A curated list of delightful Node.js packages and resources.

A curated list of delightful Node.js packages and resources.

Inspired by the awesome list thing.

Packages

• Mad science
• Command-line apps
• Functional programming
• HTTP
• Debugging / Profiling
• Logging
• Web frameworks
• Command-line utilities
• Package managers
• Build tools
• Hardware
• Templating
• Documentation
• Filesystem
• Control flow
• Streams
• Real-time
• Date
• Image
• Text
• Math
• Data validation
• Parsing
• Humanize
• Compression
• Network
• Static site generators
• Content management systems
• Forum
• Blogging
• Database
• Testing
• Benchmarking
• Minifiers
• Authentication
• Node.js management
• Email
• Polyfills
• Natural language processing
• Process management
• AST
• Weird
• Miscellaneous

Mad science

• webtorrent - Streaming torrent client for Node.js and the browser.
• peerflix - Streaming torrent client.
• dat - Real-time replication and versioning for data sets.
• ipfs - Distributed file system that seeks to connect all computing devices with the same system of files.
• Breach - Modular and hackable browser written in JavaScript.
• peerwiki - All of Wikipedia on BitTorrent.
• peercast - Stream a torrent video to Chromecast.
• BitcoinJS - Clean, readable, proven Bitcoin library.
• Bitcore - A pure and powerful Bitcoin library.
• js-git - JavaScript implementation of Git.
• NodeOS - The first operating system powered by npm.
• 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.

Command-line apps

• pageres - Responsive website screenshots.
• trash - A safer alternative to rm.
• npm-name - Check whether a package name is available on npm.
• yo - Run Yeoman generators.
• ESLint - The pluggable linting utility for JavaScript.
• JSCS - JavaScript Code Style checker.
• cpy - Copy files.
• torrent - Download torrents.
• David - Tells you when your package npm dependencies are out of date.
• vtop - More better top, with nice charts.
• tmpin - Adds stdin support to any CLI app that accepts file input.
• empty-trash - Empty the trash.
• normit - Google Translate with speech synthesis in your terminal.
• esformatter - JavaScript code beautifier/formatter.
• 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.
• http-server - Simple, zero-config command-line HTTP server.
• bcat - Pipe command output to web browsers.
• slap - Sublime-like terminal-based text editor.
• jsinspect - Detect copy-pasted and structurally similar code.
• 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.
• modhelp - Syntax-highlighted module READMEs in terminal with ANSI-friendly pager.
• wifi-password - Get the current wifi password.
• wallpaper - Change the desktop wallpaper.
• dark-mode - Toggle the Dark Mode in OS X 10.10 from the command-line.

Functional programming

• Lo-Dash - A utility library delivering consistency, customization, performance, & extras. A better and faster Underscore.js.
• Ramda - A 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.
• mori - A library for using ClojureScript's persistent data structures and supporting API from the comfort of vanilla JavaScript.
• Folktale - A suite of libraries for generic functional programming in JavaScript that allows you to write elegant, modular applications with fewer bugs, and more reuse.
• immutable - Immutable data collections.
• underscore-contrib - The brass buckles on Underscore's utility belt.
• Bacon.js - Functional reactive programming.
• RxJS - Functional reactive library for transforming, composing, and querying various kinds of data.
• Lazy.js - Utility library similar to Lo-Dash/Underscore but with lazy evaluation, which can translate to superior performance in many cases.

HTTP

• request - Simplified HTTP request client.
• got - A nicer interface to the built-in http module.
• gh-got - Convenience wrapper for got to interact with the GitHub API.
• superagent - A small progressive HTTP request library.
• axios - Promise based HTTP client (works in the browser too).
• hyperquest - Streaming HTTP requests.
• spdy - Creates SPDY servers with the same API as the built-in https module.
• Nock - A HTTP mocking and expectations library.
• download - Download and extract files effortlessly.
• wreck - HTTP Client Utilities.
• http-proxy - A full-featured HTTP proxy.

Debugging / Profiling

• node-inspector - Debugger based on Blink Developer Tools.
• Theseus - A new type of JavaScript debugger featuring real-time code coverage, retroactive inspection and asynchronous call tree.
• longjohn - Long stack traces with configurable call trace length.
• debug - Tiny debugging utility.
• jstrace - Dynamic tracing for JavaScript, similar to dtrace, ktap etc.
• TraceGL - Transforms your JavaScript, injecting monitoring code that produces a log of everything that happens.
• 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.

