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Contents
Packages
Mad science
webtorrent 14k 1k - Streaming torrent client for Node.js and the browser.
peerflix 5k 697 - Streaming torrent client.
dat - Real-time replication and versioning for data sets.
ipfs 2k 293 - Distributed file system that seeks to connect all computing devices with the same system of files.
GitTorrent 4k 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.
peerwiki 64 5 - All of Wikipedia on BitTorrent.
peercast 108 5 - Stream a torrent video to Chromecast.
BitcoinJS - Clean, readable, proven Bitcoin library.
Bitcore - Pure and powerful Bitcoin library.
PDFKit - PDF generation library.
turf 4k 399 - Modular geospatial processing and analysis engine.
webcat 362 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.
limdu 570 60 - Machine-learning framework.
Cytoscape.js - Graph theory (a.k.a. network) modeling and analysis.
kad 185 50 - Kademlia distributed hash table.
seedshot 88 7 - Temporary P2P screenshot sharing from your browser.
js-git 3k 261 - JavaScript implementation of Git.
skale 183 24 - High performance distributed data processing engine.
Command-line apps
np 3k 144 - Better npm publish
.
trash 1k 36 - Safer alternative to rm
.
npm-name 48 8 - Check whether a package name is available on npm.
speed-test 2k 101 - Test your internet connection speed and ping.
emoj 1k 43 - Find relevant emoji from text on the command-line.
8k 859 - Capture website screenshots.
cpy 141 27 - Copy files.
vtop 2k 118 - More better top, with nice charts.
empty-trash 84 6 - Empty the trash.
is-up 279 8 - Check whether a website is up or down.
is-online 320 39 - Check if the internet connection is up.
public-ip 240 18 - Get your public IP address.
clipboard-cli 103 4 - Copy & paste on the terminal.
ttystudio 3k 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.
Standard 13k 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.
David 796 104 - Tells you when your package npm dependencies are out of date.
http-server 4k 603 - Simple, zero-config command-line HTTP server.
Live Server 1k 217 - Development HTTP-server with livereload capability.
bcat 179 8 - Pipe command output to web browsers.
normit 172 11 - Google Translate with speech synthesis in your terminal.
slap 4k 185 - Sublime-like terminal-based text editor.
jsinspect 2k 69 - Detect copy-pasted and structurally similar code.
esformatter 949 135 - JavaScript code beautifier/formatter.
fkill 2k 37 - Fabulously kill processes. Cross-platform.
pjs 328 13 - Pipeable JavaScript. Quickly filter, map, and reduce from the terminal.
license-checker 520 97 - Check licenses of your app's dependencies.
browser-run 302 34 - Easily run code in a browser environment.
tmpin 40 0 - Adds stdin support to any CLI app that accepts file input.
modhelp 18 2 - Syntax-highlighted module READMEs in terminal with ANSI-friendly pager.
wifi-password 51 1 - Get the current wifi password.
wallpaper 430 34 - Change the desktop wallpaper.
brightness 97 5 - Change the screen brightness.
torrent 504 61 - Download torrents.
tfa - Two-factor authentication client.
rtail 1k 77 - Terminal output to the browser in seconds, using UNIX pipes.
kill-tabs 214 10 - Kill all Chrome tabs to improve performance, decrease battery usage, and save memory.
alex 2k 127 - Catch insensitive, inconsiderate writing.
vantage 4k 110 - Distributed, realtime CLI for your live app.
pen 138 8 - Live Markdown preview in the browser from your favorite editor.
subdownloader 78 12 - Subtitle downloader for movies and TV series.
dark-mode 190 19 - Toggle the macOS Dark Mode.
iponmap 115 6 - IP location finder.
Jsome 73 14 - Pretty prints JSON with configurable colors and indentation.
itunes-remote 269 20 - Interactively control iTunes.
text-meme 51 3 - Generate a text meme.
mobicon - Mobile app icon generator.
mobisplash - Mobile app splash screen generator.
diff2html-cli 55 9 - Pretty git diff to HTML generator.
