Ranked awesome lists, all in one place

This list is a copy of sindresorhus/awesome-nodejs with ranks

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Contents

• Packages
  • Mad science
  • Command-line apps
  • Functional programming
  • HTTP
  • Debugging / Profiling
  • Logging
  • Command-line utilities
  • Build tools
  • Hardware
  • Templating
  • Web frameworks
  • Documentation
  • Filesystem
  • Control flow
  • Streams
  • Real-time
  • Image
  • Text
  • Number
  • Math
  • Date
  • URL
  • Data validation
  • Parsing
  • Humanize
  • Compression
  • Network
  • Database
  • Testing
  • Security
  • Benchmarking
  • Minifiers
  • Authentication
  • Authorization
  • Email
  • Job queues
  • Node.js management
  • Natural language processing
  • Process management
  • Automation
  • AST
  • Static site generators
  • Content management systems
  • Forum
  • Blogging
  • Weird
  • Serialization
  • Miscellaneous
• Resources
  • Tutorials
  • Discovery
  • Articles
  • Newsletters
  • Videos
  • Podcasts
  • Books
  • Blogs
  • Courses
  • Cheatsheets
  • Tools
  • Community
  • Miscellaneous

Packages

Mad science

• webtorrent - Streaming torrent client for Node.js and the browser.
• peerflix ★4801 - Streaming torrent client.
• dat - Real-time replication and versioning for data sets.
• ipfs ★2486 - 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 ★276 - All of Wikipedia on BitTorrent.
• peercast ★382 - Stream a torrent video to Chromecast.
• BitcoinJS ★2800 - Clean, readable, proven Bitcoin library.
• Bitcore ★2801 - Pure and powerful Bitcoin library.
• PDFKit ★4026 - PDF generation library.
• turf ★3679 - Modular geospatial processing and analysis engine.
• webcat ★373 ⏳1Y - p2p pipe across the web using WebRTC that uses your GitHub private/public key for authentication.
• NodeOS ★5423 - The first operating system powered by npm.
• Brain.js ★5403 - Machine-learning framework.
• Cytoscape.js ★4392 - Graph theory (a.k.a. network) modeling and analysis.
• Kadence - Kademlia distributed hash table.
• seedshot - Temporary P2P screenshot sharing from your browser.
• js-git ★3382 - JavaScript implementation of Git.
• skale - High performance distributed data processing engine.
• xlsx ★10936 - Pure JS Excel spreadsheet reader and writer.
• isomorphic-git ★3089 - Pure JavaScript implementation of Git.

Command-line apps

• np ★3241 - Better npm publish.
• npm-name ★74 - Check whether a package name is available on npm.
• gh-home ★94 ⏳1Y - Open the GitHub page of the repo in the current directory.
• npm-home ★135 - Open the npm page of a package.
• trash ★1558 - Safer alternative to rm.
• speed-test ★2987 - Test your internet connection speed and ping.
• emoj ★1520 - Find relevant emoji from text on the command-line.
• pageres ★8361 - Capture website screenshots.
• cpy ★174 - Copy files.
• vtop ★2802 - More better top, with nice charts.
• empty-trash ★85 ⏳1Y - Empty the trash.
• is-up ★279 ⏳2Y - Check whether a website is up or down.
• is-online ★403 - Check if the internet connection is up.
• public-ip ★313 - Get your public IP address.
• clipboard-cli ★134 ⏳1Y - Copy & paste on the terminal.
• XO ★3843 - Enforce strict code style using the JavaScript happiness style.
• Standard - JavaScript Standard Style — One style to rule them all.
• ESLint - The pluggable linting utility for JavaScript.
• dev-time ★153 ⏳2Y - Get the current local time of a GitHub user.
• David ★819 - Tells you when your package npm dependencies are out of date.
• http-server ★7018 - Simple, zero-config command-line HTTP server.
• Live Server ★2205 - Development HTTP-server with livereload capability.
• bcat ★267 ⏳3Y - Pipe command output to web browsers.
• normit ★193 ⏳1Y - Google Translate with speech synthesis in your terminal.
• fkill ★5166 - Fabulously kill processes. Cross-platform.
• pjs ★333 - Pipeable JavaScript. Quickly filter, map, and reduce from the terminal.
• license-checker ★647 - Check licenses of your app’s dependencies.
• browser-run ★315 - Easily run code in a browser environment.
• tmpin ★109 - Adds stdin support to any CLI app that accepts file input.
• wifi-password ★128 ⏳1Y - Get the current wifi password.
• wallpaper ★503 - Change the desktop wallpaper.
• brightness ★124 - Change the screen brightness.
• torrent ★515 ⏳2Y - Download torrents.
• kill-tabs ★228 - Kill all Chrome tabs to improve performance, decrease battery usage, and save memory.
• alex ★2285 - Catch insensitive, inconsiderate writing.
• pen - Live Markdown preview in the browser from your favorite editor.
• subdownloader ★91 - Subtitle downloader for movies and TV series.
• dark-mode ★330 - Toggle the macOS Dark Mode.
• iponmap ★166 ⏳1Y - IP location finder.
• Jsome ★119 - Pretty prints JSON with configurable colors and indentation.
• itunes-remote ★323 - Interactively control iTunes.
• mobicon ★46 ⏳2Y - Mobile app icon generator.
• mobisplash ★26 ⏳1Y - Mobile app splash screen generator.
• diff2html-cli ★137 - Pretty git diff to HTML generator.
• Cash ★7528 - Cross-platform Unix shell commands in pure JavaScript.
• trymodule ★1006 ⏳1Y - Try out npm packages in the terminal.
• jscpd ★754 - Copy/paste detector for source code.
• atmo ★691 - Server-side API mocking.
• auto-install ★863 - Auto installs dependencies as you code.
• lessmd ★85 - Markdown in the terminal.
• cost-of-modules ★2156 - Find out which dependencies are slowing you down.
• localtunnel ★6965 - Expose your localhost to the world.
• svg-term-cli ★626 - Share terminal sessions via SVG.
• gtop ★6823 - System monitoring dashboard for the terminal.
• themer ★1615 - Generate themes for your editor, terminal, wallpaper, Slack, and more.