Logging

• winston - A multi-transport async logging library.
• Bunyan - A simple and fast JSON logging library.
• intel - A comprehensive logging library (handlers, filters, formatters, console injection).

Web frameworks

• Koa - A new web 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 - A minimal and flexible web application framework, providing a robust set of features for building single and multi-page, and hybrid web applications.
• Hapi - A rich framework for building applications and services.
• 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.
• SailsJS - An MVC web framework with a modern twist, supporting WebSockets, streams, and a data-driven API.
• Restify - A node framework built specifically to enable you to build correct REST web services.
• Derby - MVC framework, making it easy to write realtime, collaborative applications that run in both Node.js and browsers.
• Interfake - Rapid prototyping framework for making mock HTTP APIs, with a Node, command-line and HTTP interface.
• Restberry - Framework for setting up RESTful JSON APIs, applied to your database models without needing to write any code.

Command-line utilities

• chalk - Terminal string styling done right.
• meow - CLI app helper.
• minimist - Parse command-line flags.
• get-stdin - Easier stdin.
• user-home - Get the path to the user home directory.
• Inquirer.js - Interactive command-line prompt.
• update-notifier - Update notifications for your CLI app.
• sudo-block - Block users from running your app with root permissions.
• configstore - Easily load and persist config without having to think about where and how.
• insight - Helps you understand how your tool is being used by anonymously reporting usage metrics to Google Analytics.
• sparkly - Generate sparklines ▁▂▃▅▂▇
• blessed - A curses-like library.
• cli-table - Pretty unicode tables.
• drawille - Draw on the terminal with unicode braille characters.
• progress - Flexible ascii progress bar.
• log-symbols - Colored symbols for various log levels.
• columnify - Create text-based columns suitable for console output. Supports cell wrapping.
• googleauth - Create and load persistent Google authentication tokens for command-line apps.
• figures - Unicode symbols with Windows CMD fallbacks.
• cli-cursor - Toggle the CLI cursor.
• ascii-charts - ASCII bar chart in the terminal.
• cfonts - Sexy ASCII fonts for the console.
• yn - Parse yes/no like values.

Package managers

• npm - A package manager for Node.js and the web.
• Bower - A package manager for the web.
• Component - A package manager for building better web apps.
• Duo - A next-generation package manager for the front-end.
• jspm.io - Frictionless browser package management with support for ES6, CommonJS, AMD modules.

Build tools

• gulp.js - Streaming and fast build system that favors code over config.
• grunt - Task runner that can perform repetitive tasks like minification, compilation, unit testing, linting, etc.
• Broccoli - A fast, reliable asset pipeline, supporting constant-time rebuilds and compact build definitions.
• browserify - Browser-side require() the Node.js way.
• webpack - Packs CommonJS/AMD modules for the browser.
• Brunch - Front-end web app build tool with simple declarative config, fast incremental compilation, and an opinionated workflow.
• strong-build - Build a node app package and prepare to deploy it as a package to production or use git to commit to a deploy branch.

Hardware

• johnny-five - Firmata based Arduino Framework.
• serialport - Access serial ports for reading and writing.
• usb - USB library.
• cylon.js - Next generation robotics framework with support for 26 different platforms.

Templating

• handlebars.js - A superset of Mustache templates which adds powerful features like helpers and more advanced blocks.
• hogan.js - Twitter's small, fast, phase-separated compiler for Mustache templates.
• Jade - High performance template engine heavily influenced by Haml.
• nunjucks - A powerful templating engine with inheritance, asynchronous control, and more (jinja2 inspired).

Documentation

• Docco - A quick-and-dirty documentation generator which produces an HTML document that displays your comments intermingled with your code.
• JSDoc - API documentation generator similar to JavaDoc or PHPDoc.
• dox - JavaScript documentation generator using Markdown and JSDoc.
• jsdox - JSDoc3 to Markdown documentation generator.
• apiDoc - Inline documentation for RESTful web APIs.

Filesystem

• del - Delete files/folders using globs.
• globby - Glob files with support for multiple patterns.
• cpy - Copy files.
• rimraf - Recursively delete files like rm -rf.
• mkdirp - Recursively create directories like mkdir -p.
• graceful-fs - Drop-in replacement for the fs module with various improvements.
• fs-extra - Extra methods for the fs module.
• fs-write-stream-atomic - Like fs.createWriteStream(), but atomic.
• lnfs - Force create symlinks like ln -fs.
• chokidar - Filesystem watcher which stabilizes events from fs.watch and fs.watchFile as well as using native fsevents on OS X.
• gaze - A globbing watch module which uses custom native binaries to listen to filesystem events.
• istextorbinary - Check if a file is text or binary.
• filenamify - Convert a string to a valid filename.

