sindresorhus/awesome-nodejs

Packages

HTTP

undicistars2.6k - High performance HTTP client written from scratch with zero dependencies.

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Web frameworks

Ladstars2.1k - Framework made by a former Express TC and Koa member that bundles web, API, job, and proxy servers.

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Image

ImageScriptstars302 - Image processing in JavaScript, utilizing WebAssembly for performance.

Resources

Books

Node.js Cookbook

Node.js Design Patterns

Resources

Videos

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.

Resources

Miscellaneous

v8-perfstars1.9k - Notes and resources related to V8 and thus Node.js performance.

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Web frameworks

LoopBackstars3.9k - Powerful framework for creating REST APIs and easily connecting to backend data sources.

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Parsing

Chevrotainstars1.7k - Very fast and feature rich parser building toolkit for JavaScript.

Resources

Videos

Make a vanilla Node.js REST API - Building a REST API without using a framework like Express.

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Website

Documentation

Repositorystars82.6k

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Node.js management

fnmstars5.1k - Cross-platform Node.js version manager built in Rust.

Packages

HTTP

smokestars150 - File-based HTTP mock server with recording abilities.

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Testing

testcontainers-nodestars534 - Provides lightweight, throwaway instances of common databases, Selenium web browsers, or anything else that can run in a Docker container.

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Automation

nut.jsstars413 - Cross-platform native GUI automation / testing framework with image matching capabilities which integrates with Jest.

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Web frameworks

Marble.jsstars1.9k - Functional reactive framework for building server-side apps, based on TypeScript and RxJS.

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Data validation

Superstructstars5.5k - Simple and composable way to validate data in JavaScript (and TypeScript).

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Miscellaneous

editlystars3.1k - Declarative video editing API.

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Web frameworks

Tinyhttpstars1.9k - Modern and fast Express-like web framework.

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Content management systems

AdminBrostars4.3k - Auto-generated admin panel with CRUD for all your resources.

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Authentication

Grantstars3.5k - OAuth providers for Express, Koa, Hapi, Fastify, AWS Lambda, Azure, Google Cloud, Vercel, and many more.

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Content management systems

Factorstars1.3k - Vue.js dashboard framework and headless CMS.

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Mad science

Pipcookstars2.1k - Front-end algorithm framework to create a machine learning pipeline.

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Testing

axe-corestars4.2k - Accessibility engine for automated Web UI testing.

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Text

StegCloakstars2.3k - Conceal secrets within strings, in plain sight.

Resources

Videos

Mastering REST APIs in Node.js: Zero-To-Hero - Video course on how to make REST APIs using Node.js.

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Miscellaneous

patch-packagestars5.7k - Make and preserve fixes to npm dependencies.

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Documentation

Docusaurusstars27.5k - Documentation website generator that leverages React and Markdown, and comes with translation and versioning features.

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Miscellaneous

huskystars24.5k - Create Git hook scripts.

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Debugging / Profiling

NiMstars176 - Manages DevTools debugging workflow.

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Testing

Playwrightstars29.9k - Headless Chromium, WebKit, and Firefox with a single API.

Resources

Tools

CodeSandbox - Online IDE and prototyping.

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Miscellaneous

genepistars53 - Automatically generate a native Node.js addon from C++ code.

basic-ftpstars486 – FTP/FTPS client.

cashifystars348 - Currency conversion.

Packages

Logging

signalestars8.5k - Console logger.

consolastars3.4k - Console logger.

Packages

HTTP

global-agentstars193 - Global HTTP/HTTPS proxy agent that is configurable using environment variables.

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Security

jose-simplestars46 - Encryption and decryption of data using the JOSE (JSON Object Signing and Encryption) standard.

Resources

Books

Professional Node.js: Building JavaScript Based Scalable Software

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Testing

nvestars540 - Run any command on multiple versions of Node.js locally.

Resources

Videos

10 Things I Regret About Node.js by Ryan Dahl - Insightful talk by the creator of Node.js about some of its limitions.

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Command-line apps

npkillstars5k - Easily find and remove old and heavy node_modules folders.

Resources

Miscellaneous

modern-nodestars226 - Toolkit for creating node modules with Jest, Prettier, ESLint, and Standard.

Packages

Debugging / Profiling

swagger-statsstars651 - Trace API calls and monitor API performance, health, and usage metrics.

Packages

Text

nanoidstars14.4k - Tiny, secure, URL-friendly, unique string ID generator.

Resources

Tutorials

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.

Packages

Static site generators

Chargestars385 - Opinionated, zero-config static site generator using JSX and MDX.

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Testing

Puppeteerstars74.1k - Headless Chrome.

Packages

Email

MJMLstars12.7k - Markup language designed to reduce the pain of creating responsive emails.

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Data validation

ajvstars10.1k - The fastest JSON Schema validator. Supports v5, v6 and v7 proposals.

