Track Awesome Nodejs Updates Daily

The Node Way (⭐1.5k) - 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.

Resources / Articles

Error Handling in Node.js

Mar 06, 2023

Package Manager / Miscellaneous

npm - The default package manager.

pnpm - Disk space efficient package manager.

yarn - Alternative package manager.

Jan 31, 2023

Packages / Data validation

yup (⭐23k) - Object schema validation.

Jul 24, 2022

Packages / Miscellaneous

wild-wild-path (⭐723) - Object property paths with wildcards and regexes.

Apr 24, 2022

Resources / Tools

RunKit - Embed a Node.js environment on any website.

Apr 11, 2022

Packages / Command-line utilities

zx (⭐44k) - Write shell scripts JavaScript.

Packages / Job queues

bullmq (⭐6.6k) - Persistent job and message queue.

Mar 02, 2022

Packages / Mad science

webtorrent (⭐30k) - Streaming torrent client for Node.js and the browser.

PDFKit (⭐10k) - PDF generation library.

xlsx (⭐35k) - Pure JS Excel spreadsheet reader and writer.

Packages / Command-line apps

http-server (⭐14k) - Simple, zero-config command-line HTTP server.

pen (⭐326) - Live Markdown preview in the browser from your favorite editor.

trymodule (⭐1.1k) - Try out npm packages in the terminal.

themer (⭐5.6k) - Generate themes for your editor, terminal, wallpaper, Slack, and more.

taskbook (⭐9k) - Tasks, boards & notes for the command-line habitat.

Packages / Functional programming

immutable (⭐33k) - Immutable data collections.

Packages / HTTP

node-fetch (⭐8.8k) - window.fetch for Node.js.

axios (⭐106k) - Promise based HTTP client (works in the browser too).

Packages / Debugging / Profiling

debug (⭐11k) - Tiny debugging utility.

Packages / Logging

consola (⭐6.5k) - Console logger.

Packages / Command-line utilities

progress (⭐3k) - Flexible ascii progress bar.

Packages / Build tools

pkg (⭐24k) - Package your Node.js project into an executable.

Packages / Hardware

serialport (⭐5.9k) - Access serial ports for reading and writing.

usb (⭐1.6k) - USB library.

Packages / Templating

handlebars.js (⭐18k) - Superset of Mustache templates which adds powerful features like helpers and more advanced blocks.

Packages / Web frameworks

Next.js (⭐130k) - Minimalistic framework for server-rendered universal JavaScript web apps.

Micro (⭐11k) - Minimalistic microservice framework with an async approach.

LoopBack (⭐5k) - Powerful framework for creating REST APIs and easily connecting to backend data sources.

TypeGraphQL (⭐8.1k) - Modern framework for creating GraphQL APIs with TypeScript, using classes and decorators.

Tinyhttp (⭐2.8k) - Modern and fast Express-like web framework.

Ts.ED (⭐2.9k) - Intuitive TypeScript framework for building server-side apps on top of Express.js or Koa.js.

Packages / Documentation

JSDoc (⭐15k) - API documentation generator similar to JavaDoc or PHPDoc.

Packages / Filesystem

proper-lockfile (⭐245) - Inter-process and inter-machine lockfile utility.

Packages / Real-time

µWebSockets (⭐18k) - Highly scalable WebSocket server & client library.

Aedes (⭐1.8k) - Barebone MQTT server that can run on any stream server.

Packages / URL

humanize-url (⭐248) - Humanize a URL: https://sindresorhus.com → sindresorhus.com.

Packages / Data validation

joi (⭐21k) - Object schema description language and validator for JavaScript objects.

schema-inspector (⭐505) - JSON API sanitization and validation.

ajv (⭐14k) - The fastest JSON Schema validator. Supports v5, v6 and v7 proposals.

Packages / Parsing

remark (⭐8k) - Markdown processor powered by plugins.

x-ray (⭐5.9k) - Web scraping utility.

nearley (⭐3.7k) - Simple, fast, powerful parsing for JavaScript.

google-libphonenumber (⭐1.4k) - Parse, format, store and validate phone numbers.

Packages / Humanize

ms (⭐5.2k) - Tiny millisecond conversion utility.

Packages / Database

Query builder
- Knex (⭐20k) - Query builder for PostgreSQL, MySQL and SQLite3, designed to be flexible, portable, and fun to use.

Packages / Testing

nyc (⭐5.7k) - Code coverage tool built on istanbul that works with subprocesses.

tap (⭐2.4k) - TAP test framework.

trevor (⭐2.1k) - Run tests against multiple versions of Node.js without switching versions manually or pushing to Travis CI.