Functional programming

• lodash - Utility library delivering consistency, customization, performance, & extras. A better and faster Underscore.js.
• immutable ★24085 - Immutable data collections.
• Ramda ★12750 - Utility library with a focus on flexible functional composition enabled by automatic currying and reversed argument order. Avoids mutating data.
• Folktale - Suite of libraries for generic functional programming in JavaScript that allows you to write elegant, modular applications with fewer bugs, and more reuse.
• Mout ★923 - Utility library with the biggest difference between other existing solutions is that you can choose to load only the modules/functions that you need, no extra overhead.
• Bacon.js - Functional reactive programming.
• RxJS - Functional reactive library for transforming, composing, and querying various kinds of data.
• Lazy.js ★4983 - Utility library similar to lodash/Underscore but with lazy evaluation, which can translate to superior performance in many cases.
• Kefir.js ★1440 - Reactive library with focus on high performance and low memory usage.

HTTP

• got ★2713 - Nicer interface to the built-in http module.
• gh-got ★111 - Convenience wrapper for got to interact with the GitHub API.
• axios - Promise based HTTP client (works in the browser too).
• request ★19895 - Simplified HTTP request client.
• wreck ★314 - HTTP Client Utilities.
• download ★707 - Download and extract files effortlessly.
• http-proxy ★8856 - HTTP proxy.
• superagent ★12936 - HTTP request library.
• node-fetch ★3167 - window.fetch for Node.js.
• flashheart ★85 - REST client.
• http-fake-backend ★149 - Build a fake backend by providing the content of JSON files or JavaScript objects through configurable routes.
• cacheable-request ★101 - Wrap native HTTP requests with RFC compliant cache support.
• gotql - GraphQL request library built on got ★2713.

Debugging / Profiling

• ironNode ★2368 - Node.js debugger supporting ES2015 out of the box.
• node-inspector ★12178 - Debugger based on Blink Developer Tools.
• debug ★6291 - Tiny debugging utility.
• why-is-node-running ★736 - Node.js is running but you don’t know why?
• njsTrace ★218 - Instrument and trace your code, see all function calls, arguments, return values, as well as the time spent in each function.
• vstream ★53 ⏳3Y - Instrumentable streams mix-ins to inspect a pipeline of streams.
• stackman ★164 - Enhance an error stacktrace with code excerpts and other goodies.
• locus - Starts a REPL at runtime that has access to all variables.
• 0x ★1011 - Flamegraph profiling.
• ctrace ★97 ⏳2Y - Well-formatted and improved trace system calls and signals.
• leakage ★1249 - Write memory leak tests.

Logging

• pino ★2782 - Extremely fast logger inspired by Bunyan.
• winston ★10651 - Multi-transport async logging library.
• console-log-level ★25 - The most simple logger imaginable with support for log levels and custom prefixes.
• storyboard ★462 - End-to-end, hierarchical, real-time, colorful logs and stories.
• signale ★5756 - Hackable console logger with beautiful output.

