Node.js Stuff

A continuously expanded list of Node.js libs I want to keep in mind.

• Node Version Manager
• Development Tools
• Process Manager
• ORM's & ODM's
• File Based Databases
• Command Line
• Scraper & Crawler
• Data Parser/Converter
• Fake Data & Mocking
• Geo & Mapping
• Authentication
• Validation
• Security
• Headless Browser
• Internationalization
• General

Node Version Manager

• n - Version management
• nave - Virtual Environments for Node
• nvm - Bash script to manage multiple versions

Development Tools

• backpack - Minimalistic build system
• iron-node - Debug Node.js code with Chrome Developer Tools
• nodemon - Monitor for any changes in your application and restart the server
• node-dev - Zero-conf reloading
• node-inspector - Debugger based on Blink Developer Tools
• node-supervisor - Supervisor script that runs your code, watches for changes and reloads your application
• theseus - A debugger for Brackets

Web Application Frameworks

• adonisjs - ES6 friendly MVC Framework
• deployd - Toolkit for building realtime APIs
• egg - Framework based on koa.js
• fastify - Fast and low overhead web framework
• nest - Framework for building efficient, reliable and scalable server-side applications
• sails - MVC framework with auto-generated REST APIs, Web-Socket support and security policies
• strapi - Framework with admin panel, user management and GraphQL support
• trails - Framework with API-driven design philosophy

Process Manager

• forever - CLI tool for ensuring that a given script runs continuously
• naught - Zero downtime deployment
• PM2 - Process manager for with a built-in load balancer

ORM's & ODM's

• bookshelf - ORM for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQLite
• graffiti - GraphQL ORM
• jugglingdb - ORM/ODM for Redis, Mongo, MySQL, SQLite, PostgreSQL, neo4j and memory
• Massive.js - A data mapper for PostgreSQL
• mongoose - ODM for Mongo
• mongorito - ES6 generator-based MongoDB ODM
• moron.js - Based on knex supporting SQLite3, Postgres and MySQL
• node-orm2 - ORM for MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Amazon Redshift and SQLite
• objection.js - An SQL ORM
• prisma - Database Tools incl. ORM, Migrations and Admin UI
• sequelize - ORM for PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, SQLite and MSSQL
• thinky - Rethink ORM
• waterline - ORM/ODM for MySQL, Mongo, PostgreSQL, Redis and more

File Based Databases

• diskdb - A Lightweight Disk based JSON Database with a MongoDB like API
• lowdb - Flat JSON file database (Lo-Dash functional programming API)
• nedb - Embedded datastore (Mongo API)

Command Line

• blessed - High-level widgets for the Terminal
• blessed-contrib - Terminal dashboards using ascii/ansi
• chalk - Terminal string styling helper
• Clor - Civilized terminal styles
• cmnd - Command Line Interface Utility using ES6 idioms
• colors - Get colors in your console
• Commander - Command-line interfaces made easy
• Caporal.js - Full-featured framework for building command line apps
• Inquirer - A collection of common interactive command line user interfaces
• minimist - Parse argument options
• Terminal Kit - Terminal utilities
• vantage - An interactive CLI for Node
• vorpal - Framework for interactive CLI apps.
• yargs - Optstrings parser

Scraper & Crawler

• crawler - Web Crawler/Spider + server-side jQuery
• ineed - Web scraping and HTML-reprocessing
• noodlejs - Server and module for querying and scraping data from web documents
• node-osmosis - HTML/XML parser and web scraper for NodeJS
• scrape-it - A scraping module for humans
• scraperjs - A complete and versatile web scraper
• skrap - Easily scrap web pages by providing json recipes
• SUq - Scraping Utility
• x-ray - See through the noise
• yakuza - Highly scalable scraping framework

Data Parser/Converter

• any-json - Convert csv, xls, xlsx, xml, yaml and more to JSON
• BabyParse - CSV parser based on PapaParse
• dsv - A parser and formatter for DSV (CSV and TSV) files
• exceljs - Excel Workbook Manager
• node-csv - Full featured CSV parser

Fake Data & Mocking

• chance - Minimalist generator of random strings, numbers and more
• faker - Generate massive amounts of fake data
• fake identity - Generate random identity objects including name, address, etc
• nock - HTTP mocking and expectations library

Geo & Mapping

• Leaflet headless - Headless version of Leaflet using jsdom and canvas
• mapshaper - Tools for editing geospatial vector data
• node-gdal - GDAL bindings
• ogr2ogr - ogr2ogr wrapper
• tilestream - A map tile server powered by MBTiles files
• tilestrata - A pluggable map tile server
• turf - A modular geospatial engine
• Windshaft - A map tile server for PostGIS based on Mapnik

Authentication

• darklord - Stateless Authentication Server - JWT based authentication
• drywall - A website and user system
• everyauth - Authentication and authorization (password, facebook, & more)
• frame - A user system API based on hapi
• node-oauth2-server - Complete, compliant and well tested module for implementing an OAuth2 Server/Provider
• passport - Simple, unobtrusive authentication
• passwordless - Module to authenticate users without password

Validation

• is.js - Micro check library
• joi - Object schema validation
• validator.js - String validation and sanitization

Security

• Credential - Password hashing and verification
• CSRF - CSRF protection middleware
• Helmet - Middleware to help secure your Express/Connect apps
• NodeSecurity - The Node Security Project

Headless Browser

• casperjs - Navigation scripting & testing utility for PhantomJS and SlimerJS
• nightmarejs - A high level wrapper for Phantomjs
• phantomjs - Headless WebKit scriptable with a JavaScript API
• puppeteer - Headless Chrome Node.js API
• slimerjs - Scriptable browser based on Gecko

Internationalization

• i18n - Lightweight simple translation module
• i18n-abide - connect module for i18n and l10n support
• Jed - Gettext Style i18n
• messageformat - MessageFormat for Javascript - i18n Plural and Gender Capable Messages
• polyglot.js - Give your JavaScript the ability to speak many languages

General

• cheerio - Implementation of core jQuery for the server
• del - Delete files/folders using globs
• fortune - A framework for prototyping hypermedia APIs
• fs-extra - Extra methods for the fs object