600+ Node.js Resources for Developers: Guides, Libraries, and Tools You Need

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Official

Packages

Mad science

• webtorrent – Streaming torrent client for Node.js and the browser.
• peerflix – Streaming torrent client.
• ipfs – Distributed file system that seeks to connect all computing devices with the same system of files.
• stackgl – Open software ecosystem for WebGL, built on top of browserify and npm.
• peerwiki – All of Wikipedia on BitTorrent.
• peercast – Stream a torrent video to Chromecast.
• BitcoinJS – Clean, readable, proven Bitcoin library.
• Bitcore – Pure and powerful Bitcoin library.
• PDFKit – PDF generation library.
• turf – Modular geospatial processing and analysis engine.
• webcat – p2p pipe across the web using WebRTC that uses your GitHub private/public key for authentication.
• NodeOS – The first operating system powered by npm.
• YodaOS – AI operating system.
• Brain.js – Machine-learning framework.
• Pipcook – Front-end algorithm framework to create a machine learning pipeline.
• Cytoscape.js – Graph theory (a.k.a. network) modeling and analysis.
• js-git – JavaScript implementation of Git.
• xlsx – Pure JS Excel spreadsheet reader and writer.
• isomorphic-git – Pure JavaScript implementation of Git.

Command-line apps

• np – Better npm publish.
• npm-name – Check a package name’s availability on npm.
• gh-home – Open the GitHub page of the repo in the current directory.
• npm-home – Open the npm page of a package.
• trash – Safer alternative to rm.
• speed-test – Test your internet connection speed and ping.
• pageres – Capture website screenshots.
• cpy – Copy files.
• vtop – More better top, with nice charts.
• empty-trash – Empty the trash.
• is-up – Check whether a website is up or down.
• is-online – Check if the internet connection is up.
• public-ip – Get your public IP address.
• clipboard-cli – Copy & paste on the terminal.
• XO – Enforce strict code style using the JavaScript happiness style.
• ESLint – The pluggable linting utility for JavaScript.
• David – Tells you when your package npm dependencies are out of date.
• http-server – Simple, zero-config command-line HTTP server.
• Live Server – Development HTTP-server with livereload capability.
• bcat – Pipe command output to web browsers.
• normit – Google Translate with speech synthesis in your terminal.
• fkill – Fabulously kill processes. Cross-platform.
• pjs – Pipeable JavaScript. Quickly filter, map, and reduce from the terminal.
• license-checker – Check licenses of your app’s dependencies.
• browser-run – Easily run code in a browser environment.
• tmpin – Adds stdin support to any CLI app that accepts file input.
• wallpaper – Change the desktop wallpaper.
• pen – Live Markdown preview in the browser from your favorite editor.
• dark-mode – Toggle the macOS Dark Mode.
• Jsome – Pretty prints JSON with configurable colors and indentation.
• mobicon – Mobile app icon generator.
• mobisplash – Mobile app splash screen generator.
• diff2html-cli – Pretty git diff to HTML generator.
• trymodule – Try out npm packages in the terminal.
• jscpd – Copy/paste detector for source code.
• atmo – Server-side API mocking.
• auto-install – Auto installs dependencies as you code.
• lessmd – Markdown in the terminal.
• cost-of-modules – Find out which dependencies are slowing you down.
• localtunnel – Expose your localhost to the world.
• svg-term-cli – Share terminal sessions via SVG.
• gtop – System monitoring dashboard for the terminal.
• themer – Generate themes for your editor, terminal, wallpaper, Slack, and more.
• carbon-now-cli – Beautiful images of your code — from right inside your terminal.
• cash-cli – Convert between 170 currencies.
• taskbook – Tasks, boards & notes for the command-line habitat.
• discharge – Easily deploy static websites to Amazon S3.
• npkill – Easily find and remove old and heavy node_modules folders.

Functional programming

• lodash – Utility library delivering consistency, customization, performance, & extras. A better and faster Underscore.js.
• immutable – Immutable data collections.
• Ramda – Utility library with a focus on flexible functional composition enabled by automatic currying and reversed argument order. Avoids mutating data.
• 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.
• RxJS – Functional reactive library for transforming, composing, and querying various kinds of data.
• Kefir.js – Reactive library with focus on high performance and low memory usage.