Command-line utilities

• chalk ★9259 - Terminal string styling done right.
• meow ★1329 - CLI app helper.
• yargs ★4709 - Command-line parser that automatically generates an elegant user-interface.
• ora ★3182 - Elegant terminal spinner.
• get-stdin ★162 - Easier stdin.
• log-update ★478 - Log by overwriting the previous output in the terminal. Useful for rendering progress bars, animations, etc.
• Ink ★6073 - React for interactive command-line apps.
• listr ★1578 - Terminal task list.
• conf ★275 - Simple config handling for your app or module.
• ansi-escapes ★195 - ANSI escape codes for manipulating the terminal.
• log-symbols ★332 - Colored symbols for various log levels.
• figures ★256 - Unicode symbols with Windows CMD fallbacks.
• boxen ★358 - Create boxes in the terminal.
• terminal-link ★105 - Create clickable links in the terminal.
• terminal-image ★250 - Display images in the terminal.
• string-width ★98 - Get the visual width of a string - the number of columns required to display it.
• cli-truncate ★31 - Truncate a string to a specific width in the terminal.
• first-run ★53 ⏳1Y - Check if it’s the first time the process is run.
• vorpal ★4682 - Interactive CLI apps.
• blessed ★7498 - Curses-like library.
• Inquirer.js ★7332 - Interactive command-line prompt.
• yn ★107 - Parse yes/no like values.
• cli-table3 ★7 - Pretty unicode tables.
• drawille ★740 - Draw on the terminal with unicode braille characters.
• update-notifier ★990 - Update notifications for your CLI app.
• ascii-charts ★220 ⏳1Y - ASCII bar chart in the terminal.
• progress - Flexible ascii progress bar.
• insight ★425 - Helps you understand how your tool is being used by anonymously reporting usage metrics to Google Analytics.
• cli-cursor ★43 ⏳1Y - Toggle the CLI cursor.
• columnify ★301 - Create text-based columns suitable for console output. Supports cell wrapping.
• cli-columns ★11 - Columnated unicode and ansi-safe text lists.
• cfonts ★319 - Sexy ASCII fonts for the console.
• multispinner ★214 ⏳1Y - Multiple, simultaneous, individually controllable CLI spinners.
• omelette ★716 - Shell autocompletion helper.
• cross-env ★2689 - Set environment variables cross-platform.
• shelljs ★8008 - Portable Unix shell commands.
• sudo-block ★62 - Block users from running your app with root permissions.
• loud-rejection ★213 - Make unhandled promise rejections fail loudly instead of the default silent fail.
• sparkly ★272 ⏳2Y - Generate sparklines ▁▂▃▅▂▇
• Bit ★2097 - Create, maintain, find and use small modules and components across repositories.
• gradient-string ★288 - Beautiful color gradients in terminal output.
• oclif ★2059 - CLI framework complete with parser, automatic documentation, testing, and plugins.
• term-size ★73 - Reliably get the terminal window size.

Build tools

• parcel ★23465 - Blazing fast, zero config web app bundler.
• webpack ★41885 - Packs modules and assets for the browser.
• rollup ★13015 - Next-generation ES2015 module bundler.
• gulp - Streaming and fast build system that favors code over config.
• Broccoli ★3120 - Fast, reliable asset pipeline, supporting constant-time rebuilds and compact build definitions.
• Brunch ★6481 - Front-end web app build tool with simple declarative config, fast incremental compilation, and an opinionated workflow.
• Start ★345 - Functional task runner with shareable presets.
• ygor ★54 - Promising task runner for when npm run isn’t enough and everything else is too much.
• FuseBox ★3380 - Fast build system that combines the power of webpack, JSPM and SystemJS, with first-class TypeScript support.
• pkg ★10172 - Package your Node.js project into an executable.

Hardware

• johnny-five ★9161 - Firmata based Arduino Framework.
• serialport - Access serial ports for reading and writing.
• usb - USB library.
• i2c-bus ★121 - I2C serial bus access.
• onoff ★678 - GPIO access and interrupt detection.
• spi-device ★39 - SPI serial bus access.
• pigpio ★320 - Fast GPIO, PWM, servo control, state change notification, and interrupt handling on the Raspberry Pi.
• gps ★61 - NMEA parser for handling GPS receivers.

Templating

• marko ★6355 - HTML-based templating engine that compiles templates to CommonJS modules and supports streaming, async rendering and custom tags.
• nunjucks ★5330 - Templating engine with inheritance, asynchronous control, and more (jinja2 inspired).
• handlebars.js ★13439 - Superset of Mustache templates which adds powerful features like helpers and more advanced blocks.
• EJS ★2550 - Simple unopinionated templating language.
• Pug ★16817 - High-performance template engine heavily influenced by Haml.

Web frameworks

• Hapi - Framework for building applications and services.
• Koa - Framework designed by the team behind Express, which aims to be a smaller, more expressive, and more robust foundation for web applications and APIs.
• Express - Web application framework, providing a robust set of features for building single and multi-page, and hybrid web applications.
• Feathers - Microservice framework built in the spirit of Express.
• LoopBack - Powerful framework for creating REST APIs and easily connecting to backend data sources.
• Meteor - An ultra-simple, database-everywhere, data-on-the-wire, pure-Javascript web framework. (You might like awesome-meteor ★1250)
• Restify - Enables you to build correct REST web services.
• ThinkJS ★4366 - Framework with ES2015+ support, WebSockets, REST API.
• ActionHero ★1848 - Framework for making reusable & scalable APIs for TCP sockets, WebSockets, and HTTP clients.
• MERN - Easily build production-ready universal apps with MongoDB, Express, React, and webpack.
• Next.js ★26529 - Minimalistic framework for server-rendered universal JavaScript web apps.
• Nuxt.js ★13104 - Minimalistic framework for server-rendered Vue.js apps.
• seneca ★2983 - Toolkit for writing microservices.
• AdonisJs - A true MVC framework for Node.js built on solid foundations of Dependency Injection and IoC container.
• Hemera ★530 - Write reliable and fault-tolerant microservices with NATS.
• Micro ★6765 - Minimalistic microservice framework with an async approach.
• Moleculer - Fast & powerful microservices framework.
• Fastify ★7351 - Fast and low overhead web framework.
• Nest ★6685 - Angular-inspired framework for building efficient and scalable server-side apps.