Cash 8k 238 - Cross-platform Unix shell commands in pure JavaScript.
vaca 81 5 - Get a random ASCII 🐮 .
gh-home 61 6 - Open the GitHub page of the repo in the current directory.
npm-home 119 10 - Open the npm page of a package.
trymodule 1k 41 - Try out npm packages in the terminal.
terminal-recorder 52 5 - Record your terminal usage and export it to interactive HTML.
jscpd 642 63 - Copy/paste detector for source code.
atmo 430 15 - Server-side API mocking.
auto-install 731 26 - Auto installs dependencies as you code.
lessmd 60 1 - Markdown in the terminal.
cost-of-modules 2k 39 - Find out which dependencies are slowing you down.
localtunnel 3k 243 - Expose your localhost to the world.
svg-term-cli 260 13 - Share terminal sessions via SVG.
gtop 5k 170 - System monitoring dashboard for the terminal.
Functional programming
lodash - Utility library delivering consistency, customization, performance, & extras. A better and faster Underscore.js.
immutable 21k 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.js 4k 301 - Utility library similar to lodash/Underscore but with lazy evaluation, which can translate to superior performance in many cases.
Kefir.js 841 66 - Reactive library with focus on high performance and low memory usage.
HTTP
got 2k 176 - Nicer interface to the built-in http
module.
gh-got 86 26 - Convenience wrapper for got
to interact with the GitHub API.
axios 23k 2k - Promise based HTTP client (works in the browser too).
request 17k 2k - Simplified HTTP request client.
Nock 3k 285 - HTTP mocking and expectations library.
spdy 2k 171 - Creates SPDY servers with the same API as the built-in https
module.
wreck 291 87 - HTTP Client Utilities.
download 575 92 - Download and extract files effortlessly.
http-proxy 7k 1k - HTTP proxy.
rocky 285 29 - Featured, middleware-oriented HTTP proxy with traffic replay and intercept.
superagent 13k 1k - HTTP request library.
node-fetch 2k 271 - window.fetch
for Node.js.
flashheart 81 18 - REST client.
http-fake-backend 91 3 - Build a fake backend by providing the content of JSON files or JavaScript objects through configurable routes.
cacheable-request 25 3 - Wrap native HTTP requests with RFC compliant cache support.
Debugging / Profiling
ironNode 3k 87 - Node.js debugger supporting ES2015 out of the box.
node-inspector 12k 865 - Debugger based on Blink Developer Tools.
devtool 4k 162 - Run Node.js programs through Chrome Dev Tools.
Theseus 1k 46 - JavaScript debugger featuring real-time code coverage, retroactive inspection and asynchronous call tree.
debug 5k 584 - Tiny debugging utility.
jstrace 312 16 - Dynamic tracing for JavaScript, similar to dtrace, ktap etc.
why-is-node-running 546 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.
vstream 43 1 - Instrumentable streams mix-ins to inspect a pipeline of streams.
stackman 129 2 - Enhance an error stacktrace with code excerpts and other goodies.
locus 207 9 - Starts a REPL at runtime that has access to all variables.
bugger 75 4 - Provides Chrome Devtools bindings to debug programs in Chrome.
0x 633 38 - Flamegraph profiling.
ctrace 86 3 - Well-formatted and improved trace system calls and signals.
leakage 1k 23 - Write memory leak tests.
Logging
pino 2k 141 - Extremely fast logger inspired by Bunyan.
winston 5k 567 - Multi-transport async logging library.
Bunyan 5k 431 - JSON logging library.
intel - Logging library (handlers, filters, formatters, console injection).
console-log-level 14 5 - The most simple logger imaginable with support for log levels and custom prefixes.
storyboard 328 15 - End-to-end, hierarchical, real-time, colorful logs and stories.