HTTP

• got – Nicer interface to the built-in http module.
• undici – High performance HTTP client written from scratch with zero dependencies.
• ky-universal – Universal HTTP client based on Fetch.
• node-fetch – window.fetch for Node.js.
• axios – Promise based HTTP client (works in the browser too).
• superagent – HTTP request library.
• http-fake-backend – Build a fake backend by providing the content of JSON files or JavaScript objects through configurable routes.
• cacheable-request – Wrap native HTTP requests with RFC compliant cache support.
• gotql – GraphQL request library built on got.
• global-agent – Global HTTP/HTTPS proxy agent that is configurable using environment variables.
• smoke – File-based HTTP mock server with recording abilities.
• purest – REST client.

Debugging / Profiling

• debug – Tiny debugging utility.
• why-is-node-running – Node.js is running but you don’t know why?
• njsTrace – Instrument and trace your code, see all function calls, arguments, return values, as well as the time spent in each function.
• vstream – Instrumentable streams mix-ins to inspect a pipeline of streams.
• stackman – Enhance an error stacktrace with code excerpts and other goodies.
• locus – Starts a REPL at runtime that has access to all variables.
• 0x – Flamegraph profiling.
• ctrace – Well-formatted and improved trace system calls and signals.
• leakage – Write memory leak tests.
• llnode – Post-mortem analysis tool which allows you to inspect objects and get insights from a crashed Node.js process.
• thetool – Capture different CPU, memory, and other profiles for your app in Chrome DevTools friendly format.
• swagger-stats – Trace API calls and monitor API performance, health, and usage metrics.
• NiM – Manages DevTools debugging workflow.
• dats – Minimalistic and zero-dependencies StatsD client.

Logging

• pino – Extremely fast logger inspired by Bunyan.
• winston – Multi-transport async logging library.
• console-log-level – The most simple logger imaginable with support for log levels and custom prefixes.
• storyboard – End-to-end, hierarchical, real-time, colorful logs and stories.
• consola – Console logger.

Command-line utilities

• chalk – Terminal string styling done right.
• meow – CLI app helper.
• yargs – Command-line parser that automatically generates an elegant user-interface.
• ora – Elegant terminal spinner.
• get-stdin – Easier stdin.
• log-update – Log by overwriting the previous output in the terminal. Useful for rendering progress bars, animations, etc.
• Ink – React for interactive command-line apps.
• listr2 – Terminal task list.
• conf – Simple config handling for your app or module.
• ansi-escapes – ANSI escape codes for manipulating the terminal.
• log-symbols – Colored symbols for various log levels.
• figures – Unicode symbols with Windows CMD fallbacks.
• boxen – Create boxes in the terminal.
• terminal-link – Create clickable links in the terminal.
• terminal-image – Display images in the terminal.
• string-width – Get the visual width of a string – the number of columns required to display it.
• cli-truncate – Truncate a string to a specific width in the terminal.
• blessed – Curses-like library.
• Inquirer.js – Interactive command-line prompt.
• yn – Parse yes/no like values.
• cli-table3 – Pretty unicode tables.
• drawille – Draw on the terminal with unicode braille characters.
• ascii-charts – ASCII bar chart in the terminal.
• progress – Flexible ascii progress bar.
• insight – Helps you understand how your tool is being used by anonymously reporting usage metrics to Google Analytics.
• cli-cursor – Toggle the CLI cursor.
• cli-columns – Columnated unicode and ansi-safe text lists.
• cfonts – Sexy ASCII fonts for the console.
• multispinner – Multiple, simultaneous, individually controllable CLI spinners.
• omelette – Shell autocompletion helper.
• cross-env – Set environment variables cross-platform.
• shelljs – Portable Unix shell commands.
• sudo-block – Block users from running your app with root permissions.
• sparkly – Generate sparklines ▁▂▃▅▂▇.
• Bit – Create, maintain, find and use small modules and components across repositories.
• gradient-string – Beautiful color gradients in terminal output.
• oclif – CLI framework complete with parser, automatic documentation, testing, and plugins.
• terminal-size – Reliably get the terminal window size.
• Cliffy – Framework for interactive CLIs.
• zx – Write shell scripts JavaScript.