Nock (⭐13k) - HTTP mocking and expectations.

CodeceptJS (⭐4.1k) - End-to-end testing.

Puppeteer (⭐90k) - Headless Chrome.

Packages / Minifiers

UglifyJS2 (⭐13k) - JavaScript minifier.

clean-css (⭐4.2k) - CSS minifier.

Packages / Email

Nodemailer (⭐17k) - The fastest way to handle email.

email-templates (⭐3.7k) - Create, preview, and send custom email templates.

Packages / Job queues

agenda (⭐9.5k) - MongoDB-backed job scheduling.

node-resque (⭐1.4k) - Redis-backed job queue.

Packages / Natural language processing

retext (⭐2.4k) - An extensible natural language system.

Packages / AST

Acorn (⭐11k) - Tiny, fast JavaScript parser.

Packages / Static site generators

docsify (⭐29k) - Markdown documentation site generator with no statically built HTML files.

Packages / Content management systems

Factor (⭐1.4k) - Vue.js dashboard framework and headless CMS.

AdminBro (⭐8.4k) - Auto-generated admin panel with CRUD for all your resources.

Packages / Serialization

protobuf (⭐10k) - Implementation of Protocol Buffers.

Packages / Miscellaneous

jsdom (⭐21k) - JavaScript implementation of HTML and the DOM.

Resources / Tutorials

Node.js Best Practices (⭐102k) - Summary and curation of the top-ranked content on Node.js best practices, available in multiple languages.

Portable Node.js guide (⭐1.4k) - Practical guide on how to write portable/cross-platform Node.js code.

Resources / Newsletters

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

Resources / Books

Node.js in Practice

Mastering Node

Node.js 8 the Right Way

Professional Node.js: Building JavaScript Based Scalable Software

Secure Your Node.js Web Application

Resources / Blogs

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

Resources / Courses

Real Time Web with Node.js

Learn and Understand Node.js

Resources / Cheatsheets

Express.js (⭐1.4k)

Resources / Tools

npm-hub - Chrome extension to display npm dependencies at the bottom of a repo's readme.

Resources / Community

Stack Overflow

Discord

Resources / Miscellaneous

nodebots - Robots powered by JavaScript.

Module Requests & Ideas (⭐540) - Request a JavaScript module you wish existed or get ideas for modules.

Jan 23, 2022

Packages / HTTP

undici (⭐6.6k) - High performance HTTP client written from scratch with zero dependencies.

ky-universal (⭐672) - Universal HTTP client based on Fetch.

purest (⭐556) - REST client.

Packages / Debugging / Profiling

dats (⭐102) - Minimalistic and zero-dependencies StatsD (⭐18k) client.

Packages / Web frameworks

Fastify (⭐33k) - Fast and low overhead web framework.

Nuxt.js (⭐56k) - Minimalistic framework for server-rendered Vue.js apps.

AdonisJs (⭐18k) - A true MVC framework for Node.js built on solid foundations of Dependency Injection and IoC container.

Moleculer (⭐6.2k) - Fast & powerful microservices framework.

Packages / Streams

from2 (⭐132) - Convenience wrapper for ReadableStream, inspired by through2.

Packages / Parsing

@parcel/css (⭐6.9k) - A CSS parser, transformer, and minifier written in Rust.

Packages / Minifiers

babel-minify (⭐4.4k) - ES2015+ aware minifier based on the Babel toolchain.

Oct 01, 2021

Packages / Web frameworks

Lad (⭐2.3k) - Framework made by a former Express TC and Koa member that bundles web, API, job, and proxy servers.

Sep 26, 2021

Packages / Image

ImageScript (⭐647) - Image processing in JavaScript, utilizing WebAssembly for performance.

Jun 01, 2021

Resources / Books

Node.js Cookbook

Node.js Design Patterns

May 18, 2021

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.

May 17, 2021

Resources / Miscellaneous

v8-perf (⭐2.2k) - Notes and resources related to V8 and thus Node.js performance.

Apr 22, 2021

Packages / Parsing

Chevrotain (⭐2.6k) - Very fast and feature rich parser building toolkit for JavaScript.

Mar 07, 2021

Packages / Database

Other
- NeDB (⭐14k) - Embedded persistent database written in JavaScript.
- Lowdb (⭐22k) - Small JavaScript database powered by Lodash.
- Keyv (⭐2.8k) - Simple key-value storage with support for multiple backends.
- Finale (⭐188) - RESTful endpoint generator for your Sequelize models.
- database-js (⭐75) - Wrapper for multiple databases with a JDBC-like connection.
- Mongo Seeding (⭐557) - Populate MongoDB databases with JavaScript and JSON files.
- @databases (⭐615) - Query PostgreSQL, MySQL and SQLite3 with plain SQL without risking SQL injection.
- pg-mem (⭐2.1k) - In-memory PostgreSQL instance for your tests.