Command-line utilities
chalk 4k 257 - Terminal string styling done right.
meow 947 54 - CLI app helper.
minimist 2k 168 - Parse command-line flags.
get-stdin 109 14 - Easier stdin.
ora 2k 65 - Elegant terminal spinner.
log-update 388 18 - Log by overwriting the previous output in the terminal. Useful for rendering progress bars, animations, etc.
Inquirer.js 7k 571 - Interactive command-line prompt.
listr - Terminal task list.
conf 183 27 - Simple config handling for your app or module.
update-notifier 755 68 - Update notifications for your CLI app.
ansi-escapes 116 9 - ANSI escape codes for manipulating the terminal.
log-symbols 224 13 - Colored symbols for various log levels.
figures 168 11 - Unicode symbols with Windows CMD fallbacks.
boxen 267 25 - Create boxes in the terminal.
string-width 67 7 - Get the visual width of a string - the number of columns required to display it.
cli-truncate 22 2 - Truncate a string to a specific width in the terminal.
first-run 32 2 - Check if it's the first time the process is run.
vorpal 4k 182 - Interactive CLI apps.
blessed 6k 241 - Curses-like library.
yn 76 10 - Parse yes/no like values.
cli-table 590 48 - Pretty unicode tables.
drawille 658 25 - Draw on the terminal with unicode braille characters.
sudo-block 48 6 - Block users from running your app with root permissions.
googleauth 27 4 - Create and load persistent Google authentication tokens for command-line apps.
ascii-charts 202 18 - ASCII bar chart in the terminal.
progress 520 53 - Flexible ascii progress bar.
insight 370 41 - Helps you understand how your tool is being used by anonymously reporting usage metrics to Google Analytics.
cli-cursor 54 10 - Toggle the CLI cursor.
columnify 231 21 - Create text-based columns suitable for console output. Supports cell wrapping.
cli-columns 6 2 - Columnated unicode and ansi-safe text lists.
cfonts 216 8 - Sexy ASCII fonts for the console.
multispinner 186 7 - Multiple, simultaneous, individually controllable CLI spinners.
omelette 587 21 - Shell autocompletion helper.
cross-env 2k 105 - Set environment variables cross-platform.
shelljs 4k 283 - Portable Unix shell commands.
loud-rejection 162 15 - Make unhandled promise rejections fail loudly instead of the default silent fail.
sparkly 257 8 - Generate sparklines ▁▂▃▅▂▇
term-img 168 9 - Display images in your terminal.
yargs 3k 335 - Command-line parser that automatically generates an elegant user-interface.
DraftLog 768 21 - Create multiple updatable log lines. Works just like console.log
.
Bit 991 62 - Create, maintain, find and use small modules and components across repositories.
gradient-string 190 4 - Beautiful color gradients in terminal output.
Build tools
webpack 42k 6k - Packs modules and assets for the browser.
rollup 12k 627 - Next-generation ES2015 module bundler.
gulp - Streaming and fast build system that favors code over config.
browserify 12k 1k - Browser-side require() the Node.js way.
Broccoli 3k 219 - Fast, reliable asset pipeline, supporting constant-time rebuilds and compact build definitions.
Brunch 6k 542 - Front-end web app build tool with simple declarative config, fast incremental compilation, and an opinionated workflow.
strong-build 41 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.
start 186 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.
Fly 368 25 - Modern build system based in co-routines, generators and promises.
FuseBox 3k 251 - Fast build system that combines the power of webpack, JSPM and SystemJS, with first-class TypeScript support.
pkg 7k 245 - Package your Node.js project into an executable.
Hardware
johnny-five 9k 1k - Firmata based Arduino Framework.
serialport 2k 521 - Access serial ports for reading and writing.
usb 401 77 - USB library.
cylon.js - Next generation robotics framework with support for 26 different platforms.
i2c-bus 90 15 - I2C serial bus access.
onoff 585 94 - GPIO access and interrupt detection.
spi-device 16 3 - SPI serial bus access.
pigpio 219 18 - Fast GPIO, PWM, servo control, state change notification, and interrupt handling on the Raspberry Pi.