Build tools

• parcel – Blazing fast, zero config web app bundler.
• webpack – Packs modules and assets for the browser.
• rollup – Next-generation ES2015 module bundler.
• gulp – Streaming and fast build system that favors code over config.
• Broccoli – Fast, reliable asset pipeline, supporting constant-time rebuilds and compact build definitions.
• Brunch – Front-end web app build tool with simple declarative config, fast incremental compilation, and an opinionated workflow.
• FuseBox – Fast build system that combines the power of webpack, JSPM and SystemJS, with first-class TypeScript support.
• pkg – Package your Node.js project into an executable.
• Vite – Front-end build tool with hot module replacement and static asset bundling.

Hardware

• johnny-five – Firmata based Arduino Framework.
• serialport – Access serial ports for reading and writing.
• usb – USB library.
• i2c-bus – I2C serial bus access.
• onoff – GPIO access and interrupt detection.
• spi-device – SPI serial bus access.
• pigpio – Fast GPIO, PWM, servo control, state change notification, and interrupt handling on the Raspberry Pi.
• gps – NMEA parser for handling GPS receivers.
• modbus-serial – A pure JavaScript implementation of MODBUS-RTU (serial and TCP).

Templating

• marko – HTML-based templating engine that compiles templates to CommonJS modules and supports streaming, async rendering and custom tags.
• nunjucks – Templating engine with inheritance, asynchronous control, and more (jinja2 inspired).
• handlebars.js – Superset of Mustache templates which adds powerful features like helpers and more advanced blocks.
• EJS – Simple unopinionated templating language.
• Pug – High-performance template engine heavily influenced by Haml.

Web frameworks

• Fastify – Fast and low overhead web framework.
• Next.js – Minimalistic framework for server-rendered universal JavaScript web apps.
• Nuxt.js – Minimalistic framework for server-rendered Vue.js apps.
• Hapi – Framework for building applications and services.
• Micro – Minimalistic microservice framework with an async approach.
• Koa – Framework designed by the team behind Express, which aims to be a smaller, more expressive, and more robust foundation for web applications and APIs.
• Express – Web application framework, providing a robust set of features for building single and multi-page, and hybrid web applications.
• Feathers – Microservice framework built in the spirit of Express.
• LoopBack – Powerful framework for creating REST APIs and easily connecting to backend data sources.
• Meteor – An ultra-simple, database-everywhere, data-on-the-wire, pure-Javascript web framework. (You might like awesome-meteor)
• Restify – Enables you to build correct REST web services.
• ThinkJS – Framework with ES2015+ support, WebSockets, REST API.
• ActionHero – Framework for making reusable & scalable APIs for TCP sockets, WebSockets, and HTTP clients.
• seneca – Toolkit for writing microservices.
• AdonisJs – A true MVC framework for Node.js built on solid foundations of Dependency Injection and IoC container.
• Moleculer – Fast & powerful microservices framework.
• Nest – Angular-inspired framework for building efficient and scalable server-side apps.
• TypeGraphQL – Modern framework for creating GraphQL APIs with TypeScript, using classes and decorators.
• Tinyhttp – Modern and fast Express-like web framework.
• Marble.js – Functional reactive framework for building server-side apps, based on TypeScript and RxJS.
• Lad – Framework made by a former Express TC and Koa member that bundles web, API, job, and proxy servers.
• Ts.ED – Intuitive TypeScript framework for building server-side apps on top of Express.js or Koa.js.
• Hono – Small and fast web framework.

Documentation

• documentation.js – API documentation generator with support for ES2015+ and flow annotation.
• Docco – Documentation generator which produces an HTML document that displays your comments intermingled with your code.
• JSDoc – API documentation generator similar to JavaDoc or PHPDoc.
• Docusaurus – Documentation website generator that leverages React and Markdown, and comes with translation and versioning features.

Filesystem

• del – Delete files/folders using globs.
• globby – Glob files with support for multiple patterns.
• chokidar – Filesystem watcher which stabilizes events from fs.watch and fs.watchFile as well as using native fsevents on macOS.
• find-up – Find a file by walking up parent directories.
• proper-lockfile – Inter-process and inter-machine lockfile utility.
• load-json-file – Read and parse a JSON file.
• write-json-file – Stringify and write JSON to a file atomically.
• fs-write-stream-atomic – Like fs.createWriteStream(), but atomic.
• filenamify – Convert a string to a valid filename.
• istextorbinary – Check if a file is text or binary.
• fs-jetpack – Completely redesigned file system API for convenience in everyday use.
• fs-extra – Extra methods for the fs module.
• pkg-dir – Find the root directory of an npm package.
• filehound – Flexible and fluent interface for searching the file system.
• move-file – Move a file, even works across devices.
• tempy – Get a random temporary file or directory path.