Documentation

• documentation.js ★3840 - API documentation generator with support for ES2015+ and flow annotation.
• ESDoc ★2099 - Documentation generator targeting ES2015, attaching test code and measuring documentation coverage.
• 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.

Filesystem

• del ★827 - Delete files/folders using globs.
• globby ★667 - Glob files with support for multiple patterns.
• cpy ★174 - Copy files.
• rimraf ★2528 - Recursively delete files like rm -rf.
• make-dir ★303 - Recursively create directories like mkdir -p.
• graceful-fs ★752 - Drop-in replacement for the fs module with various improvements.
• chokidar ★4236 - Filesystem watcher which stabilizes events from fs.watch and fs.watchFile as well as using native fsevents on macOS.
• find-up ★151 - Find a file by walking up parent directories.
• proper-lockfile - Inter-process and inter-machine lockfile utility.
• load-json-file ★104 - Read and parse a JSON file.
• write-json-file ★89 - Stringify and write JSON to a file atomically.
• fs-write-stream-atomic ★43 ⏳1Y - Like fs.createWriteStream(), but atomic.
• filenamify ★166 - Convert a string to a valid filename.
• lnfs ★9 - Force create symlinks like ln -fs.
• istextorbinary ★43 - Check if a file is text or binary.
• fs-jetpack ★398 - Completely redesigned file system API for convenience in everyday use.
• fs-extra ★4315 - Extra methods for the fs module.
• pkg-dir ★67 - Find the root directory of an npm package.
• filehound ★117 - Flexible and fluent interface for searching the file system.

Control flow

• Promises
  • Bluebird ★16957 - Promise library with focus on innovative features and performance.
  • pify ★968 - Promisify a callback-style function.
  • delay ★232 - Delay a promise a specified amount of time.
  • promise-memoize ★28 - Memoize promise-returning functions, with expire and prefetch.
  • valvelet ★14 ⏳1Y - Limit the execution rate of a promise-returning function.
  • p-map ★272 - Map over promises concurrently.
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• Observables
  • zen-observable ★389 - Implementation of Observables.
  • RxJS ★13323 - Reactive programming.
  • observable-to-promise ★224 - Convert an Observable to a Promise.
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• Streams
  • Highland.js ★2961 - Manages synchronous and asynchronous code easily, using nothing more than standard JavaScript and Node-like Streams.
• Callbacks
  • each-async ★101 ⏳1Y - Async concurrent iterator like forEach.
  • async ★24184 - Provides straight-forward, powerful functions for working with asynchronicity.
• Channels
  • js-csp ★2118 - Communicating sequential processes for JavaScript (like Clojurescript core.async, or Go).

Streams

• through2 ★1376 - Tiny wrapper around streams2 Transform to avoid explicit subclassing noise.
• from2 ★95 ⏳1Y - Convenience wrapper for ReadableStream, inspired by through2.
• get-stream ★113 ⏳1Y - Get a stream as a string or buffer.
• into-stream ★64 - Convert a buffer/string/array/object into a stream.
• duplexify ★131 - Turn a writeable and readable stream into a single streams2 duplex stream.
• pumpify ★140 - Combine an array of streams into a single duplex stream.
• peek-stream ★40 - Transform stream that lets you peek the first line before deciding how to parse it.
• binary-split ★58 ⏳1Y - Newline (or any delimiter) splitter stream.
• byline ★255 - Super-simple line-by-line Stream reader.
• first-chunk-stream ★18 - Transform the first chunk in a stream.
• pad-stream ★5 ⏳1Y - Pad each line in a stream.
• multistream ★138 - Combine multiple streams into a single stream.
• stream-combiner2 ★70 ⏳2Y - Turn a pipeline into a single stream.
• readable-stream ★624 - Mirror of Streams2 and Streams3 implementations in core.
• through2-concurrent ★57 ⏳2Y - Transform object streams concurrently.