Control flow

• Callbacks
  • each-async - Async concurrent iterator like forEach.
  • async - Provides straight-forward, powerful functions for working with asynchronousity.
  • after-all-results - Bundle results of async functions calls into one callback with all the results.
• Generators
  • co - The ultimate generator based flow-control goodness.
  • suspend - Generator-based control flow that plays nice with callbacks, promises, and thunks.
• Promises
  • native-promise-only - A polyfill for native ES6 Promises.
  • Bluebird - A fully featured promise library with focus on innovative features and performance.
  • Q - A tool for making and composing asynchronous promises.
• Streams
  • Highland.js - Manages synchronous and asynchronous code easily, using nothing more than standard JavaScript and Node-like Streams.
• Channels
  • js-csp - Communicating sequential processes for JavaScript (like Clojurescript core.async, or Go).
• Other
  • zone - Provides a way to group and track resources and errors across asynchronous operations.

Streams

• through2 - Tiny wrapper around streams2 Transform to avoid explicit subclassing noise.
• concat-stream - Concatenates a stream into strings or binary data.
• simple-bufferstream - Turn a Buffer into a ReadableStream.
• co-stream - co generator stream.
• byline - Super-simple line-by-line Stream reader.
• first-chunk-stream - Transform the first chunk in 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.
• from2 - Convenience wrapper for ReadableStream, inspired by through2.
• from2-array - Create a from2 stream based on an array of source values.
• peek-stream - Transform stream that lets you peek the first line before deciding how to parse it.
• binary-split - A fast newline (or any delimiter) splitter stream.
• multistream - Combine multiple streams into a single stream.
• graphicsmagick-stream - Fast conversion/scaling of images using a pool of long lived graphicsmagick processes.
• readable-stream - Mirror of Streams2 and Streams3 implementations in core.
• s3-upload-stream - Upload a stream to an Amazon S3 bucket using multipart upload.
• through2-concurrent - Transform object streams concurrently.
• stream-combiner2 - Turn a pipeline into a single stream.

Real-time

• Socket.io - Enables real-time bidirectional event-based communication.
• SockJS - Low latency, full duplex, cross-domain channel browser-server, with WebSockets or without.
• 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.
• Straw - Real-time dataflow framework.

Date

• Moment.js - Parse, validate, manipulate, and display dates.
• Moment Timezone - IANA Time Zone Database + Moment.js.
• dateformat - Date formatting.

Image

• sharp - The fastest module for resizing JPEG, PNG, WebP and TIFF images.
• image-type - Detect the image type of a Buffer/Uint8Array.
• 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.
• is-progressive - Check if a JPEG image is progressive.

Text

• Underscore.string - Collection of string manipulation utilities.
• he - A robust HTML entity encoder/decoder.
• iconv-lite - Convert character encodings.
• repeating - Repeat a string.
• camelcase - Convert a dash/dot/underscore/space separated string to camelCase: foo-bar → fooBar.
• normalize-url - Normalize a URL.
• humanize-url - Humanize a URL: http://sindresorhus.com → sindresorhus.com.
• escape-string-regexp - Escape RegExp special characters.
• 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.
• i18n-node - Simple translation module with dynamic JSON storage.
• babelfish - i18n with very easy syntax for plurals.
• string-length - Get the real length of a string - by correctly counting astral symbols and ignoring ansi escape codes.
• speakingurl - Generate a slug from a string with transliteration.
• linkify-it - Link patterns detector with full unicode support.

Math

• ndarray - Multidimensional arrays.
• mathjs - An extensive math library.

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.

Parsing

• css - CSS parser / stringifier.
• strip-json-comments - Strip comments from JSON.
• marked - A markdown parser and compiler built for speed.
• markdown-it - A very fast markdown parser with 100% CommonMark support, extensions and syntax plugins.
• js-yaml - Very fast YAML parser.
• URI.js - URL mutation.
• JSONStream - Streaming JSON.parse and stringify.
• csv-parser - Streaming CSV parser that aims to be faster than everyone else.
• excel-stream - Streaming Excel spreadsheet to JSON parser.
• parse5 - Fast full-featured spec compliant HTML parser.
• htmlparser2 - Forgiving HTML/XML parser.
• PostCSS - Framework for CSS postprocessors, to modify CSS.
• PEG.js - Simple parser generator that produces fast parsers with excellent error reporting.
• binary-extract - Extract a value from a buffer of JSON without parsing the whole thing.
• x-ray - A web scraping utility to see through the  noise.
• nearley - Simple, fast, powerful parsing for JavaScript.