Control flow

• Promises
  • pify – Promisify a callback-style function.
  • delay – Delay a promise a specified amount of time.
  • promise-memoize – Memoize promise-returning functions, with expire and prefetch.
  • valvelet – Limit the execution rate of a promise-returning function.
  • p-map – Map over promises concurrently.
  • More…
• Observables
• Streams
  • Highland.js – Manages synchronous and asynchronous code easily, using nothing more than standard JavaScript and Node-like Streams.

Streams

• get-stream – Get a stream as a string or buffer.
• from2 – Convenience wrapper for ReadableStream, inspired by through2.
• into-stream – Convert a buffer/string/array/object into a stream.
• duplexify – Turn a writeable and readable stream into a single streams2 duplex stream.
• pumpify – Combine an array of streams into a single duplex stream.
• peek-stream – Transform stream that lets you peek the first line before deciding how to parse it.
• binary-split – Newline (or any delimiter) splitter stream.
• byline – Super-simple line-by-line Stream reader.
• first-chunk-stream – Transform the first chunk in a stream.
• pad-stream – Pad each line in a stream.
• multistream – Combine multiple streams into a single stream.
• readable-stream – Mirror of Streams2 and Streams3 implementations in core.
• through2-concurrent – Transform object streams concurrently.

Real-time

• µWebSockets – Highly scalable WebSocket server & client library.
• Socket.io – Enables real-time bidirectional event-based communication.
• Faye – Real-time client-server message bus, based on Bayeux protocol.
• SocketCluster – Scalable HTTP + WebSocket engine which can run on multiple CPU cores.
• Primus – An abstraction layer for real-time frameworks to prevent module lock-in.
• deepstream.io – Scalable real-time microservice framework.
• Kalm – Low-level socket router and middleware framework.
• MQTT.js – Client for MQTT – Pub-sub based messaging protocol for use on top of TCP/IP.
• rpc-websockets – JSON-RPC 2.0 implementation over WebSockets.
• Aedes – Barebone MQTT server that can run on any stream server.

Image

• sharp – The fastest module for resizing JPEG, PNG, WebP and TIFF images.
• image-type – Detect the type of an image.
• image-dimensions – Get the dimensions of an image.
• gm – GraphicsMagick and ImageMagick wrapper.
• lwip – Lightweight image processor which does not require ImageMagick.
• pica – High quality & fast resize (lanczos3) in pure JS. Alternative to canvas drawImage(), when no pixelation allowed.
• jimp – Image processing in pure JavaScript.
• qrcode – QR code and bar code generator.
• ImageScript – Image processing in JavaScript, utilizing WebAssembly for performance.

Text

• iconv-lite – Convert character encodings.
• string-length – Get the real length of a string – by correctly counting astral symbols and ignoring ansi escape codes.
• camelcase – Convert a dash/dot/underscore/space separated string to camelCase: foo-bar → fooBar.
• escape-string-regexp – Escape RegExp special characters.
• splice-string – Remove or replace part of a string like Array#splice.
• indent-string – Indent each line in a string.
• strip-indent – Strip leading whitespace from every line in a string.
• detect-indent – Detect the indentation of code.
• he – HTML entity encoder/decoder.
• i18n-node – Simple translation module with dynamic JSON storage.
• babelfish – i18n with very easy syntax for plurals.
• matcher – Simple wildcard matching.
• unhomoglyph – Normalize visually similar unicode characters.
• i18next – Internationalization framework.
• nanoid – Tiny, secure, URL-friendly, unique string ID generator.
• StegCloak – Conceal secrets within strings, in plain sight.

Number

• random-int – Generate a random integer.
• random-float – Generate a random float.
• unique-random – Generate random numbers that are consecutively unique.
• round-to – Round a number to a specific number of decimal places: 1.234 → 1.2.

