questions about streams, covering pagination, events, and more.

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.

Community

Miscellaneous

License

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