Mar 06, 2021

Official

Website

Documentation

Repository (⭐110k)

Resources / Videos

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

Jan 22, 2021

Packages / Node.js management

fnm (⭐20k) - Cross-platform Node.js version manager built in Rust.

Dec 12, 2020

Packages / HTTP

smoke (⭐192) - File-based HTTP mock server with recording abilities.

Packages / Testing

testcontainers-node (⭐2k) - Provides lightweight, throwaway instances of common databases, Selenium web browsers, or anything else that can run in a Docker container.

Packages / Automation

nut.js (⭐2.4k) - Cross-platform native GUI automation / testing framework with image matching capabilities which integrates with Jest.

Dec 10, 2020

Packages / Web frameworks

Marble.js (⭐2.1k) - Functional reactive framework for building server-side apps, based on TypeScript and RxJS.

Nov 24, 2020

Packages / Data validation

Superstruct (⭐7.1k) - Simple and composable way to validate data in JavaScript (and TypeScript).

Nov 11, 2020

Packages / Miscellaneous

editly (⭐4.9k) - Declarative video editing API.

Oct 11, 2020

Packages / Database

ODM / ORM
- Sequelize (⭐30k) - Multi-dialect ORM. Supports PostgreSQL, SQLite, MySQL, and more.
- Bookshelf (⭐6.4k) - ORM for PostgreSQL, MySQL and SQLite3 in the style of Backbone.js.
- Mongoose (⭐27k) - Elegant MongoDB object modeling.
- Waterline (⭐5.4k) - Datastore-agnostic tool that dramatically simplifies interaction with one or more databases.
- OpenRecord (⭐485) - ORM for PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite3 and RESTful datastores. Similar to ActiveRecord.
- pg-promise (⭐3.5k) - PostgreSQL framework for native SQL using promises.
- slonik (⭐4.7k) - PostgreSQL client with strict types, detailed logging and assertions.
- Objection.js (⭐7.3k) - Lightweight ORM built on the SQL query builder Knex.
- TypeORM (⭐35k) - ORM for PostgreSQL, MariaDB, MySQL, SQLite, and more.
- MikroORM (⭐8.1k) - TypeScript ORM based on Data Mapper, Unit of Work and Identity Map patterns. Supports MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL and SQLite.
- Prisma (⭐41k) - Modern database access (ORM alternative). Auto-generated and type-safe query builder in TypeScript. Supports PostgreSQL, MySQL & SQLite.
- Drizzle ORM (⭐27k) - TypeScript ORM that supports various databases such as PostgreSQL.

Sep 05, 2020

Packages / Authentication

Grant (⭐4.1k) - OAuth providers for Express, Koa, Hapi, Fastify, AWS Lambda, Azure, Google Cloud, Vercel, and many more.

Jul 07, 2020

Packages / Mad science

Pipcook (⭐2.6k) - Front-end algorithm framework to create a machine learning pipeline.

Jul 06, 2020

Packages / Testing

axe-core (⭐6.2k) - Accessibility engine for automated Web UI testing.

Jul 05, 2020

Packages / Text

StegCloak (⭐3.5k) - Conceal secrets within strings, in plain sight.

Apr 24, 2020

Resources / Videos

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

Apr 14, 2020

Packages / Miscellaneous

patch-package (⭐11k) - Make and preserve fixes to npm dependencies.

Apr 13, 2020

Packages / Documentation

Docusaurus (⭐59k) - Documentation website generator that leverages React and Markdown, and comes with translation and versioning features.

Apr 09, 2020

Packages / Miscellaneous

husky (⭐33k) - Create Git hook scripts.

Feb 22, 2020

Packages / Debugging / Profiling

NiM (⭐195) - Manages DevTools debugging workflow.

Packages / Testing

Playwright (⭐70k) - Headless Chromium, WebKit, and Firefox with a single API.

Packages / Miscellaneous

basic-ftp (⭐684) - FTP/FTPS client.

cashify (⭐405) - Currency conversion.

genepi (⭐81) - Automatically generate a native Node.js addon from C++ code.

Dec 31, 2019

Packages / HTTP

global-agent (⭐374) - Global HTTP/HTTPS proxy agent that is configurable using environment variables.

Packages / Security

jose-simple (⭐64) - Encryption and decryption of data using the JOSE (JSON Object Signing and Encryption) standard.