Math

• ndarray – Multidimensional arrays.
• mathjs – An extensive math library.
• math-clamp – Clamp a number.
• algebra – Algebraic structures.
• multimath – Core to create fast image math in WebAssembly and JS.

Date

• Luxon – Library for working with dates and times.
• date-fns – Modern date utility.
• Day.js – Immutable date library alternative to Moment.js.
• dateformat – Date formatting.
• tz-format – Format a date with timezone: 2015-11-30T10:40:35+01:00.
• cctz – Fast parsing, formatting, and timezone conversation for dates.

URL

Data validation

• joi – Object schema description language and validator for JavaScript objects.
• is-my-json-valid – JSON Schema validator that uses code generation to be extremely fast.
• property-validator – Easy property validation for Express.
• schema-inspector – JSON API sanitization and validation.
• ajv – The fastest JSON Schema validator. Supports v5, v6 and v7 proposals.
• Superstruct – Simple and composable way to validate data in JavaScript (and TypeScript).
• yup – Object schema validation.
• zod – TypeScript-first schema validation with static type inference.

Parsing

• remark – Markdown processor powered by plugins.
• markdown-it – Markdown parser with 100% CommonMark support, extensions and syntax plugins.
• parse5 – Fast full-featured spec compliant HTML parser.
• @parcel/css – A CSS parser, transformer, and minifier written in Rust.
• strip-json-comments – Strip comments from JSON.
• strip-css-comments – Strip comments from CSS.
• parse-json – Parse JSON with more helpful errors.
• URI.js – URL mutation.
• JSONStream – Streaming JSON.parse and stringify.
• neat-csv – Fast CSV parser. Callback interface for the above.
• csv-parser – Streaming CSV parser that aims to be faster than everyone else.
• PEG.js – Simple parser generator that produces fast parsers with excellent error reporting.
• x-ray – Web scraping utility.
• nearley – Simple, fast, powerful parsing for JavaScript.
• binary-extract – Extract a value from a buffer of JSON without parsing the whole thing.
• Stylecow – Parse, manipulate and convert modern CSS to make it compatible with all browsers. Extensible with plugins.
• js-yaml – Very fast YAML parser.
• xml2js – XML to JavaScript object converter.
• Jison – Friendly JavaScript parser generator. It shares genes with Bison, Yacc and family.
• google-libphonenumber – Parse, format, store and validate phone numbers.
• ref – Read/write structured binary data in Buffers.
• xlsx-populate – Read/write Excel XLSX.
• Chevrotain – Very fast and feature rich parser building toolkit for JavaScript.
• fast-xml-parser – Validate and parse XML.

Humanize

• pretty-bytes – Convert bytes to a human readable string: 1337 → 1.34 kB.
• pretty-ms – Convert milliseconds to a human readable string: 1337000000 → 15d 11h 23m 20s.
• ms – Tiny millisecond conversion utility.
• pretty-error – Errors with less clutter.
• read-art – Extract readable content from any page.

Compression

• yazl – Zip.
• yauzl – Unzip.
• Archiver – Streaming interface for archive generation, supporting ZIP and TAR.
• pako – High speed zlib port to pure js (deflate, inflate, gzip).
• tar-stream – Streaming tar parser and generator. Also see tar-fs.

Network

• get-port – Get an available port.
• ipify – Get your public IP address.
• getmac – Get the computer MAC address.
• DHCP – DHCP client and server.
• netcat – Netcat port in pure JS.