Templating
marko 6k 338 - HTML-based templating engine that compiles templates to CommonJS modules and supports streaming, async rendering and custom tags.
nunjucks 5k 472 - Templating engine with inheritance, asynchronous control, and more (jinja2 inspired).
handlebars.js 13k 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.
EJS 2k 253 - Simple unopinionated templating language.
Pug 6k 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-meteor 1k 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.
Interfake 830 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.
seneca 2k 186 - Toolkit for writing microservices.
AdonisJs - A true MVC framework for Node.js built on solid foundations of Dependency Injection and IoC container.
Hemera 482 72 - Write reliable and fault-tolerant microservices with NATS .
Micro 5k 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.
dox 2k 215 - JavaScript documentation generator using Markdown and JSDoc.
jsdox 202 65 - JSDoc3 to Markdown documentation generator.
apiDoc 5k 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
del 666 37 - Delete files/folders using globs.
globby 370 38 - Glob files with support for multiple patterns.
cpy 141 27 - Copy files.
rimraf 2k 143 - Recursively delete files like rm -rf
.
make-dir 186 5 - Recursively create directories like mkdir -p
.
graceful-fs 645 82 - Drop-in replacement for the fs
module with various improvements.
chokidar 3k 304 - Filesystem watcher which stabilizes events from fs.watch
and fs.watchFile
as well as using native fsevents
on macOS.
find-up 99 7 - Find a file by walking up parent directories.
proper-lockfile 41 13 - Inter-process and inter-machine lockfile utility.
load-json-file 73 14 - Read and parse a JSON file.
write-json-file 65 11 - Stringify and write JSON to a file atomically.
fs-write-stream-atomic 39 7 - Like fs.createWriteStream()
, but atomic.
filenamify 77 4 - Convert a string to a valid filename.
lnfs 9 1 - Force create symlinks like ln -fs
.
istextorbinary 31 7 - Check if a file is text or binary.
fs-jetpack 310 33 - Completely redesigned file system API for convenience in everyday use.
4k 452 - Extra methods for the fs
module.
pkg-dir 46 5 - Find the root directory of an npm package.
sander - Promise-based replacement for the fs
module.
filehound 60 8 - Flexible and fluent interface for searching the file system.
Control flow
Promises
Bluebird 16k 3k - Promise library with focus on innovative features and performance.
pify 600 47 - Promisify a callback-style function.
delay 130 13 - Delay a promise a specified amount of time.
promise-memoize 8 4 - Memoize promise-returning functions, with expire and prefetch.
valvelet 8 3 - Limit the execution rate of a promise-returning function.
p-map 90 3 - Map over promises concurrently.
More… 952 87
Observables
Generators
co 9k 685 - The ultimate generator based flow-control goodness.
bluebird-co 84 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-async 62 3 - Async concurrent iterator like forEach.
async 25k 3k - Provides straight-forward, powerful functions for working with asynchronicity.
Channels
js-csp 2k 123 - Communicating sequential processes for JavaScript (like Clojurescript core.async, or Go).
Other
zone 304 10 - Provides a way to group and track resources and errors across asynchronous operations.
Streams
through2 1k 92 - Tiny wrapper around streams2 Transform to avoid explicit subclassing noise.
from2 84 13 - Convenience wrapper for ReadableStream, inspired by through2
.
get-stream 71 6 - Get a stream as a string or buffer.
into-stream 40 3 - Convert a buffer/string/array/object into a stream.
duplexify 116 14 - Turn a writeable and readable stream into a single streams2 duplex stream.
pumpify 104 11 - Combine an array of streams into a single duplex stream.
peek-stream 27 4 - Transform stream that lets you peek the first line before deciding how to parse it.