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.
• humanize - Data formatter for human readability.
• read-art - Extract readable content from any page.

Compression

• Archiver - Streaming interface for archive generation, supporting ZIP and TAR.
• decompress-zip - Unzip.
• tar-stream - Streaming tar parser and generator. Also see tar-fs.
• decompress - A pluggable decompression module with support for tar, tar.gz and zip files out of the box.
• pako - High speed zlib port to pure js (deflate, inflate, gzip).

Network

• get-port - Get an available port.
• ipify - Get your public IP address.
• getmac - Get the computer MAC address.

Static site generators

• Metalsmith - An extremely simple, pluggable static site generator.
• Wintersmith - Flexible, minimalistic, multi-platform static site generator.
• Assemble - Static site generator for Node.js, Grunt.js, and Yeoman.
• DocPad - Static site generator with dynamic abilities and huge plugin ecosystem.

Content management systems

• KeystoneJS - CMS and web application platform built on Express and MongoDB.
• Calipso - A simple content management system, built along similar themes to Drupal and Wordpress, that is designed to be fast, flexible and simple.
• Apostrophe2 - A content management system with an emphasis on intuitive front end content editing and administration built on Express and MongoDB.

Forum

• nodeBB - A better forum platform for the modern web.

Blogging

• ghost - Simple, powerful publishing platform that allows you to share your story with the world.
• Hexo - Fast, simple and powerful blogging framework.

Database

• Drivers
  • LevelUP - LevelDB.
  • MongoDB - MongoDB driver.
  • PostgreSQL - PostgreSQL client. Pure JavaScript and native libpq bindings.
  • MySQL - MySQL client.
  • Redis - Redis client.
• ODM / ORM
  • Bookshelf - ORM for PostgreSQL, MySQL and SQLite3 in the style of Backbone.js.
  • JugglingDB - Multi-database ORM with a common API. Supports Redis, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MySQL, SQLite, Neo4j, memory, and more.
  • Mongoose - Elegant MongoDB object modeling.
  • Sequelize - Multi-dialect ORM. Supports PostgreSQL, SQLite, MySQL.
  • Waterline - Datastore-agnostic tool that dramatically simplifies interaction with one or more databases.
  • Iridium - A high performance MongoDB ORM with support for promises, distributed caching, preprocessing, validation and plugins.
  • OpenRecord - ORM for PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite3 and RESTful datastores. Similar to ActiveRecord.
• Query builder
  • Knex - A query builder for PostgreSQL, MySQL and SQLite3, designed to be flexible, portable, and fun to use.
• Other
  • NeDB - Embedded persistent database written in JavaScript.

Testing

• tape - TAP-producing test harness.
• Mocha - A feature-rich test framework making asynchronous testing simple and fun.
• Mochify - TDD with Browserify, Mocha, PhantomJS and WebDriver.
• loadtest - Run load tests for your web application, with an API for automation.
• istanbul - A code coverage tool that computes statement, line, function and branch coverage with module loader hooks to transparently add coverage when running tests.
• Sinon.JS - Test spies, stubs and mocks.
• Karma - Executes code in multiple real browsers.
• navit - PhantomJS wrapper for easy client tests scripting.

Benchmarking

• Benchmark.js - A robust benchmarking library that works on nearly all JavaScript platforms, supports high-resolution timers, and returns statistically significant results.
• matcha - A caffeine driven, simplistic approach to benchmarking.

Minifiers

• UglifyJS2 - JavaScript minifier.
• clean-css - CSS minifier.
• minimize - HTML minifier.
• imagemin - Image minifier.

Authentication

• Passport - Simple, unobtrusive authentication.
• everyauth - Authentication and authorization (password, facebook, & more) for your Connect and Express apps.
• passwordless - Token-based authentication middleware for Express allowing authentication without passwords.
• Lockit - Full featured authentication solution for Express. Supports a variety of databases, predefined routes, email and two-factor authentication.
• Grant - OAuth middleware for Express, Koa and Hapi.