Database

• Drivers
• ODM / ORM
  • Sequelize – Multi-dialect ORM. Supports PostgreSQL, SQLite, MySQL, and more.
  • Bookshelf – ORM for PostgreSQL, MySQL and SQLite3 in the style of Backbone.js.
  • Mongoose – Elegant MongoDB object modeling.
  • Waterline – Datastore-agnostic tool that dramatically simplifies interaction with one or more databases.
  • OpenRecord – ORM for PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite3 and RESTful datastores. Similar to ActiveRecord.
  • pg-promise – PostgreSQL framework for native SQL using promises.
  • slonik – PostgreSQL client with strict types, detailed logging and assertions.
  • Objection.js – Lightweight ORM built on the SQL query builder Knex.
  • TypeORM – ORM for PostgreSQL, MariaDB, MySQL, SQLite, and more.
  • MikroORM – TypeScript ORM based on Data Mapper, Unit of Work and Identity Map patterns. Supports MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL and SQLite.
  • Prisma – Modern database access (ORM alternative). Auto-generated and type-safe query builder in TypeScript. Supports PostgreSQL, MySQL & SQLite.
  • Drizzle ORM – TypeScript ORM that supports various databases such as PostgreSQL.
• Query builder
  • Knex – Query builder for PostgreSQL, MySQL and SQLite3, designed to be flexible, portable, and fun to use.
• Other
  • NeDB – Embedded persistent database written in JavaScript.
  • Lowdb – Small JavaScript database powered by Lodash.
  • Keyv – Simple key-value storage with support for multiple backends.
  • Finale – RESTful endpoint generator for your Sequelize models.
  • database-js – Wrapper for multiple databases with a JDBC-like connection.
  • Mongo Seeding – Populate MongoDB databases with JavaScript and JSON files.
  • @databases – Query PostgreSQL, MySQL and SQLite3 with plain SQL without risking SQL injection.
  • pg-mem – In-memory PostgreSQL instance for your tests.

Testing

• AVA – Futuristic test runner.
• Mocha – Feature-rich test framework making asynchronous testing simple and fun.
• nyc – Code coverage tool built on istanbul that works with subprocesses.
• tap – TAP test framework.
• tape – TAP-producing test harness.
• power-assert – Provides descriptive assertion messages through the standard assert interface.
• Mochify – TDD with Browserify, Mocha, PhantomJS and WebDriver.
• trevor – Run tests against multiple versions of Node.js without switching versions manually or pushing to Travis CI.
• loadtest – Run load tests for your web application, with an API for automation.
• Sinon.JS – Test spies, stubs and mocks.
• navit – PhantomJS / SlimerJS wrapper to simplify browser test scripting.
• Nock – HTTP mocking and expectations.
• intern – Code testing stack.
• toxy – Hackable HTTP proxy to simulate failure scenarios and network conditions.
• hook-std – Hook and modify stdout/stderr.
• testen – Run tests for multiple versions of Node.js locally with NVM.
• Nightwatch – Automated UI testing framework based on Selenium WebDriver.
• WebdriverIO – Automated testing based on the WebDriver protocol.
• Jest – Painless JavaScript testing.
• TestCafe – Automated browser testing.
• abstruse – Continuous Integration server.
• CodeceptJS – End-to-end testing.
• Puppeteer – Headless Chrome.
• Playwright – Headless Chromium, WebKit, and Firefox with a single API.
• nve – Run any command on multiple versions of Node.js locally.
• axe-core – Accessibility engine for automated Web UI testing.
• testcontainers-node – Provides lightweight, throwaway instances of common databases, Selenium web browsers, or anything else that can run in a Docker container.

Security

• upash – Unified API for all password hashing algorithms.
• themis – Multilanguage framework for making typical encryption schemes easy to use: data at rest, authenticated data exchange, transport protection, authentication, and so on.
• GuardRails – GitHub app that provides security feedback in pull requests.
• rate-limiter-flexible – Brute-force and DDoS attack protection.
• crypto-hash – Async non-blocking hashing.
• jose-simple – Encryption and decryption of data using the JOSE (JSON Object Signing and Encryption) standard.

Benchmarking

• Benchmark.js – Benchmarking library that supports high-resolution timers and returns statistically significant results.

Minifiers

Authentication

• Passport – Simple, unobtrusive authentication.
• Grant – OAuth providers for Express, Koa, Hapi, Fastify, AWS Lambda, Azure, Google Cloud, Vercel, and many more.

Authorization

• CASL – Isomorphic authorization for UI and API.
• node-casbin – Authorization library that supports access control models like ACL, RBAC and ABAC.

Email

• Nodemailer – The fastest way to handle email.
• emailjs – Send text/HTML emails with attachments to any SMTP server.
• email-templates – Create, preview, and send custom email templates.
• MJML – Markup language designed to reduce the pain of creating responsive emails.

Job queues

• bull – Persistent job and message queue.
• agenda – MongoDB-backed job scheduling.
• idoit – Redis-backed job queue engine with advanced job control.
• node-resque – Redis-backed job queue.
• rsmq – Redis-backed message queue.
• bee-queue – High-performance Redis-backed job queue.
• RedisSMQ – Simple high-performance Redis message queue with real-time monitoring.
• sqs-consumer – Build Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) based apps without the boilerplate.
• better-queue – Simple and efficient job queue when you cannot use Redis.
• bullmq – Persistent job and message queue.
• bree – Job task scheduler with worker threads, cron, date, and human syntax support.