Real-time

• µWebSockets - Highly scalable WebSocket server & client library.
• Socket.io ★42286 - Enables real-time bidirectional event-based communication.
• Faye ★4099 - Real-time client-server message bus, based on Bayeux protocol.
• SocketCluster ★4756 - Scalable HTTP + WebSocket engine which can run on multiple CPU cores.
• Primus ★3596 - An abstraction layer for real-time frameworks to prevent module lock-in.
• deepstream.io ★212 - Scalable real-time microservice framework.
• Kalm ★56 - Low-level socket router and middleware framework.
• MQTT.js ★3323 - Client for MQTT - Pub-sub based messaging protocol for use on top of TCP/IP.

Image

• sharp ★8623 - The fastest module for resizing JPEG, PNG, WebP and TIFF images.
• image-type ★145 ⏳1Y - Detect the image type of a Buffer/Uint8Array.
• gm ★5045 - GraphicsMagick and ImageMagick wrapper.
• lwip ★2095 - Lightweight image processor which does not require ImageMagick.
• pica ★1238 - High quality & fast resize (lanczos3) in pure JS. Alternative to canvas drawImage(), when no pixelation allowed.
• jimp ★6437 - Image processing in pure JavaScript.
• probe-image-size ★188 - Get the size of most image formats without a full download.

Text

• iconv-lite ★1722 - Convert character encodings.
• string-length ★55 - Get the real length of a string - by correctly counting astral symbols and ignoring ansi escape codes.
• camelcase ★212 - Convert a dash/dot/underscore/space separated string to camelCase: foo-bar → fooBar.
• escape-string-regexp ★240 ⏳1Y - Escape RegExp special characters.
• execall ★68 ⏳1Y - Find multiple RegExp matches in a string.
• splice-string ★13 ⏳1Y - Remove or replace part of a string like Array#splice.
• indent-string ★56 - Indent each line in a string.
• strip-indent ★74 - Strip leading whitespace from every line in a string.
• detect-indent ★110 - Detect the indentation of code.
• he ★1537 - HTML entity encoder/decoder.
• i18n-node ★2065 - Simple translation module with dynamic JSON storage.
• babelfish ★185 ⏳2Y - i18n with very easy syntax for plurals.
• matcher ★385 - Simple wildcard matching.
• unhomoglyph ★12 ⏳1Y - Normalize visually similar unicode characters.
• i18next ★3305 - Internationalization framework.

Number

• random-int ★34 ⏳1Y - Generate a random integer.
• random-float ★17 ⏳1Y - Generate a random float.
• unique-random ★56 - Generate random numbers that are consecutively unique.
• round-to ★83 - Round a number to a specific number of decimal places: 1.234 → 1.2.

Math

• ndarray ★756 - Multidimensional arrays.
• mathjs ★6618 - An extensive math library.
• math-clamp ★4 ⏳2Y - Clamp a number.
• algebra ★60 - Algebraic structures.
• multimath ★26 - Core to create fast image math in WebAssembly and JS.

Date

• Luxon ★6464 - Library for working with dates and times.
• date-fns ★10879 - Modern date utility.
• Moment.js - Parse, validate, manipulate, and display dates.
• dateformat ★843 - Date formatting.
• tz-format ★5 ⏳1Y - Format a date with timezone: 2015-11-30T10:40:35+01:00.
• cctz ★53 - Fast parsing, formatting, and timezone conversation for dates.

URL

• normalize-url ★254 - Normalize a URL.
• humanize-url ★62 ⏳2Y - Humanize a URL: http://sindresorhus.com → sindresorhus.com.
• url-unshort ★31 ⏳1Y - Expand shortened URLs.
• speakingurl ★943 - Generate a slug from a string with transliteration.
• linkify-it ★226 - Link patterns detector with full unicode support.
• url-pattern ★375 - Easier than regex string matching patterns for URLs and other strings.
• embedza ★34 ⏳1Y - Create HTML snippets/embeds from URLs using info from oEmbed, Open Graph, meta tags.

Data validation

• joi ★8330 - Object schema description language and validator for JavaScript objects.
• is-my-json-valid ★821 - JSON Schema validator that uses code generation to be extremely fast.
• property-validator ★141 - Easy property validation for Express.
• schema-inspector ★449 - JSON API sanitization and validation.
• ajv ★3683 - The fastest JSON Schema validator. Supports v5 proposals.

Parsing

• remark - Markdown processor powered by plugins.
• markdown-it ★5558 - Markdown parser with 100% CommonMark support, extensions and syntax plugins.
• parse5 ★1754 - Fast full-featured spec compliant HTML parser.
• strip-json-comments ★365 - Strip comments from JSON.
• strip-css-comments ★78 ⏳1Y - Strip comments from CSS.
• parse-json ★130 - Parse JSON with more helpful errors.
• URI.js ★5327 - URL mutation.
• PostCSS ★18714 - CSS parser / stringifier.
• JSONStream ★1507 - Streaming JSON.parse and stringify.
• neat-csv ★67 ⏳2Y - Fast CSV parser. Callback interface for the above.
• csv-parser ★517 - Streaming CSV parser that aims to be faster than everyone else.
• PEG.js ★2830 - 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 ★142 - Extract a value from a buffer of JSON without parsing the whole thing.
• Stylecow ★125 ⏳1Y - Parse, manipulate and convert modern CSS to make it compatible with all browsers. Extensible with plugins.
• js-yaml ★3071 - Very fast YAML parser.
• xml2js ★3225 - XML to JavaScript object converter.
• Jison ★3084 - Friendly JavaScript parser generator. It shares genes with Bison, Yacc and family.
• google-libphonenumber - Parse, format, store and validate phone numbers.
• ref ★283 - Read/write structured binary data in Buffers.
• xlsx-populate ★210 - Read/write Excel XLSX.
• Chevrotain ★753 - Very fast and feature rich parser building toolkit for JavaScript.
• fast-xml-parser ★213 - Validate and parse XML.