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Debugging / Profiling

thetoolstars186 - Capture different CPU, memory, and other profiles for your app in Chrome DevTools friendly format.

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Job queues

better-queuestars352 - Simple and efficient job queue when you cannot use Redis.

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Image

qrcodestars5.2k - QR code and bar code generator.

Packages

Node.js management

nodenvstars1.6k - Version manager that is similar to Ruby's rbenv. It supports auto version switching.

Resources

Articles

Using Express to Quickly Build a GraphQL Server

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Job queues

sqs-consumerstars1.1k - Build Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) based apps without the boilerplate.

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Testing

CodeceptJSstars3.5k - End-to-end testing.

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Security

crypto-hashstars552 - Async non-blocking hashing.

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Filesystem

tempystars326 - Get a random temporary file or directory path.

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Miscellaneous

openstars2.4k - Opens stuff like websites, files, executables.

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Natural language processing

nlp.jsstars4.6k - Building bots, with entity extraction, sentiment analysis, automatic language identify, and more.

Resources

Community

Discord

Packages

Command-line apps

npm-namestars139 - Check a package name's availability on npm.

Resources

Books

Get Programming with Node.js

Packages

Job queues

RedisSMQstars250 - Simple high-performance Redis message queue with real-time monitoring.

Packages

Date

Day.jsstars36.8k - Immutable date library alternative to Moment.js.

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Miscellaneous

node-video-libstars281 - Pure JavaScript library for working with MP4 and FLV video files and creating MPEG-TS chunks for HLS streaming.

Resources

Cheatsheets

Strong Node.jsstars441 - Checklist for source code security analysis of a Node.js web service.

Resources

Videos

V8 Garbage Collector - Trash talk about the V8 garbage collector.

Packages

Security

rate-limiter-flexiblestars1.9k - Brute-force and DDoS attack protection.

Packages

AST

cherow - JavaScript parser with focus on performance and stability.

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Mad science

datstars508 - Real-time replication and versioning for data sets.

stackgl - Open software ecosystem for WebGL, built on top of browserify and npm.

Kadence - Kademlia distributed hash table.

Packages

Command-line apps

ESLintstars19.3k - The pluggable linting utility for JavaScript.

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Functional programming

lodashstars51.1k - Utility library delivering consistency, customization, performance, & extras. A better and faster Underscore.js.

Folktalestars2k - Suite of libraries for generic functional programming in JavaScript that allows you to write elegant, modular applications with fewer bugs, and more reuse.

Bacon.jsstars6.4k - Functional reactive programming.

RxJSstars25.8k - Functional reactive library for transforming, composing, and querying various kinds of data.

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Build tools

gulpstars32.4k - Streaming and fast build system that favors code over config.

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Web frameworks

Hapistars13.5k - Framework for building applications and services.

Koastars31.9k - Framework designed by the team behind Express, which aims to be a smaller, more expressive, and more robust foundation for web applications and APIs.

Expressstars54.8k - Web application framework, providing a robust set of features for building single and multi-page, and hybrid web applications.

Feathersstars13.7k - Microservice framework built in the spirit of Express.

Meteorstars42.7k - An ultra-simple, database-everywhere, data-on-the-wire, pure-Javascript web framework. (You might like awesome-meteorstars1.4k)

Restifystars10.3k - Enables you to build correct REST web services.

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Documentation

Doccostars3.5k - Documentation generator which produces an HTML document that displays your comments intermingled with your code.

JSDocstars12.4k - API documentation generator similar to JavaDoc or PHPDoc.

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Testing

AVAstars19.4k - Futuristic test runner.

Mochastars20.8k - Feature-rich test framework making asynchronous testing simple and fun.

Resources

Tutorials

Nodeschool - Learn Node.js with interactive lessons.

Resources

Tools

npm semver calculator - Visually explore what versions of a package a semver range matches.

Resources

Tutorials

Portable Node.js guidestars1.2k - Practical guide on how to write portable/cross-platform Node.js code.

Packages

Mad science

YodaOSstars1.1k - AI operating system.

Packages

Security

GuardRails - GitHub app that provides security feedback in pull requests.

Resources

Videos

Hands on with Node.js

Packages

Filesystem

move-filestars168 - Move a file, even works across devices.

Packages

Real-time

Aedesstars1.2k - Barebone MQTT server that can run on any stream server.

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Content management systems

Tipestars2.2k - Developer-first content management system with GraphQL and REST API from a schema file.

Packages

Real-time

rpc-websocketsstars407 - JSON-RPC 2.0 implementation over WebSockets.

Packages

Web frameworks

TypeGraphQLstars6.7k - Modern framework for creating GraphQL APIs with TypeScript, using classes and decorators.