Dec 12, 2019

Packages / Testing

nve (⭐699) - Run any command on multiple versions of Node.js locally.

Nov 01, 2019

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.

Oct 08, 2019

Packages / Command-line apps

npkill (⭐8.5k) - Easily find and remove old and heavy node_modules folders.

Sep 26, 2019

Packages / Debugging / Profiling

swagger-stats (⭐909) - Trace API calls and monitor API performance, health, and usage metrics.

Packages / Text

nanoid (⭐25k) - Tiny, secure, URL-friendly, unique string ID generator.

Resources / Miscellaneous

modern-node (⭐245) - Toolkit for creating node modules with Jest, Prettier, ESLint, and Standard.

Sep 23, 2019

Packages / Static site generators

Charge (⭐428) - Opinionated, zero-config static site generator using JSX and MDX.

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.

Sep 22, 2019

Packages / Email

MJML (⭐17k) - Markup language designed to reduce the pain of creating responsive emails.

Jul 03, 2019

Packages / Debugging / Profiling

thetool (⭐222) - Capture different CPU, memory, and other profiles for your app in Chrome DevTools friendly format.

Jun 29, 2019

Packages / Image

qrcode (⭐7.7k) - QR code and bar code generator.

Packages / Job queues

better-queue (⭐526) - Simple and efficient job queue when you cannot use Redis.

Packages / Node.js management

nodenv (⭐2.3k) - Version manager that is similar to Ruby's rbenv. It supports auto version switching.

Jun 19, 2019

Resources / Articles

Using Express to Quickly Build a GraphQL Server

May 30, 2019

Packages / Job queues

sqs-consumer (⭐1.8k) - Build Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) based apps without the boilerplate.

May 13, 2019

Packages / Filesystem

tempy (⭐427) - Get a random temporary file or directory path.

Packages / Security

crypto-hash (⭐639) - Async non-blocking hashing.

Packages / Miscellaneous

open (⭐3.2k) - Opens stuff like websites, files, executables.

Apr 29, 2019

Packages / Command-line apps

npm-name (⭐169) - Check a package name's availability on npm.

Packages / Date

Day.js (⭐47k) - Immutable date library alternative to Moment.js.

Packages / Job queues

RedisSMQ (⭐607) - Simple high-performance Redis message queue with real-time monitoring.

Packages / Natural language processing

nlp.js (⭐6.4k) - Building bots, with entity extraction, sentiment analysis, automatic language identify, and more.

Resources / Books

Get Programming with Node.js

Apr 28, 2019

Packages / Mad science

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

Packages / Command-line apps

ESLint (⭐26k) - The pluggable linting utility for JavaScript.

Packages / Functional programming

lodash (⭐60k) - Utility library delivering consistency, customization, performance, & extras. A better and faster Underscore.js.

RxJS (⭐31k) - Functional reactive library for transforming, composing, and querying various kinds of data.

Packages / Build tools

gulp (⭐33k) - Streaming and fast build system that favors code over config.

Packages / Web frameworks

Hapi (⭐15k) - Framework for building applications and services.

Koa (⭐35k) - 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 (⭐66k) - Web application framework, providing a robust set of features for building single and multi-page, and hybrid web applications.

Feathers (⭐15k) - Microservice framework built in the spirit of Express.

Meteor (⭐45k) - An ultra-simple, database-everywhere, data-on-the-wire, pure-Javascript web framework. (You might like awesome-meteor (⭐1.4k))

Restify (⭐11k) - Enables you to build correct REST web services.

Packages / Documentation

Docco (⭐3.6k) - Documentation generator which produces an HTML document that displays your comments intermingled with your code.

Packages / Testing

AVA (⭐21k) - Futuristic test runner.

Mocha (⭐23k) - Feature-rich test framework making asynchronous testing simple and fun.

Packages / Security

rate-limiter-flexible (⭐3.2k) - Brute-force and DDoS attack protection.

Packages / Miscellaneous

node-video-lib (⭐359) - Pure JavaScript library for working with MP4 and FLV video files and creating MPEG-TS chunks for HLS streaming.

Resources / Tutorials

Nodeschool - Learn Node.js with interactive lessons.

Resources / Videos

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

Resources / Cheatsheets

Strong Node.js (⭐506) - Checklist for source code security analysis of a Node.js web service.

Apr 19, 2019

Resources / Tools

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

Feb 16, 2019

Packages / Mad science

YodaOS (⭐1.2k) - AI operating system.