Humanize

• pretty-bytes ★368 - Convert bytes to a human readable string: 1337 → 1.34 kB.
• pretty-ms ★297 - Convert milliseconds to a human readable string: 1337000000 → 15d 11h 23m 20s.
• ms - Tiny millisecond conversion utility.
• pretty-error ★940 - Errors with less clutter.
• read-art ★259 - Extract readable content from any page.

Compression

• yazl ★150 - Zip.
• yauzl ★305 - Unzip.
• Archiver ★1251 - Streaming interface for archive generation, supporting ZIP and TAR.
• pako ★1691 - High speed zlib port to pure js (deflate, inflate, gzip).
• tar-stream - Streaming tar parser and generator. Also see tar-fs ★218.
• decompress ★224 - Decompression module with support for tar, tar.gz and zip files out of the box.

Network

• get-port ★244 - Get an available port.
• ipify ★138 ⏳1Y - Get your public IP address.
• getmac ★142 - Get the computer MAC address.
• DHCP ★112 - DHCP client and server.
• netcat ★194 - Netcat port in pure JS.

Database

• Drivers
  • PostgreSQL ★6219 - PostgreSQL client. Pure JavaScript and native libpq bindings.
  • Redis ★4303 - Redis client.
  • LevelUP ★3275 - LevelDB.
  • MySQL ★12253 - MySQL client.
  • couchdb-nano ★171 - CouchDB client.
  • Aerospike ★149 - Aerospike client.
  • Couchbase ★375 - Couchbase client.
  • MongoDB ★6982 - MongoDB driver.
• ODM / ORM
  • Sequelize ★14833 - Multi-dialect ORM. Supports PostgreSQL, SQLite, MySQL.
  • Bookshelf ★4966 - ORM for PostgreSQL, MySQL and SQLite3 in the style of Backbone.js.
  • Massive ★0 - PostgreSQL data access tool.
  • Mongoose ★16057 - Elegant MongoDB object modeling.
  • Waterline ★4630 - Datastore-agnostic tool that dramatically simplifies interaction with one or more databases.
  • OpenRecord ★278 - ORM for PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite3 and RESTful datastores. Similar to ActiveRecord.
  • orm2 ★2860 - ORM for PostgreSQL, MariaDB, MySQL, Amazon Redshift, SQLite, MongoDB.
  • pg-promise ★1827 - PostgreSQL framework for native SQL using promises.
  • Objection.js ★2786 - Lightweight ORM built on the SQL query builder Knex.
  • TypeORM ★6876 - ORM for PostgreSQL, MariaDB, MySQL, SQLite, and more.
• Query builder
  • Knex ★7191 - Query builder for PostgreSQL, MySQL and SQLite3, designed to be flexible, portable, and fun to use.
• Other
  • NeDB ★8423 - Embedded persistent database written in JavaScript.
  • Lowdb ★8136 - Small JavaScript database powered by Lodash.
  • Keyv ★541 - Simple key-value storage with support for multiple backends.
  • Finale ★54 - RESTful endpoint generator for your Sequelize models.
  • database-js ★8 - Wrapper for multiple databases with a JDBC-like connection.

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 ★4639 - TAP-producing test harness.
• power-assert ★2013 - Provides descriptive assertion messages through the standard assert interface.
• Mochify ★309 - 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 ★1261 - Run load tests for your web application, with an API for automation.
• Sinon.JS ★6024 - Test spies, stubs and mocks.
• navit ★41 - PhantomJS / SlimerJS wrapper to simplify browser test scripting.
• Nock - HTTP mocking and expectations.
• intern ★4005 - Code testing stack.
• toxy ★2425 - Hackable HTTP proxy to simulate failure scenarios and network conditions.
• hook-std ★29 - Hook and modify stdout/stderr.
• testen ★162 - Run tests for multiple versions of Node.js locally with NVM.
• Nightwatch ★8266 - Automated UI testing framework based on Selenium WebDriver.
• WebdriverIO ★4062 - Automated testing based on the WebDriver protocol.
• Jest ★18381 - Painless JavaScript testing.
• TestCafe ★4888 - Automated browser testing.
• abstruse ★272 - Continuous Integration server.