binary-split 48 12 - Newline (or any delimiter) splitter stream.
byline 232 44 - Super-simple line-by-line Stream reader.
first-chunk-stream 13 1 - Transform the first chunk in a stream.
pad-stream 10 2 - Pad each line in a stream.
multistream 122 15 - Combine multiple streams into a single stream.
stream-combiner2 67 20 - Turn a pipeline into a single stream.
readable-stream 299 95 - Mirror of Streams2 and Streams3 implementations in core.
through2-concurrent 13 1 - Transform object streams concurrently.
graphicsmagick-stream 60 11 - Fast conversion/scaling of images using a pool of long lived GraphicsMagick processes.
Real-time
µWebSockets 6k 456 - Highly scalable WebSocket server & client library.
Socket.io - Enables real-time bidirectional event-based communication.
SockJS 2k 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.
SocketCluster 3k 198 - Scalable HTTP + WebSocket engine which can run on multiple CPU cores.
Primus 4k 303 - An abstraction layer for real-time frameworks to prevent module lock-in.
Straw 255 20 - Real-time dataflow framework.
deepstream.io - Scalable real-time microservice framework.
Kalm 21 8 - Low-level socket router and middleware framework.
MQTT.js 3k 553 - Client for MQTT - Pub-sub based messaging protocol for use on top of TCP/IP.
Image
sharp 7k 484 - The fastest module for resizing JPEG, PNG, WebP and TIFF images.
image-type 119 11 - Detect the image type of a Buffer/Uint8Array.
gm 4k 500 - GraphicsMagick and ImageMagick wrapper.
lwip 2k 189 - Lightweight image processor which does not require ImageMagick.
pica 953 136 - High quality & fast resize (lanczos3) in pure JS. Alternative to canvas drawImage(), when no pixelation allowed.
jimp 4k 273 - Image processing in pure JavaScript.
is-progressive 181 8 - Check if a JPEG image is progressive.
probe-image-size 88 13 - Get the size of most image formats without a full download.
Text
Underscore.string 3k 468 - Collection of string manipulation utilities.
iconv-lite 1k 196 - Convert character encodings.
string-length 32 4 - Get the real length of a string - by correctly counting astral symbols and ignoring ansi escape codes.
camelcase 129 27 - Convert a dash/dot/underscore/space separated string to camelCase: foo-bar → fooBar.
escape-string-regexp 139 19 - Escape RegExp special characters.
execall 59 2 - Find multiple RegExp matches in a string.
splice-string 12 2 - Remove or replace part of a string like Array#splice
.
indent-string 37 8 - Indent each line in a string.
strip-indent 45 7 - Strip leading whitespace from every line in a string.
detect-indent 95 16 - Detect the indentation of code.
he 1k 87 - HTML entity encoder/decoder.
i18n-node 2k 301 - Simple translation module with dynamic JSON storage.
babelfish 171 12 - i18n with very easy syntax for plurals.
hanging-indent - Format a string into a hanging-indented paragraph.
matcher 284 10 - Simple wildcard matching.
unhomoglyph - Normalize visually similar unicode characters.
Number
random-int 23 2 - Generate a random integer.
random-float 12 2 - Generate a random float.
unique-random 10 0 - Generate random numbers that are consecutively unique.
round-to 74 7 - Round a number to a specific number of decimal places: 1.234
→ 1.2
.
Math
Date
date-fns 8k 335 - Modern date utility.
Moment.js - Parse, validate, manipulate, and display dates.
Moment Timezone - IANA Time Zone Database + Moment.js.
dateformat 672 98 - Date formatting.
tz-format - Format a date with timezone: 2015-11-30T10:40:35+01:00
.
cctz 43 1 - Fast parsing, formatting, and timezone conversation for dates.