Dec 29, 2018

Packages / Security

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

Dec 09, 2018

Resources / Videos

Hands on with Node.js

Nov 08, 2018

Packages / Filesystem

move-file (⭐199) - Move a file, even works across devices.

Oct 13, 2018

Packages / Command-line apps

cash-cli (⭐240) - Convert between 170 currencies.

discharge (⭐649) - Easily deploy static websites to Amazon S3.

Packages / Debugging / Profiling

llnode (⭐1.2k) - Post-mortem analysis tool which allows you to inspect objects and get insights from a crashed Node.js process.

Packages / Command-line utilities

Cliffy (⭐362) - Framework for interactive CLIs.

Packages / Real-time

rpc-websockets (⭐601) - JSON-RPC 2.0 implementation over WebSockets.

Packages / Security

themis (⭐1.9k) - 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-casbin (⭐2.7k) - Authorization library that supports access control models like ACL, RBAC and ABAC.

Oct 02, 2018

Resources / Books

Practical Modern JavaScript

Mastering Modular JavaScript

Aug 10, 2018

Packages / Command-line utilities

sparkly (⭐424) - Generate sparklines ▁▂▃▅▂▇.

Packages / Weird

cat-ascii-faces (⭐256) - ₍˄·͈༝·͈˄₎◞ ̑̑ෆ⃛ (=ↀωↀ=)✧ (^･o･^)ﾉ”.

Aug 02, 2018

Packages / Command-line apps

carbon-now-cli (⭐5.8k) - Beautiful images of your code — from right inside your terminal.

Jun 26, 2018

Packages / AST

babel-parser (⭐43k) - JavaScript parser used in Babel.

Jun 25, 2018

Packages / Mad science

Brain.js (⭐15k) - Machine-learning framework.

Jun 21, 2018

Packages / Command-line utilities

cli-table3 (⭐556) - Pretty unicode tables.

Jun 19, 2018

Packages / Content management systems

KeystoneJS (⭐9.4k) - CMS and web application platform built on Express and MongoDB.

May 15, 2018

Packages / Mad science

BitcoinJS (⭐5.8k) - Clean, readable, proven Bitcoin library.

Bitcore (⭐4.9k) - Pure and powerful Bitcoin library.

NodeOS (⭐7k) - The first operating system powered by npm.

Cytoscape.js (⭐10k) - Graph theory (a.k.a. network) modeling and analysis.

isomorphic-git (⭐7.6k) - Pure JavaScript implementation of Git.

Packages / Command-line apps

gh-home (⭐191) - Open the GitHub page of the repo in the current directory.

npm-home (⭐198) - Open the npm page of a package.

trash (⭐2.6k) - Safer alternative to rm.

Packages / Functional programming

Ramda (⭐24k) - Utility library with a focus on flexible functional composition enabled by automatic currying and reversed argument order. Avoids mutating data.

Mout (⭐1.3k) - 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

yargs (⭐11k) - Command-line parser that automatically generates an elegant user-interface.

get-stdin (⭐338) - Easier stdin.

Ink (⭐28k) - React for interactive command-line apps.

terminal-link (⭐626) - Create clickable links in the terminal.

terminal-image (⭐994) - Display images in the terminal.

Inquirer.js (⭐21k) - Interactive command-line prompt.

sudo-block (⭐98) - Block users from running your app with root permissions.

Packages / Build tools

parcel (⭐44k) - Blazing fast, zero config web app bundler.

Packages / Web frameworks

ThinkJS (⭐5.3k) - Framework with ES2015+ support, WebSockets, REST API.

ActionHero (⭐2.4k) - Framework for making reusable & scalable APIs for TCP sockets, WebSockets, and HTTP clients.

Packages / Documentation

documentation.js (⭐5.8k) - API documentation generator with support for ES2015+ and flow annotation.

Packages / Control flow

Promises
- pify (⭐1.5k) - Promisify a callback-style function.
- delay (⭐609) - Delay a promise a specified amount of time.
- promise-memoize (⭐62) - Memoize promise-returning functions, with expire and prefetch.
- valvelet (⭐38) - Limit the execution rate of a promise-returning function.
- p-map (⭐1.4k) - Map over promises concurrently.
- More… (⭐4.9k)

Streams
- Highland.js (⭐3.4k) - Manages synchronous and asynchronous code easily, using nothing more than standard JavaScript and Node-like Streams.

Packages / Real-time

Socket.io (⭐62k) - Enables real-time bidirectional event-based communication.

Faye (⭐4.4k) - Real-time client-server message bus, based on Bayeux protocol.

deepstream.io (⭐298) - Scalable real-time microservice framework.

Packages / Date

Luxon (⭐16k) - Library for working with dates and times.