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Security

themisstars1.4k - Multilanguage framework for making typical encryption schemes easy to use: data at rest, authenticated data exchange, transport protection, authentication, and so on.

Packages

Authorization

node-casbinstars1.7k - Authorization library that supports access control models like ACL, RBAC and ABAC.

Packages

Debugging / Profiling

llnodestars943 - Post-mortem analysis tool which allows you to inspect objects and get insights from a crashed Node.js process.

Packages

Command-line apps

dischargestars492 - Easily deploy static websites to Amazon S3.

taskbookstars8.2k - Tasks, boards & notes for the command-line habitat.

cash-clistars172 - Convert between 170 currencies.

Packages

Command-line utilities

Cliffystars276 - Framework for interactive CLIs.

Resources

Tutorials

Node.js Best Practicesstars71.6k - Summary and curation of the top-ranked content on Node.js best practices, available in multiple languages.

Resources

Books

Practical Modern JavaScript

Mastering Modular JavaScript

Packages

Command-line utilities

sparklystars370 - Generate sparklines ▁▂▃▅▂▇.

Packages

Weird

cat-ascii-facesstars233 - ₍˄·͈༝·͈˄₎◞ ̑̑ෆ⃛ (=ↀωↀ=)✧ (^･o･^)ﾉ”.

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Command-line apps

carbon-now-clistars5.1k - Beautiful images of your code — from right inside your terminal.

Packages

Debugging / Profiling

ndbstars10.5k - Improved debugging experience, enabled by Chrome DevTools.

Packages

AST

babel-parser - JavaScript parser used in Babel.

Packages

Mad science

Brain.jsstars12.3k - Machine-learning framework.

Packages

Command-line utilities

cli-table3stars309 - Pretty unicode tables.

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Content management systems

KeystoneJSstars5k - CMS and web application platform built on Express and MongoDB.

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Mad science

BitcoinJSstars4.3k - Clean, readable, proven Bitcoin library.

Bitcorestars4.2k - Pure and powerful Bitcoin library.

PDFKitstars7.5k - PDF generation library.

NodeOSstars6.5k - The first operating system powered by npm.

Cytoscape.jsstars7.9k - Graph theory (a.k.a. network) modeling and analysis.

isomorphic-gitstars6k - Pure JavaScript implementation of Git.

Packages

Command-line apps

gh-homestars177 - Open the GitHub page of the repo in the current directory.

npm-homestars174 - Open the npm page of a package.

trashstars2.3k - Safer alternative to rm.

Packages

Functional programming

Ramdastars21.3k - Utility library with a focus on flexible functional composition enabled by automatic currying and reversed argument order. Avoids mutating data.

Moutstars1.2k - 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.

Packages

Command-line utilities

yargsstars9.2k - Command-line parser that automatically generates an elegant user-interface.

get-stdinstars302 - Easier stdin.

Inkstars17k - React for interactive command-line apps.

terminal-linkstars448 - Create clickable links in the terminal.

terminal-imagestars841 - Display images in the terminal.

Inquirer.jsstars15.1k - Interactive command-line prompt.

update-notifierstars1.6k - Update notifications for your CLI app.

sudo-blockstars89 - Block users from running your app with root permissions.

term-sizestars127 - Reliably get the terminal window size.

Packages

Build tools

parcelstars39.3k - Blazing fast, zero config web app bundler.

Startstars480 - Functional task runner with shareable presets.

Packages

Web frameworks

ThinkJSstars5.3k - Framework with ES2015+ support, WebSockets, REST API.

ActionHerostars2.3k - Framework for making reusable & scalable APIs for TCP sockets, WebSockets, and HTTP clients.

Next.jsstars74.8k - Minimalistic framework for server-rendered universal JavaScript web apps.

Nuxt.jsstars38.4k - Minimalistic framework for server-rendered Vue.js apps.

Packages

Documentation

documentation.jsstars5.4k - API documentation generator with support for ES2015+ and flow annotation.

ESDocstars2.7k - Documentation generator targeting ES2015, attaching test code and measuring documentation coverage.

Packages

Real-time

Socket.iostars54.6k - Enables real-time bidirectional event-based communication.

Fayestars4.4k - Real-time client-server message bus, based on Bayeux protocol.

deepstream.iostars281 - Scalable real-time microservice framework.

Packages

Date

Luxonstars11.7k - Library for working with dates and times.

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Parsing

Jisonstars4k - Friendly JavaScript parser generator. It shares genes with Bison, Yacc and family.

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Testing

WebdriverIOstars7.1k - Automated testing based on the WebDriver protocol.

Packages

Benchmarking

Benchmark.jsstars5k - Benchmarking library that supports high-resolution timers and returns statistically significant results.

Packages

Minifiers

UglifyJS2stars11.7k - JavaScript minifier.

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Authentication

Passportstars19.4k - Simple, unobtrusive authentication.