URL
Data validation
joi 7k 829 - Object schema description language and validator for JavaScript objects.
is-my-json-valid 753 102 - JSON Schema validator that uses code generation to be extremely fast.
property-validator 162 10 - Easy property validation for Express.
schema-inspector 415 44 - JSON API sanitization and validation.
ajv 3k 310 - The fastest JSON Schema validator. Supports v5 proposals.
Parsing
563 70 - Markdown processor powered by plugins.
markdown-it 4k 389 - Markdown parser with 100% CommonMark support, extensions and syntax plugins.
parse5 2k 114 - Fast full-featured spec compliant HTML parser.
294 32 - Strip comments from JSON.
76 8 - Strip comments from CSS.
parse-json 191 25 - Parse JSON with more helpful errors.
URI.js 5k 456 - URL mutation.
PostCSS 19k 1k - CSS parser / stringifier.
JSONStream 1k 119 - Streaming JSON.parse and stringify.
neat-csv 55 4 - Fast CSV parser. Callback interface for the above.
csv-parser 303 45 - Streaming CSV parser that aims to be faster than everyone else.
PEG.js 3k 352 - Simple parser generator that produces fast parsers with excellent error reporting.
x-ray 4k 316 - Web scraping utility.
nearley 2k 95 - Simple, fast, powerful parsing for JavaScript.
138 5 - Extract a value from a buffer of JSON without parsing the whole thing.
json-mask 476 27 - Tiny language and engine for selecting parts of an object, hiding/masking the rest.
Stylecow 126 8 - Parse, manipulate and convert modern CSS to make it compatible with all browsers. Extensible with plugins.
js-yaml 2k 376 - Very fast YAML parser.
excel-stream 56 4 - Streaming Excel spreadsheet to JSON parser.
xml2js 3k 335 - XML to JavaScript object converter.
Jison - Friendly JavaScript parser generator. It shares genes with Bison, Yacc and family.
google-libphonenumber 319 49 - Parse, format, store and validate phone numbers.
ref 241 53 - Read/write structured binary data in Buffers.
xlsx-populate 98 18 - Read/write Excel XLSX.
Humanize
pretty-bytes 302 28 - Convert bytes to a human readable string: 1337
→ 1.34 kB
.
pretty-ms 262 20 - Convert milliseconds to a human readable string: 1337000000
→ 15d 11h 23m 20s
.
ms 380 34 - Tiny millisecond conversion utility.
pretty-error 808 26 - Errors with less clutter.
humanize 248 20 - Data formatter for human readability.
read-art 228 22 - Extract readable content from any page.
Compression
yazl 91 15 - Zip.
yauzl 197 24 - Unzip.
Archiver 684 101 - Streaming interface for archive generation, supporting ZIP and TAR.
pako 1k 173 - High speed zlib port to pure js (deflate, inflate, gzip).
tar-stream 177 48 - Streaming tar parser and generator. Also see tar-fs 173 35 .
decompress 130 21 - Decompression module with support for tar
, tar.gz
and zip
files out of the box.
Network
get-port 135 13 - Get an available port.
ipify 124 5 - Get your public IP address.
getmac 112 35 - Get the computer MAC address.
polo 193 28 - Zero-config service discovery.
DHCP 20 2 - DHCP client and server.
Database
Drivers
PostgreSQL 9k 1k - PostgreSQL client. Pure JavaScript and native libpq bindings.
Redis 4k 396 - Redis client.
LevelUP 2k 164 - LevelDB.
MySQL 4k 710 - MySQL client.
nano 1k 199 - CouchDB client.
Aerospike 153 81 - Aerospike client.
Couchbase 391 188 - Couchbase client.
MongoDB 7k 2k - MongoDB driver.
ODM / ORM
Sequelize 14k 3k - Multi-dialect ORM. Supports PostgreSQL, SQLite, MySQL.
Bookshelf - ORM for PostgreSQL, MySQL and SQLite3 in the style of Backbone.js.
Massive 2k 160 - PostgreSQL data access tool.
Mongoose - Elegant MongoDB object modeling.