Security

• snyk ★1121 - CLI and build-time tool to find & fix vulnerable npm dependencies.
• upash ★100 - Unified API for all password hashing algorithms.

Benchmarking

• Benchmark.js ★3571 - Benchmarking library that supports high-resolution timers and returns statistically significant results.
• matcha ★484 - Simplistic approach to benchmarking.

Minifiers

• babili - ES2015+ aware minifier based on the Babel toolchain.
• UglifyJS2 ★8783 - JavaScript minifier.
• clean-css ★2934 - CSS minifier.
• minimize ★140 - HTML minifier.
• imagemin ★2211 - Image minifier.

Authentication

• Passport ★13606 - Simple, unobtrusive authentication.
• Grant ★1504 - OAuth middleware for Express, Koa, and Hapi.
• CloudRail ★240 - Unified API for social authentication (Facebook, Twitter, Slack, Instagram, …).

Authorization

• CASL ★539 - Isomorphic authorization for UI and API.

Email

• Nodemailer - The fastest way to handle email.
• emailjs ★1626 - Send text/HTML emails with attachments to any SMTP server.
• email-templates ★2050 - Create, preview, and send custom email templates.

Job queues

• kue ★7547 - Redis-backed priority job queue.
• bull ★3093 - Persistent job and message queue.
• agenda - MongoDB-backed job scheduling.
• idoit ★26 - Redis-backed job queue engine with advanced job control.
• node-resque ★538 - Redis-backed job queue.
• rsmq ★765 - Redis-backed message queue.
• bee-queue ★942 - High-performance Redis-backed job queue.

Node.js management

• n ★9370 - Node.js version management.
• nave ★1138 - Virtual Environments for Node.js.
• nodeenv ★903 - Node.js virtual environment compatible to Python’s virtualenv.
• nvm for Windows ★6145 - Version management for Windows.

Natural language processing

• retext - An extensible natural language system.
• franc ★2659 - Detect the language of text.
• leven ★350 ⏳1Y - Measure the difference between two strings using the Levenshtein distance algorithm.
• natural ★7874 - Natural language facility.

Process management

• PM2 ★25192 - Advanced Process Manager.
• nodemon ★14992 - Monitor for changes in your app and automatically restart the server.
• node-mac ★422 - Run scripts as a native Mac daemon and log to the console app.
• node-linux ★341 - Run scripts as native system service and log to syslog.
• node-windows ★1459 - Run scripts as a native Windows service and log to the Event viewer.
• supervisor ★3405 - Restart scripts when they crash or restart when a *.js file changes.
• Phusion Passenger ★4094 - Friendly process manager that integrates directly into Nginx.

Automation

• robotjs ★7047 - Desktop Automation: control the mouse, keyboard and read the screen.

AST

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

Static site generators

• Wintersmith ★3345 - Flexible, minimalistic, multi-platform static site generator.
• Assemble ★3563 - Static site generator for Node.js, Grunt.js, and Yeoman.
• DocPad ★2968 - Static site generator with dynamic abilities and huge plugin ecosystem.
• Phenomic ★3014 - Modern static website generator based on the React and Webpack ecosystem.
• docsify - Markdown documentation site generator with no statically built HTML files.

Content management systems

• KeystoneJS ★12869 - CMS and web application platform built on Express and MongoDB.
• ApostropheCMS ★2192 - Content management system with an emphasis on intuitive front end content editing and administration built on Express and MongoDB.
• Strapi ★5770 - Content Management Framework (headless-CMS) to build powerful APIs.

Forum

• nodeBB ★8837 - Forum platform for the modern web.

Blogging

• Ghost ★25956 - Simple, powerful publishing platform.
• Hexo ★22551 - Fast, simple and powerful blogging framework.

Weird

• cows ★290 - ASCII cows.
• superb ★258 - Get superb like words.
• cat-names ★195 ⏳1Y - Get popular cat names.
• dog-names ★83 ⏳1Y - Get popular dog names.
• superheroes ★166 ⏳1Y - Get superhero names.
• supervillains ★71 ⏳1Y - Get supervillain names.
• cool-ascii-faces ★1590 ⏳1Y - Get some cool ascii faces.
• cat-ascii-faces ★191 ⏳3Y - ₍˄·͈༝·͈˄₎◞ ̑̑ෆ⃛ (=ↀωↀ=)✧ (^･o･^)ﾉ”
• nerds ★48 ⏳1Y - Get data from nerdy topics like Harry Potter, Star Wars, and Pokémon.

Serialization

• snappy ★367 - Native bindings for Google’s Snappy compression library.
• protobuf ★4483 - Implementation of Protocol Buffers.
• compactr ★70 - Implementation of the Compactr protocol.