Packages

Process management

Phusion Passengerstars4.8k - Friendly process manager that integrates directly into Nginx.

Packages

Static site generators

Wintersmithstars3.5k - Flexible, minimalistic, multi-platform static site generator.

Assemblestars4k - Static site generator for Node.js, Grunt.js, and Yeoman.

Phenomicstars3.3k - Modern static website generator based on the React and Webpack ecosystem.

docsifystars18.9k - Markdown documentation site generator with no statically built HTML files.

Packages

Content management systems

ApostropheCMSstars3.7k - Content management system with an emphasis on intuitive front end content editing and administration built on Express and MongoDB.

Strapistars40.5k - Content Management Framework (headless-CMS) to build powerful APIs.

Packages

Forum

nodeBBstars12.2k - Forum platform for the modern web.

Packages

Blogging

Ghoststars38.9k - Simple, powerful publishing platform.

Hexostars33.6k - Fast, simple and powerful blogging framework.

Packages

Miscellaneous

owstars3.4k - Function argument validation for humans.

semverstars3.9k - Semantic version parser.

@sindresorhus/isstars1.1k - Type check values.

emitterystars1.3k - Simple and modern async event emitter.

Resources

Newsletters

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

Node Module Of The Week! - Weekly dose of hand picked node modules.

Resources

Courses

Learn to build apps and APIs with Node.js - Video course by Wes Bos.

Resources

Miscellaneous

Module Requests & Ideasstars521 - Request a JavaScript module you wish existed or get ideas for modules.

Packages

Job queues

agendastars7.9k - MongoDB-backed job scheduling.

Packages

Miscellaneous

env-dot-propstars29 - Get, set, or delete nested properties of process.env using a dot path.

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Authorization

CASLstars3.5k - Isomorphic authorization for UI and API.

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Parsing

fast-xml-parserstars1.3k - Validate and parse XML.

Packages

Job queues

bee-queuestars2.6k - High-performance Redis-backed job queue.

Packages

Text

i18nextstars5.9k - Internationalization framework.

Packages

Math

multimathstars57 - Core to create fast image math in WebAssembly and JS.

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Web frameworks

Neststars41.6k - Angular-inspired framework for building efficient and scalable server-side apps.

Fastifystars20.9k - Fast and low overhead web framework.

Moleculer - Fast & powerful microservices framework.

Packages

Functional programming

Kefir.jsstars1.8k - Reactive library with focus on high performance and low memory usage.

Packages

Command-line utilities

oclifstars6.6k - CLI framework complete with parser, automatic documentation, testing, and plugins.

Packages

Serialization

snappystars471 - Native bindings for Google's Snappy compression library.

protobufstars7.8k - Implementation of Protocol Buffers.

compactrstars90 - Implementation of the Compactr protocol.

Packages

Hardware

gpsstars188 - NMEA parser for handling GPS receivers.

Resources

Books

Node.js in Action

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Mad science

xlsxstars27.8k - Pure JS Excel spreadsheet reader and writer.

Packages

Network

netcatstars331 - Netcat port in pure JS.

Related lists

awesome-npmstars3.8k - Resources and tips for using npm.

awesome-cross-platform-nodejsstars966 - Resources for writing and testing cross-platform code.

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Testing

Nockstars11k - HTTP mocking and expectations.

Packages

Command-line apps

themerstars4.4k - Generate themes for your editor, terminal, wallpaper, Slack, and more.

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Job queues

rsmqstars1.5k - Redis-backed message queue.

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HTTP

gotqlstars353 - GraphQL request library built on gotstars10.3k.

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Security

upashstars494 - Unified API for all password hashing algorithms.

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Command-line apps

XOstars6.2k - Enforce strict code style using the JavaScript happiness style.

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Command-line apps

gtopstars8.8k - System monitoring dashboard for the terminal.

Packages

Command-line apps

svg-term-clistars2.6k - Share terminal sessions via SVG.

Packages

HTTP

cacheable-requeststars226 - Wrap native HTTP requests with RFC compliant cache support.

Packages

Web frameworks

Microstars9.9k - Minimalistic microservice framework with an async approach.

Resources

Tools

github-npm-stats - Chrome extension that displays npm download stats on GitHub.

Resources

Books

Node.js 8 the Right Way

Packages

Email

email-templatesstars3.2k - Create, preview, and send custom email templates.

Packages

Testing

abstrusestars783 - Continuous Integration server.

Packages

Command-line utilities

gradient-stringstars520 - Beautiful color gradients in terminal output.

Packages

Network

DHCPstars238 - DHCP client and server.

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Web frameworks

Hemerastars782 - Write reliable and fault-tolerant microservices with NATS.

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Job queues

node-resquestars1.1k - Redis-backed job queue.

Packages

Filesystem

make-dirstars442 - Recursively create directories like mkdir -p.