Waterline 5k 625 - Datastore-agnostic tool that dramatically simplifies interaction with one or more databases.
Iridium 438 29 - MongoDB ORM with support for promises, distributed caching, preprocessing, validation and plugins.
OpenRecord 116 14 - ORM for PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite3 and RESTful datastores. Similar to ActiveRecord.
orm2 3k 436 - ORM for PostgreSQL, MariaDB, MySQL, Amazon Redshift, SQLite, MongoDB.
firenze 139 9 - Adapter-based ORM for MySQL, Memory, Redis, localStorage and more.
pg-promise 2k 151 - PostgreSQL framework for native SQL using promises.
Objection.js 1k 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
NeDB 7k 509 - Embedded persistent database written in JavaScript.
Lowdb 7k 346 - Small JavaScript database powered by Lodash.
Keyv 424 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.
nyc 661 41 - Code coverage tool built on istanbul that works with subprocesses.
tap 652 89 - TAP test framework.
tape 4k 281 - TAP-producing test harness.
power-assert 1k 36 - Provides descriptive assertion messages through the standard assert interface.
Mochify 327 64 - TDD with Browserify, Mocha, PhantomJS and WebDriver.
trevor 629 28 - Run tests against multiple versions of Node.js without switching versions manually or pushing to Travis CI.
loadtest 220 25 - Run load tests for your web application, with an API for automation.
Sinon.JS 3k 364 - Test spies, stubs and mocks.
navit 43 14 - PhantomJS / SlimerJS wrapper to simplify browser test scripting.
nock 3k 285 - HTTP mocking and expectations.
intern 4k 354 - Code testing stack.
toxy 3k 90 - Hackable HTTP proxy to simulate failure scenarios and network conditions.
hook-std 20 4 - Hook and modify stdout/stderr.
testen 160 4 - Run tests for multiple versions of Node.js locally with NVM.
Nightwatch 4k 493 - Automated UI testing framework based on Selenium WebDriver.
WebdriverIO - Automated testing based on the WebDriver protocol.
Jest 16k 3k - Painless JavaScript testing.
TestCafe 4k 229 - Automated browser testing.
abstruse 95 16 - Continuous Integration server.
Security
snyk 444 36 - CLI and build-time tool to find & fix vulnerable npm dependencies.
nsp 1k 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-plus 1 1 - Password hashing and verification made easy.
Benchmarking
Benchmark.js - Benchmarking library that supports high-resolution timers and returns statistically significant results.
matcha 467 30 - Simplistic approach to benchmarking.
Minifiers
Authentication
Passport - Simple, unobtrusive authentication.
everyauth 3k 432 - Authentication and authorization (password, Facebook, etc) for your Connect and Express apps.
passwordless - Token-based authentication middleware for Express allowing authentication without passwords.
Lockit 468 66 - Full featured authentication solution for Express. Supports a variety of databases, predefined routes, email and two-factor authentication.
Grant 1k 95 - OAuth middleware for Express, Koa, and Hapi.
CloudRail 267 29 - Unified API for social authentication (Facebook, Twitter, Slack, Instagram, …).
Email
Nodemailer 5k 546 - The fastest way to handle email.
emailjs 831 95 - Send text/HTML emails with attachments to any SMTP server.
email-templates 182 19 - Create, preview, and send custom email templates.
Job queues
kue 4k 445 - Priority job queue backed by Redis.
bull 2k 356 - Persistent job and message queue.
agenda 3k 406 - Lightweight job scheduling on MongoDB.
idoit 3 3 - Redis-backed job queue engine with advanced job control.
node-resque 768 180 - Redis-backed job queue.
Node.js management
n 8k 542 - Node.js version management.
nave 1k 99 - Virtual Environments for Node.js.
nodeenv 769 107 - Node.js virtual environment compatible to Python's virtualenv.
nvm for Windows 4k 423 - Version management for Windows.