Packages / Parsing

Jison (⭐4.4k) - Friendly JavaScript parser generator. It shares genes with Bison, Yacc and family.

Packages / Testing

WebdriverIO (⭐9.2k) - Automated testing based on the WebDriver protocol.

Packages / Benchmarking

Benchmark.js (⭐5.5k) - Benchmarking library that supports high-resolution timers and returns statistically significant results.

Packages / Authentication

Passport (⭐23k) - Simple, unobtrusive authentication.

Packages / Process management

Phusion Passenger (⭐5k) - Friendly process manager that integrates directly into Nginx.

Packages / Content management systems

ApostropheCMS (⭐4.4k) - Content management system with an emphasis on intuitive front end content editing and administration built on Express and MongoDB.

Strapi (⭐65k) - Content Management Framework (headless-CMS) to build powerful APIs.

Packages / Forum

nodeBB (⭐14k) - Forum platform for the modern web.

Packages / Blogging

Ghost (⭐48k) - Simple, powerful publishing platform.

Hexo (⭐40k) - Fast, simple and powerful blogging framework.

Packages / Miscellaneous

semver (⭐5.2k) - Semantic version parser.

@sindresorhus/is (⭐1.7k) - Type check values.

Resources / Courses

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

May 03, 2018

Packages / Functional programming

Kefir.js (⭐1.9k) - Reactive library with focus on high performance and low memory usage.

Packages / Command-line utilities

oclif (⭐9.1k) - CLI framework complete with parser, automatic documentation, testing, and plugins.

Packages / Hardware

gps (⭐256) - NMEA parser for handling GPS receivers.

Packages / Web frameworks

Nest (⭐70k) - Angular-inspired framework for building efficient and scalable server-side apps.

Packages / Text

i18next (⭐7.9k) - Internationalization framework.

Packages / Math

multimath (⭐71) - Core to create fast image math in WebAssembly and JS.

Packages / Parsing

fast-xml-parser (⭐2.7k) - Validate and parse XML.

Packages / Network

netcat (⭐424) - Netcat port in pure JS.

Packages / Authorization

CASL (⭐6.3k) - Isomorphic authorization for UI and API.

Packages / Job queues

bee-queue (⭐3.9k) - High-performance Redis-backed job queue.

Packages / Serialization

snappy (⭐481) - Native bindings for Google's Snappy compression library.

compactr (⭐102) - Implementation of the Compactr protocol.

Packages / Miscellaneous

env-dot-prop (⭐33) - Get, set, or delete nested properties of process.env using a dot path.

Resources / Books

Node.js in Action

Apr 20, 2018

Related lists / Miscellaneous

awesome-npm (⭐4.5k) - Resources and tips for using npm.

awesome-cross-platform-nodejs (⭐1.2k) - Resources for writing and testing cross-platform code.

Mar 12, 2018

Packages / HTTP

gotql (⭐412) - GraphQL request library built on got (⭐14k).

Packages / Job queues

rsmq (⭐1.8k) - Redis-backed message queue.

Mar 05, 2018

Packages / Security

upash (⭐541) - Unified API for all password hashing algorithms.

Feb 14, 2018

Packages / Command-line apps

XO (⭐7.7k) - Enforce strict code style using the JavaScript happiness style.

Feb 04, 2018

Packages / Command-line apps

gtop (⭐9.8k) - System monitoring dashboard for the terminal.

Dec 29, 2017

Packages / Command-line apps

svg-term-cli (⭐3.6k) - Share terminal sessions via SVG.

Nov 17, 2017

Packages / HTTP

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

Oct 13, 2017

Resources / Tools

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

Sep 22, 2017

Packages / Testing

abstruse (⭐943) - Continuous Integration server.

Aug 31, 2017

Packages / Command-line utilities

gradient-string (⭐1.1k) - Beautiful color gradients in terminal output.

Jul 23, 2017

Packages / Network

DHCP (⭐301) - DHCP client and server.

Jun 07, 2017

Packages / Debugging / Profiling

leakage (⭐1.6k) - Write memory leak tests.

Packages / Command-line utilities

Bit (⭐18k) - Create, maintain, find and use small modules and components across repositories.

Jun 06, 2017

Packages / Real-time

Kalm (⭐212) - Low-level socket router and middleware framework.

May 08, 2017

Packages / Build tools

FuseBox (⭐4k) - Fast build system that combines the power of webpack, JSPM and SystemJS, with first-class TypeScript support.

Mar 15, 2017

Packages / Parsing

xlsx-populate (⭐966) - Read/write Excel XLSX.