Miscellaneous

• execa ★1361 - Better child_process.
• cheerio ★16410 - Fast, flexible, and lean implementation of core jQuery designed specifically for the server.
• Electron - Build cross platform desktop apps with web technologies. (You might like awesome-electron ★14766)
• opn ★1072 - Opens stuff like websites, files, executables.
• hasha ★606 - Hashing made simple. Get the hash of a buffer/string/stream/file.
• dot-prop ★268 - Get a property from a nested object using a dot path.
• onetime ★76 ⏳1Y - Only run a function once.
• mem ★358 - Memoize functions - an optimization technique used to speed up consecutive function calls by caching the result of calls with identical input.
• import-fresh ★138 ⏳1Y - Import a module while bypassing the cache.
• strip-bom ★66 ⏳1Y - Strip UTF-8 byte order mark (BOM) from a string/buffer/stream.
• os-locale ★122 - Get the system locale.
• ssh2 ★3070 - SSH2 client and server module.
• adit ★19 ⏳1Y - SSH tunneling made simple.
• import-lazy ★143 - Import a module lazily.
• file-type ★671 - Detect the file type of a Buffer.
• Bottleneck ★437 - Rate limiter that makes throttling easy.
• ow ★2299 - Function argument validation for humans.
• webworker-threads ★1772 - Lightweight Web Worker API implementation with native threads.
• clipboardy ★413 - Access the system clipboard (copy/paste).
• node-pre-gyp ★534 - Makes it easy to publish and install Node.js C++ addons from binaries.
• opencv ★3450 - Bindings for OpenCV. The defacto computer vision library.
• dotenv ★6232 - Load environment variables from .env file.
• remote-git-tags ★29 ⏳1Y - Get tags from a remote git repo.
• semver ★2289 - Semantic version parser.
• Faker.js ★14609 - Generate massive amounts of fake data.
• nodegit ★3463 - Native bindings to Git.
• json-strictify ★3 - Safely serialize a value to JSON without data loss or going into an infinite loop.
• resolve-from ★60 - Resolve the path of a module like require.resolve() but from a given path.
• simplecrawler - Event driven web crawler.
• jsdom - JavaScript implementation of HTML and the DOM.
• hypernova ★4237 - Server-side rendering your JavaScript views.
• @sindresorhus/is ★639 - Type check values.
• env-dot-prop ★10 - Get, set, or delete nested properties of process.env using a dot path.
• emittery ★707 - Simple and modern async event emitter.

Resources

Tutorials

• Nodeschool - Learn Node.js with interactive lessons.
• The Art of Node - An introduction to Node.js.
• stream-handbook ★11693 - How to write Node.js programs with streams.
• module-best-practices ★1117 - 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 ★876 - Introduction to Node.js core features and asynchronous JavaScript.

Discovery

• npms - Superb package search with deep analysis of package quality using a myriad of metrics.
• npm addict - Your daily injection of npm packages.
• npmcompare.com - Compare and discover npm packages.

Articles

• Error Handling in Node.js
• Teach Yourself Node.js in 10 Steps
• Mastering the filesystem in Node.js
• Semver: A Primer
• Semver: Tilde and Caret
• Why Asynchronous?
• Understanding the Node.js Event Loop
• Understanding Object Streams
• Art of README ★4726 - Learn the art of writing quality READMEs.

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.

Videos

• Introduction to Node.js with Ryan Dahl
• Hands on with Node.js
• Nodetuts - Series of talks, including TCP & HTTP API servers, async programming, and more.

Books

• Node.js in Action
• Node.js in Practice
• Mastering Node
• Node.js 8 the Right Way
• 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
• Pro Express.js
• Secure Your Node.js Web Application
• Express in Action

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

• Learn to build apps and APIs with Node.js - Video course by Wes Bos.
• Real Time Web with Node.js
• Learn and Understand Node.js

Cheatsheets

• Express.js
• Stream FAQs ★160 ⏳2Y - Answering common questions about streams, covering pagination, events, and more.

Tools

• OctoLinker - Chrome extension that linkifies dependencies in package.json, .js, .jsx, .coffee and .md files on GitHub.
• npm-hub - Chrome extension to display npm dependencies at the bottom of a repo’s readme.
• RunKit - Embed a Node.js environment on any website.
• RequireBin - Shareable JavaScript programs powered by npm and browserify.
• github-npm-stats - Chrome extension that displays npm download stats on GitHub.

Community

• Gitter
• #node.js on Freenode
• Stack Overflow
• Reddit
• Twitter
• Hashnode

Miscellaneous

• nodebots - Robots powered by JavaScript.
• node-module-boilerplate ★403 - Boilerplate to kickstart creating a node module.
• generator-nm ★554 - Scaffold out a node module.
• Microsoft Node.js Guidelines ★1905 - Tips, tricks, and resources for working with Node.js on Microsoft platforms.
• Module Requests & Ideas ★405 ⏳1Y - Request a JavaScript module you wish existed or get ideas for modules.

Related lists

• awesome-npm ★2944 - Resources and tips for using npm.
• awesome-cross-platform-nodejs ★239 ⏳1Y - Resources for writing and testing cross-platform code.

License

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