Polyfills
Node.js
user-info 36 1 - Node.js 6 os.userInfo()
ponyfill.
buffer-includes - Node.js 5.3 buffer.includes()
ponyfill.
deep-strict-equal 24 2 - Test for deep equality - Node.js assert.deepStrictEqual()
algorithm as a standalone module.
JavaScript
Natural language processing
retext 1k 78 - An extensible natural language system.
franc 2k 127 - Detect the language of text.
leven 277 15 - Measure the difference between two strings using the Levenshtein distance algorithm.
natural 7k 714 - Natural language facility.
Process management
PM2 19k 2k - Advanced Process Manager.
nodemon 12k 978 - Monitor for changes in your app and automatically restart the server.
node-mac 245 15 - Run scripts as a native Mac daemon and log to the console app.
node-linux 322 49 - Run scripts as native system service and log to syslog.
node-windows 1k 188 - Run scripts as a native Windows service and log to the Event viewer.
forever 10k 857 - Ensures that a given script runs continuously.
supervisor 945 87 - Restart scripts when they crash or restart when a *.js
file changes.
Phusion Passenger - Friendly process manager that integrates directly into Nginx.
naught 713 58 - Process manager with zero downtime deployment.
Automation
robotjs 6k 347 - Desktop Automation: control the mouse, keyboard and read the screen.
AST
Acorn 2k 202 - Tiny, fast JavaScript parser.
Rocambole 145 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.
DocPad 3k 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
Miscellaneous
execa 913 48 - Better child_process
.
cheerio 16k 1k - Fast, flexible, and lean implementation of core jQuery designed specifically for the server.
Electron 22k 3k - Build cross platform desktop apps with web technologies. (You might like awesome-electron 12k 1k )
opn 574 39 - Opens stuff like websites, files, executables.
hasha 549 26 - Hashing made simple. Get the hash of a buffer/string/stream/file.
dot-prop 175 28 - Get a property from a nested object using a dot path.
onetime 68 5 - Only run a function once.
mem 301 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-bom 50 12 - Strip UTF-8 byte order mark (BOM) from a string/buffer/stream.
os-locale 168 44 - Get the system locale.
nan 1k 283 - Makes native add-on development for across Node.js versions easier.
ssh2 3k 312 - SSH2 client and server module.
adit 11 1 - SSH tunneling made simple.
import-lazy 42 3 - Import a module lazily.
file-type 584 115 - Detect the file type of a Buffer.
Bottleneck 294 19 - Rate limiter that makes throttling easy.
webworker-threads 1k 118 - Lightweight Web Worker API implementation with native threads.
clipboardy 289 19 - Access the system clipboard (copy/paste).
node-pre-gyp 448 130 - Makes it easy to publish and install Node.js C++ addons from binaries.
opencv 3k 639 - Bindings for OpenCV. The defacto computer vision library.
dotenv 4k 226 - Load environment variables from .env file.
remote-git-tags 14 0 - Get tags from a remote git repo.
semver 2k 230 - semver parser.
Faker.js 3k 227 - Generate massive amounts of fake data.
nodegit 3k 519 - Native bindings to Git.
json-strictify - Safely serialize a value to JSON without data loss or going into an infinite loop.
parent-module 14 1 - Get the path of the parent module.
resolve-from 34 7 - Resolve the path of a module like require.resolve()
but from a given path.
simplecrawler 2k 352 - Event driven web crawler.
jsdom 9k 1k - JavaScript implementation of HTML and the DOM.
hypernova 4k 157 - Server-side rendering your JavaScript views.
Resources
Tutorials
Nodeschool - Learn Node.js with interactive lessons.
The Art of Node 7k 701 - An introduction to Node.js.
stream-handbook 5k 285 - How to write Node.js programs with streams.
browserify-handbook 4k 326 - The definitive guide for browserify.
module-best-practices 935 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.js 631 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.js 73 7
Stream FAQs 154 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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