Node.js management

• n - Node.js version management.
• nave - Virtual Environments for Node.js.
• nodeenv - A Node.js virtual environment compatible to Python's virtualenv.
• nvm for Windows - Version management for Windows.

Email

• Nodemailer - The fastest way to handle email.

Polyfills

• object-assign - ES6 Object.assign() polyfill.
• path-is-absolute - Node.js 0.12 path.isAbsolute() polyfill.
• debug-log - Node.js 0.12 util.debuglog() ponyfill.
• set-immediate-shim - Simple setImmediate polyfill.
• harmony-reflect - ES6 Reflect and Proxy polyfill.
• es6-shim - Collection of ES6 polyfills.
• More ES6 polyfills at es6-tools.

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 - A general natural language facility.

Process management

• node-windows - Run scripts as a native Windows service and log to the Event viewer.
• 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.
• forever - A simple CLI tool for ensuring that a given script runs continuously (i.e. forever).
• supervisor - Restart scripts when they crash or restart when a *.js file changes.
• PM2 - Advanced Process Manager.
• Phusion Passenger - Friendly process manager that integrates directly into Nginx.
• naught - Process manager with zero downtime deployment.

AST

• Acorn - A tiny, fast JavaScript parser.
• Rocambole - Recursively walk and transform JavaScript AST.

Weird

• superb - Get superb like words.
• cat-names - Get popular cat names.
• dog-names - Get popular dog names.
• cool-ascii-faces - Get some cool ascii faces.
• cat-ascii-faces - ₍˄·͈༝·͈˄₎◞ ̑̑ෆ⃛ (=ↀωↀ=)✧ (^･o･^)ﾉ”

Miscellaneous

• multiline - Multiline strings in JavaScript.
• opn - Opens stuff like websites, files, executables.
• semver - semver parser.
• cheerio - Fast, flexible, and lean implementation of core jQuery designed specifically for the server.
• require-uncached - Require a module bypassing the cache.
• Faker.js - Generate massive amounts of fake data.
• Bottleneck - A powerful rate limiter that makes throttling easy.
• stringify-object - Stringify an object/array like JSON.stringify just without all the double-quotes.
• strip-bom - Strip UTF-8 byte order mark (BOM) from a string/buffer/stream.
• shelljs - Portable Unix shell commands.
• nan - A header file filled with macro and utility goodness for making add-on development for across Node.js versions easier.
• ssh2 - An SSH2 client module.
• lazy-req - Require modules lazily.
• webworker-threads - Lightweight Web Worker API implementation with native threads.
• 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.
• common-errors - Common error classes and utility functions.
• Electron - Cross-platform desktop application shell.
• agenda - Lightweight job scheduling on MongoDB.
• node-bell - Real-time anomalies detection for periodic time series.
• dotenv - Load environment variables from .env file.
• file-type - Detect the file type of a Buffer.
• os-locale - Get the system locale.
• remote-git-tags - Get tags from a remote git repo.
• dot-prop - Get a property from a nested object using a dot path.
• onetime - Only run a function once.

Resources

Tutorials

• Nodeschool - Learn Node.js with interactive lessons.
• The Art of Node - An introduction to Node.js.
• stream-handbook - How to write Node.js programs with streams.
• browserify-handbook - The definitive guide for browserify.
• module-best-practices - Some good practices when writing new npm modules.

Discovery

• node-modules.com - An alternative npm search engine with a more intelligent and personal results ranking.

Articles

• Error Handling in Node.js
• Teach Yourself Node.JS in 10 Steps

Newsletters

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

Videos

• Introduction to Node.js with Ryan Dahl
• LearnAllTheNodes - Series of useful tips, tricks, and packages.
• Introduction to Node.js Fundamentals
• Hands on with Node.js
• Full Streams Ahead - Introduction to streams.

Podcasts

• NodeUp

Books

• Node.js in Action
• Mastering Node
• Professional Node.js: Building Javascript Based Scalable Software
• Practical Node.js: Building Real-World Scalable Web Apps
• Mixu's Node book
• Web Development with Node and Express

Blogs

• Node.js blog
• HowToNode - Teaching how to do various tasks in Node.js as well as teach fundamental concepts that are needed to write effective code.

Courses

• Real Time Web with Node.js

Cheatsheets

• Express.js

Tools

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

Miscellaneous

• nodebots - Robots powered by JavaScript.
• node-module-boilerplate - Boilerplate to kickstart creating a node module.
• generator-nm - Scaffold out a node module.