Node.js management

• n – Node.js version management.
• nave – Virtual Environments for Node.js.
• nodeenv – Node.js virtual environment compatible to Python’s virtualenv.
• nvm for Windows – Version management for Windows.
• nodenv – Version manager that is similar to Ruby’s rbenv. It supports auto version switching.
• fnm – Cross-platform Node.js version manager built in Rust.

Cross-platform integration

• napi-rs – Framework for building compiled Node.js add-ons in Rust via Node-API.
• Neon – Rust bindings for writing safe and fast native Node.js modules.
• Edge.js – Run .NET and Node.js code in the same process on Windows, macOS, and Linux.
• DotNetJS – Consume .NET libraries in Node.js using this .NET interoperability layer.

Natural language processing

• retext – An extensible natural language system.
• franc – Detect the language of text.
• leven – Measure the difference between two strings using the Levenshtein distance algorithm.
• natural – Natural language facility.
• nlp.js – Building bots, with entity extraction, sentiment analysis, automatic language identify, and more.

Process management

• PM2 – Advanced Process Manager.
• nodemon – Monitor for changes in your app and automatically restart the server.
• node-mac – Run scripts as a native Mac daemon and log to the console app.
• node-linux – Run scripts as native system service and log to syslog.
• node-windows – Run scripts as a native Windows service and log to the Event viewer.
• supervisor – Restart scripts when they crash or restart when a *.js file changes.
• Phusion Passenger – Friendly process manager that integrates directly into Nginx.

Automation

• robotjs – Desktop Automation: control the mouse, keyboard and read the screen.
• nut.js – Cross-platform native GUI automation / testing framework with image matching capabilities which integrates with Jest.

AST

• Acorn – Tiny, fast JavaScript parser.
• babel-parser – JavaScript parser used in Babel.

Static site generators

• DocPad – Static site generator with dynamic abilities and huge plugin ecosystem.
• docsify – Markdown documentation site generator with no statically built HTML files.
• Charge – Opinionated, zero-config static site generator using JSX and MDX.

Content management systems

• KeystoneJS – CMS and web application platform built on Express and MongoDB.
• ApostropheCMS – Content management system with an emphasis on intuitive front end content editing and administration built on Express and MongoDB.
• Strapi – Content Management Framework (headless-CMS) to build powerful APIs.
• Factor – Vue.js dashboard framework and headless CMS.
• AdminBro – Auto-generated admin panel with CRUD for all your resources.
• Graphweaver – CMS and headless GraphQL API.

Forum

• nodeBB – Forum platform for the modern web.

Blogging

• Ghost – Simple, powerful publishing platform.
• Hexo – Fast, simple and powerful blogging framework.

Weird

Serialization

• snappy – Native bindings for Google’s Snappy compression library.
• protobuf – Implementation of Protocol Buffers.
• compactr – Implementation of the Compactr protocol.

Miscellaneous

• execa – Better child_process.
• cheerio – Fast, flexible, and lean implementation of core jQuery designed specifically for the server.
• open – Opens stuff like websites, files, executables.
• hasha – Hashing made simple. Get the hash of a buffer/string/stream/file.
• dot-prop – Get a property from a nested object using a dot path.
• onetime – Only run a function once.
• mem – Memoize functions – an optimization technique used to speed up consecutive function calls by caching the result of calls with identical input.
• strip-bom – Strip UTF-8 byte order mark (BOM) from a string/buffer/stream.
• os-locale – Get the system locale.
• ssh2 – SSH2 client and server module.
• adit – SSH tunneling made simple.
• file-type – Detect the file type of a Buffer.
• Bottleneck – Rate limiter that makes throttling easy.
• webworker-threads – Lightweight Web Worker API implementation with native threads.
• clipboardy – Access the system clipboard (copy/paste).
• node-pre-gyp – Makes it easy to publish and install Node.js C++ addons from binaries.
• opencv – Bindings for OpenCV. The defacto computer vision library.
• dotenv – Load environment variables from .env file.
• semver – Semantic version parser.
• nodegit – Native bindings to Git.
• json-strictify – Safely serialize a value to JSON without data loss or going into an infinite loop.
• jsdom – JavaScript implementation of HTML and the DOM.
• @sindresorhus/is – Type check values.
• env-dot-prop – Get, set, or delete nested properties of process.env using a dot path.
• node-video-lib – Pure JavaScript library for working with MP4 and FLV video files and creating MPEG-TS chunks for HLS streaming.
• basic-ftp – FTP/FTPS client.
• cashify – Currency conversion.
• genepi – Automatically generate a native Node.js addon from C++ code.
• husky – Create Git hook scripts.
• patch-package – Make and preserve fixes to npm dependencies.
• editly – Declarative video editing API.
• wild-wild-path – Object property paths with wildcards and regexes.
• uint8array-extras – Useful utilities for working with Uint8Array and Buffer.