Mar 11, 2017

Packages / Hardware

onoff (⭐1.2k) - GPIO access and interrupt detection.

spi-device (⭐117) - SPI serial bus access.

pigpio (⭐954) - Fast GPIO, PWM, servo control, state change notification, and interrupt handling on the Raspberry Pi.

Mar 07, 2017

Resources / Community

Hashnode

Jan 17, 2017

Packages / Logging

pino (⭐15k) - Extremely fast logger inspired by Bunyan.

Jan 14, 2017

Packages / Mad science

js-git (⭐3.8k) - JavaScript implementation of Git.

Packages / Command-line apps

np (⭐7.6k) - Better npm publish.

pageres (⭐9.7k) - Capture website screenshots.

clipboard-cli (⭐498) - Copy & paste on the terminal.

Live Server (⭐4.5k) - Development HTTP-server with livereload capability.

fkill (⭐6.9k) - Fabulously kill processes. Cross-platform.

tmpin (⭐124) - Adds stdin support to any CLI app that accepts file input.

dark-mode (⭐665) - Toggle the macOS Dark Mode.

Packages / HTTP

got (⭐14k) - Nicer interface to the built-in http module.

superagent (⭐17k) - HTTP request library.

Packages / Logging

winston (⭐23k) - Multi-transport async logging library.

Packages / Command-line utilities

ora (⭐9.3k) - Elegant terminal spinner.

conf (⭐1.3k) - Simple config handling for your app or module.

cli-truncate (⭐86) - Truncate a string to a specific width in the terminal.

blessed (⭐11k) - Curses-like library.

insight (⭐554) - Helps you understand how your tool is being used by anonymously reporting usage metrics to Google Analytics.

Packages / Build tools

webpack (⭐65k) - Packs modules and assets for the browser.

rollup (⭐26k) - Next-generation ES2015 module bundler.

Broccoli (⭐3.3k) - Fast, reliable asset pipeline, supporting constant-time rebuilds and compact build definitions.

Packages / Templating

marko (⭐14k) - HTML-based templating engine that compiles templates to CommonJS modules and supports streaming, async rendering and custom tags.

nunjucks (⭐8.6k) - Templating engine with inheritance, asynchronous control, and more (jinja2 inspired).

Packages / Control flow

Observables
- RxJS (⭐31k) - Reactive programming.
- observable-to-promise (⭐47) - Convert an Observable to a Promise.
- More… (⭐340)

Packages / Streams

binary-split (⭐80) - Newline (or any delimiter) splitter stream.

Packages / Real-time

MQTT.js (⭐8.7k) - Client for MQTT - Pub-sub based messaging protocol for use on top of TCP/IP.

Packages / Text

he (⭐3.5k) - HTML entity encoder/decoder.

Packages / Date

date-fns (⭐35k) - Modern date utility.

Packages / Parsing

markdown-it (⭐19k) - Markdown parser with 100% CommonMark support, extensions and syntax plugins.

csv-parser (⭐1.4k) - Streaming CSV parser that aims to be faster than everyone else.

Packages / Compression

yazl (⭐347) - Zip.

yauzl (⭐754) - Unzip.

Packages / Database

Drivers
- PostgreSQL (⭐13k) - PostgreSQL client. Pure JavaScript and native libpq bindings.
- Redis (⭐15k) - Redis client.
- LevelUP (⭐4.1k) - LevelDB.
- MySQL (⭐18k) - MySQL client.
- couchdb-nano (⭐664) - CouchDB client.
- Aerospike (⭐202) - Aerospike client.
- Couchbase (⭐462) - Couchbase client.
- MongoDB (⭐10k) - MongoDB driver.

Packages / Testing

intern (⭐4.4k) - Code testing stack.

Packages / Node.js management

nodeenv (⭐1.7k) - Node.js virtual environment compatible to Python's virtualenv.

Packages / Natural language processing

natural (⭐11k) - Natural language facility.

Packages / Process management

nodemon (⭐26k) - Monitor for changes in your app and automatically restart the server.

node-windows (⭐2.9k) - Run scripts as a native Windows service and log to the Event viewer.

Packages / Weird

cows (⭐423) - ASCII cows.

Packages / Miscellaneous

execa (⭐7k) - Better child_process.

ssh2 (⭐5.6k) - SSH2 client and server module.

Bottleneck (⭐1.9k) - Rate limiter that makes throttling easy.

clipboardy (⭐1.8k) - Access the system clipboard (copy/paste).

Resources / Tools

OctoLinker - Chrome extension that linkifies dependencies in package.json, .js, .jsx, .coffee and .md files on GitHub.

