Node.js Stuff
A continuously expanded list of Node.js libs I want to keep in mind.
Node Version Manager
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n - Version management
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nave - Virtual Environments for Node
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nvm - Bash script to manage multiple versions
Development Tools
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backpack - Minimalistic build system
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iron-node - Debug Node.js code with Chrome Developer Tools
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nodemon - Monitor for any changes in your application and restart the server
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node-dev - Zero-conf reloading
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node-inspector - Debugger based on Blink Developer Tools
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node-supervisor - Supervisor script that runs your code, watches for changes and reloads your application
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theseus - A debugger for Brackets
Web Application Frameworks
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adonisjs - ES6 friendly MVC Framework
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deployd - Toolkit for building realtime APIs
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egg - Framework based on koa.js
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fastify - Fast and low overhead web framework
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nest - Framework for building efficient, reliable and scalable server-side applications
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sails - MVC framework with auto-generated REST APIs, Web-Socket support and security policies
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strapi - Framework with admin panel, user management and GraphQL support
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trails - Framework with API-driven design philosophy
Process Manager
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forever - CLI tool for ensuring that a given script runs continuously
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naught - Zero downtime deployment
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PM2 - Process manager for with a built-in load balancer
ORM's & ODM's
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bookshelf - ORM for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQLite
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graffiti - GraphQL ORM
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jugglingdb - ORM/ODM for Redis, Mongo, MySQL, SQLite, PostgreSQL, neo4j and memory
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Massive.js - A data mapper for PostgreSQL
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mongoose - ODM for Mongo
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mongorito - ES6 generator-based MongoDB ODM
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moron.js - Based on knex supporting SQLite3, Postgres and MySQL
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node-orm2 - ORM for MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Amazon Redshift and SQLite
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objection.js - An SQL ORM
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prisma - Database Tools incl. ORM, Migrations and Admin UI
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sequelize - ORM for PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, SQLite and MSSQL
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thinky - Rethink ORM
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waterline - ORM/ODM for MySQL, Mongo, PostgreSQL, Redis and more
File Based Databases
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diskdb - A Lightweight Disk based JSON Database with a MongoDB like API
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lowdb - Flat JSON file database (Lo-Dash functional programming API)
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nedb - Embedded datastore (Mongo API)
Command Line
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blessed - High-level widgets for the Terminal
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blessed-contrib - Terminal dashboards using ascii/ansi
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chalk - Terminal string styling helper
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Clor - Civilized terminal styles
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cmnd - Command Line Interface Utility using ES6 idioms
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colors - Get colors in your console
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Commander - Command-line interfaces made easy
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Caporal.js - Full-featured framework for building command line apps
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Inquirer - A collection of common interactive command line user interfaces
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minimist - Parse argument options
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Terminal Kit - Terminal utilities
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vantage - An interactive CLI for Node
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vorpal - Framework for interactive CLI apps.
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yargs - Optstrings parser
Scraper & Crawler
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crawler - Web Crawler/Spider + server-side jQuery
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ineed - Web scraping and HTML-reprocessing
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noodlejs - Server and module for querying and scraping data from web documents
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node-osmosis - HTML/XML parser and web scraper for NodeJS
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scrape-it - A scraping module for humans
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scraperjs - A complete and versatile web scraper
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skrap - Easily scrap web pages by providing json recipes
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SUq - Scraping Utility
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x-ray - See through the noise
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yakuza - Highly scalable scraping framework
Data Parser/Converter
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any-json - Convert csv, xls, xlsx, xml, yaml and more to JSON
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BabyParse - CSV parser based on PapaParse
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dsv - A parser and formatter for DSV (CSV and TSV) files
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exceljs - Excel Workbook Manager
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node-csv - Full featured CSV parser
Fake Data & Mocking
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chance - Minimalist generator of random strings, numbers and more
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faker - Generate massive amounts of fake data
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fake identity - Generate random identity objects including name, address, etc
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nock - HTTP mocking and expectations library
Geo & Mapping
Authentication
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darklord - Stateless Authentication Server - JWT based authentication
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drywall - A website and user system
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everyauth - Authentication and authorization (password, facebook, & more)
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frame - A user system API based on hapi
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node-oauth2-server - Complete, compliant and well tested module for implementing an OAuth2 Server/Provider
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passport - Simple, unobtrusive authentication
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passwordless - Module to authenticate users without password
Validation
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is.js - Micro check library
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joi - Object schema validation
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validator.js - String validation and sanitization
Security
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Credential - Password hashing and verification
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CSRF - CSRF protection middleware
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Helmet - Middleware to help secure your Express/Connect apps
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NodeSecurity - The Node Security Project
Headless Browser
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casperjs - Navigation scripting & testing utility for PhantomJS and SlimerJS
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nightmarejs - A high level wrapper for Phantomjs
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phantomjs - Headless WebKit scriptable with a JavaScript API
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puppeteer - Headless Chrome Node.js API
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slimerjs - Scriptable browser based on Gecko
Internationalization
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i18n - Lightweight simple translation module
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i18n-abide - connect module for i18n and l10n support
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Jed - Gettext Style i18n
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messageformat - MessageFormat for Javascript - i18n Plural and Gender Capable Messages
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polyglot.js - Give your JavaScript the ability to speak many languages
General
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cheerio - Implementation of core jQuery for the server
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del - Delete files/folders using globs
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fortune - A framework for prototyping hypermedia APIs
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fs-extra - Extra methods for the fs object