Package Manager

• npm – The default package manager.
• pnpm – Disk space efficient package manager.
• yarn – Alternative package manager.
• bun – All-in-one toolkit for JavaScript and TypeScript apps.

Resources

Tutorials

• Node.js Best Practices – Summary and curation of the top-ranked content on Node.js best practices, available in multiple languages.
• Nodeschool – Learn Node.js with interactive lessons.
• The Art of Node – An introduction to Node.js.
• module-best-practices – Some good practices when writing new npm modules.
• The Node Way – An entire philosophy of Node.js best practices and guiding principles exists for writing maintainable modules, scalable applications, and code that is actually pleasant to read.
• You Don’t Know Node.js – Introduction to Node.js core features and asynchronous JavaScript.
• Portable Node.js guide – Practical guide on how to write portable/cross-platform Node.js code.
• Build a real web app with no frameworks – A set of video tutorials/livestreams to help you build and deploy a real, live web app using a handful of simple libraries and the core Node.js modules.

Discovery

Articles

Newsletters

• Node Weekly – Weekly e-mail round-up of Node.js news and articles.

Videos

• Introduction to Node.js with Ryan Dahl
• Hands on with Node.js
• V8 Garbage Collector – Trash talk about the V8 garbage collector.
• 10 Things I Regret About Node.js by Ryan Dahl – Insightful talk by the creator of Node.js about some of its limitions.
• Mastering REST APIs in Node.js: Zero-To-Hero – Video course on how to make REST APIs using Node.js.
• Make a vanilla Node.js REST API – Building a REST API without using a framework like Express.
• Google I/O 2009 – V8: High Performance JavaScript Engine – The basics of V8 architecture and how it optimizes JavaScript execution.
• Google I/O 2012 – Breaking the JavaScript Speed Limit with V8 – How V8 optimizes JavaScript execution.
• Google I/O 2013 – Accelerating Oz with V8: Follow the Yellow Brick Road to JavaScript Performance – How to detect app bottlenecks and optimize performance with V8 knowledge.
• Node.js Internal Architecture | Ignition, Turbofan, Libuv – How Node.js works internally, with a focus on V8 and libuv.
• Introduction to libuv: What’s a Unicorn Velociraptor? – libuv architecture, thread pool, and event loop, with its source code.
• libuv Cross platform asynchronous i/o – libuv architecture in detail, such as where it’s actually using threads.
• You Don’t Know Node – ForwardJS San Francisco – Explaining Node.js internals with quizzes about V8, libuv, event loop, module, stream, and cluster.

Books

Blogs

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

Courses

Cheatsheets

• Express.js
• Stream FAQs – Answering common questions about streams, covering pagination, events, and more.
• Strong Node.js – Checklist for source code security analysis of a Node.js web service.

Tools

• OctoLinker – Chrome extension that linkifies dependencies in package.json, .js, .jsx, .coffee and .md files on GitHub.
• npm-hub – Chrome extension to display npm dependencies at the bottom of a repo’s readme.
• RunKit – Embed a Node.js environment on any website.
• github-npm-stats – Chrome extension that displays npm download stats on GitHub.
• npm semver calculator – Visually explore what versions of a package a semver range matches.
• CodeSandbox – Online IDE and prototyping.
• Amplication – Auto-generates fully functional apps.
• RunJS – Desktop JavaScript playground.

Community

Miscellaneous

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