Jan 13, 2017

Packages / HTTP

http-fake-backend (⭐312) - Build a fake backend by providing the content of JSON files or JavaScript objects through configurable routes.

Packages / Web frameworks

seneca (⭐4k) - Toolkit for writing microservices.

Dec 26, 2016

Packages / Date

cctz (⭐59) - Fast parsing, formatting, and timezone conversation for dates.

Dec 17, 2016

Packages / Command-line apps

cost-of-modules (⭐2.8k) - Find out which dependencies are slowing you down.

localtunnel (⭐20k) - Expose your localhost to the world.

Packages / Text

unhomoglyph (⭐41) - Normalize visually similar unicode characters.

Dec 15, 2016

Packages / Command-line apps

lessmd - Markdown in the terminal.

Nov 29, 2016

Packages / Job queues

idoit (⭐77) - Redis-backed job queue engine with advanced job control.

Nov 23, 2016

Resources / Books

Express in Action

Nov 14, 2016

Packages / Testing

TestCafe (⭐9.8k) - Automated browser testing.

Oct 18, 2016

Packages / Testing

Jest (⭐45k) - Painless JavaScript testing.

Sep 19, 2016

Packages / Parsing

ref (⭐458) - Read/write structured binary data in Buffers.

Aug 18, 2016

Packages / Command-line apps

auto-install (⭐1.2k) - Auto installs dependencies as you code.

Aug 09, 2016

Packages / Filesystem

filehound (⭐222) - Flexible and fluent interface for searching the file system.

Aug 05, 2016

Packages / Weird

nerds (⭐111) - Get data from nerdy topics like Harry Potter, Star Wars, and Pokémon.

Aug 02, 2016

Resources / Miscellaneous

Microsoft Node.js Guidelines (⭐2.5k) - Tips, tricks, and resources for working with Node.js on Microsoft platforms.

Jul 03, 2016

Packages / Command-line apps

atmo (⭐814) - Server-side API mocking.

Jun 29, 2016

Packages / Command-line apps

jscpd (⭐4.8k) - Copy/paste detector for source code.

Jun 18, 2016

Packages / Automation

robotjs (⭐12k) - Desktop Automation: control the mouse, keyboard and read the screen.

Resources / Discovery

npms - Superb package search with deep analysis of package quality using a myriad of metrics.

Jun 14, 2016

Packages / Filesystem

chokidar (⭐11k) - Filesystem watcher which stabilizes events from fs.watch and fs.watchFile as well as using native fsevents on macOS.

Jun 07, 2016

Resources / Tutorials

You Don't Know Node.js (⭐1.5k) - Introduction to Node.js core features and asynchronous JavaScript.

Jun 06, 2016

Packages / Debugging / Profiling

ctrace (⭐120) - Well-formatted and improved trace system calls and signals.

May 18, 2016

Packages / Testing

Nightwatch (⭐12k) - Automated UI testing framework based on Selenium WebDriver.

Apr 29, 2016

Resources / Articles

Semver: A Primer

Semver: Tilde and Caret

Why Asynchronous?

Understanding the Node.js Event Loop

Understanding Object Streams

Apr 22, 2016

Packages / Templating

Pug (⭐22k) - High-performance template engine heavily influenced by Haml.

Apr 14, 2016

Packages / Text

babelfish (⭐259) - i18n with very easy syntax for plurals.

Packages / Math

algebra (⭐107) - Algebraic structures.

Mar 17, 2016

Packages / Logging

storyboard (⭐757) - End-to-end, hierarchical, real-time, colorful logs and stories.

Mar 10, 2016

Packages / Debugging / Profiling

0x (⭐3.3k) - Flamegraph profiling.

Mar 06, 2016

Packages / Testing

testen (⭐175) - Run tests for multiple versions of Node.js locally with NVM.

Mar 04, 2016

Packages / Miscellaneous

adit (⭐55) - SSH tunneling made simple.

Mar 01, 2016

Packages / Debugging / Profiling

why-is-node-running (⭐1.9k) - Node.js is running but you don't know why?

Packages / Command-line utilities

boxen (⭐1.6k) - Create boxes in the terminal.

shelljs (⭐14k) - Portable Unix shell commands.

Packages / Text

matcher (⭐537) - Simple wildcard matching.

Packages / Testing

power-assert (⭐2.8k) - Provides descriptive assertion messages through the standard assert interface.

hook-std (⭐54) - Hook and modify stdout/stderr.

Packages / Miscellaneous

mem (⭐1.1k) - Memoize functions - an optimization technique used to speed up consecutive function calls by caching the result of calls with identical input.